Preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. I said well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. And i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. What the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and longoverdue questions about our countrys historic difficulties when it comes to matters of race. Was he something of a pioneer on those issues or was he or another white writer profiting off of racist caricatures of black americans . Dr. Michael gorra, as you might imagine, has some thoughts on that. He is a professor of English Literature at Smith College in massachusetts. He is the author of several books including portrait of a novel, the making of an american masterpiece, which was a finalist for the pool surprise and bio
The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it. Or you want to reduce the categorical suspicion of young black males and more accurately predict crime, try predictive algorithms. I think we need to be cautious , when we using data are trying to solve social problems with technological solutions. The first thing i would suggest in moving forward is that we pause,moment to stop, to and really invert the order of operations of what has been goin
Useful information. Preachers evangelize in that sense only . Not at all. With us today is a literary scholar and teacher who will discuss with us how makers of art and literature, fiction, film, poultry, or bringing us good news and revealing to us truths that can help us live wisely and well if that is we know how to read their books and watch their films. How do we watch and read even the products of our secular culture so as to grow and wisdom and grace. Stay with us as we talk with doctor margaret about fiction, film, and faith around us and the depths of rich human insight that can be found in the best of the art. Welcome to, mosaic me our guest dr. Martin. Margaret. You are a teacher, a professor at the st. Patricks seminary. You have taught also at university dallas. You have an ma in systematic theology, and a doctoral degree from University Freiburg in theology. You are a learned scholar and an experienced teacher and writer. What do you want to talk about today in evangeliza
Its the late show with stephen colbert. Tonight iowas karen olivio and aaron tveit and a performance by moulin rouge the musical. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from t cheers and applause stephen one more time come on hello, citizens stephen thats all right yeah, beautiful thank you. Thank you, friends and neighbors. Welcome to the late show. Im your host stephen colbert. Happy friday, my friends. cheers and applause or is it . laughter its not. Im actually taping this on thursday for scheduling reasons. I previously scheduled myself to be balls deep in an old fashioned. And i thought it was important for me to come clean because of the bond of trust we have developed over the years as viewer and talk show host. I dont lie to you. My commercials dont lie to yo. laughter i mean, it might become a problem. But friday, the day youre in, was the second day of live televised impeachment hearings. And i havent seen it yet, but i can predict what happened in tonig
Today we are going to discuss an overview of america in the 1970s. In the beginning of the century we talked about how it takes a bit of time or historians to understand what an era is about at least 25 years of perspective. The 1970s were seen as a bit of a joke of a decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen the 1970s is very important. In some ways william more important than the 1960s which seems to get a lot of attention. One of the themes historians have talked about is calling this era the age of limits. We will get to a little bit about what that means. We will talk about that and also the . Was this really an age of limits . We will discuss the import of the decade and the influence it had on not just the 1980s but really down to our time today. Recapping what we talked about earlier, we see in the 1970s a pretty profound loss of faith in American Institution driven by nixons resignation over watergate in 1974. The final end of the vietnam war i