Hosting. Good night. And now on cspan2 book tb, more television for serious readers. Hi everybody i am Vivian Schiller and i the aspen institute. Really glad you could be with us today. The near times bestseller list can often be a mirror of the national psyche. As such, this year it seems to reflect the nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists. Both fiction and nonfiction. That is the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest publishing paid me expose a major pay disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. Theres a few people of color who served as publishing staff or literary agents. And even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels. And for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be suboptimal. And this year of National Reckoning on racism, we are going to take a look at th
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Spending. Current funding levels expire on september 30. All of the senate live on cspan2. Joining us is rick tyler, now stillh a new book, right. What is the message in the book . I think i wrote it for two reasons, and to different audiences. Lets say its too left and right audiences. A large part of it is a misunderstanding of what conservatism is. A, i wanted to create rational defense of conservatism as write about conservatism an attractive governing philosophy. In the same way that other writers can and have written as about progressivism. Because progressivism and many countries have progressive forms of government are a rational form of philosophy. It is not mine. My philosophy is conservatism. I would like people, at a minimum, who take the progressive point of view, to understand what actual conservatism is. If i think about it, i wrote it for the right for the exact same reasons. I hear a lot of people pronouncing policies often repeated by the president and it gets labored
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