Thank you everybody for coming. I im a visiting fellow here at coi and f we are here for a gret conversation. It will be a conversation tonight about nationalism, family and fatherhood and the excellent new book i love, my father left me ireland by Michael Brendan dougherty. In some ways this is different from what we do from what i used to. Im a scholar here at aei and fear of the American Enterprise institute forar Public Policy research. We do lots of social science studies and in fact, social science studies get a bad name in my father left me ireland, but in a way that highlights what we have in common. It is often as he puts it a nation today in the modern way of thinking is often come up with, at best problematic. It is best problematic as an administrative unit. That section is tipped off by talking up singing to his newborn baby over and over again in the same songs. The wind that shakes the barley and even the game i tried to sing in the global byway i also sing my children t
And then to teach the history and the history i learned was heroic colonization on one side irish people working as catholic confederates of the united irishman from westminster as the republicans against the monarchy against british imperialism. And then attempt them to rob them of their culture and history. But what did i have to rebel against . I got tired of this view as a teenager of people coming out of captivity was a joke about the accepted view of irish history and set out to destroy so the leaders were fit into a counter narrative. But as a perverse joke the moment in the unelected body of radicals in the irish are sent into the angloirish war the exacting idealism to call it the irish civil war to turn toward what is corrupt and financed it with this counter narrative with that bigotry the Irish Catholics they were unfit for selfrule. Man increasingly that was my view. And with the riverdance in those ashes and 100 other we be ugly disgusting cultural gods in the celtic tige
Even collective, as mementos, spent ammunition from their attacks on the people of antioch. Collectively, these four indictments describe a group of officers who acted as though they were above the law. Dion an hour ago, the fbi detailed allegations against 10 people who are, or were with two east bay delete placed partners. Police departments. Starting investigations into an alleged criminal network with people involved in the antioch and Pittsburgh Police department. We have reactions from city officials and other members. Here are the charges laid out by the fbi against the officers. That preference press conference just wrapped up. Theres of the unsealed indictment charges against those officers with the Antioch Police department and the Pittsburgh Police department. Israel met israel ramsey made the point that nobody is above the law. Look at this chart rightly behind me. You see all of the officers that are listed and we are talking about nine different sworn officers in one comm
Hes also a professor of the practice in International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins university. A contributing editor at the atlantic, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations, the founder of persuade and the publisher, a publisher of the zeit. Hes the host of a podcast called the good fight and the author of books, including stranger in my own country jewish family in modern germany the age of responsibility, choice and the welfare state, the people versus democracy and the great experiment. Today, he will be talking about a book called the identity trap, which you will hear a lot about. He will be today in conversation with jane coaston, who is a New York Times contributor, also the former host of the podcast. The argument and his work featured in many venues, including abc news and the national review. I will ask you to welcome them here. Stage with us right now. Thank. The last thing ill say before i leave the floor to jane and yashar is that if you want more information
Practice in International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins university. A contributing editor at the atlantic, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations, the founder of persuade and the publisher, a publisher of the zeit. Hes the host of a podcast called the good fight and the author of books, including stranger in my own country jewish family in modern germany the age of responsibility, choice and the welfare state, the people versus democracy and the great experiment. Today, he will be talking about a book called the identity trap, which you will hear a lot about. He will be today in conversation with jane coaston, who is a New York Times contributor, also the former host of the podcast. The argument and his work featured in many venues, including abc news and the national review. I will ask you to welcome them here. Stage with us right now. Thank. The last thing ill say before i leave the floor to jane and yashar is that if you want more information about the Moynihan Center an