Good afternoon everyone im robert doar and im very glad to welcome you all to super power in peril. A conversation with David Mccormick this event is part of a ise edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum series where we bring in the authors of new and books and we are very grateful to ed and helen for their generous for this mission which makes talks like these possible. Now David Mccormick is the author along with James Cunningham of super power in peril, a battle plan to renew america, which was recently published by Center Street press. David is the former ceo of bridgewater associates, the Worlds Largest hedge fund. He served in the George W Bush administration as the of treasury for international and under secretary of commerce for industry and security. A graduate of west point. He served in the United States army and saw combat during the gulf war and he also was a candidate for, the United States senate, in last years senate race in pennsylvania. Im very proud to welcome david here t
Good afternoon everyone im robert doar and im very glad to welcome you all to super power in peril. A conversation with David Mccormick this event is part of a ise edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum series where we bring in the authors of new and books and we are very grateful to ed and helen for their generous for this mission which makes talks like these possible. Now David Mccormick is the author along with James Cunningham of super power in peril, a battle plan to renew america, which was recently published by Center Street press. David is the former ceo of bridgewater associates, the Worlds Largest hedge fund. He served in the George W Bush administration as the of treasury for international and under secretary of commerce for industry and security. A graduate of west point. He served in the United States army and saw combat during the gulf war and he also was a candidate for, the United States senate, in last years senate race in pennsylvania. Im very proud to welcome david here t
Booktv on twitter, instagram and facebook. The good morning. My name is sam abrams. Im a a senior fellow at the American Enterprise institute and a professor politics and social science at Sarah Lawrence college here in new york. I would like to welcome you to the American Enterprise institute and another edward and Helen Hintz Book Forum event. Simply put, american journalism today is under attack in this age of intense polarization many major news outlets face pressure to push socalled politically correct narratives under the guise of objective unbiased reporting. The question for today is has the socalled fourth estate, dissertation thats largely responsible for checking the government providing information to the citizenry and so on fallen prey to a rising pressure from the woke or the pressure to be woke . Today batya ungarsargon the deputy opinion editor news work says yes. She has a forthcoming book. Its a great cover. I know were not supposed to this is a great cover called bad