Institute. Unfortunately, ryhound salam the institutes president de zeal and couldnt be here tonight. He sends his regrets as he was very much. Looking forward to the event, which is one of our signature gatherings of the year. Were here tonight to honor joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its nam
Which is one of our signature gatherings of the year. Were here tonight to honor joseph henrik for his book the weirdest. People in the world how the west became psychologically peculiar and particularly prosperous. Weird stands for western educated industrialized rich and democratic and henrik explains how this part of the world the west came to lead the way in embracing markets and individual liberty. The book is a stunning accomplishment. And a testament to the power of culture to build prosperity. But before we hear more about joseph henrik and his research, i wanted to talk a bit about the hayek prize and what it stands for the prize comes with a 50,000 award which makes it one of the worlds most generous book prizes. It honors a book published within the past two years that best reflects the vision of its namesake friedrich von hayek the brilliant economist who shared a nobel prize with gunner murdal in 1974 for hayek. Economic freedom was the cornerstone of a Flourishing Society
Eager to dismiss is, in fact, making us more intelligent. After reading tonights featured book, you may never complain or question the value of television, playstation or xbox ever again. Steven johnson is the author of the New York Times bestseller mind wide open and is the cofounder of the online magazine feed. He also writes the emerging Technology Column for discover as well as contributing editor of wired. Here to discuss his new book titled everything bad is good for you, please welcome steven johnson. Yes. Its true. 15yearolds all over the country are going to be sending me small bills and tchokes thank me for this book. Thank you for coming out. And thank you, cspan audience, for being here. I like the idea of people watching cspan who maybe turn it on and theyre watching somebody do a filibuster and all of a sudden theres a guy talking about why video games are good for your brain. Its going to be quite a change. Hopefully theyll enjoy it im not going to read. Because i find p
There was at least one Police Officer injured. In minnesota there were the deaths of two africanamerican men at the hands of police. Bill investigators say Micah Johnson was planning more attacks but saw the rally last tuesday as his opportunity. We are convinced he had other plans and thought what he was doing was righteous and believed he was going to target Law Enforcement and make us pay for what he sees as Law Enforcements efforts to punish people of color. Martha what an outstanding voice police chief brown has been in all of this. What are we learning from the police . Reporter we are learning about two things. Hes increasingly interested in explosives and bombs, and hes becoming attracted to the ideology black hate groups that advocate violence against Police Officers. And those two things came together after minnesota and baton rouge. The rally became a march. The police were not prepared. Johnson took a advantage of that shooting through a glass door at el centro college. We
Congress and the president today delivers a powerful message on the need for massive tax cuts and reform to boost the economy while have you arrogant, lazy, obstructionist democrats chuck schumer, nancy pelosi doing everything they can do to stop this from happening. This all comes as Senate Republicans are now finally moving towards a vote on this tax bill. And the best cry baby story of all time. We will tell you about cnn and white house. Thats coming up. Also tonight i have a very personal decision to make and i will need your help. Thats coming up at the end of the broadcast. We hope you will stick arranged. First tonights important breaking news opening monologue. All right long time today show host matt lauer has been fired over what the network says is alleged sexual misbehavior according to nbc. The Sexual Conduct allegation was made against agat lauer. Staff including a young intern accused of texting them lewd and graphic messages. One of the photos is so damning that nbc wa