[inaudible conversations] if i can have your attention please we will get started. Thank you everyone. I am pleased that you are okay. I am the president of the Manhattan Institute. [applause] thank you. It is a pleasure for me to introduce jason riley today. As most of you know jason is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. A regular columnist for the wall street journal and a commentator for fox news. In his new book, false black power . , jason office critique of civil rights leaders and their prioritization of pure political power. Which he argues has failed to produce significant results for africanamericans. The book also includes responses to jasons arguments from two leading black intellectuals. It is a slender book. But it packs a powerful punch. As one blogger noted, what makes the book shine is the clarity of its logic and accessibility of his writing style. Just as fred astaire made it look easy to dance, so does riley express his mastery through elegance so natural t
Attempt to do something that hasnt been done in over 100 years. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This may go down in history as one of the most incompetent coverups weve ever had. Were now learning the conference was attended by more people than previously disclosed. This is a phishing expedition. Its clearly designed to stop the donald trump agenda. What law has been violated. Theres not a legal violation with the meeting. The deception is mindboggling, and there are still people out there who believe they were making it up, and one day theyre going realize were not. An explosive and deadly fire erupted at a condo in hawaiis kankak ckankakee beach. A drug deal gone bad. A sinkhole took down two homes just north of tampa, florida. The people of paris closed out bastille day with fireworks. President trump spending time at his golf club in bedminster while the u. S. Open is under way. Take a look what happened in taiwan. I just saw that little
Today Venus Williams will attempt to do something that hasnt been done in over 100 years. But we begin this morning with todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This may go down in history as one of the most incompetent coverups weve ever had. Were now learning the conference was attended by more people than previously disclosed. This is a phishing expedition. Its clearly designed to stop the donald trump agenda. What law has been violated. Theres not a legal violation with the meeting. The deception is mindboggling, and there are still people out there who believe they were making it up, and one day theyre going realize were not. An explosive and deadly fire erupted at a condo in hawaiis kankak ckankakee beach. A drug deal gone bad. A sinkhole took down two homes just north of tampa, florida. The people of paris closed out bastille day with fireworks. President trump spending time at his golf club in bedminster while the u. S. Open is under way. Take a look what happened in taiwa
Thank you everyone and welcome to tonight program. We are very pleased to have joining us this evening zeynep tufecki. She is a contributing opinion writer at the New York Times as well as an assistant professor in the school of information and Library Science at the university of north carolina. And shes also the author of twitter and tear gas which is for sale after tonight program. And for those of you who are not familiar with World Affairs, we are an organization that seeks to explore problems and expand opportunities at the intersection of international policy, philanthropy, and commerce were solutions to our problems lie. We are recording ten nights event with both cspan as well as for radio. So please do take a moment to silence your cell phones, and would like to thank the audio engineer who is joining us this evening. You will notice we have a blue question cards on your seats so pleased to make use of them thought the program and writer programs that and i will bring them up
And commerce where solutions to hard problems lie. We are recording tonights event both by cspan and for radio, so take a moment to silence your cell phones and we would like to thank jane. Your question cards on your seats, so please make use of them and write your questions down and given we will be talking about social media and tonights program we invite you to get involved in our online conversation using the World Affairs alive, if youd like to engage in online discussion. I would now like to introduce our moderator this evening who is an adjunct professor at the school of information at uc berkeley where he teaches a course on digital activism. Hes also the founder and editor in chief of China Digital times. We are delighted to have him here this evening and if you could all join me in welcoming him who introduced tonights speaker. [applause]. Good evening. Pleasure. I will try my best. Zeynep tufekci, a contributing up in your and writer of the new york times. What i am most am