Ithaca, new york, and i am the author of cosmos possible worlds. Truly honored to be participating in an event nor library of congress. In the very first cosmos exactly 40 years ago, carl sagan and stevenned soar and i celebrated the Great Library of alexandra, and the library of congress means so very much to me because of the democratic idea of the worlds knowledge, belonging to all of us, and so its my great honor to be here, and here to talk but possible worlds, which is the book ive written but also the Television Series that i have the pleasure of producing, writing, and directing, with my collaborator, brannon brag y. Why a third cass mose does mose after 40 years . The first cosmos was an effort to give the broadest possible public a global public, its coordinates in space and in time. It was carl sagans dream, one i completely share, that how we find our way in the cosmos, the great story of the 40,000 generations of human beings, who in one way or another added to our current
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Spending. Current funding levels expire on september 30. All of the senate live on cspan2. Joining us is rick tyler, now stillh a new book, right. What is the message in the book . I think i wrote it for two reasons, and to different audiences. Lets say its too left and right audiences. A large part of it is a misunderstanding of what conservatism is. A, i wanted to create rational defense of conservatism as write about conservatism an attractive governing philosophy. In the same way that other writers can and have written as about progressivism. Because progressivism and many countries have progressive forms of government are a rational form of philosophy. It is not mine. My philosophy is conservatism. I would like people, at a minimum, who take the progressive point of view, to understand what actual conservatism is. If i think about it, i wrote it for the right for the exact same reasons. I hear a lot of people pronouncing policies often repeated by the president and it gets labored
Two reasons and two different audiences. Lets say it is the left and right audience. I wrote for the left because i often hear conservatism denigrated as a philosophy. Part of that is a large part of it is a misunderstanding of what conservatism is. A, i wanted to create rational defense of conservatism as write about conservatism an attractive governing philosophy. In the same way that other writers can and have written as about progressivism. Because progressivism and many countries have progressive forms of government are a rational form of philosophy. It is not mine. My philosophy is conservatism. I would like people, at a minimum, who take the progressive point of view, to understand what actual conservatism is. If i think about it, i wrote it for the right for the exact same reasons. I hear a lot of people pronouncing policies often repeated by the president and it gets labored labeled as conservative. Will espouse philosophies that are not conservative. I think trade is one of t
Doing something in person and a different topic but im thrilled to be kicking off the festival. Its my honor to introduce three people to you. First is roger whose work has been published in 14 languages. The author of five New York Times notable books of the year and three times bestsellers including the memoirs the boy detective and making toast which was originally an essay in the new yorker. The story im, a collection on the writing life came out in april on life, love and responsibility will be out in october. Rogers also written seven offbroadway plays notably in the oneperson free speech in america but he performed at the american place theatre and which was named one of the times ten best plays of 91. Last spring he performed and played piano which will go to the center for the arts at stony brook in new york next year. He also wrote the screenplay for his bestselling novel that will star doctor channing and currently is in production. Roger is distinguished professor of englis