As an industrial giant at the forefront of a Major Economic revolution, and according to his ideological worldview we should have produced radical socialist and communist movements. A couple of things were wrong with that comment. There was an american left. There was a socialist party. It was even winning elections on a city, state, and ultimately a couple of congressman. There were real communists. 1860, there were communists clubs in several major American Cities come marxist communist clubs. First International Working association was at home in the u. S. , and indeed for a decade there was a coalition of european socialists and coming , some american reformers of whom figured in my book on american reform. The sociologist was less concerned about this, but there were extremes on the right in america. Arch conservatives, libertarians differed from anarchists i will lump them in with anarchists in a bit, but extreme libertarians who believed private property was sanctified you will
Ronald i am going to begin in 1906. A german sociologist and historian published a collection of essays. One of those essays translated into english as, why is there no socialism in the United States . He was baffled, seeing america as an industrial giant at the forefront of a Major Economic revolution, and according to his ideological worldview, we should have produced radical socialist and communist movements, as in europe. A couple of things were wrong with that comment. There was an american left. There was a socialist party. It was even winning elections on a city and state level, and ultimately a couple of congressman. There were real communists. From 1860, there were communists clubs in several major american cities, marxist communist clubs. And the marxist First International working association was at home in the u. S. , and indeed for a decade there was a coalition of european socialists and coming socialists and communists and american reformers, some of whom figured in my b
Bloomberg businessweek debri ief. Megan i sat down with Ginni Rometty at a conference at the new cornell tech campus in new york city and asked her about ibms commitment to developing artificial intelligence, or , as the Company Calls it cognitive computing. , ginni we will need help with important decisions, no matter what they are. With the amount of data, it is the complexity of what is out there, and it doesnt matter what profession you are in. Therefore it was this idea that , you could help any decision be better. I am always reminded of an interesting statistic that studies have been done maybe some in the room from cornell would agree or not that, when asked, what percentage of your decisions are right, what percentage would you guess . Megan 100 . [laughter] megan exact ginni 100 , exactly. Studies, on average, one third are great decisions, one third not optimal, and one third are wrong. When you think about that and how much we have estimated a market at 2 trillion to make d
This way. Warmer, a few upper 80s to near 90 degrees. With a gust of 70 Miles Per Hour and some of the stronger gusts northeast of alan rock. Tomorrow will be even warmer with 90 degrees near monterey with 100 degrees for la. The airport is 20 degrees warmer than it was this time yesterday. Fairfield and santa rosa 6 degrees warmer it has to do with highpressure going down the coast and out. So upper 40s and 60s for some. 64 in black hawk. A bit of a breeze in the mountains and the river hitting the Pacific Northwest, way to the north as highpressure built in. Temperatures well above normal and we will see 80s near 90 degrees and warm for just about everybody with 70s and 80s. Much better than we saw yesterday with an earlier crash on westbound 85 cleared out of the way so if that is your commute rest easy. You will see some slow traffic in that area but we got that serious crash out of the way. Here is a live look at the San Francisco with highway 101 pretty slow in both directions. S
Walter borneman. His biography as well as all the other speaker biographies are in your program. Hes author of books including the study of civil leadership and we had him here last july to speak on his book of General Macarthur. Haeds a great scholar and doing some really cutting edge stuff on the pacific war. At this time walter borneman. Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know its a pleasure to be here. And when i was invited by criss and jim to speak about the battle of midway i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. And they said thats okay, we have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set the table. And thats what im going to indeed do this morning, set the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few landmark things in terms of japans relations with the world 50 years prior to midway. And then were also going to talk about based on my book the admiral the leadership that appears at midway. And finally were going to do an Operational History of what goe