Position. From the gerald. Are. Ford president ial library, this is an hour. Good evening again. The timing for tonights program is prescient as is always the case at the ford library as we are on the verge of seeing who the current nominees for the presidency will select as their running mates. Some of you picked up copies of an article from the wall street journal recently as you entered the auditorium. Its on the impact of the Vice President ial nominee on election results. For those of you who didnt pick up copies, were having extras run right now and well have them for you after the program. Tonight were going to be discussing not just the electoral process but the evolving role of the vice presidency. And we have the honor of hosting professor joel goldstein, who is the author of a newly released book the white house vice presidency, the path to significance from mondale to biden. Dr. Goldstein is a highly respected scholar of the vice presidency, the presidency and constitutiona
The largest election the world has ever seen, you spend the hour with indian novelist and essayist Arundhati Roy. She is just out the new book called, capitalism a ghost story. After the opening up of the economy, we are in a situation where 100 of indias wealthiest people, their combined wealth is 25 of the gdp, whereas war that 80 of its population is less than less than one dollar a day. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. A standoff continues in ukraine where prorussian separatist have seized government buildings in eastern areas. Demonstrators have barricaded themselves and and readied fuel bombs. The government in kiev has warned of sending in troops to restore order. Testifying before senate panel in washington, secretary of state john kerry accused russia of direct involvement. Everything we have seen in the last 48 hours, russian provocateurs and agents operating in eastern ukraine, tells us they
On the life work impact of worldrenowned investor philanthropists and founder of the open Society George Soros mr. Soros is i believe the longest most consistent. And in many ways the most impactful advocate of open society values. In our times and therefore he is also the most consistently attacked falsified. And just plain misunderstood person if our times that means we need some explication. For the library, all of this is not about party politics. Its about a debate. About and four the values. Of open society mr. Soros is the subject of the book that brings us together tonight george soros a life in full a collection of essays edited by our friend peter ostinas the book is really an astonishing array of essays. And for those of you familiar with mr. Soross work and work about him. I think you will find this really revelatory and and so compelling and direct the contributors have a Hoffman Michael ignatius sebastian. Malabi whose work whos essay on reflexivity is masterful orville s
Thank you for joining us at live. From nypl. My name is tony marks, and im the president of the new york public library. Tonight we are so delighted to host this important conversation. On the life work impact of worldrenowned investor philanthropists and founder of the open Society George Soros mr. Soros is i believe the longest most consistent. And in many ways the most impactful advocate of open society values. In our times and therefore he is also the most consistently attacked falsified. And just plain misunderstood person if our times that means we need some explication. For the library, all of this is not about party politics. Its about a debate. About and four the values. Of open society mr. Soros is the subject of the book that brings us together tonight george soros a life in full a collection of essays edited by our friend peter ostinas the book is really an astonishing array of essays. And for those of you familiar with mr. Soross work and work about him. I think you will f
Worldrenowned investor philanthropists and founder of the open Society George Soros mr. Soros is i believe the longest most consistent. And in many ways the most impactful advocate of open society values. In our times and therefore he is also the most consistently attacked falsified. And just plain misunderstood person if our times that means we need some explication. For the library, all of this is not about party politics. Its about a debate. About and four the values. Of open society mr. Soros is the subject of the book that brings us together tonight george soros a life in full a collection of essays edited by our friend peter ostinas the book is really an astonishing array of essays. And for those of you familiar with mr. Soross work and work about him. I think you will find this really revelatory and and so compelling and direct the contributors have a Hoffman Michael ignatius sebastian. Malabi whose work whos essay on reflexivity is masterful orville shell Leon Botstein ivan kas