Magazines office and opened fire in response to muhummad cartoons. 12 people were killed, including the editor and several cartoonists. The Pen America Center will honor Charlie Hebdo with its freedom of expression courage award as part of its annual celebration of authors from around the world. This has ignited a controversy and several highprofile writers have withdrawn in protest. Two Charlie Hebdo staffers join us, editorinchief gerard biard and film critic jeanbaptiste thoret. Im pleased to have them at the table. Welcome. Tell me about your reaction to what happened in texas. Jeanbaptiste thoret to be honest, i cannot imagine the kind of comparison you can make between the Charlie Hebdo attack on january 7 and this event. There is nothing to do, no comparison. Absolutely no comparison possible. You have an antiislamic movement, very harsh movement, against the islamization of the u. S. Charlie hebdo is absolutely not the same. It is just the question of criticizing religion not m
2013 at otb 15 p. On cspan cspan 2. My name is care about cash, director of educational and cultural programs for the Smithsonian Associates and im delighted youre here this evening at the smithsonian castle. Sitting in the library, which seems like the Perfect Place for this program. We are here to celebrate and enjoy the art of biography. This evening highlights the first of a new series by harpercollins publishers, titled eminent lives in which a number of distinguished authors will publish biographies of wellknown figures central to history and culture. I want to thank all of you who are members of the Resident Associate Program for your membership and for coming out for programs like this one tonight and for all those who are not numbers of the Resident Associate Program, well hope you will join us. To discuss the art of biography tonight, we are delighted to have christopher hitchens, Francine Prose and Michael Korda as our guest. Her discussion is moderated by mark packer, direc
So you have an issue whereby there is a 24226 Unemployment Rate in detroit. There are not enough taxpayers to support social services and what i said that was so radically different in 2010 that had so many people in the Municipal Bond market angry with me was that the whole notion that you no, history would not be a good indicator of the future to the extent that legally states give constitutional backing to their pensioners and their general Obligation Bonds but they dont give constitutional backing to anything else of Discretionary Spending like education or Public Safety or any of those things that as a taxpayer you feel like you pay money and you should get those services. So that something would give and taxpayers who were taking the first phase of the law for the default if you will would finally say enough is enough. Im leaving so the tax revenues dont support the expenses or they say why his attention are getting 100 cents on the dollar when im getting 50 cents on the dollar i
Every day week brought the 100th anniversary of some great nefnt the civil war where lincolns presidency. In fact, when he commissioned them to write a first draft the inauguration address. He told him to study the gettieses berg address and learn the secret. He also invited karl sand berg, lincoln psychological leer to the white house for a private tutorial on lincolns greatness and must have been pleased and he said theres more a more favorable set of circumstance for a president to face since lincoln. More evidence how much he was thinking of lincoln after he successfully settled the cuban missile crisis. He turned to an aid and said tonight is the night we should got go to the theater. He also invited historian and lincoln expert, David Herbert donald to the white house and peppered him with question how does a president acquire greatness. Would lincoln have been ranked a great president if not assassinated. Donald wrote to a man this is a man determined to go down in the history b
[inaudible conversations] doesnt tell us what to do. It tells us what we think is going to happen and then went to make choices about that. One argument is the earth is always changing. Societies can change and adapt in many ways. And, of course, we dont know if that is necessary the case with the climate problem. It may be something we can adapt to. But if you take that idea that societies can adapt, it leaves us with the question of, even if we can adapt is the second world we want to live in with his extreme heat, with the drought, the sea level rise. So many things that we care about are endangered by the change that happening and we do have a choice about them. Can human ingenuity say the plan or his catastrophe all but certain . Paul sabin on the bet tonight at nine on after words, part of booktv this weekend on cspan2 and booktvs book club is back this month with mark lubavitch, this town. Read the book and see what other viewers are saying on our Facebook Page and on twitter. W