And greeces Prime Minister meets more european leaders and explains how he plans to slash his countrys death. A warm welcome to the program. At least 16 people have been killed after a plane crashed into a river in taiwan. The plane was carrying more than 50 people. This is the scene right now in taipei. Rescuers are working to release the people still captured inside. The fuselage is laying on its side, which is hampering the rescue effort. While many passengers on board were tourists from mainland china. Reporter these are the last terrifying seconds of the flight, slowed down the footage shows how the plane narrowly misses a block of flats. One of its wings hits a car as it disappears from views. These photographs capture the same last moments the aircraft out of control and almost at 90 degrees as is plunges towards the river. Parts of the plane were left scattered on the bridge. The fuselage half submerged in the water below. This part of the keylong river is shallow and that has
Institutions, voting for example which remains fundamental to our politics today. And for 500 years, for another 500 years. Dependent the measure of success. With the similarity between two deegan guest interesting question. And setting the terms of legitimacy, and it is true in the roman republic, no law could be passed without being passed by the popular assembly. And in the senate for example, the senate couldnt pass laws, they could make decrees, manager business, the budget, but if they wanted to tackle the law, they had to go to the people landed is interesting that even under that ideas that the people fundamentally are responsible for setting the terms of legitimacy continues the romans fought the people claim the new emperor and it is from that public acclamation that their legitimacy derives and some of that idea gets into medieval matters and political thought and becomes the important underpinning of popular sovereignty. Host who are the leaders in the Greek Development of
Excessive too prevalent and insufficiently investigated. I thought that it would be interesting to write a book built around the six categories of identity were conflict is often a major way in which the past is written about, to say hold on this is indeed part of the story, but theres another story to tell as well. Ive tried to make the case for getting more attention to in this book. Seems to me that very often, more often than not, i think, the world is actually a more complicated place than that, and it seems to me that its maybe the job and its certainly the predilection of pundits to say the world is simple. It seems to me that part of the job of professors at princeton and elsewhere is to say the world is a very complicated place, and you ignore that complexity not only at your peril but maybe at ours as well. Host page 264 you write the history of humankind is at least as much about cooperation as it is about conflict. Can you give an example of that . Guest well, the book is f
Full of yellowed, all letters. Would you please take it off my hands. I take i take it and they proved to be a treasure trove of the personal letters of the widow of the commander of this voyage. I use them a lot from beginning to end, but that is where. Usually it is paraphrasing or snippets. Time for one more. This gentleman has been waiting. Just a minute. I guess i want to get something clarified. He said he did not marshal arguments and try to make a case. I thought if your writing a book telling a story one of the things readers want to know is what did the writer think . Dont you draw conclusions about what is right and wrong . Was joe mccarthy bad or good . Do you just have the facts and expect your reader to draw conclusions . I think that you what i try to do is to draw conclusions through narrative and not your argument. I wrote this book about kit carson. A fairly complicated dude. Consider this great indian killer, his 1st wife was indian, his 2nd wife was indian. He india
Greek and roman political ideas and why they matter. Were the greeks and romans successful politicians . Guest they were. The greeks managed in different citystates to develop the worlds first democracy. In athens they produced works of art, literature and great works of architecture and Political Institutions which remained fundamental to Politics Today and the romans for 500 years and that went down for another 500 years. Depending on your measure of success they have a lot to offer. Host what were the similarities . Guest interesting question. Really emphasized election and the fundamental role for the people in setting the terms of legitimacy so that in greek democracy is true in the the Roman Republic so for example in the Roman Republic know what could be passed without it being passed by a popular assembly. Talk about the influence of the elite in rome and the senate, that was significant but the senate couldnt pass laws. They could make it presentable and business and manage th