Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and im the director of aspen digital. Were blunt glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can often seem to be a veneer of the National Psyche and this year it seems to reflect a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists, both fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest hashtag publishing pay me exposed the disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents and even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels and for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be sub optimal. This year of National Reckoning on racism were going to take a look at the industry, the book Publishing Industry and whether it can br
Historical society. I would dont extend a special welcome to anyone who might be takenning a Virtual Program for the first time. Considering the side of the virtual crowd and the geographic spread im sure there are here for the fir time. Youre not familiar with us were the oldest Historical Society in the america. Funned in 1791 and have been an independent Nonprofit Institution defend indicated to collecting, preserving, publishing and sharing our states and nations history for the past 229 year. In these days of social distancing we are taking to hosting Virtual Event and we have Online Events planned for every week through june. We have a virtual tour of plymouth, massachusetts, this year i the 400th motorcycle of arrival of pilgrims so join us for that program. You can fine additional detail notices program on our website, mass history. Org. Today we eave a great from. Joined by abram van engen, aen so professor oft english at Washington University in st. Louis. He received his ma
Hello and welcome to cross talk where all Things Considered im Peter Lavelle senator Chuck Schumer famously said shortly after trump was elected you take on the Intelligence Community they have 6 ways from sunday at getting back at you in light of the failed russia gate hoax and this nonsense with ukraine this characterization appears to be spot on should we all fear the deep state. Talking the deep state im joined by my guest Daniel Mcadams including hes the executive director of the Ron Paul Institute for peace and prosperity in washington we crossed to Richard Goodstein he is a democratic strategist and a former Campaign Adviser to bill and Hillary Clinton and in new you. We cross to john burnett he is managing director and founder of one empire group a business and political Consultancy Company all right Jonathan Cross liberals in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate daniel make out of that we go to you include you inspired this program with an
A great interview but this sentence stuck out the u. S. Has ceased being a republic and has become a National Security state elaborate on what you mean go ahead. Well the National Security state you know really essentially formed with a 947 National Security act which created the cia the n. S. A. And really created a secret underground government that is not really is not really subject to democracy and i saw a lot of this when i was on capitol hill and in fact the term deep state was coined by a good friend of mine on capitol hill michael often but on capitol hill you had Permanent Committee staff 6 members who are not subject to democratic elections they wrote the legislation they worked together regardless of party they were beholden to special interests i remember sitting there and having a bill dealing with the middle east and one of the permanent staff or says dont worry about it this is a pact proved it happened all the time they were they were they were subject to special inter
Security state you know really essentially formed with a 947 National Security act which created the cia the n. S. A. And really created a secret underground government that is not really is not really subject to democracy and i saw a lot of this when i was on capitol hill and in fact the term deep state was coined by a good friend of mine on capitol hill michael often but on capitol hill you had Permanent Committee staff 6 members who are not subject to democratic elections they wrote the legislation they worked together regardless of party they were beholden to special interests i remember sitting there and having a bill dealing with the middle east and one of the permanent staff or says dont worry about of this is a pact proved it happened all the time they were they were they were subject to special interest not to democracy these people you know politicians come and go representatives or elected or unelected but these people stay forever and theres a real theres a lot of it on cap