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good evening, everybody. good evening. i m eric the executive director of the. [inaudible] and behalf of the society i am pleased to represent tonight in conversation our chairman robert should be giving this introduction and i know this would have meant a great deal to him. unfortunately, he s a bit under the weather and he sent me instead. it s a great honor to make the introduction. it s been said that there s the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. the book 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight making it by our guest of honor norman podhoretz is an important story in any way you look at it. good promotion there. [laughter] tonight will tell the story behind the story. in his book, norman says all writers become famous go through ups and downs. these fluctuations reveal less about the writers actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the time. here s how he put it in his own words 50 years ago: ever ....
evening especially would have meant a great deal to him. unfortunately, he s a bit under the weather, is so he sent me in his stead. i m humbled and honored to make the introduction. it s been said that there s the story and then the real story and then the story of how the story came to be told. the book whose 50th anniversary we celebrate tonight, making it, is an important story any way you look at it. [laughter] and tonight we re going to tell the story behind the story. in his book, norman says that all writers who become famous go through ups and downs. these fluctuations, he says, reveal less about the writer s actual work than they do about the changing fashions of the times. here s how he put it in his own words 50 years ago. every morning a stock market report comes out on reputations in new york. it is invisible, but those who have eyes to see can read it. did so and so have dinner at jackie kennedy s apartment last night? up five points. was so and so not ....
the events of world war ii cast a shadow over the rest of the century and perhaps over the rest of history. inevitably, they changed the course of western art. in europe, the unbelievable scale of the nazi genocide against the jews left europeans with the task not only of restoring their broken cities, but of repairing their shattered culture. in america, the explosion of the first atom bomb in the deserts of the southwest meant that medieval man s fears might come true, that the world might be destroyed in a single terrifying apocalypse. it was against this background that the postwar artists created their art. while europeans couldn t forget their past, in america, artists turned their backs on what they saw as the public and political dimension of art. the abstract expressionists, centered in new york, escaped to an interior world, where the subject of landscape and the struggle with brushwork and pigment became the goal of painting. for the first time, europe looke ....
despite opposition from wal-mart. we will go to indianapolis and speak with indiana senate democratic leader tim lanane. senator lanane: we need to take clear, actionable steps to repair the image of our state. we cannot drive out a single job or an individual because there is no, my s it comes to dissemination. so, let s start with a full repeal of rfra, period. repeal repeal, repeal. amy: then the nation magazine, the country s oldest weekly news magazine turns 150 years old. we will speak the nation s editor and publisher katrina everybody wrote for the nation. pat buchanan. langston hughes. kurt vonnegut. gore vidal. amy: we will speak the nation s editor and publisher katrina vanden heuvel. we will speak about the hundred 50 year history, to politics today, from elizabeth warren, to ted cruz, to arming ukraine. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. former military ruler muhammadu bu ....
amy: apple, nascar, the ncaa as the corporate outcry grows against as the backlash grows against indiana for passing an anti-lgbt, religious freedom restoration law, lawmakers in arkansas pass a similar bill despite opposition from wal-mart. we will go to indianapolis and speak with indiana senate democratic leader tim lanane. senator lanane: we need to take clear, actionable steps to repair the image of our state. we cannot drive out a single job or an individual because there is no, my s it comes to dissemination. so, let s start with a full repeal of rfra, period. repeal repeal, repeal. amy: then the nation magazine, the country s oldest weekly news magazine turns 150 years old. we will speak the nation s editor and publisher katrina everybody wrote for the nation. pat buchanan. langston hughes. kurt vonnegut. gore vidal. amy: we will speak the nation s editor and publisher katrina vanden heuvel. we will speak about the hundred 50 year history, to politics ....