I am Program Manager of the Common Ground initiative. I am pleased to usher in our first session and introduce our first speaker. At the risk of sounding too cheerful, i must say that beginning with friendship kicks off the possibility of Common Ground between progressives and conservatives. It does seem unlikely that the buckleymailer relationship has an equivalent today. Seeing as we have historians and public intellectuals such as our speaker writing eloquently and persuasively about such friendship, the prospect seems far from lost. Our speaker, Kevin Schultz is the author of buckley and mailer. He is an associate professor of history, cap at studies at the university of catholic studies at illinois in chicago, winning several awards for his teaching on the f no racial and intellectual history ethno racial and intellectual history of america. Receiving his phd from berkeley in 2005, he began an academic and public intellectual career. He has published articles in journal of America
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. This week with the ball outbreak. A second doctor in sierra leone has succumbed to the disease and the official death toll is over 1000. Yhe manufacturers of zmapp sa they have exhausted supplies of that experimental treatment. Where does the crisis go from here . Lori is an author and has won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the evil outbreak of 2005. I am pleased to have her here. You are writing a piece that will go online soon. World, you do, not get it. What dont we get . Enormity,t get the the potential of this spreading to huge nations like nigeria and south africa, and that there is no magic bullet. Not going to come riding in as the great, technological america with the magic treatment, the magic cure, the magic vaccine. We might have something to years from now, but not right now. We are building up a kind of response that is so anemic, so much less than what is needed take, for example, liberia. They used to have a
From our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We begin this week with the Ebola Outbreak. A second doctor in sierra leone has succumbed to the disease and the official death toll is over 1000. The manufacturers of zmapp say they have exhausted supplies of that experimental treatment. Where does the crisis go from here . Laurie garrett is an author and has won a Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the Ebola Outbreak of 2005. Of 1995. I am pleased to have her here. You are writing a piece that will go online soon. You are saying, world, you do not get it. What dont we get . We dont get the enormity, the potential of this spreading to huge nations like nigeria and south africa, and that there is no magic bullet. We are not going to come riding in as the great, technological america with the magic treatment, the magic cure, the magic vaccine. We might have something to years from now, but not right now. We are building up a kind of response that is so anemic, so much less than wh
And it just happened to Editorial Department which has three people, control of the weekly book page and there is a change in the administration and i moved one step up in the person youve been running the book page moved from one step up and asked if i take over the book page and i said sure because demand for ebooks. It really was purely accidental. I started editing the page with reviews by other people the people who couldnt pay anything but the book itself. In North Carolina come a very good novelist wrote me a note and said why dont you write something for the page yourself, not just a book news thing, but a review. I thought thats a good idea. So i started writing down the lefthand corner of the page, a book review. It was just a case of wanting meeting to another. I was lucky enough to get a fellowship at harvard in 196869 for the Academic Year and i thought i would be studied magical issues but ended up studying american nurture. Youre supposed to go up and expand your mind an
[church bells gong] i am the recollection and the life, say the lord. And whosoever shall believe in me shall never die. I know that my redeemer live et and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. And though this body be destroyed, yet shall i see god whom i shall see for myself and mine eyes shall behold and not as a stranger. For none of us lives to himself and no man dies to himself. For if we live we live onto the lord and if we die we die onto the lord. Whether we live or die, we are the lords. Blessed are the dead, who die in the lord. Even so, says is the spirit, for they rest from their labors. [music] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] [singing] the lord be with you. Oh god, whose mercies cannot be numbered accept our prayers on behalf of thy servant benjamin. And grant him an entrance into the land of light and joy, in the fellowship. Through jesus christ, thy son our lord, who live with thee and the holy spirit, one god now and forever. Amen. Most merciful