Aside at googles parent alphabet. Period of17 year long his Senior Leadership. Betty it seems like everybody is trying to ram and all the news before the christmas holidays. Catalonia, google, and of course the spending bill passing the house. All of that and stocks today rose, breaking the today losing streak. We will quickly pull up the boards and show you how the u. S. Markets ended today. The s p 500 slightly higher, and nasdaq also trading a little bit to the upside, but fairly unchanged. Investors trying to absorb what the impact is going to be from the tax reform package. Yvonne yes, just a moderate bounceback. We see some positives as we get closer to the christmas holiday. Lets look at asia, said to track the gains set to track the gains we saw on wall street. New zealand up. And we are Holding Steady. Australia, getting underway in sydney. 6100, it could be a big we will see if it reaches that level. 7702 for the aussie. Treasuries mixed overnight, the curve sharply flatter.
Eric dyson who will offer his thoughts on Race Relations in the u. S. I hope that you all have had a wonderful day here at the baltimore book festival. If youre just joining us, welcome. Todays been a fabulous opening, and we have a wonderful guest this evening. A few announcements, first of all, the baltimore book festival is produced by the Baltimore Office of promotions and the arts which is a 501 c 3 Nonprofit Organization that serves as baltimore citys arts council, event center and film office. Wed like to thank a few select sponsors who help to keep the book festival and other events free to the public; the maryland state art council, the city of baltimore, housen university, the able foundation, the nora roberts foundation, cspan booktv and ford. Our guest for this evening is dr. Michael eric dyson whose latest book is tears we cannot stop a sermon to White America. Dr. Dyson is an awardwinning author, a Georgetown University sociology professor, a New York Times contributing o
Happened put i dont recall a speaker invited to a campus being shut town in the way that Charles Murray and Anna Mcdonald and nothing like what happen to miloan knopp miss with the violence and six visits sent to the hospital six individuals sent to the hospital. This is terrible. I think it comes from thisnd it encouragement by the Obama Administration and the Obama Justice department of violent people, the civil rightsts movement now celebrates career criminals, and the freddy gray more arrestes and somebody preyed on black people. Wife is he a civil rights hero . Why would anybody go out and defend him . And theres no indication that any police were involved in his death at all. So i think things are a lot worse than then. The new left is committed until the end of the decade to american ideas, like democracy, like listening to the other side, having a respect for difference. Now they preach respect for difference but have in respect for people who have different views than they do.
You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see you online at booktv. Org. Host joining us here on our set is author David Horwitz. His nose book is called big agenda President Trumps plang to save america. Doesnt David Horwitz doesnt feel like the 60 to you right now in america . Guest it feels much worse than the 60s. First of all, the big movement of the 60s were the hippies, and they were the nine, in my view. And were not really political. But even bill left was not as violent i dont recall a speaker inviting the campus to shut down like mario or mcdonald nothing of that ever happened to destroy the 100,000 worth of property and individual sent to the hospital is terrible and it comes to encouragement by the Obama Administration and the Obama Justice department for violent people the Civilrights Movement now celebrates the career criminals. Freddie gray is somebody who parade of black people why would anybody defendant . So i do think the
Segment for you joining us here on the set is author David Horowitzs newest book is called big agenda doesnt feel like the 60s renown america greg. Much worse. First of all, the movement of the 60s was benign in my view. But even bill left was not as violent i dont recall a speaker inviting the campus to shut down like mario or mcdonald nothing of that ever happened to destroy the 100,000 worth of property and individual sent to the hospital is terrible and it comes to encouragement by the Obama Administration and the Obama Justice department for violent people the Civilrights Movement now celebrates the career criminals. Freddie gray is somebody who parade of black people why would anybody defendant . So i do think there is a more but the new left was committed until the end of the decade to american ideas. Listening to the other side with respect but now they have no respect for those different views. Host what we doing in the 60s . [laughter] i was a radical i got up and and give a