University founder, Dennis Prager. Welcome back to the book tv set. Im going to ask you a question i do not ask many people when i start an interview, what is on your mind these days . Mr. Prager i am worried about western civilization. The greatest civilization that was ever produced, if you care about liberty, if you care about women and their status in society, if you care about uplifting the poor, if you care about creating a nonbigoted society, and of course my favorite liberty. Without liberty everything is useless. I do believe give me liberty or give me death. I actually subscribe to that. It is hard to believe, but western civilization is being threatened. The very notion that there is no better or worse, that equity trumps merit, so that we will the Oregon Education Department in ontario education department, the largest province in canada have announced that it is White Supremacy or colonialism to argue to maintain that there is only one correct answer in mathematics. So eve
Capitalism and one on gun violence in america. A couple more call in shows as well. We are pleased to be joined by author, journalist and Prager University founder, Dennis Prager. Welcome back to the book tv set. Im going to ask you a question i do not ask many people when i start an interview, what is on your mind these days . Mr. Prager i am worried about western civilization. The greatest civilization that was ever produced, if you care about liberty, if you care about women and their status in society, if you care about uplifting the poor, if you care about creating a nonbigoted society, and of course my favorite liberty. Without liberty everything is useless. I do believe give me liberty or give me death. I actually subscribe to that. It is hard to believe, but western civilization is being threatened. The very notion that there is no better or worse, that equity trumps merit, so that we will the Oregon Education Department in ontario education department, the largest province in
To become dean of the faculty professor in english about a year ago. And so im so glad to know that this book brings you to labyrinth. Hes been at work on pearl. Laurence dunbar the life and times of a caged bird, published should say by the ever wonderful Princeton University press for well over a decade. His previous books are representing race a new political history of African American literature and deans and truants, race and realism in African American literature. Hes joined evening by his colleague in the English Department simon gikandi, whos currently search projects are on slavery and modernity. Decolonization in literature and global modernism. Professor eric arnesen many acclaimed books i wont list all, but they include slavery and the culture of taste and writing in limbo. Modernism and caribbean literature. Before i hand things over, i just wanted quickly to say, right before reading gene jarrett outstanding biography of Paul Laurence dunbar, i had read saidiya hartmans
To become dean of the faculty professor in english about a year ago. And so im so glad to know that this book brings you to labyrinth. Hes been at work on pearl. Laurence dunbar the life and times of a caged bird, published should say by the ever wonderful Princeton University press for well over a decade. His previous books are representing race a new political history of African American literature and deans and truants, race and realism in African American literature. Hes joined evening by his colleague in the English Department simon gikandi, whos currently search projects are on slavery and modernity. Decolonization in literature and global modernism. Professor eric arnesen many acclaimed books i wont list all, but they include slavery and the culture of taste and writing in limbo. Modernism and caribbean literature. Before i hand things over, i just wanted quickly to say, right before reading gene jarrett outstanding biography of Paul Laurence dunbar, i had read saidiya hartmans
Social history at the Free University of amsterdam. He is the author of the making of a periphery and the sugar plantation in india and indonesia. He is joined in conversation tonight sharmila sen the editorial and director of special initiative at Harvard University press. She was formerly a faculty member of the Harvard English Department and is the author the Award Winning . Not quite. Not losing and finding race in america tonight. Elizabeth asma is presenting his new book, the world of sugar how the sweet stuff transformed our politics, health and, environment over 2000 years. This book, a definitive 2500 year history of sugar and its human costs, which author sven beckert says explores something as mundane as sugar came to play a crucial role in making of the world we inhabit today. Attentive to local specificity as much to earth, spanning connections to culture and capital, power and poverty. This book is global history at its best. Were so pleased to host this event here at Har