Of freedom and democracy in American Foreign policy will feature general hr mcmasters who served in the military for 34 years and held the position of the 20 sixth assistant to the president for National Security affairs as well as being a close friend of my husband for many years. He will talk about his new book battlegrounds the fight to defend the free world, with doctor michael crow, the sixteenth president of Arizona State university. Mccain Institute Trustee and a dear friend of the family. We are honored to host mcmaster for what is an important and timely discussion on us foreign policy. You can begin. Glad to see everybody here. What i want to do first is say the book is a fantastic piece of work, got many little tags on it. I want to spend some time relative to a set of core ideas you put out in this book some that are fantastic in the sense that they are concepts we should be using in the articulation of our thinking about foreignpolicy and National Defense policy and so for
Served as the United States secretary of state and also further served four United States president s over the course of three decades. Secretary baker was scheduled to be our capstone speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. However, he and mrs. Baker contracted covid19. Im pleased to report that they now have covid19, the illness, in their rear view mirror. Today, the secretary will be interviewed by talmage boston. Talmage in his own right is a highprofile persona in texas and across the nation. He is a leading trial lawyer. He is known in our profession as what we call a goto lawyer or a super lawyer. Talmage is also a historian, and he has a special focused interest on the qualities of leadership in the public and the private square. Recently, he authored a book in which he sat down with authors. Im pleased to announce this is the sixth lecture in the star federalist papers lecture series. The lecture series endowed by marie chiles in honor of judge starr is where we
Town hall is grateful for the opportunity to invite seattle answers in exchanges of issues, ideas and creativity even when we want do it in person. Well produce online content through the fought and new year if circumstances allow to host live streams from the building, meanwhile if you cant get enough time on zoom or youtube, our past talks are available in yesterdayow or podcast form. Back to tonights program. The event dill run 30 to 40 multiples followed by q a, steve and chelsea will ask your questioned from the ask a question field. Also, know that you can view the event here on crowdcast or on the youtube page. If you want to utilize that platform, closed captioning feature. Townhall is adding new event thursday podcast every day. Upcoming policemans including women odd activism, to bend the course of climb change, and overcoming americas obsession with economic efficiency, a book about the past and future of american isolationism, as well as howard gardner, David Eagleman and h
Pleased to be in conversation today with my colleague, judith butler, discussing the new book the forc of nonviolence. Judith butler is a fundamental voice in our understanding of gender, sexuality, politics, theory and of the author of 13 books including like i said the force of nonviolence. Judiths a professor in the department of compative literature and prossor in the program and critical theory at uc berkeley. So, welcome, judith. Im pleed to be here and speang with you. Im excited to talk with you about your new book. I thought we might begin our conversati helping readers understand that intervenon of the book the sort of conceptual basis in your argumen for reimagining the conception for nonviolence. The book sort of encourages an understanding of nonviolence thats left rooted in a kind of individual morality and a more than concerted politic practice. I thought we would sort of bin by taking a minute to explain why thehift away from kindf indidual morality as you put it someti
I had i have enormous privilegef introducing our guests. First discovered chapbooks for governor bush with the 43rd governor of the state of florida, the First Republic estates history to be reelected. And his limited government approach he unleashed one of the robust and dynamic economies in the states history. Creating 1. 3 million net new jobs, improving the stage credit rating. Currently governor bush serves as chairman for send back Investment Partners headquartered in coral gables, florida. Tonight guests of honor author citizen mack, senator connie mack. 1982 senator mack left a successful banking career to run for the house of representatives where he served three terms before running for one of floridas season in the u. S. Senate. He served to tranfour choosing not to run for reelection. Upon returning to the private sector he became chaplain followed by chairman apparatus in coral gables sort of. With that i will hand it over to governor bush to begin the conversation, just k