[inaudible] [inaudible] welcome to the hudson institute. I am john, senior fellow and director of the center for american, culture. Hudson promotes American Leadership in Global Engagement for secure, free, prosperous future. We were founded in 1961 by strategist herman con. We challenge thinking and help with transitions of the future through disciplinary studies and defense, international relations, economics, we are delighted to host british journalist, author, think tank or david goodhart. He is currently the head of a demography unit a policy change think tank. His former editor of prospect magazine and former director of the centerleft he most. His previous book successes and failures the postwar immigration was a runnerup. David has written a powerful book, the road to somewhere, the populist revolt of the future politics. You can see on amazon and elsewhere. Britain, like the United States is culturally divided. Its a culturally divided nation. Her other probes this with consid
Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
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