Of course we all know we are preparing to vote in a huge election collecting all sorts of folks and not just the president of the United States by congress and state legislators. Fascinating new book written by our guest today takes a look at the unelected , unaccountable elite and it is amazing and along to talk about it. Senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute also leader of legal policy you have read his book all over National Media and by the way he was a jd and mba from yale where he was a fellow in law and economics mba from unc chapel hill. So glad to have you with us. Thank you for joining us at the john locke society. So is an honor i said it before as a National Think tank so much policy happens on the state level and the John Locke Foundation gives the Gold Standard to help to shape North Carolina in such a positive direction and then to be in the midst of a pandemic. Thanks for having me spin thank you for those comments i appreciate that. Your book writes about federal po
The title itself, the violence inside us. You take the readers for both the biology and history of violence and so id like to ask you why begin air, why did you choose to begin here . Guest thank you so much for doing this and im blessed to be joining you to talk about this book. I start with this question what kind of violence is inside us because for me, it was the first real question is why i began the mission of my political career. While the book is mostly a history of american violence and how we overcome that history, it also involves my own political story since the shooting in connecticut in 2012. I had been pretty prestigious as a lawmaker before hand but never had an emotional connection like now and it was after sandy hook i realized this was about to become my political calling that i startebuti started asking que. The question i ask myself wasnt that different. A young man with no prior history of violence and no motive walking into an Elementary School and shooting and g
We have upcoming discussion wives charles king, how a circle of rein theyd anthropologist reinvested race, sex and gender in the 3,020th center and jeff rowe with if become, white flight, race, fiction and the american imagination myung many others. For details and our full excel all check out online or feel free pick up an event flier this evening. Ims to talk with conclude with time for your questions and a book signing right here at this table. Were pleased to have cspans booktv here attaching todays event. When asking questions in the q a, please know your questions well be recorded and place wait a moment for the microphone to make its way to you before asking you question. We have copies of the book for sale at the registers in the next room which is my cue to say as per use, thank you for buying books from Harvard Book Store. You support the future of an independent book store so thank you. And before we start, quick reminder to please silence your cellphones for the talk. Im ve
Coming up well talk with authors based here as we fir learn how the city was chosen as the states capital, and anyone 15 minutes the story of re olds and the auto company he founded in lapsing and then later well take a driving tour of the citys downtown. We begin our special feature as hear about james turner and the found offering lansing. The founding of lansing. James turner was pioneer. It wasnt until the state legislature designated this area as the new capital that he came with these other folks and helped build the capital. State had a slightly more expected, i sincible proven but we daytona that. We had nothing here. There was no transportation. They had several months to build the capital city. That was the very interesting, exciting and unique story of lansings beginning. The legislature established a state in about 1836, about a year before we became a state. They designated detroit as the capital but they were fearful that detroit could be easily attacked from the lake eri
Following the weather so first is getting weirder and wilder and greater extremes and second the forecaster is better at predicting what will get us. But their accuracy has definitely improved and so has the timeliness of their reports. These days not only one weather model but those simulating the future space of the atmosphere the north american model, european model and those over the next ten days. And then to get interested in this and then supercomputers with a knack of making complex systems accessible and he saw a similar kind of story. His new book, the weather machine is an engaging book behind the scenes International Collaborative effort to recount the forecasting to the Un World Meteorological Organization with a satellite in supercomputers to make up the conversation with one of the forecasters the editor of Washington Post in those fascinated by the weather growing up in the dc region and to recall this for year the chief meteorologist from the local nbc affiliate to stu