A brief intellectual history of the trump era interviewed by New York Times book review editor, paul. Watch book tv this weekend on cspan2. It is great to be back as we kick off our fall season and our inaugural speaker as you mentioned is ted freeman, professor of Business Administration atthe Darden School at uva. His latest book which is still relevant youre in the current discourse that is going on in our nation is called the word and. The most powerful word in our language. So lets find out why the power of and is responsible for this without tradeoffs. Thank you very much for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually. At fordham. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism, as dave had mentioned, i got a phd in philosophy. And that was great. My father was always terrific and he said well, youll never have to worry about a job because just opened a bunch ofphilosophy factories outside the interstate. Youll be fine. I got very lucky with sort of a postdoc war.
The because the word and, simply and the most powerful word in our language. Lets find out why in the power of and, responsible witness without tradeoff. Inc. Is to much for having m me. It is a real treat to be back, even if only virtually. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism, as david mentioned, i got a phd in philosophy. That was great. My father was always terrific pretty said well you will never have to worry about a job because i just open a bunch of philosophy factories. You will be fine. I got very lucky for the postdoc at wharton and ive always tied to business goals. I want to recapture today if i can on the sense of optimism and idealism in the shadows of awful pandemic and there really devastation that has occurred in the world. In many communities. I still remain incredibly optimistic that we are going to find our way out of it. That we are going to find our way to racial justice. And we are going to build a better world. Which is what all of us i think would like
Statue of liberty, there is a poem by m. Lazarus who says bring me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses wanting to breathe free. 12,000 refugees at displaced population of almost five million. Weve seen these heartbreaking pictures of children who are being killed. And think about i guess were talking about 400,000 syrians being killed in this. What about what our and b is as human beings what our obligation is to other human beings. These are people who are fleeing isis. These are people are fleeing an assad regime that uses poison gas against civilians. The u. N. G process is first, refugee, first vets people hands them to us. Average a over on year and a half before we vet them, is that correct . Yes, thats correct, senator. Senator franken and have we had any dulls that came over in syria engage in some sort of errorist plot . No, senator, not to my knowledge. Senator franken you know, my grandfather came from russia. He arrived and saw that on the statue of liberty. He was o
The country tries to get to the bottom of terrorist plots, we come through long and heated debate whether what is now known should ever become public, and now it has. The thrust of the report boils down to this. People were tortured contrary to the repeated assertions that it was worse than people let on, and it didnt work and when responsible branches of the government tried to find out what went on, they were often lied to. The report received today looks at c. I. A. s detention of 119 individuals and use of coercive techniques in some cases amount no torture. The practices used by the United States after 9, long in the making, politically charged, it reports previously undisclosed techniques used by the c. I. A. The report found that the interrogations of c. I. A. Detainees were brutal, and far worse than the c. I. A. Represented to policymakers and others. It accuses the c. I. A. Of using interrogation technique such as violent threats to a prisoners families, including the threat
The country tries to get to the bottom of terrorist plots, we come through long and heated debate whether what is now known should ever become public, and now it has. The thrust of the report boils down to this. People were tortured contrary to the repeated assertions that it was worse than people let on, and it didnt work and when responsible branches of the government tried to find out what went on, they were often lied to. The report received today looks at c. I. A. s detention of 119 individuals and use of coercive techniques in some cases amount no torture. The practices used by the United States after 9, long in the making, politically charged, it reports previously undisclosed techniques used by the c. I. A. The report found that the interrogations of c. I. A. Detainees were brutal, and far worse than the c. I. A. Represented to policymakers and others. It accuses the c. I. A. Of using interrogation technique such as violent threats to a prisoners families, including the threat