They gave, the number one answer was stressed. So i think we need to think about why our kids are so stressed out. What is happening in our world when on one hand, we have this pressure on kids that by the time they are 12yearsold if they havent told other college resume they are going to fail in life and on the other hand we have kids growing up without support, without family, and broken neighborhoods. Until we deal with these underlining reason that kids are using drugs, we are not going to solve this problem. But the hopeful news is that it is solvable. And of course, john and noopur, you forward he meant. I want this to be a discussion and i think its important that everyone here has a personal attachment to this issue. The first thing i would like to do is further establish how severe the problem this is. We are living in the day and age where one in 14 is used a prescription medicine. You mentioned stress. What are the factors . If you have a home or four kids one of them has mi
Tell us why this matters to you individually. Thank you. Thank you to the Clinton Foundation and all of the sponsors. About a year ago, after leaving congress i went to get a new doctor where i was living in southeast jersey. I have gotten a lot of publicity locally in the Atlantic City press because i married a jersey girl and they made a big deal i was in the area. I was recovering and doing all this work in Mental Health and addiction. I go to my new physician and im also asthmatic. A go to the doctor and he asked me, does my height, weight, blood pressure, asks me about my lung capacity and all the rest. Before the recent scandal with my colleague trey radel, i was that. Id been arrested for driving under the influence was splashed over the National Press for being an addict and i went to treatment and the like. I him pretty well recognized if you know anything about this as the face of someone in recovery. The shocking thing was, like most of my physicians in the past, i go and th
The session today and i thank you i do hope you enjoy the program. Good afternoon, i am a journalist and the editor of chief editor in chief of the newsroom. I am delighted to be here today, to moderate this discussion, Citizens United creating community in america with two fantastic authors i admire. A writer and editor of the New York Times book review and catherine judge, who is a professor at the columbia law school. Let us start with your book, this is the second time i have moderated with you. In your book, the quiet before, you take us on a broad romp through the world of ideas from the 17th century france to tahrir square, occupy wall street and the streets of indianapolis. You talk about the Network Effects that enable ideas to generate and build on each other in a way that is harder to do online where it is hard to get momentum out of a tweet or a post. Tell us a bit about the arguments you make in your book. The impetus for the book with a feeling that i had that social move
First Lady Laura Bush along with then library of librarian of congress and the current librarian of congress has continued. Carla it is so delightful to see people line up outside waiting to hear authors and get their books signed and all of these things. There is just so much excitement. After two years of being virtual, that was good for when we all had to hunker down, but being in person is just delightful. What is your role today . Carla my role is head cheerleader, and also to open up the main stage to actually get a chance to moderate a panel of young adult authors. This year we are having a stage for the young and young at heart, teenagers, specifically. The interesting part is we had a Youth Advisory Committee which could all happen during a pandemic, and they zoomed in through the country and gave us advice about authors they would like to hear from. They recommended the books and so i am just being led on to the stage but young people will be interviewing some of their favori
You take us on a broad romp through the world of ideas from the 17th century france to tahrir square, occupy wall street and the streets of indianapolis. You talk about the Network Effects that enable ideas to generate and build on each other in a way that is harder to do online where it is hard to get momentum out of a tweet or a post. Tell us a bit about the arguments you make in your book. The impetus for the book with a feeling that i had that social movements were we were seeing in our moments, social movements who burned very bright, briefly and then flare out. Sometimes they would leave a National Conversation for us to have. The activists at the center of the movements were not getting the goals they wanted to achieve. This was almost a communications problem. If you ask people where a movement starts, or a movement incubates, they would say the social media. Put a tweet out there, if it gains enough attention, if enough people respond to it emotionally, that is a successful mo