Branches of the human race, a believe in a supreme being and the family. A person isd depends on the surrounding in which he grows up. The way we behave comes from something called cultural experience, or environment. You can watch this and other American History programs on our cspan. Org history. On American History tv, political economy professor and author Robert Wright discusses Alexander Hamiltons views on the National Debt, and imagines how he would have addressed the current debt. According to the treasury department, the debt is now over 19 trillion. The Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and the museum of American Finance cohosted this event. It is a little over an hour. Welcome, everyone. I am president of the museum of American Finance. Our partner is the Alexander Hamilton Awareness Society and you turn to them for all things hamiltonian. We turn it to friends of the museum. We have wrought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audien
Ive got a question. This . Me we live like and it wasnt always that way. For instance, at a stage of history with the socalled. Pure whites of Northern Europe were little better than savages, Eastern Africa had flourishing cultures, and the great civilization of northern china had begun to develop. All people contributed to civilization, reaching high levels at different times, each learning from the experience of the other. But there were certain basic ideas that were common to all branches of the human race, a belief in a supreme being, the home and the family. , how civilized a person is depends on the surroundings in which he grows up. The differences in the ways people behave are not inherited from their ancestors. They come from something called cultural experience or environment. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all of our video is archived. That is cspan. Org history. Next on American History tv, political economy professor and author
We have brought some amazing documents you should check out afterwards. We thank the cspan audience. 20 years ago, our board chair wrote me a note that started with the words a stroke of luck. Had been introduced to a buffalo phd candidate. He was interested in early American Financial history. This was before the show. Very few people were interested in hamilton. There were very few of us that were doing a deeper dive into the financial aspects of his vision. His phd thesis, 1300 pages. That is staggering. Perspective, mine was a paltry 300 and his was 1000 more. It led to the first quit about bob. He cant hold his ink. Skip forward 20 years, he has 20 more books he has authored or coauthored. That led to another quip, he writes books faster than we can read them. To add to that five at volumes, the five scholarly articles, many have received awards. I am only at page 10 of his 47 page cv. Its an incredible document you should check out at his webpage. I see pictures of him with fishi
laughter its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, reacting to the state of the union. Plus, stephen welcomes rose mcgowan and senator rand paul. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert cheers and applause stephen whoa hello, how are you . Stephen thank you, sir hey, everybody. Please sit down. Thank you very much, heroes all, heroes, all. Thank you. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. Everyones still keenly aware that donald trump gave a speech last night. I believe it ended 15 minutes ago. laughter and good news for trump according to cnn, 70 percent of the people who watched the speech had either a very positive or somewhat positive reaction. Which seems good, until you learn its the lowest net positive rating for a state of the Union Address since cnn first asked the question. applause . cheers , of course, true. Thats true. , of course, you know, its an odd sample siz
And we are live, people later well be with David Remnick with the state of the Union Address. Just a few minutes ago, the president made a grand entrance, he shook hands to people he pretended to recognize, look at him there, white purr, yeah. I love that, you know, about paul rhine and mike pence are in like. Read the words. The state of the union is an annual speech where the president gives the congress ideas for what he wants to do in the coming year. Then, of course ted cruz was watching from his usual seats seat, far away from humans who will never love him and a special appearance from ben carson who was watching there from the sunk l place. But, this year, there were a number of empty seats. Some democrats now saying that they dont want to, quote, honor the president by attending the state of the Union Address. Flash, there is a lengthy list now including maxine waters, a democrat, who says the president doesnt deserve her attention. Frederica wilson, another rep, says that it