Good morning. You can applaud. [applause] i know you are applauding because you are here at the 2017 Miami Book Fair here in miami, florida. What a Beautiful Day it is here in miami this morning. That is why we live here and why it is such a wonderful destination. Welcome again to Miami Book Fair. We have a truly wonderful treat in store for you today. I hope many of you have had the opportunity all week to enjoy the outstanding presentations that have been taking place this year and hope you will continue through tomorrow evening when the 7 days closes. This fair just would not take place each and every year without the cooperation, collaboration, passion and volunteerism of many, many people in the community. Namely the students, faculty, staff of miamidade college. [applause] and really hundreds of high School Students, middle School Students and others in the community. We truly thank everyone for coming together and unifying behind this Miami Book Fair. I also want to thank the ci
Im stephen sackur. This hardtalk programme, like so many others in the churn of 24 7 news tends to focus on people and places facing problems and challenges. More often than not we hold the powerful to account for things that went wrong, not right. Are we missing the Bigger Picture about the world we live in . My about the world we live in . My guest psychologist and writer Steven Pinker thinks so. His new book, enlightenment now, isa his new book, enlightenment now, is a paean to Human Progress driven by reason and science. How convincing are his reasons to be cheerful . Theme music plays. Steven pinker welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. This idea of the enlightenment is very dear to your heart. Can you briefly, if you will, catch for me what you mean by enlightenment enlightenment the. The first of the intellectual movement of the second half of the 18th century that put a premium of reason as opposed to authority, tradition, doctors, on science, on the attempt to explain the world by t
Im stephen sackur. This programme, like so many others in the churn of 24 7 news, tends to focus on people and places facing problems and challenges. More often than not we hold the powerful to account for things that went wrong, not right. Are we missing the Bigger Picture about the world we live in . My guest today, the psychologist and writer, steven pinker, certainly thinks so. His new book, enlightenment now, is a paean to Human Progress driven just how convincing are his reasons to be cheerful . Steven pinker welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. This idea of the enlightenment is very dear to your heart. Can you briefly, if you will, just capture for me what you mean by the enlightenment. It refers to the intellectual movement in the second half of the 18th century that put a premium on reason as opposed to authority, tradition, dogma, charisma, on science, on the attempt to explain the world by testing hypotheses and on humanism, on the wellbeing of individual humans as the ultimate g
Decade. However, what it doesnt say is that title is that overall, immigration went up and so we are actually acquiring more people but a lot of them are from outside the eu because restrictions are not going to change necessarily to them, are they . Lets look at the Financial Timesjust quickly. Here they . Lets look at the Financial Times just quickly. Here on the top, a photograph of one of the Many University lecturers who decided to ta ke University Lecturers who decided to take strike action today. It is over changes to their pensions, which they say are going to mean that some people are worse off by tens of thousands of the year. Tens of thousands of the year. Tens of thousands of the year. Tens of thousands of pounds per year. Of course the children still want to make sure they are still getting taught, they are spending £9,000 each a year on tuition fees. The daily mirror is in campaigning mode. Your country needs you. A number of children who have had, or are in need of tran
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