vivid democratic spirit so very alive. thank you very much. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] peaceful abolition of slavery affecting frederick olmstead in his persuasion of england of joining the south in the civil war? let s see, the basis of abolitionism is greasing. he was a gradualist, another qualification of getting the timesb. people who believe to slavery wasou wrong but they thought you could not impose its views on another region and also a complicated institution that needed time to be unwound. for that reason and that they thought because he was a rabid abolitionist here is a person to step down as he traveled to the south but as read that 482 dispatches you see the amazing transformation and 470 who becomes an abolitionist slightly because of what he would this. one thing that happened whenari he was traveling people jealously guarded from him is the actual punishment of slaves that was very guilty for this out. he would travel but nobody wou
been it gets all mixed up because of the social network movie. i guess about two years before the movie came out, so 2008 or so? it was right before the movie 21 came out. the e-mail was right out of the blue, and my wife had forced me to be on face wook, so facebook, so i knew what it was. so i went out to work with this guy, and it was eduardo who andrew garfield play inside the movie, and he was angry. he was really angry. um, and a little drunk. and he wanted to tell me a story, and that s how i got into it. host: why did he send an e-mail to you? guest: well, i ve become kind of the go-to guy for every college kid who does something ridiculous or crazy because of my books. i guess they have a big college audience, and these kids want to tell their story. and so i ve kind of become that guy that when someone, you know, knocks over a lottery, you know, scam or whatever it is, they ll call me. so i get 30 or 40 of these a week. this was just one of them. and usu
to the frontier of america, when archeologists find really nice things, we sort of smile to ourselves and say, those officers, those soldiers they did okay for themselves. and where are you digging now? is there an archeological dig that you re working on right now or that you re going to work on this fall? well, i m doing two things right now. in the summertime i m digging fort william henry in lake george, new york. .. to go far away to dig something, but during the school year, campus digs, looking for the traces of their early university, that is what we love to do. i have students outdoors right now digging and it s exciting for them. 100 feet from their classroom they are digging up the storm right now. annie so much for your time. it s good to be here. scheme next, political commentator david horowitz reflects on several moments in his life and presents his philosophical thinking on life and mortality. it s a little over one hour. on behalf of the philadelp
good evening everyone thank you for being here to the standing room only. ibm david cohen and the husband of the owner of blessed memory who is one of the founders and starter s of politics and prose. we re here to welcome the celebration of a new voice a new voice for israel fighting for the survival of the jewish nation by jeremy ben-ami and i am particularly pleased to be here in the interest of full disclosure i am an active supporter of jay street said jeremy helped to found. with him and many others and loads of rabbis and i welcome new to politics and prose. and in this family. his personal and reflective book represents an important contribution to the ongoing matter that engages us as americans on matters affecting the middle east. including israel and palestine in for many of us who are supporters of israel as a homeland for jewish people and a democratic state in as a pluralist state come as a community institution, politics and prose has a robust three mark
and i think that would be highly irresponsible to make that argument, and that s also, that s the easier argument to make. it s easier to say, you know what? we blew it. we re going to go right off the edge, and it s all over. it s more difficult to say, okay, wait a minute. despite everything and all these problems, how are we going to deal? we are, after all, a very intelligent species. we have created lots and lots of technology. there is enormous amounts of wealth that can be channeled into the it s not that we don t have the money, we just don t have the political will. it s according to the federal reserve $1.8 trillion, if there was proper government cues and regulation, that money could move into both climate mitigation and climate adaptation. so i think it s highly irresponsible and demoralizing to say we blew it, enjoy your life before the apocalypse. so that s why i, you know, that s why i don t contemplate giving up like that. anyway, thank you all for coming