I can assure you that the authors that we are featuring today are serious accomplished economist who is decades who worked to form this publication. The subtitle of the book to economist drink their way through the unfree world gives us the unconventional approach for a couple of academics. That subtitle did not surprise me though. I tend to run in to ben powell and bob lawson at economic or academic conferences around the country and around the world and inevitably had drinks in their hands, probably because we chat at the hotel bars and the like. But the conversation is always interesting, informative and fun. And that is also true of the new book. This is a light book about a heavy topic. So it is fortunate that we are featuring today on the birthday of the late freedman, one of the greatest economist of the 20th century and the champion of economic and overall human freedom. We were lucky to have known him and for some of us who work with him to a limited degree. He too would agree
Jackson bookstore. Good evening everyone. Thank you for coming out tonight to 1611 jackson looks at the seaport. We are happy you came out and tonight we are c celebrating the release of me on the future democratic socialism american style. We are excited to have with us kate aronoff and michael the del smith. Witnessing the current resurgence of the democratic socialism in the United States is exemplified by the growing membership democratic socialists of america and the popularity of politicians like Bernie Sanders and the aoc committee explore how this energy might be channeled to achieve a future that is more democratic, egalitarian, inclusive and environmentally sustainable. In the age of trump and beyond. So let me introduce our guest tonight, journalist kate aronoff postlight writing has appeared in the guardiancombination of dissent, jacqueline and the New York Times and she is a coeditor othecoeditor of we one democratic socialism american style with peter dreier and she lives
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Postponed new in depth programs. We are showing highlights from past programs. First from november of 2018, author imani perry, author of several books including a history of the black National Anthem and breeze which is written as a letter to her son. Heres a portion of that program. People here when you see i wonder if people are irredeemable they hear all white people and they hear white people as individuals as opposed to whiteness as an identity so that when i go into the second paragraph, what if we took this identity apart, those people would not have a different history or body, but it would be a different relationship to identity that i think would potentially have as a consequence a more humane relationship to each other. When i went into later in the first paragraph saying a person, an individual can be a heaven, certainly both as someone who was raised by a white man or as someone who thinks of so many figures like, take for example john brown or bob zellner, some of the mo
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