Facebook messages. Watch in depth with yuval levin on booktv on cspan2. Hi, everyone. My name is vanessa mendoza. Im an adjunct fellow at the Manhattan Institute and your host for the young leaders. I thank all of you for taking the time to tune into this event today, both are real members and angela membership. So sorry that we cant all be together in person, although i very much hope it will be sometime soon. But in the meantime its nice to connect this way and stay tuned. The Manhattan Institute is putting together a ton of virtual content that there would be rolling out over the next few months, so look in your in boxes for some information about those events coming to you shortly. In the interim im so pleased to welcome my guest Douglas Murray to our event this afternoon. Douglas is a journalist, and im sure many of you, if not all, have read his work work in thes of the wall street journal, the National Review or of course the spectator or hes an associate editor where he is ao a
Coming to you shortly. In the interim i am so pleased to welcome my guest Douglas Murray to our event this afternoon. Douglas is a journalist, and im sure many of you, if not all, have read his work on the pages of the wall street journal or National Review or of course in the spectator but hes an associate editor. Douglas is also an author most recently his 2019 book, the madness of crowds, and he was with us in person at the Manhattan Institute i think in early 2018 and that was just after the publication of this book, the strange death of europe. Douglas is a Formidable Political critic, and while he is an observer of all things uk and i think u. S. , im not sure that he knew the subject of both his most recent book and this one would come into play so much during this particular moment in time, but they have and its for that reason and many others that it is my pleasure to welcome you, douglas, to our event this afternoon. Thank you very much. Its a great pleasure to be with you an
Host the communicators is at the state of the net conference in washington, d. C. We are going to show you some of the interviews were conducted with members of congress, government officials and technology leaders. And now joining us on the communicators is susan ness. Commissioner ness, what were some of issues you dealt with back in the 90s when you are an fcc commissioner . Guest peter, was the golden age of the federal communications commission. We moved all of the length of the communications highways from analog to digital. So that was cable, broadcast, satellite. The satellites have been launched but with the service d not yet begun. We came up with the Digital Television standards which is radio standard. My First Commission meeting we did band plan. It was an extraordinary time. And we were just given Auction Authority so we began the first auction at which point they actually used the hand placards to bid. So it was an exciting time to be there, plus on top of all that we im
Casey pennsylvania and bill cassidy of louisiana discussing the impact of coronavirus in Nursing Homes. They look at the need for increased testing and adequate medical supplies for longterm care facilities. Hello and welcome to an axios Virtual Event. I mike allen, cofounder of axios, and welcome to my home in arlington, virginia. Im right across the bridge from georgetown and at 76 degrees in here because i dont know how to fix my thermostat. Todays axios Virtual Event is on a topic that hits very close to home to me, and a no for a lot of people in the audience. Id like to thank aarp for making this conversation possible. We are going to talk about Nursing Homes in this covid moment, and more broadly, how longterm care for people 65 plus is affected by these changes in our world. Theres no part of the covid crisis that its closer to home for a lot of people. Thank all of you who are following online. We would love for you to tweet along at hashtag axios events, and you can follow us
Deny. A spring that has been dominated by Public Health cries thats still very much with us. Were facing now also a social crisis that is as old also our country in some ways, the struggle for racial equal and human equality. But then also is very much of this moment, and forces us to confront challenges our society has had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions are going to prove to be, how were going to rise to a challenge like this. I think you cant help but see it as a time of crisis but because it is a time of testing, its also a tame for us to think about americas strengths, what were good at as a country and how to build on that to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Guest well, thats an awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality of the individual on the one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society F