With six president s on some of the most difficult Challenging Health crisis to confront humanity. Hivaids, ebola, topeka will probably nothing on the dangerous disruption, divisive as covid19. His claimed more than 170,000 lives in the u. S. Alone. 5. 4 million cases here. I first covered and interviewed him when i was a White House Correspondent seen in the 1980s and hivaids was exploding first on the scene. Good to be with you. Let me start by saying thank you for your time again and how are you doing in the middle of all of this . This is insanity. You are right. It is really surreal but im fine, it is very intense. Obviously we are working 16 and 17 hours a day on this. It is something we have to do. It is a challenge as you all know, is historic, we havent seen anything like this in 102 years. Since the 1918 pandemic. Its challenging to the entire world and we, the u. S. Has been hit worse than virtually any other country when you talk about cases and deaths so its a real importa
It was remarkably tame. The first thing i did was look at the bloomberg terminal to see if we could find some of the technical work. This morningned me is the reaffirmation of the in some form of recovery and enthusiasm for stocks. Later by ben laidlaw who is optimistic. Jonathan the s p 500 futures looking optimistic this morning, up 1. 5 . 1. 9 . Look at we have a look at what the markets will look like. Will it be sequential we can we can provement or will recovery . We have been trading on the former. We got the gut punch reminder not to forget about the latter. I think it was a letter that made a comeback. Last 24back in the hours in a more pronounced way. Tom no question about it, the pandemic updated it and there are new geographies of concern. It is important. S ed hyman is adamant that a vaccine is critical in the next year. He was usually hugely enthusiastic on the American Financial experiment. Jonathan the data has been getting better, but the pandemic number has been climb
Of a life of Frederick Douglass written in 1845 it describes his childhood years on Eastern Shore of maryland, his time as a slave in baltimore and his escape north. Our guest is a historian and author. Watch books that shaped america weeknights at nine eastern on cspan or go to cspan. Org books that shaped america to view the series and learn more about each book featured. Abraham avi loeb is a franklin baird junior professor of science at Harvard University, the longestserving chair of Harvard Department of astronomy, the founding director of Harvard Black hole initiative, director of the institute for theory and computation, itc, within the Harvard Smithsonian center for astrophysics. He also heads the galileoeo project, chairs the Advisory Committee for the breakthrough star shot initiative, and is former chair of the board on physics and astronomy of the national academy. Author of eight books booe than 1000 scientific papers, he is elected fellow of the American Academy of arts a
When the students he recruited future Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas and Edward P Jones who would go on to win the Pulitzer Prize in journalism. This is about 50 minutes. Good afternoon, i would like to welcome everybody and start the program if we could. Good afternoon and welcome. This is a wonderful turn out and we are happy to have everybody this afternoon. On behalf of the college as well as though as the holy cross public radio of boston by want to welcome you to this monthly lunch. I am greg. Thank you for being here as we celebrate the publication of fraternity with author diane brady. An exceptional and accomplished journalist, diane has done all of us a great gift in telling the story of father bob brooks as well as in an Extraordinary Group of black students and how they are tied together at holy cross in the late 1960s to help shape their lives and changed the course of history. As one reviewer commented, fraternity brings to our attention for the first time an unsun
He is an affiliated professor in the Harvard Department of government, an affiliated faculty member at Harvard Law School and an honorary fellow of st. Catherines college in cambridge. His previous books include the ideological origins of the british empire, winner of the longman History Today book of the year award, the declaration of independence a global history, which was a Times Literary Supplement book of the year, and the history manifesto which was a new statesman book of the year. His new book, civil wars a history and ideas, examines the history of the very notion of civil war from its roots in republican rome to the conflicts that have roiled the global south for the past two decades. Questions of what makes a conflict not only a war, but a civil war rather than a foreign war or a revolution, are intensely political and depend on which warrior you ask. Shifting definitions of the term have also determined foreign policy. Do outside powers choose to arm one side or the other