Democracies are being unraveled with by a new class war. [inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome to Hudson Institute, stern policy center. Im john wallace, chief operating officer. Id like to welcome our audience here at our pennsylvania avenue headquarters and our cspan audience the our first ever podcast taping that is both live and marks the Second Season of the premiere podcast of the Second Season realignment hosted by our Hudson Institute fellows. The podcast launched last year, and i recommend end for those of you who havent been following it, that you take a look at the episodes from last year, particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, josh haully, mike duran and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people who put it together and their ability to bring out topics and to move the argument along. So we couldnt be prouder of the work that theyve done and want to thank them for that, and we are happy to launch this Years Pro
Being unraveled by a new class war. Good evening and welcome to the policy center. I am john walters chief operating officer and id like to welcome our audience here at the pennsylvania headquarters avenue and or cspan audience to the firstever podcast taping that is both live and marks the premiere of the second reason of the realignment posted by hudson media. We are proud of the realignment that the launch last year and i recommend especially for those of you that havent been following it to take a look at the episode from last year particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, mike gallagher, mike durand and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people that put it together and their ability to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldnt be more proud of the work theyve done and we want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with michael lind to as many of you know is a prolific writer of more tha
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to the New York Historical society. I am New York Historicals president and ceo. I am thrilled to see so many of you here in our beautiful robert h. Smith auditorium. An infamousogram, nazi rally, 1939, as part of our distinct speakers series. I would like to thank mr. Swartz for his generous for his generosity to bring so many speakers to this base. [applause] i would also like to recognize and thank a number of trustees who joined us this evening. I would like to recognize our herr and thank pam for truly outstanding work on behalf of this institution. Ournt to depart from trustees to recognize pams husband scott. We had three programs this evening, and he has been to two of them. I would also like to recognize susan, andbin, slightly departing from our trustees, i want to recognize a great friend of this institution, the head of the carnegie foundation. He is known as president of brown, head of the public library, and all sorts of other things. He is
Good evening and welcome to the policy center. I am john walters chief operating officer and id like to welcome our audience here at the pennsylvania headquarters avenue and or cspan audience to the firstever podcast taping that is both live and marks the premiere of the second reason of the realignment posted by hudson media. We are proud of the realignment that the launch last year and i recommend especially for those of you that havent been following it to take a look at the episode from last year particularly the conversation with secretary of state mike pompeo, mike gallagher, mike durand and others. Its an Excellent Program partly because of the two people that put it together and their ability to bring out topics and move the argument along so we couldnt be more proud of the work theyve done and we want to thank them for that and we are happy to launch this Years Program with michael lind to as many of you know is a prolific writer of more than a dozen books and cofounder of the
Less familiar with the general society and how many of you here this evening with this be your first visit . Okay. A warm welcome and of course, welcome back to previous attendees. The general society was founded in 1785 by 22 artisans. Today our 234yearold organization continues to serve the peopleof the city of new york. We do this through our cultural and education programs. They include our lecture series which tonights lecture is part of, our general Society Library which will will be celebrating 200 years. Our tuition free Mechanics Institute and the john and mossman lot collection which you are welcome to visit after our talk this evening and that is upstairs. You will find more information on the blue and white postcard on your seats. We have such a wonderful start to this years lectures season and we have the pleasure of welcoming critically acclaimed biographer susan ronald who will discuss her biography of conde nast, the publishing legend of vogue and vanity fair and other