Bus stop was cutting off and killed the passengers in a gruesome attack described by the human rights commission. The figure of the 4 dead are quoting to the commission as to rise in the coming days. Still an ethiopian, the leader of the tick rate region says his forces launched a rocket attack on the airport in eritreas capital. A smaller Ethiopian Government forces began an offensive 11 days ago. The 1st transfer of land between, i mean, and as about johns taking place, the handover of this part of a deal to end fighting over the disputed region of nagornokarabakh 15 nations in asia in the pacific have agreed to create the Worlds Largest free trade block. A deal that will cover nearly a 3rd of the worlds population and economic activity. The United States excluded from this people in moldova are back at the voting booths this sunday for a president ial runoff. The contest has been divisive between the pro russian and company go down and the former leader, my asunder who favors closer
I had i have enormous privilegef introducing our guests. First discovered chapbooks for governor bush with the 43rd governor of the state of florida, the First Republic estates history to be reelected. And his limited government approach he unleashed one of the robust and dynamic economies in the states history. Creating 1. 3 million net new jobs, improving the stage credit rating. Currently governor bush serves as chairman for send back Investment Partners headquartered in coral gables, florida. Tonight guests of honor author citizen mack, senator connie mack. 1982 senator mack left a successful banking career to run for the house of representatives where he served three terms before running for one of floridas season in the u. S. Senate. He served to tranfour choosing not to run for reelection. Upon returning to the private sector he became chaplain followed by chairman apparatus in coral gables sort of. With that i will hand it over to governor bush to begin the conversation, just k
Thank you all. Thank you, thank you so much perrys. Went to welcome it to this session on behalf of humanitys tennessee. Tennessee Arts Commission and a built University Thoughts my honor to host the conversation today between two nonfiction authors who have created what reads as fiction. These are non fiction novels. And i can tell you that by the end of them youll either be rooting for the heroes, hating the villains or weeping with relief that justice is finally been done. So let me introduce you to our authors for today. We have an Investigative Reporter with an author writing arguably about the birth of investigative reporting. So let me bring to the stage the author of citizen reporters, ss mcclure, ida tarbell, and the magazine that re grows america, stephanie bolton. And also joining us today chris hanvey who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reports for the New York Times on how some lawyers and doctors rigged the system to deny benefits to coalminer stricken with black lung diseas
You pull them together in this book with a larger argument about the failures of liberalism. I thought it might make sense for you to. [inaudible] reading a little bit from that introduction. Oh, sure. Absolutely. The emphasis in essays in this book were written in response to the Anglo American delusions that climaxed in brexit, the election of donald trump and, finally, a calamitous response to the covid19 outbreak. These range from the 19th century dream of imperial liberalism long championed by the colonists in which capital, goods, jobs and people freely circulate through the proclamation of an American Century of free trade and modernization, the attempt by american cold warriors to seduce [inaudible] away from communist revolution and into the gradual u. S. Alternative or consumer capitalism of democracy to the catastrophic humanitarian wars and demagoguic explosions of our times. Wrote in 1957 at the height of the cold war are the fanatics of western civilization who regard the
Good afternoon everybody and welcome to politics and prose live at lunch where we bring you our programming during the lunchtime hour. Celebrating the release of livewire if at any time click the link to purchase a chat of the book on the website. Women to submit to the q and a box which can be found at the bottom of your screen be sure to put your question in the q and a. On to the main event doctor David Eagleman is a New York Times bestselling author and neuroscientist work at the National Nonprofit institute an adjunct assert. Best known for his work on time perception, his new book livewire also misled from anastasia to dreaming that revolutionized how we think he will discuss bio hackers human using echolocation in the present and future of ai im so here one excited to hear him talk today. The floor is all yours and then i will be back to moderate q and a. Thank you its a great pleasure to be here i have been to politics and prose in person. Im sorry i cannot be there this year b