About his recent atlantic article aboutthe end of the 9 11 era in a few minutes im going to introduce been. Ben will speak and he and i will havea conversation. We encourage you to post questions through the two and a feature. And we get to the second half of the hour i will begin to wrap up our discussion and start posing some of your questions then and we will run about one hour. So i also want to mention next week, next wednesday in fact were going to do i think our last webinar for the summer. Which will be with our partner, peter singer of near america talking about his new novel burn in which is a kind of look into the future of warfare and cyber warfare in particular so peter does a fantastic thinker and writer and i look forward to seeing that so for today as mentioned ben rhodes. Ben is former Deputy National security adviser in the Obama Administration. Lcurrent cochair ofNational Security action. Cohost of pond save the world which i highly recommend. Both organizations and
[applause] good evening and welcome to the New York Historical society but im the New York Historical president and ceo and thrilled to see all of you this evening in our beautiful Robert H Smith auditorium. Tonights Program Gives me liberty, history of americas exceptional idea is a part of our Bernard Schwartz established Speaker Series and as always i k like to thank mr. Schwartz or his great generosity which is enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage and i also want to thank all of our Chairman Council members who are in attendance as evening and to thankk you for your great suppot which enables us to do our work. Tonights program will last about one hour and it will include a question answer session but you should have received a note card and pencil as you entered the auditorium and this afternoon or this evening and it is not my colleagues going up and down the aisle with note cards and pencils in the note card will be collected later on in the program with your
Historical president and ceo and until to see you in our beautiful auditorium. Tonight program give me liberty is a part of our swartz distinguished Speakers Series and as always i like to thank mr. Schwartz for its great generosity which has enabled us to bring so many fine speakers to this stage. I also want to thank all of our chairman scouts of members or in attendance, and to thank you for yourhe great support which enabs us to do our work. Tonight program last about an hour and it will include a questionandanswer session. You shouldve received a note card and pencil as you entered the auditorium this afternoon, this evening, and if not, my colleagues are going up and down the isles with no cards and pencils the note cards will be collected later on withh your questions. Following the program that would be a book signing in our history store and copies of our speakers books will be available for purchase. Ey tonight we are thrilled to welcome Richard Brookhiser back to the New Yor
Tonights program is a history of americas exceptional idea is part of our Eileen George speaker series. Its great generosity has allowed us to bring so many great speakers to the states i want to thank our chairman councilmembers who were in attendance this evening and thank you for your great support which enables us to do our work. Tonights program will last about one hour and it will include a questionandanswer sessionti. You should have received a note card and pencil as you enter the auditorium this afternoon this evening and if not my colleagues are going up and down the aisle with no cards. Following the program there will be a book signing and are storing s copies of the book wil be available for purchase. Tonight we are thrilled to welcome Richard Brookhiser back to the New York Historical society produces senior fellow at the National Review institute a Senior Editor at the National Review and an author of numerous books including Jon Marshalls the man who made the Supreme Co
Thank you for being here and its amazing for me to be with david wallacewells who is one of our. His book the unknown earth is a must read. I was just telling him my daughters in high school and i only read on her own, which is wild for me. But shes recommend they get to everybody. Its a great way to understand, dan, the challenges of climate in our time ill say a few things the were going to go back and forth in a sense of of conversation but by saying just moments ago while we were here, the white house announced that john podesta is going to be taking over for john kerry was doing for the last three years as a socalled climate czar, podesta has been a key figure on policy with. Barack obama. But more than that, probably is almost done more for public lands, wilderness you know, National Forest than anybody. Hes been working the new america foundation. Hes a troubleshooter. We know he ran Hillary Hillary clintons campaign. But well see how elevates climate in. A president ial electio