Dean, carter speech writer Hendrick Hertzberg and reagan speech writer John Podhoretz offered their thoughts. This event hosted by the New York Public Library. Good morning, everybody. Id like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center, and on behalf of our partners in presenting this session, id like to welcome you. Id like to do so on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program and advance, which is a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant, i think, that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and i thought it was a delicious irony, but, in fact, its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are
I would like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session of shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff, executive director. On behalf of our partners in presenting the session, i would like to welcome you on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics in International Affairs as well as the bard globalization program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant i think that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and they thought it was a delicious irony. In fact its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. And the significance of the fool is often underestimated. In literature, we know from plays like king lear and also from medieval history that the role of the fool was to speak truth to power. Not just to speak truth to the p
From the paris climate agreement. Later, Nancy Pelosis Weekly Briefing on capitol hill. Next, a look at the state of the media and the rise of socalled fake news. Topics include the 2016 president ial campaign and the role of social media. This was part of a daylong forum hosted by the Ethics Center and bard college. It is in our. An hour. Director in partnership with the Carnegie Council for ethics and national advance, a network of australians dotted around the world, i would like to welcome you here this evening for what is a very hot topic. I have only been in the states less than 12 hours, almost 24 hours, since i arrived last night. Newseeing how big an issue is. As i mentioned this morning when speaking to the very first group, it is a delicious thing that we are having this conversation on the first of april. Because of course, it is april fools day. The significance of that for me is, the role of a fool in history. As you know from literature and things like kingsley are, the
From the paris climate agreement. Later, Nancy Pelosis Weekly Briefing on capitol hill. Next, a look at the state of the media and the rise of socalled fake news. Topics include the 2016 president ial campaign and the role of social media. This was part of a daylong forum hosted by the Ethics Center and bard college. It is in our. An hour. Director in partnership with the Carnegie Council for ethics and national advance, a network of australians dotted around the world, i would like to welcome you here this evening for what is a very hot topic. I have only been in the states less than 12 hours, almost 24 hours, since i arrived last night. Newseeing how big an issue is. As i mentioned this morning when speaking to the very first group, it is a delicious thing that we are having this conversation on the first of april. Because of course, it is april fools day. The significance of that for me is, the role of a fool in history. As you know from literature and things like kingsley are, the
Good evening everybody and welcome. My name is simon, im the executive director or of the ethics center. Along with our partners advance which is a network of australians around the world, the Globalization Program and the council of ethics and international fair, id like to welcome you all to the session within our program shades of red and blue. The reason why weve convened this session is because we think its essential to bring together for the first time people who are distributed across the political system in which in my country and i suspect also here there is very little by way of conversation and a lot of shouting at people. We are all facing issues of profound importance which we think theyre better addressed by allowing for principal disagreement where people of conviction in different perspective might come together and engage. The topics that we will be talking about during the course of this day, one of the most is going to be addressed this afternoon. Before i go to the