Today we have the pleasure of posting and discussing the personal new book the campus color line. Will be out on september 29. Please consider grabbing the book if you dont have one and now were open a limited capacity weekends are busy is your best is to come by on monday or tuesday and with the easy access thank you for supporting our bookstore and our staff like to give a walkthrough to our platform. We will be taking questions from the audience. All the way to the right and then to keep track of all the questions and not to give a warm welcome home. And the Author College president s in the struggle for black freedom and you can find them on twitter also the phd with a black womens history and racial politics. And with history and African Studies at the university of texas austin and is the author of remaking black power transformed an era with that please help me to welcome and thank you both for being here tonight. Welcome everyone we are glad to have everybody here i will dig in
A heads up on that. So i asked her kind of, you know, what is the next step here . She said she would try to find out more and she would try to call me by midnight. What happened next . Around 1 00 in the morning, she called me again and said that there were great concerns. There were concerns up the street, and she said i needed to come home immediately. Get on the next plane to the u. S. And i asked her why, and she said she wasnt sure, but there were concerns about my security. I asked her, my physical security . Because sometimes washington knows more than we do about these things, and she said, no. She hadnt gotten that impression that it was a physical security issue, but they were concerned about my security and i needed to come home right away. You know, i argued. This is extremely irregular, and and no reason given, but in the end, i did get on the next plane home. You said there were concerns up the street. What did you understand that to mean . The white house. Did she expla
Clouds filtering into the north. Some temps are down a good 10, 15 degrees from 24 hours ago. Our last rain was on the 2nd and 3rd, a nice long stretch of dry weather. By tomorrow were bringing back the rain. Tomorrow afternoon, evening, into thursday. Its time to bring back the rain but were closer to records again today. San josi would be shy by one, napa, i dont think so. Im going 76. Sfo is in the mix and Oakland Airport close as well. But this system is getting closer and the wind is going to develop westerly. Few high clouds forming up to the north. Napa airport 44, san ramon 46, san josi Mountain View down 9, oakland down 3. You can see the trends, cooler, still a nice day. This is going to give us a huge change starting tomorrow. Cooler for the coast and bay, near 80 inland but a lighter breeze and few high clouds, 60s and 70s. Sal, are things better or worse . Some things are better. Its crowded out there. Well start with a look at the bay bridge, upper deck backed up a little
At the scowcrofts school of diplomacy i think it is called. So there is certainly that. What effect they have had so far is hard to know and i dont explore that but he feels very fortunate to have lived a life a life that he hasnt feels that he has to pass these down and has one daughter, one granddaughter. He is intent on trying to nurture especially at the Aspen Strategy Group the Atlantic Council and getting people and meant touring them. Most of these people are probably still fairly young 40s tops 40s tops with maybe the exception of the hadleys and gates but there is some of that absolutely. Our last question here in the back against the wall. You talked a little bit about how were the conditions that he thought extremism and terrorism sort of come about or i forget the word. Can you talk a little bit about his thoughts on extremism or how it comes about . I did not really talk to him about that. I did not talk about the roots of that. I came one of my concluding comments because
Up next sean mcfate and associate professor at the National Defense university and former mercenary talks about the use of mercenaries in ports around the world today. He says we are headed toward a future that will resemble the middle ages by hiring mercenaries to fight in wars was the norm. Thank you for hosting us and thank you for making it out today on a less than auspicious weather day. This book is about the return of private military force in International Relations today and i wrote this not simply as an International Scholar but also as a practitioner. I work for a Company Called national for several years in africa and i saw while i was working there many press reports, many think tank reports reports, a lot of leftwing and rightwing kneejerk reactions that simply did not get what i thought the industry right. So the genesis of writing this book was not in any way a whistleblower etc. Book it was to pass salience around the clinical issue. That is the origins of why wrote th