The last million. Europes displaced persons from world war to the cold war. Im joel rosenthal, Prime Minister of Carnegie Council for ethics and international affairs. For those of us in the carnegie family of institutions, we have a special affection for david. His biography of Andrew Carnegie published in 2006 was a lifechanging event for us. Through davids work, weve come to know Andrew Carnegie in all of his humanity and complexity, and theres one lesson from the book that really stayed with me and has animated my work at the Carnegie Council, and that is the as david would put it cashtys carnegies cockeyed optimism was not entirely misplaced. For all the madness we see in the world, progress based on reason and a cando spirit is, indeed, possible. That idea keeps me going, and this occasion gives me the opportunity to say thank you, david. In addition to the carnegie biography, davids previous books include prizewinning biographies of joseph p. Kennedy and William Randolph hearst.
Really thrilled with engagement level we had with all of you. You will be doing a lot of focus stuff and some pretty compelling conversations into the fall. I would say we were probably not be doing any close events until 2021 which is a bit of a bummer but we want to be real about that and the statements but with what were doing. Well keep bring you guys really interesting conversation with authors. So if everything from a wonderful event coming up in october, a conversation you wont want to miss. We just book of that. Everything from that to a conversation with matthew mcconaughey. If thats not a wideranging list of events, its going to be quite a false or stay tuned. You can follow all of our fence on magic city books. Com. I wont go through the full list here. Tonight im so thrilled to have a conversation with mychal denzel smith in a book that seems like it was written for the moment we are living in, although books are written quite a bit before their published and printed and Ev
You are all out working. Thank you for coming. With less than three weeks to go until the election, Many Americans are eager to learn about the candidates. It is imperative our information channels are open and americans can access stories by the press and their own social circles. Congress believed in the power of information so much they created special Liability Protections for information platforms, Technology Companies like facebook, twitter and google. It is called section 230. I believe in the principles outlined in the law. It is clear section 230, it is not working. Justice Clarence Thomas said the courts had sweeping new protections of 230 that Congress Never put in statute. It is time to scrap the law and start over. Yesterday the new york post, one of the countrys largest newspapers published a piece on hunter biden, and his work on the board of Ukrainian Energy company burisma. She had no qualifications. It is an important story as most americans would be appalled by the p
Scully indefinitely. He admitted to lying that his twitter feed got asked when he asked for help from antitrump per anthony scaramucci. This is about debate bias. This is the story everyone is talking about on twitter and facebook. Facebook and twitter tried to suppress a New York Post blockbuster story with emails showing hunter biden trying to sell influence with his father overseas. Facebook citing lame reasons for sense sorry ship. Are they asking to have their Business Models blown up . Is this election interference or censorship . Is another hearing mistaking activity for achievement since Congress Never gets anything done at all. Were finding a turnstile of workers between twitter and facebook and the democrat party. We got more emails showing hunter biden allegedly trying to get tens of millions of dollars this time from a Chinese Energy company, forequote, introductions and deals that would be quote, interesting for my family. Plus holes in the Biden Campaign story about joe b
Milestone despite having less than 5 of the worldwide population. The u. S. Says recorded more than 20 of the covid related deaths, the death toll in the u. S. From coronavirus has topped 200,000 numbers said by some. To be an imaginable 8 months ago when the first covid death was reported covid19 is now one of the leading causes of death. According to Data Collected by Johns Hopkins university here are the latest numbers worldwide there are more than 31 million cases. With nearly 7 million of those cases here in the u. S. , california continues to lead the country with the number of cases, 792,000 we also have more than 15,000 deaths in the state and the bay area has recorded more than 97,000 cases and more than 1400 deaths and despite this grim milestone nationwide San Francisco has had the lowest covid19 death rate. Of any other major us city throughout most of the pandemic our conference send a is live for us in the newsroom with details on this tonight. Thank you thats right, San