Good morning good afternoon good evening. The Second Annual Schaumburg Center leader is one Literary Festival. s programs here at the Schaumburg Center coming to you live from new york city in my little one in my living room thank you for tuning in for conversation with authors from across the world life magazine profile of James Baldwin talked about where he grew up which is where he became the Schaumburg Center and said the pain and heartbreak those that connected me to all the people who are alive to introduce us to those with the joy and the sorrow and to spark the imagination and then to confront the present a plan for the future thank you to all the moderators 11 00 a. M. To 5 30 p. M. Eastern and alexandria and those thinkers who exhibit what i described previously earlier the Schaumburg Center for adults and young people i hope you will add to the list we have createds by visiting the website at Schaumburg Center one of the leading cultural institutions to research preservation
A brief intellectual history of the trump era interviewed by New York Times book review editor, paul. Watch book tv this weekend on cspan2. It is great to be back as we kick off our fall season and our inaugural speaker as you mentioned is ted freeman, professor of Business Administration atthe Darden School at uva. His latest book which is still relevant youre in the current discourse that is going on in our nation is called the word and. The most powerful word in our language. So lets find out why the power of and is responsible for this without tradeoffs. Thank you very much for having me. Its a real treat to be back even if only virtually. At fordham. Many years ago in a fit of youthful idealism, as dave had mentioned, i got a phd in philosophy. And that was great. My father was always terrific and he said well, youll never have to worry about a job because just opened a bunch ofphilosophy factories outside the interstate. Youll be fine. I got very lucky with sort of a postdoc war.
Week, i just went to thank you all for tuning in for the Schaumburg Center celebrate 95 years is one of the worlds leading altar institutions devoted to research, preservation and education materials global on the black experience. Whether does remain closed and migrated online real can access parts of archival collection and enjoy our literary festival. This festival continues to expand the schaumburgs long tradition of celebrating and uplifting authors of african entrance african descent from across the globe. Were excited youre here and have so much to share in theater today. Enter marks to authors who have been doing incredible work. So please remember to follow the schedule at the schaumburg. Todays the last day but we still have a full day of incredible programming. We also want you to stay engage engaged. Follow on social media Schaumburg Center. Use the chat to ask questions and comments. Just keep it pg because the kids are watching per therell be a q a following this program.
Thank you. Thanks so much, anthony, and thank you to the Federalist Society for hosting this debate at its annual faculty conference. Im delighted to be here with two distinguished scholars to moderate this debate on the question should the Electoral College be as you are aware, the constitution establishes an Electoral College for choosing the president meeting in their respective states, the electors vote by ballot for the president and Vice President. Alexander hamilton wrote in federalist 68 that the Electoral College will provide a practicable obstacle 2 intrigue and corruption, he said that it would impose capable discernment for deliberation over the selection of the president. Hamilton thought the system best designed to vent, and disorder. As we head into the 2020 president ial election, debates about the Electoral College once again emerge over the desired voting of our constitutions method. This debate is an important one about our republic and about our constitutional form
Your books are praised by oprah, president obama and you win the poets with the National Book award, what is the appropriate response . Before we take the pain away, this book is taken off and away unexpected and startling and wonderful and i thank my lucky stars and they sleep a little better and that her mood generally and try to enjoy despite my best efforts. What is up doing a better mood. I been writing for 20 something years doing fiction for 20 something years temperature write a book and people to get and no one typically cares and it disappears so i had the pride and think it i did a good job from the book and the bonus of other people reading it as well. Host your first book was about elevator repairs, people, how do you sell a book like that. Guest exactly. With that book i wrote a description and i said to my agent you dig in the concept of elevators inspectors or you dont. Youre either along for the ride in the description or not indefinitely when i was writing it was my s