American military history. And today were going to continue our conversation about the second world war. And specifically were going to look at an aspect of the war through the lens of industrial mobilization. Industrial mobilization is often understood as a key to allied victory in this war. It is often said the allies win because they outproduce the axis powers. Im sure many of us heard it, encountered it, youve read it, but one of the problems with that line of reasoning is that if it is simply amount of stuff that produces victory, at the beginning of the war the axis powers possessed more. So the argument about stuff cannot absolutely establish ultimately the trajectory of allied victory because the allies for a long time are deficient in that quantity of stuff. The other aspect of the material argument if you will, that the allies outproduce, thats understated, oversimplified in almost all literature you consider related to the war, we have no clear sense of how the stuff is buil
Relationship, but also a collaborative relationship. The story of American History is one of public and private partnership in many ways. In ways that are sometimes unseen. I think this is a great way to get into that. Margaret omara discusses her book, the code, Silicon Valley and the remaking of america. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] what is your vision in 2020 . Studentcam is asking what do you want to see candidates address . Studentcam is cspans nationwide video documentary competition for Middleton High School students with 100,000 in total cash prizes at stake including a 5,000 grand prize. Students are asked to produce a short video documentary, include cspan video and reflect differing points of view. Information to get started is on our website at studentcam. Org. Announcer Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg delivered r
Angeles. Thank you and ill introduce the panelists. Hal studies cognitive bias and how people imagine their future selves, opeds for the New York Times and the wall street journal. Jennifer is a historian at texas and am university and a contributing editor. And expectations, establishing the obama presidency. And the next book, demagogue for president , the rhetorical genius of donald trump. [laughter] she is shell be talking about that later. Anthony is a Professor Emeritus of social psychology at uc santa cruz and the coauthor of age of propaganda, the everyday use and abuse of persuasion. He previously taught courses in advertising and Consumer Behavior at Carnegie Mellon university and he is a magician. [applaus [applause]. So thank you for being here. So the theme of this panel is, is contemporary propaganda damaging our Attention Spans, our relationships, our ability to ponder bigger questions . Or does it suffer offer some benefits like nudging us to eat healthier, save the ear
Good evening. My name is Kathleen Richardson and i am the dean of the school of journalism and mitigation at Drake University. Welcome both to the members of our audience here at the Science Center of iowa and des moines and to those of us or those of you who are joining us by lifestream. This year we are celebrating the 100th anniversary of journalism education at drake and from the beginning in 1919 our program has been characterized by a close relationship with our profession and by service for our community. We are very proud to continue that tradition by cohosting the conversation tonight. We have experts on the front lines of this pressing public issue. This event is brought to you through a collaboration between Drake University and sidelined. Sideline is a philosophically funded free service for journalists based at the American Association for the advancement of science in washington dc. It connects reporters to scientists in order to promote more credible Accurate Research ba