From a lot of what michelle has to say. Just to kickstart it deceiving, how did you come up with a fascinating and interesting book, radical, and where did this interesting income from . So i think the genesis of the name is an interesting one in that when it first got to d. C. It was the lowest performing and most dysfunctional School District and the entire nation. That was a pretty widely known truth. So i started doing things that were obvious for School District in that kind of state. I started closing low performing schools, moving out ineffective employees, cutting the Central Office bloated bureaucracy and have. As i was taking all these steps and measures, people started saying shes a firebrand, shes a radical, she so controversial. And i thought, really . After thinking about it for a while finally i just said you know what, its bringing some common sense to dysfunctional system makes me a radical, then im okay with that. So that sort of the embracing the concept was the idea
The mass incarceration of poor people of color in the United States is tantamount to a new castelike system, one that shuttles our young people from decrepit, underfunded schools to brand new hightech prisons. It is a system that blocks poor people, overwhelmingly poor people of color, into a permanent second class status nearly as effectively as earlier systems of racial and social control once did. It is, in my view, the moral equivalent of jim crow. Get ready, booktvs first Online Book Club meets at the end of the month. Watch video of Michelle Alexander at booktv. Org and read the new jim crow. And then on tuesday, march 26th at 9 p. M. Eastern, join us live online at twitter and facebook with your questions and comments on the new jim crow. And now, karen elliot house provides an inside look at the history, culture and politics of saudi arabia which shes covered for 30 years. This is about an hour. Thank you very much, dr. Wilburn. Its a real pleasure to be here. I appreciate im h
We must ask how good is the model. There is a story about a man from minneapolis who walked into a store, target, and asked to see the manager. His daughter was being bombarded with pregnancy related coupons from target. They asked are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant, he asked . The store manager apologized profusely. He called the father several days later to apologize again. Only this time come the man was less irate. This has turned be apologetic. He said it turns out there has been sacked activities in my house i havent been completely aware of. Father said she is due in august. Statistician had figured out that his daughter was pregnant for heeded. This is not even the creepiest part. [laughter] that is their business, it is also not their business. I can feel more than a little interested. Some companies mask a much they know. For example, if you are a pregnant woman in your second trimester, you may get coupons in the mail for cribs and diapers. Along with a coupon f
To interview moises naim for this episode of after words. Umar a note to columnist, International Economics and globalization. You were also a scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for international peace, and formerly editor of Foreign Policy magazine and former minister in venezuela. So, all that said, you have also now written a new book called the end of power and thats what we are here to talk about today. Lets start at the beginning. Which i think is how did you come to write this book and how did all of those various experiences and for what went into this . Guest delighted to be here. Thank you. In that introduction you encapsulated many of the by giving a lot of those things that you mentioned, i arrived at having that intuition about what was going on with power. We all know that power is shifting from the west to the east, north to south from a very Big Companies through startups and from people in the president ial palace is to people in the streets. We know that is happening i
Where is she, by the way . Oh, gosh. Well, he got kickedded out of oakland for sexual harassment, parttimely. I was finally. I was surprised jerry pulled the trigger. He had to. No choice. He had to. The reports, you know. Yeah. And then what happened is he ended up in europe, and i heard hes very ill. Oh, thats too bad. But hes on his, like, seventh wife. Oh, okay. So you might not know who our very good friend Mandy Grunwald is. Shes maybe one of the best political minds in washington. Yeah. Her father was Henry Grunwald who was the publisher at Time Magazine in its hayday and ambassador to heyday im going to give him a quick briefing, and ambassador to austria. One of the last [inaudible] of new york. So just when you think you know everybody in new york, you dont unless you know Mandy Grunwald, okay . I love it. She is it. Mandy ran all the media for elizabeth warren, Tammy Baldwin oh, wow. All the [inaudible] [inaudible conversations] okay . So you just need to understand shes got