Book tv continues now on cspan2. Television for serious readers. [inaudible conversations] if i could have everybodys attention, wed like to get started. Im fine, the editor of city journal and i want to welcome you here today on behalf of the Manhattan Institute. Its with great pleasure i could to introduce don tierney, ensco author with the esteemed psychologist, roy of the fascinating and useful new book, the power of god. The negativity affects rules and how we can rule it. Its on sale outside the room here. John has long been one of the nations leading voices on the intersection of science and public policy. Make no mistake, however calmly reasonably expressed, a very contrarian voice. It was johns New York Times column, the big city which ran from the mid 90s until 2002, i think, that first made me a fan of his work. There he took on any number of myths about cities from the advocacy of rent control, root causes of homelessness to environmental policy. One remarkable column was b
Ethic of responsibility. They end up shielding and empowering bad behavior. That kind of gross abuse of power obviously undermines public trust and institution. It is not new. There are plenty of examples of it in our time. It doesnt quite explain the loss of confidence in institutions in our own day. Another related just fails to propose an effort. And doesnt see that kind of formation as its purpose. When the people and institution no longer see it as a mold of their character and behavior but just as a platform for themselves to perform on. And institution like that seems not to be worthy of our trust not because its failed to earn it but because it doesnt seek to seek see it to desire it. Somebody like that. Has seen that. When they dont think of their institutions. They are just stages for political outrage. When journalists has the activist on one side or the other. When they become a political they are in the process of going through their kind of came confirmation. The few exce
I think is an important topic and i appreciate everybody who came out this morning as well. I can tell you i take seriously the advice i get from my staff and one of the messages i get repeatedly from my staff, they like to take me aside and remember just because you cant give a good speech doesnt mean you cant give a short speech. I will keep that in mind as i work my way through my remarks and look forward to the exchange with derek. Lets talk about us mca. When we talk about this, it is worth having a starting point, a question about nafta. Why is it the administration felt it was necessary to renegotiate nafta. That is starting point for us mca. Was it nafta was an unfair, unbalanced agreement, or tariffs that were unacceptable obstacles to trade . Now to all those questions. Nafta is a freetrade agreement. 0 tariffs on 97 of agricultural goods, no quotas, no obstacles, the epitome of a free, fair, reciprocal trade agreement and since nafta was implemented, american exports from me
Earlier. Oakland come on short 5 00, and calm over santa rosa, and nevada. We will be partly cloudy up the coast. Mostly clear elsewhere. Temperatures ranging from 60s along areas over ocean beach. A lot of 70s around the bay are inland cities, into the 80s. A few areas hitting 85. It will be areas like fairfield and antioch. Everybody else is looking quite mild for this time of year. We have 72 in oakland. Into the north bay, 83 and santa rosa. The coastline, 64 expected in pacifica. Temperatures will heat up for tomorrow. Some folks nearing 100 degrees. Details coming on the extended forecast. List check on traffic with sal. We have a lot of traffic out there. There have been a couple of spots were collisions have been worse, and other spots are normally heavy. List got take a lo at the east shore freeway. 36 minutes for this time in the morning. It is not that unusual. There slow traffic all over the place. We have had a couple of earlier incidents, and you can see that it is busy c
Good afternoon. How is everyone . I know we are a bit happier and brighter to be in this of Medgar Evers College at the National Writers conference. It is such a pleasure to be today. This afternoon, in conversation with Patricia Spears Jones merida, golden and kevin powell, we can give them a round of applause, please. I am just going to briefly read each of our authors bios and these are condensed kind of in the effort for us to have enough time, a very brief word about each writer. And then, as you know as you will do there is room that contains their wonderful books and i hope you will spend time picking up their books and spending with all of their words. As i have done for many, many years. So to begin we have Marita Golden. She is the Award Winning author over 20 works of fiction and nonfiction. Her most book is the new black woman herself has boundaries heals every day. She cofounder and present president emerita of the Hurston Wright foundation and teaches workshops and is a l