[inaudible conversations] good afternoon, everyone. I karlyn bowmanim karlyn bowmar fellow at the American Enterprise institute and i would like to welcome all of you and the cspan audience to this lecture by peter schuck. This will conclude 20162017 bradley lecture series. We are as always grateful to the lives of milwaukee Wisconsin Foundation that supported the lecture for more than a quartercentury. When peter emailed me and colleagues to say he might be able to give a lecture about his new book, one nation undecided Clear Thinking about bipartisanship that divides us we jumped at the chance for he is one of many academic. But professor of law at yale he reminded me that he was an aei visiting scholar in 79. Hes the author of why government fails so often and how it can do better, understanding the institutions and policies that shape america and the world and it collaborated with the late james q. Wilson. And finally, the moderate, cool news on hot topics. To find out copies of th
Shell be showing us the current exhibit of william faulkner. We are in the main gallery of the special Collections Library at the university of virginia. Our exhibition is faulkners license worked. It surveys the faulkner collection that we have at the library. William faulkner was a Great American novelist who was born in mississippi and spent the last few years of his career in the late 1950s at uva. He is best known for his novels, sanctuary, and he was also a poet and a short story writer. It has been a long time since our last monumental exhibition, even though we often bring individual items out or put them on display in other contexts we have not told the full story and given the Public Access to a range of materials and collections for some time. It also is the 60th anniversary of his arrival at the university as writer in residence. We still have people coming to visit to tell us about having met faulkner while here. While he was here he was working on his own writing. He spen
Clinic. Host why did you write this piece . Guest the Opioid Epidemic is an epidemic. That strikes some people is a little histrionic but i think its fair to say. Atan average, 15 people a 1000 overdose on opioids. It used to be 1. 5. We can go on about statistics but it is clearly a major problem. I wrote about it because we have to think clearly about what to do. I think people with Clinical Experience have a great contribution to make. I wanted to do that. Host you mentioned unconditional ideas for opioid treatment. Tells about some of them. Lets start with the Harm Reduction philosophy. Guest people think there are three axes about drug policy. Supply reduction, demand reduction supplied means less available and demand means getting people to one and less. And Harm Reduction for people you know are going to use. Either they dont want to stop or they cant stop. You want to make it safer for them to do with they do. In this epidemic, this drug crisis, we are really thinking of things
People of puerto rico need to know they are not forgotten, that they are part of the american family, and Congress Plus responsiveness, even though this is not a perfect bill, at least moves us in the right direction. Amy while president obama vows to help the puerto rican people, a stunning new report has just been released showing how much of the debt owed by puerto rico is not actually money that the island borrowed, but instead interest owed to wall street firms including goldman sachs, citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and morgan stanley. In some cases, puerto rico is being paid forced to pay up to 1000 interest. Then we will speak to the dishwasher at Yale University who was arrested after breaking a stainedglass window depicting enslaved africans carrying cotton. We will also speak to professor Craig Steven Wilder author of , the book, ebony ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of americas universities. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, t
And syria. We will go to nice for the latest. Then to the debt crisis in pupuerto rico. People of puerto rico need to know they are not forgotten, that they are part of the american familily, and Congress Plus responsiveness, even though this is not a perfect bill, at least moves us in the right direction. Amy while president obama vows to help the puerto rican people, a stunning new report has just beenen released d showing hohowh of t the debt owowed by puererto is not a actually momoney that e island borrowed, but instead interest owed to wall street firms including goldmaman sachs, citigroup, Merrill Lynch, and morgan stanley. In some cases, puerto rico is being paid forced to pay up to 1000 interest. Then we willll speak to the dishwasher at Yale University who was arrested after breaking a stainedglass window depicting enslaved africans carrying cotton. We will also speak to professor Craig Steven Wilder a author of , the book, ebony ivy race, slavery, and the troubled history of