Series. These are made possible by more than 200 sponsors and more than 1000 local aa special thanks to the arizona daily star, university of arizona in tucson medical center. The festival three present expenses. Todays conversation is presented by western notion ab and sponsor of the National Experience pavilion at the tucson festival of books. To keep uptodate with the festival live events and sign up for the festival newsletter visit tucson festival books. Org. Joining me today is bryan walsh kebab ryan is. He signed the awardwinning egocentric blog and has reported for more than 20 countries on science and environmental stories like stars, Global Warming at extension. He is the founder and editor of technology and science 10 his book is end times. Bryan, welcome, thank you for being with us. This book is about existential risks, risks which could illuminate all of humanity or enough of humanity survivors would not be able to rebuild society to what it is now. Hence end times. Lets
Thats a word for the in crowd to show their part of thesmart crowd. Brother robbie and i we dont believe in smartness in this isolation, we believe that wisdom in its deepest level and the smartness is tied to richness with no acumen to donald trump who believes hes the smartest and richest in the room, its a sign of his spiritualvacuum he and emptiness that hes a symptom of a society that has idolized smartness and richness. We wont even talk about obama, obama dropped 172,000 bombs his last year, he got the Nobel Peace Prize ties twice as many drone strikes. He got 506 he won the Nobel Peace Prize so what happens is this practical hide what your substance is when it comes to morality and spirituality. This is what breaks through ideology, not just rightwing leftwing cynicism. This substance is always deeper than any political ideology so what im trying to say in this introduction is we are in catastrophic times. Ideological catastrophe, nuclear catastrophe, war catastrophe of the fil
Host good afternoon and good evening. Welcome, happy tuesday. Thank you all for spending your tuesday with us. Im executive director. Institute here has been here over three years now. Ross has been reported member of the Institute Since our founding, he has been immediate fellow and estep coordinate some of our events. Some are more contentious them into mayay have seen ross was involved in. [laughter]. We are super pleased that ross is joining us today on a date the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know him as one of the most important commentators on American Culture today. He writes the opinion page of the new york times, more than a few books at this point. They seem to all have the title would became something right. You might want to steer clear of that. Anyway, today the format is going to be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book. I actually had the pleasure of reading it and its really an interesting book. In my judgment of the started to go
Good afternoon and welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you for spending your tuesday with us. Im the executive director of the institute for human academy, joseph capizzi. We have been here for three years. Ross has been an important member of the institute, our media fellow helps coordinate these events, the more contentious events i have been involved in. The release of the latest book, ross is one of the most important commentators, the opinion page, has written a few books at this point, they became something. I will engage ross in conversation about the book. It is an interesting book, not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tack to explore what is going on in our culture. Once he and i exhausted each other, we open up to the rest of you. If you have a question please raise your hand and they will approach you, dont be alarmed, make your question and ross will engage you. I implore you to phrase a question. More time ross has to respond b
Good afternoon, good evening, happy fat tuesday, thank you very muchsd for spending your evening with us. Im joe capizzi, the institute has been here for 3 years, ross has been an important member of the institute. Since our founding, hes been the media fellow and helped coordinate some of the events, some of our contentious events you have seen ross was involved with. [laughter] right. Anyway, we are super pleased that ross is joining us today i think on the day of the release of his latest book. All of you know ross as one of the most important commentators on American Culture today. He writes for the New York Times opinion page and written more than a few books at this point. They seem to all or at least a couple of them have the title how we became something, right. [laughter] right. You might want to steer clear of that or explain that at some point. Anyway, today the format is going to be that i will engage ross in a conversation about the book. I actually had the pleasure of rea