Please give her a round of applause. [applause] would also like to welcome jessica tonight who will be joining emily appear on the stage or in the chairs. Powerhouse at an independent bookstore so events like this help us stay here and lets say changing neighborhood like dumbo. I encourage everyone to buy a book if you dont have one, im sure emily will be happy to sign them later. Tonight were going to hear a little reading from a book conversation and some q a and then i guess the job rating. Im pretty excited for it. The main reason bios. So emily [laughter] worked at philadelphia paper, Philadelphia Weekly and the daily news and has contributed to the Philadelphia Inquirer in the Washington Post, political magazine. Jessica at the author of nomad land in awardwinning journalist who at work focuses on subcultures in the dark corners of the economy. She has written for harpers magazine, New York Times and the Washington Post and she also teaches at Columbia School for journalism. Give
American people who entrust us with their sons and daughters to keep them informed of the work our soldiers, sailors, airmen, marines and the permit of defense civilians do every day and keep our nation safe. We have many avenues to engage with the media and todays world moving forward i intend to do these briefings to maintain an open dialogue about the departments activities. Head of phobic affairs and representatives from the joint staff will begin holding regular press briefings. My aim is to give you an overview of my first 30 days and often talk about my priorities for the department. It has been a very busy first month for the team and im very encouraged by the progress we are making. Our direction remains fixed. We are committed to the National Defense strategy, building a more lethal force, strengthening our alliance and partnerships and reforming the department for Better Business practices which i added taking care of Service Members and their families. The mbs is grounded i
Which i absolutely love my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways is very different from what we do, from what im used to. Im a scholar here at aei and we are a private institute for Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland but in a way that highlights what we have in common to the section that goes after how nationhood in the modern day is often well ill put it like this a nation today in a modern way of thinking is at best problematic. It is at best problematic a useful administrative unit. That section is tipped off by the author Michael Daugherty talking about singing to his newborn baby over and over again the same songs. The foggy dew, the wind that shakes the barley and even the patriots game which i tried to sing in that lullaby way. This is familiar to me because i also sing my children to sleep with irish songs. I mostly use irish rebel songs because t
I work here at powerhouse arena. I want to thank you all for being here tonight. For the launch of on the clock by emily guendelsberger. I didnt say that right. Please give her a round of applause. Sorry. Give her a round of applause. Wed also like to welcome Jessica Bruder who will be joining emily up here on the stage in the chair. Powerhouses and independent bookstore so events like this help us stay here and lets say changing neighborhood so i encourage everyone to buy a book if you dont have one and emily will be happy to sign them later tonight we are going to hear a reading from the look, conversation, some q a. For ring her up what they read some bios. Emily guendelsberger worked at Philadelphia City paper, the onion, ap Club Philadelphia we we and the Philadelphia Daily News and contributed to the Philadelphia Inquirer Washington Post political magazine and Jessica Bruder is the author of she has written for harpers magazine, the near times, the Washington Post and she also te
Lawmakers are working to improve services and programs at the Veterans Affairs department. From the American Enterprise institute, this is one hour and 40 minutes. All right. Lets try to get started here. Good morning. Welcome to aei, and welcome to our program today, the value of our veterans, a conversation with mike levin and bread when strip. Im gary schmitt, im a senior scholar here s in strategic studies at the American Enterprise institute and director of the program on american citizenship. Im going to skip the introduction since were trying to pack in quite a bit in the next two hours, less than two hours. So for those joining us here and or online or watching on cspan, if you want lengthier buyers please go to aeis website and go to the link for the events page and you will see everybodys biographies. So it may begin by just giving a quick overview of the proceedings today. From representative mike levin, the recent elected congressman from californias 49th district, a distri