Thank you for taking the time to tune into this event today with the general membership. Im so sorry we cannot all be together in person but in the meantime its nice to connect and stay tuned the Manhattan Institute is putting together virtual content over the next few months so look in your inbox those coming to you shortly so in the interim slow pleased to welcome our guest Douglas Murray this afternoon a journalist and i am sure many of you if not all have read his work in the National Review and associate editor also an author and is with us in person at the Manhattan Institute in early 2018 just after the publication of this book the strange death of europe. And a critic and while an observer of all things come im not sure he knew the subjects of those most recent book would come into play so much during this moment in time but they have. And for that reason it is my pleasure to welcome you to this event this afternoon. Its a great pleasure to be with you and your members. We will
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Shortly. So with the favorite Douglas Murray to our event and as a journalist and with dad associate editor and then with us in person at the Manhattan Institution just after the publication but then to be an observer of all things and then so much moment in time and for that reason and others. Its a great pleasure to be with you in all your members. We will talk for the next 20 minutes and the q a for the audience and to take questions anytime you like and when we turn over to the q a portion of the events take your questions at that time. So we will jump right in. We are continuing to go to the serious moments in history to look at that selfevaluation how governments have handled this moment. And then to handle the moment better than they are and that we are so happy to check in with our friends. I would like to start with a political moment the uk finds itself on january 31st. But the uk left the European Union and started a transition. Which is only about 11 months and is short any
The time to tune into this event today. Im so sorry we cant be together in person, although a very much hope it will be sometime soon. But in the meantime, its nice to connect this way. And stay tuned. The Manhattan Institute is putting together a ton of virtual content theyll be rolling out over the next few months so look at your in boxes for information about those events coming to you shortly. In the interim im so priced to welcome my guest, Douglas Murray to our event this afternoon. Douglas is a journalist and im sure many of you, if not all, have read his work on the pages of the wall street journal, National Review or the spectator 0 where he is an associate editor and his 2019 book the madness of crowds and is with news person at the manhattan instate, i think in early 2018, and that was just after the publication of this book the straight death of europe. Douglas is in Formidable Political critic and while he is an observer of owl things uk and u. S. , im not sure he knew the
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