Rachels work has covered a period of topics and she has reported extensively on the activity of the altright and their supporters. Rachel will be saying a few words about the Southern Poverty Law Center before we launch into the discussion for tonight. Please welcome rachel to the strand bookstore. [applause] hello, everybody. As he said my name is rachel and im an Investigative Reporter with the Southern Poverty Law Center and i want to thank all of you coming out here in sporting what we do at the center. I want to take a minute to tell you some of the specifics. We do three things. Seeking justice, fighting hate, teaching tolerance. The first and the third of those things weve got lawyers and legal staff that are much more talented than myself that do litigation on civil rights work all of the south and the rest of the country. Teaching tolerance staff introduces materials for educators so that they can promote diversity and inclusion in the classroom. What i do and what dave does i
Founded 1927 in an area called book row located along Fourth Avenue from the 1890s through the 60s that housed 48 bookstores at its height in the 90 years since then all but one has shut down and the strand was passed down to my father who worked here 76 years and just retired recently at the age of 89 and unfortunately is very sick. But hopefully this will always be kept in the family and thanks for being here to support the store. Tonight we are hosting scientist he is the author of two bestsellers and an early pioneer of Virtual Reality creating some of the first commercial reality products in the market in the 80s. His new book expounds on his expectations of Virtual Reality and the untapped potential. Joining him to discuss this potential is one of my favorite columnists who has been a New York Times oped contributor since 1995 where she where she won a pulitzer prize. Please join me to welcome our authors to the strand [applause]. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] i wrote in t
Irrationality and radicalism. How did it come to this . To answer that question you can do no better than to read David Horowitz book to left in University Volume eight in the latest edition to a series of collective desk with the conservative writings including the black book of the american left including essays from 1993 to 2010 and addresses what David Horowitz described as one of the underappreciated tragedies of our time the campaign of the left to support the curricula of collegiate institutions and transform entire schools and departments into doctrinal Training Centers for social and political causes for this campaign arguably has done more to steer america towards the left the left goal of the fundamental transformation of this country than any other strategy and cultural marxism. If the chronicle said campaigner for next quarter century and gave of davids efforts to bring political neutrality and intellectual integrity to college classrooms. You party now David Horowitz is t
Everyone quiet but you all got quite all by yourself with no direction. My name is jason botel with the department of education. I want to welcome you and thank you very much for coming to the k12 education summit. We appreciate you all being here and looking forward to a great conversation. In just a moment secretary devos oh, but before she does just what wanted to say couple housekeeping things. We have bottled water and coffee in the back seat can feel free to partake. And there are restrooms at the ends of the holes. If you do leave the building you can come back in but you have to go through security again, so just wanted to warn you about that. Those of you who will be participating in the conversation, you have microphones in front of you, you do need to turn the von when youre about to talk. Theres a button that says talk. The red light will come on which will tell you microphone is active. When youre not speaking please turn it off. We would appreciate that and you would prob