Its good as they are a person its better on the page. Enjoy the book. [inaudible conversation] thats incredibly inspiring because you guys do it too had dan, which is connecting flight to the pursuit of memory and truth in forcing people to confront a history they dont want to confront, including cambodians themselves. Im afraid were about an time. You are welcome to ask your question that way. I want to thank our panelists peter and [applause] as good as they are in person, they are better on the page. Enjoy the book. But [inaudible conversations] good afternoon welcome to the Cato Institute. I am Vice President and publisher and i would heartily like to thank you for coming here, for our viewers on mina being broadcast by cspan. You may not know unexpectedly the washington subway system, the metro was closed today so the people who have joined us here have made great effort to hear something about this book, lessons and censorship, how school is subvert First Amendment right to refin
Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Colonist and editorial cartoonist is an awardwinning graphic novelist and the author of nonfiction books about domestic and International Current affairs. His cartoons appear at approximately 100 newspapers around the United States and from 2008 to 2009 he was president of the association of the editorial cartoonist and hes won several awards for his work including the journalism awards and the National Journalism award and best book of the year award. Joining him on stage tonight is chris hedges who spent barely two decades as a correspondent in Central America the middle east, africa and the balkans. Hes reported for more than 50 countries and has worked for the Christian Science monitor and the National Public radio at the Dallas Morning News and New York Times. He was part of the team of reporters at the times and awarded a Pulitzer Prize for coverage about global terrorism. Hes also the author of several bestselling books including ward gives us
Frustrated that people dont understand the fabulousness in his strategy, dont you get it, he was defensive, he was not he was not someone who could explain to you. Theres a great absence when it comes to obama and isis and it is an absence of how he thinks about isis, not just what to do about it, what your strategy supposedly is but how should we think about it, how should we view it, what kind of threat is it, how should we be prepare to go meet that threat, what are the possibilities, he doesnt speak about any of those things, which makes you wonder, my god, is he not speak because he doesnt want to actually share his thoughts which makes everybody uneasy. And now theres, you know, theres this and now theres a president who is acting less like a presence and an absence. It does no good. It was very bad leadership the past week. We are going to have to leave it at at. The name of the book the time of our lives. Peggy noonan, thank you. Is there a Nonfiction Author or book that you wo
Acton said a lot of different and memorable things. You probably know best his statement that power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. It is one of the most incorrect quotation in history. People say power corrupts. But it is power tends to corrupt. I had the unenviable task once of correcting Lady Margaret thatcher on that. [laughter] she looked down her nose at me and said, oh, just so. Carry on. [laughter] acton also said this. He said that liberty is the political end of man, and that is true enough. The problem arises when we think that the total end of man is liberty, because liberty, after all, is a vacuum. I know in a liberty loving crowd like this, you might think i am heretical, pardon the expression. But in point of fact, think of liberty not as a virtue, not as the goal of our lives, that as the context in which we can negotiate the goal of our lives, and of course, the goal of all lives is truth. Now, we will have different apprehensions and understan
This has been a great panel, and thanks to all of you guys for talking with us for an hour and 15 minutes. [applause] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] , on the next washington journal, priorities of the 114th congress. And of the Nonprofit Organization one in four. And later, a look at some of the issues that were portrayed in editorial cartoons. The head of the association of the editorial cartoonists join us. Well also take your phone calls and look for your comets on facebook and twitter. Washington journal is live every day at 7 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Now google executive chair eric schmidt talks about Data Collection by private companies and other issues pertaining to google and the Tech Industry. He is interviewed by Washington Post reporter craig kimber. From the cato institute, this is 30 minutes. Thank you all for co