Before introduce Arundhati Roy, i want to tantillo business. I want to thank the organizers sponsor of this teaching, haymarket books. Haymarket is a publisher of a number of books including the absolutely extraordinary collection of nonfiction essays written over 20 years. My seditious heart and a fourth coming book, azadi freedom. Fascism. Fiction which concludes with the essay, the pandemic is the portal which is the title of an foundation for our conversation today. Haymarket also publishes other critical radical thinkers such as angela davis, naomi klein, and so many others. In this moment in which we are reckoning with crises, with suffering, with deep injustice, its especially important for us to support critical thinkers, freedom fighters, and as part of that task i would encourage you all to buy books from a market, to join the haymarket book club. We are inviting people to make donations to the publisher during this discussion, and there will be information on the screen abou
A 20 year period. And the forthcoming book about fascism which concludes with the essay the pandemic is the portal which is the conversation today and haymarket publishes critical radical thinkers such as angela davis and so many others. In this moment in this crisis with deep injustice it is especially important to support Freedom Fighters and part of that task i encourage you to buy books from haymarket book club and inviting people to make donations and there will be information on how you can do so. And to be recorded on haymarket books Youtube Channel you are invited to subscribe and on that channel you can see a number of different events that have taken place and there will be a special program on may day 5 00 oclock p. M. Discussion between a workingclass vision for the future and at 7 00 p. M. May 1st to host a special may day Poetry Reading online. So now little more housekeeping. Was so many people joining the call today we may need your forbearance if we have technical issu
Elena kagan speaks about the american legal system, her life and career and the polarization of the confirmation process for Supreme Court justices. From George Mason University earlier this month this portion is just over an hour. Students guests, president helton, Justice Kagan, friends and family of Roger Wilkins. It is my pleasure to welcome you all to the Second Annual Roger Wilkins lecture. Which this year takes the form of a conversation of Supreme Court justice elina kagan. My name is matt shearer im associate professor of policy and government in this our school and director of the undergraduate program and philosophy and politics and economics the eb for short at george mason. The program is honored to be theinstitutional sponsor and host of the Roger Wilkins lecture. We are grateful for the trust and support place in us by the university andby the friends and family of Roger Wilkins. Whats the connection between our pbe program and these lectures . Im glad you asked. I spent
Overcome that divide. Ju all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Newshour has been provided by b nsf railway. Consumer cellular. Supporting social entrepreneurs and their solutions to the worlds most pressing problems. Small foundation. Org. The lemelson foundation. Committed to improving lives through invention and the u. S. And developing countries. On the web at limbo and. Org. Supported by the john d. And caerine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to creating a more peaceful world. And with the ongoing support of these institutions. This program was made possible by the corporation for public onoadcasting, and by contribu to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Judy no there iest for the wildfire weary in Southern California. A fire that exploded in life before dawn threatened thousands of homes today, and a president ial landmark. Stephanie begins our coverage. Reporter a new day, a new fire outside los angeles. Thisime in simi valley where winds of 70 miles an h
Predicted every last recession weighs in. Now to Edward Lawrence at the white house, on the trade front where things stand. What is going on there . Reporter looks like better than expected numbers coming out of china helping markets today. China says their exports have increased 3. 3 from june to july. Surprise with some with escalating trade tensions. Export numbers deficit from the United States has shrunk 2 billion from june to july. It is still a huge number, look at yeartodate. It is 168. 5 billion yeartodate. Also thursday, Chinas Central Bank made moves signaling future devaluing currency even though today theyre stablizing. Should the currency weaken too much that should cause Asian Countries to cut their Interest Rates even more. White house Economic Advisor Peter Navarro down playing that this morning. Listen. The yuan has gone down 12 . We put on tariffs at 10 . The yuan goes down 12 . Theyre basically trying to offset the effect of the tariffs but it does have ripple effec