And political impulses caused americans to consider americans a larger role in the world for their nation. Professor smith details the actions they took such as pursuing missionary work, arguing for the expansion of the navy and searching for new economic markets. This is just over an hour and 10 minutes. What were going to do today is start something very new and very distinct in the evolution of the story were telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way america thinks of itself in the world. In a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century, if you want to understand the role that the United States assumes for itself and plays in the 20th century, the 1890s is the place to start. Because the transformation, listen, the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far as you want to go in American History, okay, the idea has been that the United States
Of the story we are telling. The 1890s becomes a distinct beginning of the way american thinks of itself in the world in a very different way. If you want to understand the 20th century. If you want to understand the role that the United States assumes and plays in the country, the 1890s is the place to start, because the transformation that you see among the people and their attitudes in the 1890s is little short of kind of amazing. Remember this. Remember that as far back as you want to go in American History, the idea has been that the United States, and before that the american colonies. We are over here and the rest of the world is the rest of the world. There is this purposeful sense that we are us, and the rest of the world can do whatever it wants, whatever it takes, whatever it is going to do, it will not affect us. I am sort of dancing around the words isolation, because that has got a lot of baggage around it. But that is part of it. That we were and isolated country. Or if
Baldaci talks about his books on in depth. Watch this memorial day weekend on cspan2. It is my pleasure to invite you to this special event with an allstar cast of meetings and amazing brainpower. One of my favorite authors in the world, jamie metzl. On behalf of the university and our host at think spot, it is my honor and privilege to welcome you to this global event celebrating the release of the highly revised which means if you have gotten the hardback, by this one too because there are some changes. A highly acclaimed and bestselling book, hacking darwin genetic engineering and the future of humanity. Until recently a successful book launch involved 100 people, maybe a few more, some hors doeuvres, a little bit of bad wine but now you can your favorite food from your refrigerator, your beverage of choice and this is a lot better and this is also being carried by cspan, so welcome everybody from cspan as well. These are unprecedented times. There is also promise in these times. Th
It feels like this is a conversation with science. Without science we wont be having this conversation but ultimately this is a conversation about ethics because all of technology no technologies come with their own builtin value system it is up to us to infuse our values into at least the most significant application of those technologies. Since the hardcover version came out last april i have a preliminary reference to the first crisper baby who are born. But since then we know there are at least three of these genome ed babies then after that experience the World Health Organization created its International Advisory committee. We are working extremely hard to try to suggest at least what might be a framework for how we think about and apply these very powerful technologies in ways that maximize benefits. I was honored to be invited to go speak at the vatican about this. People from the vatican are also participating. My view is that this is about the future of our species we need a
And the news for china, sense that the president is cking supplies for huawei [indiscernible] on slot for china. We have the index above 100, and the 10 year yield at 62 basis points. The market except in all of this dire data we are getting this morning. s get to that data now [no audio] michael why that is, unless people just sort of got used to what was happening, and the fact that they have been locked down and couldnt go shopping or Something Like that. That is the only thing i can think of, and maybe the idea that as the weather gets warmer, they are seeing they are feeling a little bit better. I have no good answers for that. For theay, the numbers sentiment are really high, but they didnt do what they said. They didnt go shopping the way they said they would because retail sales were down 16. 4 on the month. That is a new record drop for the month of april. Of course vonnie vonnie vonnie and of course, the data earlier on included retail sales , but that was only temporary as w