Speaks to me about the challenges of implementing real world Foreign Policy and americas place in diplomacy. To see america from the inside out, and to see whats good and even great in america, but also to see america from the outside as well i think is an important part of being an effective diplomat. Plus italy becomes the first country in the world to make Climate Change lessons for schoolchildren compulsary. Hello and welcome im Michelle Fleury in washington and Nuala Mcgovern is in london. Its not what anyone would want minutes before they launch their Election Campaign. As borisjohnson prepared to address voters from downing street, the news broke that a cabinet minister was resigning. Welsh secretary alun cairns quit following claims he knew about a former aides role in the collapse of a rape trial. Certainly not the best start for a campaign which was launched after mrjohnson met the queen to mark the dissolution of parliament. We now face five weeks of campaigning the Prime Mi
Good afternoon. Im Barbara Alvarado some im a bilingual educator, interpreter, organizer and work with the Madison Public Library and Community Engagement with the design and implementation of spanish bilingual story times. Aim honored to introduce a conversation between david maraniss, great writer and historian, who works with the Washington Post and maria acran newscast. Both david and marie are colleagues at the Washington Post. Very humbled to introduce marie aanna, author, editor, journalist, literary critic and member of the Scholars Council at the library of congress. Marie is peruvian american and a work embodies who she is as an historian, novelist, essayist, and a human being in this modern world. Her books include american chica, cellophane, the writing life, bolivar, american liberator, and silver, sword and stolen three crucibles. Silver, sword and stone is an a history of latin america for over a thousand years, going back, but brings all this history into our present da
She will be joined in conversation by author and journalist david marinus. For a complete schedule of our live coverage from wisconsin visit booktv. Org. In the meantime, heres part of a program that airs tomorrow afternoon with economist Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell talking about their travels to socialist countries. Its no surprise to anybody now that socialism is back and popular. A lot of the focus has been on young people and millennials were attracted to it but of course the president ial debate to see among mainstream democrats now the New York Times had a year long and 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution a yearlong column called red century. I think exactly one, and that year was dedicated to the economic aof the system. If a handful mention of atrocities instead you got articles like why women had better sex under socialism. Which even if true, i dont know how we witness against 100 million dead bodies. But this is the atmosphere that was taking hold as we were do
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] everybody, welcome to this amazing talk. My im a ph. D student in the humanities group, doing research and a fellow of the center for ethics. So today we have kentaro, who is a professor at the university of Michigan School of information. He also founded Microsoft Research india, where he created a group that did technology for emerging markets. His talk today will be on the law of am mixification. A very amplification, a very interesting talk. And its kind of a heresy in some ways to have this talk, and the talk is aptly named geek heresy rescuing culture change from technology. It provokes important conversations because i think technology is important, but also important to think about what is the impact of the technology and how we design the technology in the best we way can. So without further adieu. Like to introduce kentaro here. [applause] thank you for that introduction, and id like to thank the center and m. I. T. For host
Desegregation. And now ceo rosen, in turn, is enforcing the time limit. [laughter] ladies and gentlemen, like the sixth amendment right to speedy trials, the National Constitution center book fairs have to end on time. But i just have to thank, first of all, our two superb participants, harlow unger and judge wecth, for a spectacular conversation. [applause]. A tribute to the cspan audience and a vindication of my faith that when the citizens of the United States are presented with the best arguments on all sides of complicated constitutional questions, they can Pay Attention and grasp them and make up their own minds. Its a privilege to share bill of rights day with you. Thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] every weekend, booktv offers programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. Keep watching for more here on cspan2 and watch any of our past proms online at booktv. Org. Jonathan yardley, how did you get into the become review business . Guest i stumbled int