Good evening. Im jason kelly. Im interim director of the galvin in journalism ethics and democracy. And im excited to welcome you all to the 2023 red smith lecture. Its great. See everybody here tonight. I want to start by thanking our speaker Carlos Lozada and, the Notre Dame Institute for advanced study, which is the reason why this event is possible tonight. Carlos is here this year as a faculty fellow and they very generously made this event possible as part of his very busy schedule. So very grateful for that. So that the lecture tonight had a timely element. This morning when i woke up this morning, there was a notification, my phone from the New York Times that said Carlos Lozada latest. And so i dont normally click through the notifications but i went to that one right away and the headline said this is his new column just today in the New York Times i the mueller ukraine and jan six reports as though they were one long book that didnt have to say so. You dont have to. So Carlo
Im interim director of the galvin in journalism ethics and democracy. And im excited to welcome you all to the 2023 red smith lecture. Its great. See everybody here tonight. I want to start by thanking our speaker Carlos Lozada and, the Notre Dame Institute for advanced study, which is the reason why this event is possible tonight. Carlos is here this year as a faculty fellow and they very generously made this event possible as part of his very busy schedule. So very grateful for that. So that the lecture tonight had a timely element. This morning when i woke up this morning, there was a notification, my phone from the New York Times that said Carlos Lozada latest. And so i dont normally click through the notifications but i went to that one right away and the headline said this is his new column just today in the New York Times i the mueller ukraine and jan six reports as though they were one long book that didnt have to say so. You dont have to. So Carlos Lozada has been doing readin
Brooklyn book festival to get an opportunity to demonstrate whats always been the case which is this Great Law School is in the forefront. This law school is the center for you learning how to use the power of law for the benefit of our community, the nation and the world and thats no small thing. Lets get right at it. You are in for a real treat because weve got two fantastic authors and incredible books and i think you are going to find surprising in many ways as i did when i was able to read them. First is loving interracial intimacyin america and the threat to White Supremacy and the second is one nation after trump a guide for the perplexed, the disillusioned, the desperate and the notyetdeported. And these books at first blush would seem to be very different. Having not much in common. After all, one book is about interracial sex, procreation and marriage. Not necessarily in that order but thats what its about. And the other book by my friend Norman Ornstein is about erectile dys
Afternoon everyone. I have the honor of serving as the conference and id like to welcome both of you to the 2000 16 National Book festival to the biography state which is sponsored by wells fargo. We at the library of congress are thrilled to be presenting National Book festival for the 16th time. This terrific event would not be possible without the friends that we have to recording us. Like wells fargo and theyre very appreciative of that. Here, but for readers like all of you who support the authors, are interested in them and come out, so we are extremely excited. Thank you so much for being here today. [applause]. This years festival is inspired by journeys. The idea that a book is a voyage unto itself, taking us to places that we might not be able to see in person, but we can visit by reading about it. It to gives us the opportunity to better understand our world and in particular why we are here today celebrating histories and biography so reading to us is an ideal form of trave
And. We can learn a lot then we should. But the end of the deal is the foundational document convene that reads like a Campaign Playbook. Traverse wheeler earned he is using hyperbole. In fact, it is that i play to peoples fantasies with distilled give very excited by those that do a little hyperbole never hurts. To Say Something is the biggest and the greatest and most bechtel killer i call that truthful hyperbole. That is exactly what he is doing. He is not ashamed to say what he does. That works for him his whole life. Did write to article for the wall street journal with his playbook hiding in plain sight ever see was a little taken aback but then he said it comes naturally to me so i guess you are right and he said running for office or running for president the first office he has ever sought is the biggest deal in im life so so the campaign is by a negotiation insee not all the way through and right now as he tries to get the g. O. P. Eatin donors to come to his side is more neg