Watch after words with Jonathan Karl, sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern on book tv on cspan2. [inaudible conversation [inaudible conversations] good afternoon everyone, welcome to the American Enterprise institute. My name is ryan streeter, the director of domestic policy studies here and its my pleasure to welcome you to this event featuring tim carneys new book and a discussion about its findings and claims and i think youll find both tims remarks and the panel of interest, particularly timely given the moment that we find ourselves in historically right now. So i look forward to the discussion. Tim is going to come up and offer a few words and then he will be followed we will follow that with a Panel Discussion with Charles Murray who is known to probably everybody here, ais own fa chair and Cultural Studies here at aei. And megan mccardle, a Washington Post columnist with a lot to say as well. Tim is a visiting fellow here at aei and hes also the commentary editor at the Washington Examine
Start talking about technology. The first thing is im well aware that many of you have no idea who i am and so thank you for showing up out of the spirit appear to gossip. I think it speaks very well of you that i know theres some really, really big names at the festival and i feel very honored to be among them so thanks for coming. So who am i . A few things. I write a column called the undercover economist for the financial times. Thats the pink newspaper thats really good. I recommend it. Thank you, sir. The second thing is i present bbc radio. I present a show for the Bbc World Service called 50 things that made the modern economy. All about numbers and i would think about numbers and how numbers sometimes lead us astray and sometimes help us understand the world. I also have a podcast with a gentleman called Michael Lewis and them gentleman called Malcolm Gladwell called Cautionary Tales which is all about things going wrong come sometimes in tragic ways and sometimes in amusing w
Contamination issues and other problems but i think we have not been aware that there has been this systematic issue, a major change in the system that manufacturing and deliver pharmaceuticals. The implications of one country controlling the supply of medicine is astounding, no matter what state we are talking about. Think aboutng it. What if there is a Global Pandemic and it is hard tot loe move products across the world. What if there are heightenedns tensions within the South China Sea and everyone could be vulnerable and everyone could be put at risk. The role of the fda in this situation cannot be overstated because the fda cannot be effective in ensuring the safety of the medicines in the farflung regions of the world as a can at home. Many of us are not aware of the face to face contact that the fda has with those who are manufacturing our drugs. The inspections that they conduct, they are very handson and involved a major that the manufacture of drug can stay safe. They have s
Books he says a person should read in their lifetime. Watch book tv this week and every weekend on cspan2. On the president and ceo of the museum of American Revolution. Its wonderful to have so many familiar faces in the audience, we also Live Streaming this evening and we will be on tv so we will live on forever and ever at 3 00 a. M. When you cant sleep. [laughter] ive got text from my father the following morning thank you are on television again. Im curious, or of hands, how many of you are visiting for the first time this evening . Welcome all of you. You are surrounded by many of our members, members of our founding members of the museums, revolution society, this is a fellowship of people who are great supporters of the museum. We are very pleased to partner with trust, you will see that up on the screen here and i know tim but all i can see is darkness. Tim and joe mclaughlin, thank them for making this possible. [applause] its a real pleasure to welcome doctor Vincent Brown t
As part of the series we welcome layla saad. [applause] her book me and White Supremacy grout of the online effort to confront and assemble for ancestors and those who leave a legacy of liberation and a writer and speaker with a bachelor of law degree in lancaster and and then to talk with her tonight we also very excited to know that her book has already released already on the New York Times bestseller list. [applause] number 88 on usa today. Thank you so much. Very happy to be here. I will ask a question i will hand the microphone over. So i will start with a fascinating book with great exploration of the topic but you are asking why people in particular to confront racism so can you talk about what motivated you specifically . It so interesting ive been asked this question but i think if i had known before embarking on this journey wide it would be ahead of time might not necessarily have chosen it. I was a life coach and a business coach or anything that would make people uncomfor