World. I am proud to introduce Joseph Hoeffel to you all today. Joe is a former congressman, state legislator and county commissioner from an something to. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in english from boston university, a jurist doctorate degree from temple. Is the author of the iraq life, how the white house sold the war. In a suburban philadelphia, pennsylvania, community, joe was the first democrat elected in 60 years to the statehouse, the first democrat ever reelected to congress, and first democrat to chair the Montgomery County board of commissioners. And a final personal note, his wife, ray manchester, is one or most valued and talented volunteers. [applause] thank you so much. Well, hello, everybody. Im so happy all of you are here its a beautiful day. You couldve been doing other things and i really appreciate your choice to be here with us. And let me say how much i appreciate what Nancy Marshall and her great staff do here at the abington library. This this is a magni
Demand at booktv. Org. [applause] good morning. We this is the last regular convocation of the semester, right, david . [cheers and applause] and huh . [inaudible] i know. They had to use their gifts by the end of semester, right . Okay. So i see a lot of them are using them today. [laughter] but thats my fault. I gave didnt we give them an extra one . We gave them an extra convos gift, corey and david, because they turned out in such big numbers. A lot of them are using it today. Personally, its just the end of the semester. Weve got some very special gives here today. First, i want to mention theres an article that i tweeted out last night that really compliments you as a student body. Its from virginia business magazine, and its about how liberty, about how you as students have gone the extra mile to serve others and fulfill the Christian Mission of the school. I really think youll enjoy are it if you take time to read it. Its by heather hayes, a local reporter here, wrote for that
Much it seemed as if there was really no alternative. It kind of didnt matter what you thought of capitalism, just like it doesnt really matter what you think of human mortality. It was an inevitable fact of life after the fall of communism. If you aregine coming of age now, it seems that just as communism has failed, capitalism has now failed. Ofare governed by this cabal comic book villain oligarchs, while people are forced to wear diapers at their factories because they arent given bathroom breaks. Even the one thing that used to be able to say for capitalism, that it was supposed to be efficient at allocating capital, is clearly not true at a time when wages are stagnant, while tens of millions or hundreds of millions are investing in Silicon Valley startups. Im interested in this debate. Im interested to see if either side can talk me out of my sense of despair and total futility. [laughter] im grateful to cooper union for giving us this historic great hall to have this in. It was
Influence, blood money, body of lies and most recently, the quantum spy. This is part of our 2018 special fiction addition of indepth. Host David Ignatius, whats the premise of the quantum spy. Guest the us is locked in a new Manhattan Project race to build a piece of technology that is world changing, that is the quantum computer and our principal rival in that race is china. I told you as far as simply the facts, the the quantum spy is a novel that imagines characters who involve intelligencebattles , and other secrets about this world changingtechnology. Principally its the story of my hero orest chang. An officer who is asked to penetrate the Chinese Intelligence Service and in the process learned things about himself, things about the cia, they do not how the world works that shake him to his foundation and we also see in this novel how the Chinese Intelligence Services , not so familiar to readers as five fiction. We all feel weve been in Moscow Center with carla and the russian
Accused can pick up a copy of the Smithsonian Magazine we publish them every month they are fantastic readings while you are waiting at the Doctors Office or whatever. Theres a handout you can also pick up on your way out and you will also notice tha that weved some post cards on the table. Two Nights Program a program in for science people and not science people and a way for you to curate. If you are curious about that, talk to me or check it out online. A couple of other orders of business, please silence any mobile devices and take the time to do so now and you will definitely want to do that tonight because you will notice we have cspan in the house. Tonight we have a professor of physics at th the university ofe sciences in philadelphia. His interests range from space, time and higher dimension to cultural aspects of science. The recipient of the fellowship fulbright scholarship and the literary award shes appeared on the history channel, Discovery Channel and pbs and is the auth