Displacement of people in a torrent cities in japan, and the continued rise of communism, soviet, union and china. Cspan or court at this event in 2013. In baruma, was educated in holland and japan. Hes won several awards for his work. Among them the international prize, and the journalism award. The publication he writes for the guardian recently published his highly learned, and highly entertaining review of the British Museum exhibition sex and pleasure in japanese art. Among his previous books are teaming the gods. Religion and democracy on three continents. Murder in amsterdam. The limit of tolerance, and inventing japan, 1863 to 1960. Four in years zero, most of what he wrote while he was a fellow at the command center in 2011 and to this in 12, to the series and think of his fellows felicity was so productive. He produced a brilliant portrayal of the world emerging from the devastation and unspeakable horrors of world war ii in europe and asia. Skeptical about the idea that we c
Changed the course of world war ii. She will bespeaking tonight about her new book , the great secret, the classified world war ii that launched the war on cancer. Thank you for joining us. Thank you and i want to thank the museum for inviting me to be with you tonight. Alas, its virtually but im here at my desk. Myfirst zoom presentation so bear with me everyone. Im thinking right now i should have a little bit of wine but anyway here we go. Lets start us off with a quote from winston churchill. He had a way with words. Men occasionally stumble across it to most of them themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel Stuart Francis alexander, our hero is not long off. In fact, you refused to leave the scene of a military disaster even though churchill warned him to. He stayed and investigated and as a result he recognized a never before seen symptoms of dying sailors that might have lifesaving implications for others inthe future. This is the story of one intrep
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You pull them together in this book with a larger argument about the failures of liberalism. I thought it might make sense for you to. [inaudible] reading a little bit from that introduction. Oh, sure. Absolutely. The emphasis in essays in this book were written in response to the Anglo American delusions that climaxed in brexit, the election of donald trump and, finally, a calamitous response to the covid19 outbreak. These range from the 19th century dream of imperial liberalism long championed by the colonists in which capital, goods, jobs and people freely circulate through the proclamation of an American Century of free trade and modernization, the attempt by american cold warriors to seduce [inaudible] away from communist revolution and into the gradual u. S. Alternative or consumer capitalism of democracy to the catastrophic humanitarian wars and demagoguic explosions of our times. Wrote in 1957 at the height of the cold war are the fanatics of western civilization who regard the
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