Caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] \ next a discussion about morality and the united states. Mediahe focus on the news and voter decisionmaking. This is two hours. Good evening and welcome to our program, and Perfect Union has america lost its moral center . My name is david gibson. I am the director of the department of religion and culture here at fordham university. We are pleased to see you here this evening and to have coverage by our friends at cspan at this event tonight. So look sharp. Try to behave. Cell phones on mute. But do feel free to tweet the event as you like. Maybe even our resident will between eating the event at some point president will be tweeting the event at some point although it seems hes more involved another matters. We began to conceive of this Program Shortly after mr. Trump was elected last november on the Famous Campaign slogan make America Great again. And of course, we were taking something of a risk by having this program, because we we
Many americans anxious, under nerd, deeply worried. They believe the governing class has let them down hence they were willing to gamble a presidency on a World Wrestling entertainment hall of famer with no experience and we are living with the consequences. A few other things is that politics has become an arena for conflict rather than a place for problem solving. Jonathan hite and dan abrams, two professors cite several destructive longterm trends that could explain why our National Policies broken and to mention a few, a political scientist referred to the isle ideological sorting of the parties to peer presence over the over the years and politicians have polarized americans and not just ideologically, but in terms of personality and lifestyle. That urban renewal divide has grown into a bowl which reflects to urgent interest in values. Fourth, immigration is rising and has led to write Ethnic Division with cultural changes in Congress Make it harder to maintain cross party friends
History and senior fellow at the Kenan Institute for ethics at Duke University documents the relationship between deregulation and the rise of fraud. We are going to introduce tonight enzi state history chair Department Chair david who will further introduce our guests and i was turned over to him at this moment. Thank you very much. Welcome everybody. As was said i am head of the History Department and first of all i want to thank ed for asking me to moderate this panel. Im really looking forward to it. Ed has our advantage it does to you. He is a member of the faculty. He is also dukes vice provost for disciplinary study where he is reading a major project funded by the National Endowment for the manatees and exploring new careers humanities and ph. D. S and i have great interest in that because i want to explore career opportunities. Kevin anderson who is currently the Senior Deputy attorney general of the state of North Carolina. He also heads the Consumer Protection division and h
Movement. Dr. Steven wornick is head of the group. It is a judaism that is deeply rooted in tradition, but yet has modernity. Reporter according the a new Research Poll by Pugh Research center only 30 would identify with the judaism, and they say it is in part because of how well jews have assimilated. The jews have been wildly successful, and the question becomes, why be jewish and for the first time in jewish history where you can optout, the question is, why optin . So the religions in the center that take a more nuanced or mosaic approach to religious life, making that life has been harder. Reporter they have been studying ways to understand the outrage, and they have been devoted to building spiritual communities and sometimes outside of synagogues. It is not about the bricks and the mortars, but about people and relationships. So we are working with the synagogues to ree imareimagine vision, and to think differently about how they build relationships. Reporter the denomination is
As for the institutional analysts that follow our business, i really kind of conflicted about the impact of this law in the Health Care System. For example, my friend gary taylor at citigroup believes the trend for will be earnings for the publicly traded care system, hospital systems, the physician group, et cetera because of a large number of folks that are present we not going to be able to afford their care. And in the cases of some of these institutions, like tenet healthcare, for example, 30 million a year income gain as a result of the Affordable Care act, im not so sure. I think the combination of the deductible since, the fact that there is a very significant break for that, 12 to 15 Million People that will have exchange coverage, the fact theyre going to be facing anywhere from 2500 5000 or perhaps even more in front and cost before they get a dimes worth of benefit i think is going to dampen demand. Its a very small number that spend enough to get to the point where theyre