T dot com stay with us for the Financial News in the car with. Kaiser this is the kaiser report i dont know about you but so far this pandemic things working out great in america i say make america transcendental list again you know back in the 1820 states and fortys and the american transcendental as a movement they talked about how to rely on subjective intuition rather than object of empiricism and thats really the heart and soul of america this pandemic is bringing in a whole new era of selfreliance this plays great into the american soul. Speaking selfreliance and making sure my wire here is plugged in yes selfreliance ralph waldo and emerson one of the most famous quotes from that essay called Self Reliance was a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesman f. Loss of furs and divines i would say the philosophers are modern day think tanks and the divines are celebrity cable news hosts and they have these little minds that focus just on certain
As a movement it talked about how to rely on subjective intuition rather than object of empiricism and thats really the heart and soul of america this pandemic is bringing in a whole new era of selfreliance this plays great into the american soul. Speaking selfreliance and making sure my wire here is plugged in yes selfreliance ralph waldo and emerson one of the most famous quotes from that essay called Self Reliance was a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds adored by little statesman f. Loss of furs and divines i would say the philosophers are modern day think tanks and the divines are celebrity cable news hosts and they have these little minds that focus just on certain numbers the stock price number efficiency globalization making sure everythings just in time and this is what theyve been seeking and the think tanks and the cable news has been telling us this is the best thing for basically everything for the American Economy and what we found out so far during this
Drinking in america our secret history. She will tell us the secrets. Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of e. E. Cummings, a life, which was chosen by the economist as one of the best books of the year, and is now considered the definitive biography of that iconoclastic poet. Other biographical works include, american bloomsbury the leading figures of the Transcendentalist Movement and my name is bill, on bill wilson, for his life and the creation of alcoholics anonymous. And home before dark, the groundbreaking biography of her father, writer john cheever. Shes also the author of five novels, and a frequent contributor of essays and articles to leading publications. Shes influential in shaping and sustaining our literary culture as a member of the corporations and of the Authors Guild council and is a faculty member at Bennington College mfa program, and the new school in new york city. In her fascinating and compelling new book, she traces the pervasive influ
Her distinguished bibliography includes the 2015 biography of e. E. Cummings, a life, which was chosen by the economist as one of the best books of the year, and is now considered the definitive biography of that iconoclastic poet. Other biographical works include, american bloomsbury the leading figures of the Transcendentalist Movement and my name is bill, on bill wilson, for his life and the creation of alcoholics anonymous. And home before dark, the groundbreaking biography of her father, writer john cheever. Shes also the author of five novels, and a frequent contributor of essays and articles to leading publications. Shes influential in shaping and sustaining our literary culture as a member of the corporation and of the Authors Guild council and is a faculty member at Bennington College mfa program, and the new school in new york city. In her fascinating and compelling new book, she traces the pervasive influence of alcohol at key moments over centuries of american political and
America. He received his phd in american studies in 1983 from the university of kansas and is on the faculty of Catholic University for the past 35 years. His research and teaching interests include a variety of religion and cultural topics. Religious movements, religion and social change, fundamentalism, religion in American Culture, religion and globalization and religion and ecology. Please without further ado, join me in welcoming building us. Thank you. So, good evening everyone. I am delighted to be here and i am delighted that you are here on this rather hot, muggy, welcome to washington dc in august evening. I am going to start this with this image. Actually i had originally conjured up an image of Ralph Waldo Emerson and then i doctored it with long hair and beads and a headband and i looked at it a while and came to the conclusion that this would probably verged on sacrilege so instead, i am starting with this particular image and the title from walden pond to woodstock, the