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Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
For the past year at the library of congress, you may sit down, because i have a few more namesv for the past year at the library of congress we have been celebrating changemakers and i can think of a few people who more than aptly fit that discretion then the United States up in Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [cheering and applause] okay, im going to hurry up. [laughter] she is a hero and an inspiration to so many of us. In fact, at 4 00 a. M. This morning students from American University who are right over there champion camped out in front of this facility and they are here. She says and i [inaudible] i will talk about your graduation from Columbia Law School and taught at rutgers and spent most of your career advocating on womens rights and all these things and you have been called recently the beyonce of jurisprudence. [laughter] and the justice, could i say dhat and she said i would rather you say that j lo. [laughter] [cheering and applause] without further ado, she is join
Im the owner. For a little bit of history, the strand was founded by my grand father benjamin bass in 1927 in an area thats just a block over aalok along 4th avenue. It was called book row. There were 48 used bookstores at its height. In the 92 years since then, all of the stores have shuttered except for the strand. And thanks to readers, were Still Family Owned and still thriving. Tonight im so excited to welcome the founder and the editor of the wildly popular leftist magazine to discuss this book the socialist manifesto, the case of radical politics in an area of extreme inequality. Since founding, its been described as a light and dark times, hes been a columnist for the guardian u. S. The manifesto presents a history of socialism and an argument for the end of inequality, and we couldnt be more thrilled to hear about it. Were also excited to be recording tonights conversation with a broadcast from our friends at cspan. Joining him in this timely discussion is a writer, current af
Whats in store. For the future. Are going to go city to go inside. 13000000 americans have now filed for Unemployment Benefits well take a look at whats being done to get the worlds biggest economy going again. Thank you and a virus means business says having to adapt. Is one of them converting passenger planes to freight. Business on robots in berlin welcome along the u. S. Economy continues to shed jobs at a record pace with more than 3800000 americans filing for Unemployment Benefits last week nationwide lockdowns out the wreck or dropping Consumer Spending a causing many businesses to lay off employees as they just try to survive. More and more americans are lining up to file for Unemployment Benefits offices Factories Hotels restaurants and schools have been shuttered to stop the spread of covert 19 as a growing number of employers cut payrolls to save money economists expect the Unemployment Rate to continue climbing the number of americans filing for jobless claims each week roc