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
Find out more about that. Tonight our guest author is going to be interviewed by gawrt, a distinguished magazine journalist. He covers politics, technology and [inaudible] contributes to wired and the author of multiple books including the Number One National best seller the only plane in the sky an oral history of 9 11. Inside Robert Muellers fbi and often rock about the governments [inaudible] hes also and memorably did a great interview there back in february in the manchester north sure we could do things like that. And hopefully, well do that again when we can. And i am so pleased to welcome tim wiener back to northshire. He was saying hes done events in vermont for his last four books, and we are lucky enough to host him in our store back in 2016 when his wonderful Richard Nixon boy owe came out bio came out. I remember it very, very fondly. He has won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book awar for his reporting and writing on National Security and intelligence. He covered the
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