And we wrap up our saturday prime time lineup at 11 00 with National Book award winner Colson Whitehead talking about his fictional book the underground railroad, that happens tonight on cspans book tv. So welcome, everybody, im the cofounder of civic hall and civic hall i should say is, weve been here now almost two years. It grew out of an annual conference that we do called personal Democracy Forum, which is focused on how technology is changing politics and government that weve been doing since 2004, which is in fact how i know both of our guests. Weve traveled similar paths for a long time. Two years ago we opened civic hall to be a yearround gathering point for the same people and conversations, focused on civic tech, how tech can be used for public good. And so, its a pleasure to welcome everybody here. Let me just say that im really excited for the chance to get into this conversation about rules for revolutionaries, how big organizers can change everything. Because we are livi
programming tonight, after words with ken walsh, author of family of freedom. and now, david brooks looks at how our unconscious mind shapes our character, intelligence and biases. this is just under an hour. it s a great pleasure to be here more or less in my hometown. went to rutger high school about 13 miles west of here. so it s always good to be back in this area. i know you didn t come to hear me speak, you came here to hear yourselves speak. [laughter] and so i ll try to be brief. [laughter] get out of your way. [laughter] it is a pleasure to be back. i tried to think of what my high school teachers would have thought if they could see me addressing crowds in philadelphia. there d be widespread shock. [laughter] i was not a big man on campus at radner though i was stuffed into lockers by some of the big men on campus. [laughter] actually, one of my debate partners i was on the debate team, needless to say. one of my partners was tom wilson who played bif in t