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Policies given to us by the department of justice, not based on politics and that sort of thing. Reporter watch after words on booktv on cspan2. [inaudible conversations] great to be here with you all to celebrate and discuss an excellent new book by one of our countrys most original and insightful economic thinkers, amity shlaes. Over the course of her distinction career and ready has brought her intelligence and feel for storytelling to our countrys leading intellectual and cultural institutions. Amity shlaes has been a member the rhetorical board, a columnist for the Financial Times and bloomberg news, taught economic history at the stern school of business, now in addition to her prolific book writing, amity shlaes is a president ial scholar, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a big coup for us that am i chairs the Selection Committee for the Manhattan Institutes high act prize, an award she herself has won. Amitys latest book, Great Society a n
Involvement in the market. All right. The last couple of classes we have been talking about the red scare and the impact of the red scare in policing the edges of american politics. We will be looking at kind of the rest of the political landscape, beginning to look at what people refer to as the liberal consensus of the 1930s and 1950s and work through what is happening in terms of the main thoroughfare of american politics, possibilities and the way people are thinking about politics in america in the 1930s. Have had different readings, all of which deal with the idea of political ideology and which share assumptions about the way ideas matter to politics. Will be thinking about how they kind of framed those ideas and this is a transition class where we move from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war and the red scare into sort of what else is happening in america in the 1940s and 1950s. Shall we start with daniel bell, everybodys favorite reading from today . I assume there are
Intellectual and cultural institutions read and he has served as a member of the wall street journal editorial board, a columnist for the Financial Times and Bloomberg News and has taught economic history at this stern school of business. Now in addition to her prolific book writing amity serves as apresident ial scholar for kings carriage college, chairs the board of the Calvin Coolidge president ial foundation and in a coup forus at and i , chairs the Selection Committee or the Manhattan Institutes hyattprize, an award she herself has one. Amitys latest work , Great Society a new history is a stunningachievement. Few decades have imprinted on the popular imagination as much as the 1960s and so many of us remember that decade for its most dramatic and turbulent moments. The assassinations of the kennedys and Martinluther King jr. , march on washington and antiwar protests. Neil armstrong on the moon and fighting in vietnam. Amitys focus though is not the drama that played out on Telev
And welcome the cross not for all things are considered on Peter Lavelle kobe 19 pandemic not only sees much of the world in lockdown but it is also devastated economies dependent make has been painful recovering from it maybe even more painful is it all asians fault. Stopping the pandemic im joined by my guest in moscow is a political analyst and editor at interest me internet media project and in london across the alps enemy curious he is a writer on Legal Affairs as well as the editor in chief of the duran dot com regiment cross uprose in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i was appreciated all right lets go to alexander mackerras 1st in london as the United States and britain. Deal with this pandemic hear it. I have been i have noticed that there is a very interesting ways of explaining why things have gone wrong and its horn country or right primarily in the United States its china and you have its a very political issue because it is blaming china is one way p