How many from outside of washington . How many had never been to the book festival before . How many have been to all 19 of them . Wow. Okay. Were going to have a very interesting conversation today with one of the countries leading i was a intellectuals and columnists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is the Second Mountain. How many people have read this book at . Come people are going to read this after its over . , okay. How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today. Okay. So david, thanks for doing this. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which ive read and think its a very good book. I like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . The lower side of new york. My parents were somewhat leftwing. So thel story tell about my childhood is when i was identically, this is, this is in the late 60s,s where hippies would go just to be. One of the things they did was they would set a garbage can on fire and they thre
From the Hudson Institute, this is an hour and a half. Good day, welcome to the Hudson Institute, and thanks for showing up for this panel on Multilateral Institutions, indispensable or irrelevant to global peace and prosperity. I will be the moderator, im a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute who put together this panel, which i think is on a key issue in d. C. And globally indeed. Its talked about a lot, but there arent that many panels about the topic around town. So i look forward to this discussion. So as i mentioned for the past couple of years, theres been a lot of debate about Multilateral Institutions and on chinas influence and how that is quickly growing and leading to changes in the fundamental rules of these institutions and also giving rise to alternatives to the old ones. And one question that arises then, does that make the institutions that we already have counterproductive to preserving a liberal world order when authoritarian states rise within the institutions and
p as a society weve basically failed big portion of our population if you think about the basics of food, shelter safety a lot of people dont have any of those im mr. Cookie cant speak for all the things but i know say, i have ideas how we can address the food issue. Open the door and walk through that dont just stand looking out. As they grew up in in a how would that had access to good food and our parent cooked this is how you feed yours this is not happening in our country this is a huge pleasure im david one of the cofounder so about four year ago we worked with the serviced and got to know the kid one of the things we figured out was that they didnt know how to cook. I heard about the Cooking School through the Larkin Academy a. Their noting no way to feed themselves so theyre eating a lot of fast food and i usually eat whatever safeway is near my home a lot of hot food i was excited that i was eating lunch enough instead of what and eat. As i was inviting them over teaching them
Was out of bounds because they got to pick and choose what wed pay for. It just so happens in the constitution thats what it says. The house of representatives gets to pick and choose. All spending bills start in the house. They have to start in the house. They get to pick and choose. We dont have to accept it, but they get to pick and choose. So just a lack of understanding on the basic concepts that our founders set up. You know, they know the history and they knew the history of republics. Republics always die. There isnt one that has survived as long as we have and the decline and they decline and die over the same thing. They get in trouble financially. Were in trouble financially. Were 30 trillion in the hole. Plus another 17 trillion in debt. Wouldnt it be smart if we started addressing that problem before we blankly give an increase in the level of the credit card . Actually what we should do is we should cut this credit card up, which is what im going to do because thats the w