Hello there. Guess who i am. [laughing] so i am khoi le. This is Tara Westover, and if i have to give you an introduction about Tara Westover, you need to just get out of hope youve been living in for a while. Because the book has to celebrate i think the 100th week, consecutive week on the New York Times best seller list, its at number one. [applause] ahead of michelle malcolm, down there so thats pretty cool. And im assuming a lot of people are familiar with the narrative that, the 40 so interested and youre still here on the last lecture on the second day, but i thought we would still go through some of her story because its so gripping. It starts in idaho and actually to me its like such a beautiful setting. There must be a lot of beautiful memories you must have that. Yeah, i mean, it was Beautiful Mountain that i grew up on. I still have really fond memories of being on that mountain and i love playing on that mound. I think its an incredible, you know, for the kids to get to put
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
Future of Representative Democracy. This was part of a recent forum hosted by the college of william and mary in williamsburg, virginia. It is 90 minutes. My great honor to ,elcome our distinguished guest and to our love it caps on arena it caps on arena and i am enormously proud to introduce our keynote speaker for today, william and marys 24th chancellor, the honorable robert m gates. Chancellor gates is the model for states statesmanship that we look to now and for the future. His dedicated he has dedicated his career to public u. S. Ce serving a two president s and leads with a restless and compassionate intelligence. His unwavering dedication to those who serve our nation with their lives earned him the trust and devotion of our armed services. His career of Service Began early at william and mary. Not many know but he drove the City School Bus when he was a student and was a chit assistant troop leader for local boy scouts and senator norman was one of his boy scouts as we discov
You all doing . Joey, come on up. When of your opponents in the democratic race is using some profanity. What do you say to americans that are frustrated and do not believe this political process will be able to do anything . It came to ahead this weekend. Climate change is an existential threat. This guy can no longer deny the science. Not because we are in good or bad shape but because we cant wait another 18 months. What does he need . On the very day you see a mass shooting, we are talking to havingening access guns, taking them in places of worship, it is absolutely irrational. It is totally irrational. It is all about special interests and it has to stop. The idea that we dont have the elimination of the salttype weapons, magazines that can fire multiple bullets, it is mindless. It is no violation of the Second Amendment, it is about to the special interests and the gun manufacturers. [indiscernible] remember, i will work with Mitch Mcconnell where we can agree but on this one he
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