Enter this world awake for justice. Again you can find all this on our website at schaumburg. Org. If you are watching from the festival website you can scroll to the bottom of this particular page in shop the featured book. You can shop the rest of the festival from the bookish things my schaumburg shop. You can navigate or you can check out the full schedule of events. And just to let you know in the screen that is in front of your coffee look up in front of you if youre not seeing the chats, the little sort of comments if you where, talking bubble should the expansion chat for you. An ill be joined by alexander who is a senior staff writer it columbia journalism review. Previously she was a reporter at the Village Voice and covered education for the project were to partnership between columbia university, columbia journeying ten Journalism School part shall be in conversation with wando small following will introduce one that there will be a reading. And then following the conversat
We are hearing the same thing from some republican elected officials, we are hearing it from the pentagon. Just this week the new Secretary Of Defense order the entire u. S. Military to stand down while investigators cleanse the ranks of political instigators, we are hearing it from the Business Establishment from wall street,r from the massive multinational corporations that increasingly control the all of them now on The Hunt For Political N extremists. O we are for moderation and incremental change, we are for the consent of the governed, we dont like extremists either, we attack them regularly. Its not enough to be against something, you have to be more precise than that. What is it youre against . In order to root out a problem, you have to know what it is. You need a sense of what youre looking for, a clear sight picture. You have to define the terms. Heres the remarkable thing weabout this public conversation were having. No one is doing that. Have you noticed . None of these ne
Up next Lawrence Odonnell talks about his book playing with fire. And the transformation of american politics, which recalls the turmoil of the 1968 president ial election. We recorded this in washington to d. C. In 2017. This 1968 election, was the first when i was alert for. I was in high school, i remember zero of the 1964 election, just the one right before that. And i remember just flashes of 1960, because it was a giant deal for Irish Catholic boys in boston. And one of us was on his way to winning it. And its hard to believe this now, but in those days we lived under a certain kind of, old ghetto culture notion that it could not happen. That they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. But if you know our political history, for the decades proceeding that without smith, and with others there was evidence, that you could not elect a catholic person. And that was transcended and exploded, one night in november in 1960. So the world we were looking at, in 1968 wh
The selection and presentation of library of congress for fiction is one of my favorite responsibilities the product is this Great Institution an opportunity to honor the novelist for short story writers to interview books from the most recent novels and short story collections past prizewinners include luminaries Toni Morrison it is my distinct honor and pleasure to award the prize this year to one of our nations most gifted writers someone Time Magazine the longest largest recipient and only one of four writers in history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice i am talking about none other than none other than colson whitehea whiteheads most recent novel, the nickel boys won this years pulitzer as did his 2016 novel the underground railroad. Colson has an extraordinary ability to write about historical events and transform them into meaningful events of today the rewriter of literary fiction whose works are best sellers a testament to his talent to communicate to everyone wh
Room of russias main Opposition Leader Alexei Navalny just after he fell ill. And country celebration. The highlights from last Nights Academy of Country Music awards. And something thats never happened before. It was different. But first, heres todays eye opener, its your world in 90 seconds. If you are asking me, when is it going to be generally available to the American Public, late second quarter, Third Quarter 2021. President trump and the head of the cdc are disagreeing about when a Coronavirus Vaccine will be available. I think he got the message maybe confused. Maybe it was stated incorrectly. No, were ready to go immediately as the vaccine is announced. Started coming off and siding ripping. Major flooding and damage left behind in the wake of hurricane sally. This has been a lot worse than we ever thought it would be. Dramatic new video recorded on a firefighters helmet capturing just how fast the creek fire overwhelmed crews in california. The big ten conference has reversed