Provider. Amy is with us today courtesy of the aerospace corporation. Amy is a spaceflight historian. Author, youtube or, public speaker, and popular space personality. Not unlike her subjects she is one of the only academically trained young female spaceflight historians writing for a general audience. She runs the beloved log of vintage space hosted by Discover Magazine and to a Youtube Channel with over 3,125,000 subscribers. Shes a regular writer for discovery seeker and has hosted numerous space and science related shows. Among them, nasas unexplained files. She gives talks about spaceflight all over the u. S. And america. Please give a warm welcome to amy title. Bring it down to short level. Thank you for coming to listen to me talk first thing in the morning. Its weird about hearing your bio read like that. Ill try to live up to everything with just i want to start with the brief audience participation about who hasnt heard about mercury 13. Theres like a decent number of hands,
Its become a land of endless wars. Tragically, despite decades of intense and often wellmeaning american attention and expenditure billions of dollars, u. S. Policy has more often than not been a failure. Maybe the caveat more often than not is to kind. Its been an absolute failure if one accepts the basic aim was to foster stability and a better life for the people of the region. Of course the ones ultimately responsible for a country success or failure of the people who live there. But the catastrophe of todays middle east raises a lot of questions about whether the United States should continue to be engaged in the region, and if so, how . In this regard the editors of aid money, Michael Rubin and Brian Katulis, and their cocontributors, have given given us a gift. They identify seven factors that affect stability or not and examine what they mean and the role they play. The pillars that they identify our legitimacy, islam, arab ideology, the militaries, education, economy, and gove
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She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do
A polite as well you know it also shows the view from the u. K. When theyre looking at the e. U. That until a miracle is the most powerful woman in the world but also in europe well im not going to comment on that but and europe she certainly is a powerful voice and shes the voice of reason if you compare the tone to the tone of of those she always was very very disciplined and what she said because she knows whats at stake and at stake is a close relationship with britain and on many many issues britain was also strongest in closest allies fight to go on sarette red tape for instance even when but with britain leaving the fiscally conservative countries after the list on voting rules the roost the blocking minorities so its been it tough for us and not to speak of the german cause industry credit etc so she knows whats at stake. She is a very very experienced old hand let me ask you before we run out of time there are reports that johnson wants to ask for a change in the wording of th