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Humanities but tonight we turn attention to the sciences albeit with a heavy dose of the humanities on the time. Our guest is doctor michael strevens, born and raised in new zealand he moved to the United States in 1991 earning his phd at rutgers university. Now a professor at new york university, his book, the knowledge machine how irrationality created modern science, is i think critically important at the time when distrust of science is on the rise. The book begins with a simple question but not at all a simple answer. Why does it take 2,000 years after the invention of philosophy and mathematics for humans to start using science to learn the secrets of the universe. The answer as it turns out might also help us better understand why we should have more faith in the Scientific Community. Doctor strevens, thank you very much for joining us. It is great to be here. I w ....
From you in your career. Thank you. Thank you. Booktv continues now on cspan2, television for serious readers. Welcome everybody to a house divided coming to from Abraham Lincoln book shop in chicago. Thank you very much for joining us today. My name is bjorn skaptason, and i will be the administrator for todays program. I just have a little bit of information to cover before we start. First of all the book were discussing today on house divided is tecumseh and the prophet the shawnee brothers who defied a nation and author of the book is Peter Cozzens and you going to meet peter in just a moment when he gets talking with Daniel Weinberg, the host of your show. For someone to tell you something about tecumseh and the prophet. Comes to us from alfred aiken off published and we thank them from publishing the book and help ....
First is governor jeb bush. Forty there governor of the state of florida, first republican in the States History to be reelected. Under his government approach, he unleashed one of the most dynamic economies in the state history creating 1. 3 million new jobs and the States Credit rating. As the chair man headquartered in coral gables florida tonights guest of honor senator connie mack. Since 1982, senator mack launched a career to run for the house of representatives were serving three terms running for one of the seats in the u. S. Senate. Then served two times before choosing reelection. Upon returning to the private sector, became chairman followed by the chair as in tampa florida. With that i will handed over to governor bush to begin the conversation and keep in mind you can submit your questions later in the event. A. Thank you. Its a joy to have this conversati with a ....
Fund welcome to worlds apart be my guest today likes to say that he takes intellectuals to come up with really stupid ideas ideas that down spread across society its like parasites draining the host organism and making him behave in strange and sometimes even south in danger in ways from identity politics to Council Culture to now emerging call that 19 age old how do seemingly noble propositions toxic well to discuss that im now in joined by god saad a professor in marketing of Concordia University and author of the newly released book the parasitic mind how infectious ideas killing commonsense chris aside its a great pleasure for me to talk to thank you very much for making the time you so much about me cheers now i mentioned some examples of what you call idea pathogens thoughts that seem to be well intentioned at least initially until you. Recognize that they pave t ....
However, he and mrs. Baker contracted covid19. Im pleased to report that they now have covid19, the illness, in their rear view mirror. Today, the secretary will be interviewed by talmage boston. Talmage in his own right is a highprofile persona in texas and across the nation. He is a leading trial lawyer. He is known in our profession as what we call a goto lawyer or a super lawyer. Talmage is also a historian, and he has a special focused interest on the qualities of leadership in the public and the private square. Recently, he authored a book in which he sat down with authors. With president ial historians to examine the qualities of leadership that have characterized various United States president s. Im also pleased to announce this is the sixth lecture in the star federalist papers lecture series. The lecture series endowed by john and marie chiles in honor of judge starr is where we can is intended as a vehicle in which we c ....