I am also very troubled about how deep the political divide is mainly between democrats and republicans but even within the two parties it is restive, it is not settled. People are not happy. For a lot of reasons. We are racially divided you saw that terrible shooting in georgia that got into the news the last couple of dates. Were trying to figure out what it means to be american and weve talked about that many times the book project has helped me a lot to reflect on that larger question and he began with a pretty ordinary way. I was writing a series of blog posts. I wouldnt call them quite articles. It began around 2010. All around the one 50th anniversary of our civil war. In the idea was that we could find younger historians who were comfortable in and the digital the environment to put up more articles about history in the online New York Times that they would have been able to put in the printed paper when it started the online New York Times was kind of like a backyard that no o
We are using this time to reach out to our senior phallus, friends and constituents to talk about the important issues and ethics in public life that are at the heart of the councils work. So thank you all for joining us. Todays topic is democracy on the verge, leadership in times of crisis. This title is a play on the title of the new book, lincoln on the verge, 13 days to washington, written by our good friend and carnegie fellow ted widmer. Great to see you ted. Thank you its good to be here. Im going to let ted described the book i will set the outset it is really a thriller. The book is cinematic, its philosophical, it is a great story. And for me it is inspirational. Like all of teds work, lincoln on the verge, uses the path to enlightenment future and suggest a better future. This is not a bad formula for an entrant understanding the intersection of ethics and Public Policy for this and many other reasons im grateful to ted for his own leadership in our field. In addition to his
They got is which are decades of sadness because as an confiscate all my gold you can pick up and run away with it thats why because a superior to gold on that level its also as you point out the gold back settlement layer that used to be in place has been ripped out by the money could get the doors on the subtle banks you dont need a settlement layer because of because the transaction is the settlement thats the genius of this hardest money ever invented or created ever in the history of humanity its also highly divisible its also fungible and it is superior to gold thats why people in these in this region a lot america if i have had this 500 year its aster fee if people are constantly stealing their wealth same thing in africa thats why adoption rates of the coin in africa are up as well because of the countries the doors or the neoliberals as you call them now in america they come and they steal your wealth well with because its on confiscated all but theyll be left holding the sea
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