The congress in the future. And what i can do to better help the folks back home. Now a typical state bar. It involves distance facetoface and vince from every corner of my state covering all ages professions and walks of life. And last august i spent time talking with my constituents about everything from the debbie smith act and g. I. Benefits for student veterans to project safe neighborhood grants in the usmexico canada trade agreements. At as we all know, 2020 has been anything but typical. In this august was no exception. These big inperson events have been replaced with virtual ones read but facetoface meetings, which now involve wearing masks, social distancing, and a heavy dose of hand sanitizer. Instead of the broad range of policies and we might normally discuss, almost every one of them centered on the impact of the covid19. No big surprise there. Effort from mayors, teachers, food bank employees, healthcare workers, restaurant owners, Energy Workers and countless others ab
Monitor turkeys activities in disputed waters. Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r. T. International im john thomas certainly glad to have you with us right now the u. N. Security council has rejected a us sponsored resolution to extend the arms trade embargo on iran only to members including the u. S. Supported the draft while russia and china voted against and the other members including the u. K. France and germany abstained the embargo was imposed in 2010 and is to expire in october under the joint a comprehensive plan of action 2015 deal to impose controls on Irans Nuclear program heres what hes come up with more. Well the resolution put forward by the United States would have extended the arms embargo against iran now france germany and other countries have been very vocal about the fact that they oppose the United States decision to unilaterally withdraw from the Iran Nuclear Agreement and furthermore they oppose putting new sanctions on iran now in
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Lot of these books have been published about socialism in response to what has changed over the last five years and they all have a little bit of a different take on it and emphasize different points so my obvious question is, why the United States and socialism and why did you write this book . Guest i noticed that there have been a flurry of books on socialism and that is a surprise because socialism has come into the american mainstream for the first time in our countrys history and there have been socialist candidates in the past, eugene debs, Norman Thomas but they were never in the mainstream and but now in fact at a time when many of us thought socialism had collapsed at the end of the 20th century, suddenly in the 21st century it is back and back with a vengeance. I am not surprised that there are books that try to take stock of this. The unifying theme throughout these books and i think by and large it will be history, its the idea that socialism has never worked before and ce
Professor for philosophy at Texas Tech University specializing Political Legal and moral philosophy. Brandon is assistant professor at Bowling Green State University specializing in ethics and moral psychology and social philosophy. We will take audience questions online using cato events. Watching the event posted so they can find it. Thank you for joining us. Thank you for having a. Great to be here. To be here briefly, what is grandstanding . The simplest Bumper Sticker description of grandstandin grandstanding, using the discussion of morality and Public Discourse as a vanity project with morality and justice and family values and tradition to draw attention to themselves to look like a moral paragon to think of morley in my end to care about the American Factory worker to be something more detailed thats very simple that it has two parts the grand standards want a certain audience a referenced network to have them come to believe with moral properties recall this recognition desir