Good evening, good evening. Thank you for coming out here to politics and prose, thank you for coming to politics and prose for another one of our lively and enlightened cant hear me . Okay. Thank you. Please silence all your cell phones at this point. Let me go through them some housekeeping details. And and during this questionandanswer period, and and in addition to recording your questions for prosperity. And audience members should be able to hear your questions. Thank you so much. Copies are on sale. Right by the door. Without further ado, city of sedition the history of new york city during the civil war is a very appropriate book for revising and reconsidering history. In regards to the civil war, we have often encountered a very narrow dialectic perspective, the adversaries are divided along the masondixon line between slaveholders in the south and industrialists in the north. Thankfully for the past couple decades, the faulty lens of history and city of sedition the history o
From cotton. Thousands of workers, dock workers and people in the shops, people who worked in the hotels and gambling houses and brothels where plantation owner would come up and treat new york city as their home away from home during the summer months. Everybody was in various ways dependent on maintaining the cotton trade, which means they sought in their best interests to maintain the plantation system and slavery. New york workers also feared that if the four million mill enslaved in souse are south were subtly set free they would flood up north and take their jobs away. The big irony there is that the 12,000 free blacks in new york city, the exact opposite was going on. White workers took their jobs from them, froze them out of the unions, so there one really going to be a problem with fighting for the white white guys fighting for jobs again black workers. So because of cotton and because of to the ties and that long and Enormous Economic tie to the cotton south, the majority of,
Lawful privacy was still regarded as piracy to b createdt it was lawful. On copyrighted works were protected by an informal system of rights that were recognized by publishers. How could this be . The answer lies in some of the mysteries of informal norms that exist alongside of the law sometimes even in place of the law in a very fascinating for me, and i know for the dean area particularly international or transatlantic which is what i am focused on. As inhabitants of the digital age we usually think of the word pirate as the violator of a formal legal rights, copyright, patent, trade secret. The specter of widespread piracy is hovered behind much of the feverish lawmaking that we have had starting from the premise, the Digital Technology if left unchecked would destroy incentives to produce intellectual property. Congress enacted the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 with its expansive protections for authors including management operation. The committee summarized the band p
Four days ago after he first said on National Television that donald trump had reimbursed michael cohen, but first news about has pell, the nominee tosh. Its being reported she sought to withdraw they are resignation. Jeff, what have we been learns . Sources tell us that she did offer to step aside, that confirms reporting by the washington post. The same sources stress this was not an issue of her being concerned about her own qualifications or for that matter her desire to serve, but the potential bruising of her reputation and that of the men and women she has served alongside for more than 30 years at the cia. Has pell is described as being worried that the cia would be politicized against. Were also told that white house officials did go to lang we, virginia, to encourage her to stay on as the cia director nominee. Sources tell us the president a haspel have spoken, and today officials assisting are planning to do more prep sessions of what is expected to be a really contentious c