Can we think of ourselves as a Democratic Political system compared to other democracies and other advanced wealthy democracies in the United States. To that extent can we think of ourselves as democratic and inclusive women have a low level of womens representation in the office and inner judiciary as well. Even within state legislatures where the numbers have stagnated. Thats a serious questions. Can we position ourselves as the nation, as a leader in terms of being democratic and inclusive and womens representation is so loved despite the participatory management and how does the mass politics level. The other thing i would want people to take away from the book is to think again about my minimum for diversity in terms of age, employment, social class and certainly in terms of great tennis this day. We are diverse as a large group of people. There are some strong shape preference is and participation. So that means it that means again that politically women, especially for u. S. Dem
Separation of powers, the legislative power clause of the constitution giving Congress Power to make laws, the story behind that, why we didnt want a king, and how the system of government was set up, how we stood up and proposed we have a king and the Founding Fathers objected to this idea, soundly rejected it. Too much power in one person or group of people in the drift away from separation of powers is something incompatible not just with the constitution itself but stories behind it. Booktv wants to know what you are reading. Tweet of your answer at booktv or posted on our facebook change, facebook. Com booktv. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone. I direct Foreign Policy institute and im delighted to welcome you to this evenings Foreign Policy institute conversation with Michele Wucker, she produced an excellent book, the gray rhino how to recognize and act on the obvious dangers we ignore. It is wonderful to welcome michelle, i am grateful to her for putting the site
Myself, a young kid in the suburbs, going down south to mississippi every summer. That was my childhood experience. Host who happened to be africanamerican guest exactly. And i never saw that. So then i started writing because i was forced to take a graduate class in writing as part of my requirements. And my first writing teacher said you need to be a writer. Forget the scholar. [laughter] you need to be writing, its for important. And she turned me into a writer. She forced know keep writing over and over again. Because then i moved to new york pause thats what youre told to do, and i got another degree. Fine arts in writing for children at the new school. And really tried to learn the business and realized, oh, theres a lot of [inaudible] and theres a lot of rewriting x theres a lot of, you know, trying to figure out that this game is based on relationships too and how youre perceived. So then i really started writing a lot and launched a packaging company, because i realized that i
Good evening. Welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and a very special event. I think we are all delighted the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america helping out tonight. In particular, loaned us james tanton who i will introduce in a minute. My name is john ewing, i am president of math america. I am a mathematician. [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. Every professional mathematician those mathematicians and their subjects have a certain reputation. A worldfamous mathematician walking in the countryside one day comes upon a huge flock of sheep. Being a worldfamous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep and i could tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd, knowing there are an awful lot of sheep says okay, i will try it. The mathematician looks around and says there are 937
Good evening welcome to the National Museum of mathematics and to a very special event. I think we are all delighted that the museum is putting on this event tonight and even more delighted that they are doing it with the support of the Mathematical Association of america which is helping out tonight and in particular they loaned us james hansen tonight whom i will introduce in a moment. My name is john ewing. Im the president of math for america and i am a mathematician [applause] this was not meant to be an aa meeting by the way. [laughter] every professional mathematician knows that mathematicians and their subject have a certain reputation. A world famous mathematician is walking in the countryside one day when he comes upon a huge flock of sheep and being a world famous mathematician goes up to the shepherd and makes a proposition. 100 against one of your sheep that i can tell can tell you instantly how many sheep are in the flock. The shepherd knowing that there were an awful lot