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To think about what i think its core dialectic was. The tension between democracy and efficiency. These were both ideals that people from a Broad Spectrum of political backgrounds in the progressive era believed were important. And they believed they were not incompatible, but you can see some ways in which they were fundamentally at some tension. So again, throughout class today be thinking about democracy versus efficiency. So the central question for historians of the early 20th century what is progressivism . A famous article that came out in 1982 was entitled in search of progressism, which i think aptly summed up the way that the historians were rummaging around, knowing that the progressive era existed but quibbling about what counted as progressive his. Who counted, when it started. Some people limit only to the Political Party that it was named for. Others define it ....
What would your for what was your familys size makeup . Harlan two brothers and one sister. Where did you fit in . Harlan i was number three. Before we started recording we were talking about your family and growing up during the depression years, could you tell me a little bit about what life was like for you coming up during that time . Was an my father irishamerican. He emigrated from ireland to the United States to find a better place to live. Hered his family came over andi looked at their papers found up they had 600 to the whole family when they emigrated to the United States. Spent most of his life. N the cloth industry he was either a loan fixer or a or a weaverom fixer in these mills. Say your father was education minded when it came to the children . Harlan yes. I can recall at a very early age, when my father was going to talk about what would happen in the future. ....
A new, widely Controversial National security law for hong which has been protested by folks in hong kong. Investors concerned these actions could destabilize the global economy. I want to bring in markets reporter taylor riggs, who has been following all of this. Break down what happened for us. Taylor it looked like we were green and in the clear until the last hour of trading, and then you sort of mentioned other headlines that made markets very nervous. Trump said he would have a press Conference Friday to talk about china. Then theres a lot of concern about the National Security law china signed that in effect would remove a lot of the economy from hong kong. In the last hour of trading, everything fell apart, but the key theme remains. Some of the Big ....