We will get to as many as we can and if youre interested in purchasing the knowledge machine its available in most retailers. If youre a longtime follower of Library Programming either in person or online, you know that we lean heavily on the humanity. But tonight we turn our attention to the sciences with heavy dose of humanities. Our guest dr. Stevens, professor in new york his book the knowledge machine. The book begins with a simple question with a not at all simple answer. Why did it take 2,000 years after invention of philosophy and mathematic for humans to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe, the answer as it turns out might also help us better understand why we should have more faith in the Scientific Community. Dr. Stevens thank you very much for joining us. Thanks very much. Great to be here. I will talk a little bit about this book and what im setting out to do. I wrote the book to answer two Big Questions that i had about science. One of those questions
This is your first book, it must be pretty exciting to have your first book out but it is a bit of a candle and darkening times. You have lit for us. When you read it it is compelling. What are the takeaways that you want readers to see . Guest the point of this book is to say that we have got this new era and politics. It is a very scary one. It is one that were the you cannot always do this in politics, you can trace it to a date. How to a date. Make that date january 20 2010. That is when the Supreme Court issued its Citizens United really. If you listen to people, specially democrats theyll people, especially democrats theyll say that was a terrible day because it let all kinds of special money and influence back into elections. I would argue it was very scary day for a different reason. Not anything to do with dark money or more money. More money is good for speech. But for another reason and that was the democrats i come to rely on a lot of these campaignfinance roles and speech