The newlo isolationism in the coming global disorder. [applause] good morning. I should just mention in the beginning that im told there will be time for q a but thatt depends on your asking distinct questions that ended question marks and which i can then repeat for the benefit of filming of this production. Can someone close the door . Thank you. The title of my remarks this morning is notes on the passing of liberal culture. There is a story that might be apocryphal but is too good not to share which is told about mahatma gandhi. Hello, jamie. [laughter] all right. I will begin again for jamies benefit. Theres a story possibly apocryphal but too good not to share which is told about mahatma gandhi. The Indian Independence leader was asked by journalist what do you think of western civilization. Gandhi thought for a moment and replied i think it would be a good idea. [laughter] i have been pondering that line the better part of the year as i consider the state of liberal culture both
Im told there will be time for q a, but that it depends on your succinct questions that end in question marks and then i can repeat for the benefit of the filming of this production. Can someone close the door . Thank you. The title of my remarks this morning is notes on the passing of liberal culture, and theres a story that might be abrock with fall but too good not to share which is told about ma ham mahatma gandhi. [laughter] hi, jamie. All right. Im going to begin again for jamies benefit. Theres a story, too good not to share told about mahatma gandhi. The Indian Independence leader was asked by a journalist, what do you think of western civilization . Gandhi thought for a moment and replied, i think it would be a good idea. Ive been pondering that line for the better part of a year is a consider the state of liberal culture, both in the United States and throughout the world. What do i think of liberalism . I think it would be a good idea. In fact, it could be our salvation as a
Good morning. I should just mention at the beginning im told there will be time for q a but it depends on your asking questions which i can then repeat for the benefit of the production. Can someone close the door. Thank you. The title of my remarks this morning are notes on th our notg of liberal culture. Theres a story that might be apocryphal but is too good not to share. [laughter] hi, jamie. [laughter] im going to begin again for jamies benefit. Theres a story possibly apocryphal but too good not to share which is told about gandhi. The leader was asked by the journalists what do you think of western civilization. He thought for a moment and replied i think it would be a good idea. [laughter] ive been pondering that for the better part of a year as i consider the state of liberal culture both in the United States and throughout the world. What do i think of liberalism i think it would be a good idea. In fact it could be our salvation as a country and as a civilization if only we c
Notice that three of them are from ucla. I would like to remind those of you at nyu that these three people used to be at nyu, and i think their presence here today is a symbol of the fact that once you are at nyu, you never really leave. It is just like a magnet coming back. We would like to congratulate them on their new roles and especially on this study. I should also say to remind you at nyu, we are now the Global Network university. So in a sense, think of ucla sort of like nyu west. As we congratulate you, we are also proud of your competence. The way we are going to proceed this morning is, im going to introduce all of our speakers and they will follow each other without further introduction. Our first speaker will be are still as torres arose go. The other comment i want to to make, because we have very distinguished speakers, for those of you not in academia is important for you to know that when someone is a high level besser professor, they have this other name they start t
We will make it through and stand together and be united. Host of course. Thank you for your time, congresswoman. A forum on us transit atlantic relations as european Foreign Policy experts talk about europes approach to russian aggression, trade, immigration and relations with the United States on these topics. The Brookings Institution is the host of this event. Thank you for joining us here. My name is bruce jones, Vice President of the Foreign Policy here at brookings and my pleasure to welcome you here today for todays event hosted by the Brookings Center on the United States and europe in collaboration with the robert. [inaudible] this event is part of our expanding partnership. This is a multi Year Research program and platform that will spur a range of new activities that will spur on debate not only on the relationships but on global issues the transatlantic partners can touch together and work on together. We are very grateful to bosch for the support of this initiative and w