the most recent of whom is he a, the artist formerly known as kanye west, who today announced he was going to purchase parlor. do you know what parlor is the word might invoked the image of a fancy room or a cute little lady sitting in sitting there too from china. but parler is decidedly not that. parler it s a far right fringe, social media platform. and you first might have heard of it around the time of the capital insurrection, january 6th, 2021, because many of the violent rioters, organized on parlor. the podcaster, swisher, that very day ask one of the founders of parler if he felt any responsibility for the death and destruction to which he said this i don t feel responsible for any of this, and neither should the platform considering we are a neutral town square. and it just adheres to the laws. so, if people are organizing something, that s more of a problem of people are upset. they feel disenfranchised. yes, people were upset, and they felt disenfranchised.
two drones in the sea. as israel defends itself it matters how. brutality and callousness across the gaza strip, nowhere is safe. donald trump tries to flip the script. joe biden is the destroyer of democracy. dictatorship in the united states. it s about who protecting your freedoms. six weeks from the iowa caucuses. nikki haley is the most underestimated politician. good morning, everyone. brand-few overnight the israeli military ramping up air strikes after announcing it would expand its ground operations to the entire gaza strip, that of course includes the south where many civilians have fled. we re tracking a growing threat of this war spreading into a wider regional conflict. in the red sea, the pentagon said an american destroyer came to the rescue of three commercial ships that were attacked by ballistic missiles. the destroyer shot down many drones. we re keeping a close eye on israel s northern border, with lebanon, where israeli forces have bee
For later broadcast in case youe wondering about all the equipment, and at the end of the conversation, well have a questionandanswer period where you can ask the speakers anything you like, although please wait for the microphone once youve been called upon by one of the speakers so the audience at home can hear you. Also to help with that please turn off your cell phone. No, really do it, because itll ring otherwise, i promise you. Okay. On with the show. Tonight our guests are adrian chen who is a new yorkbased writer whose work has appeared in wired, new York Magazine and the New York Times. Hes written extensively on many of the issues under discussion tonight such as virtual communities. He may have first come to your attention for his brilliant expose of silk road that was reported for gawker, and i should also note hes got an amazing article calls the agency called the agency about an army of trolls in russia which is in this weekends New York Times magazine. He is, in addition
She doesnt report as much as she used to because now shes doing a lot more freelance writing since shes written this bestselling book about a battle by one man leading an effort to fight against chinese imports into the United States that decimated the Furniture Industry in virginia and north carolina. It is a very wellwritten book. Shes a great storyteller, and while it sounds like a heavy subject, its not. I would definitely recommend it for summertime reading even on the beach. She tells this story in a very human way so people understand the impact of it, but shes also very fair in terms of dealing with the different perspectives and viewpoints about imports and their positive and negative effects on u. S. Economy and american consumers. So i think its a great, great book, and i encourage people to read it. Ive always realize a trilogy of books about american president s, and if some of our viewers are history lovers like i am, i commend these three books which cover most of our pr
Successful businessman working together with his wife. They established a very Generous Foundation which we are the beneficiaries of, not the only, but one of the beneficiariebene. What he gave to us before he passed away was to endow a special series and bringing the best and the brightest historians to share their works and insight with. So a sincere thanks to the mason family including the mason son and to their foundation. So im very pleased to have the opportunity here to introduce our next presenter as one of the most distinguished historians and in the world on the subject of world war ii. David kennedy received his under graduate at stanford and graduate training at yale. And founding director of the bill of the American West at Stanford University where he talk ta taught for more than 40 years. It is more than we have time for today. You have information on your program so i encourage you to look at that as well. He is much admired and loved by his students, by his peers and a