Good morning, everyone. Good morning. Come, please give me give me any just a little bit more. Good morning, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you again. My name is delano squires. Im a Research Fellow here in a divorce for life, religion and family. Im extremely excited to serve as moderator for panel on reaction. Our sucks in the market so were going to talk about a lot of things about what it means to be a woman today as the meaning of sex and preferences rapidly shift each technological development. Let let me just read a really quick description to sort of set up our discussion today. So womens liberation was the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material concept of the industrial revolution. Weve now left the industrial era for the age of air, biotech and all pervasive computing. As a result, technology liberating us from natural limits, embodied differences. Although this shift benefits a small class of successful professional women, it also makes it easie
Chosen as one of New York Times. One notable books of 2015. Professor moore teaches at the university of oxford and has lectured internationally on 18th century history. He also hosts a podcast called travels through time, which i encourage you to check out. Tonights moderator, richard cohn is the author of making history, a book that we presented in this past year in the american inspiration series. He also has written by the sword chasing the sun and how to write. Like tolstoy, the forming former publishing director of two leading publishing houses, he has edited books that have won the pulitzer the booker and many other prizes 21 books under his watchful. I have been number one bestsellers. Richards written works have appeared in the New York Times book review and in the wall street journal. He is also a fellow of Royal Society of literature. Richard will join us for the second half of our program. But to start us off, peter. Welcome to you. Peter moore. It is such a delight to have
Who invented the birthcontrol pill or how we got it and i became curious. It struck me as odd that anybody would have on their agenda in the 1950s a pill for the sexual liberation of women something that would free women to control their fertility. Who did that so thats where the idea came from. When i looked into it i found this incredible story of these outsiders these underdogs who had no enfranchisement no Government Support no university support in setting out to do something that everyone told them was impossible. Host can you sketch out what life was like before the pill . I think people today certainly i took it for granted and many people took it for granted before the 1960s when the pill became commonly used contraception was very limited. Abstinence was your best bet in the absence was harder. You had and some options available for women who went to their doctors that women have to go through men to get access to those and a effective and accessible forms of contraception. T
Making his First Official appearance since the election was called. Hes staying mum, though, letting his allies and his tweets do the talking. Also in the programme 50,000 people have now died of covid 19 in the uk, europes highest recorded number of deaths. Plus, meet the potato head of palencia the spanish statue thats become the latest victim of a botched restoration. Hello. Im Laura Trevelyan in new york city. Christian fraser is in london. Donald trump re emerged today. The president was at Arlington Cemetery to mark veterans day. He still hasnt conceded that joe biden won, and he claims that myriad legal challenges will show the election was stolen. Some Senior Republicans are Still Standing by stand by him, even though they havent produced actual evidence of electoral fraud. 0thers others are keeping pretty quiet. But the president is busy, sacking and replacing those whove not been loyal enough. On monday, defense secretary mark esper was terminated. Yesterday, three other Seni