If you have a question for speakers, thick on the q a button at the bottom of the screen and will get to as many as time allows. In the chat ill be posting a link to donate and support of the sensors and destroy. Your purchases make events like to let possible help ensure the future of a language independent bookstore. Thank you so much for showing up in june in in support of our authors and the triple step of booksellers at Harvard Bookstore. We appreciate your support now and always. Finally as you may have experienced in virtual gatherings, we will do our best to resolve technical issues and we appreciate your understanding. Im so pleased that it is tonight speakers, Nicholson Baker is the bestselling author of ten novels and numerous works of nonfiction including anthologies, the mezzanine, substitute, owing to score with 1 million kids and New York Times bestselling award. He is one the National Critics circle award, the hermit has price and an award for American Academy of arts a
Describes as a hoch is all too real. He greg gutten berg joined or Rachel Maddow last night. If she wants to keep referring to me as a liberal mob, have it it. Im a dad. I remember a day in this country not long ago where two parties maybe disagreed on policy and they would argue things out, but they didnt disagree on facts. They didnt disagree on working for the American People. This party today gave up on that. It is shocking. So if they want to keep her around, if they want to continue to give her this platform, it only hurts the bigger party. What this means, 199 republicans care more about the qanon vote than victims of mass School Shootings. Today Marjorie Taylor greene stated as much, declaring the Party Takeover officially complete, as if that wasnt already clear, telling reporters explicitly, quote the party is his, Donald Trumps. It doesnt belong to anyone else. That statementunder scores the warnings from republican senator ben sasse last night in a too little too late Scree
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Cant be bothered to look through the ends of their noses. At this week, the best moment in american, on behalf of literary realism, we need a battalion to head out into the wild and unpredictable country of ours and reclaim it as very property. The trouble is turning yourself in it is that you immediately expose yourself to be from the top, or using characters to exaggerate of modern society but the truth is the opposite pales into insignificance compared with all caps on he tried to capture. Tom wolf was born and raised in richmond and educated Washington University and started his journalistic career with the Springfield Massachusetts union newspaper. Correspondent for the washington post, foreign news prize for his coverage of the cuban revolution. 1962, he moved to the new york tribune where he had to. Writers assigned the sunday supplement which later became newspapers in 1962, 63 afforded him the opportunity to travel to socal to write an article he sent his notes to his editor w
Martin kennedy, because the brothers together had great influence on u. S. Intelligence. Theres a lot to say about u. S. Intelligence under kennedy, even though he served less than a full term because of course he was assassinated by a pro cuban american leftist, undisturbed former marine namely or harvey also walled. At the end will have some reflections about this assassination. Before we get to the main intelligence events i want to mention a couple of other developments that are not expect ocular but still they deserve to be remembered as important milestones in u. S. Intelligence history. They leave a legacy to this day, one of them is the president s daily brief, which was created for kennedy as the president s intelligence checklist. When i first came to cia in 1990, i was i learned that one of the nicknames that insiders used was the pickle factory. They never use the company, they use the term typical factory and i couldnt figure out what it was until later became a cia histor