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hiroshima. if they do not accept our rain ofhey may accept a fire from the air, the like of which has never been seen on the earth. of: on the anniversary nagasaki, are we heading towards a nuclear war? will speak with a long time investigative journalist and activist. will, trumps provocation of north korea should qualify for impeachment. havetil now, his crimes been in, racism, stupidity. with this, he is actually threatening real u.s. security. amy: all that and more, coming up. now, ando democracy democracynow.org, the war and peace report. tension between the u.s. and north korea escalated sharply tuesday after president trump suggested he was prepared to start a nuclear war threatening to unleash fire and fury against north korea. president trump: north korea does not make any more threats to the united states. they will be met with fire and fury. like the world has never seen. threatening,ery beyond a normal state. and as i said, they will be met with fir ....
white english won t andcan t sit still, like literally . language, constantly. did you know the word clue derives from crew, the middle english word? in this area a ball of bread like these is through the labyrinth. it does not make sense. other words have changed this way, taking on new meaning or new shades of meaning. in the age of means and texting, lol, nsw, dfw etc., language continues to shift but as john mcwhorter explains, that shouldn t scare us. tonight he explains how the english language is evolving before our eyes and argues why we should embrace this change, not fight it. john mcwhorter is associate professor of english and comparative literature at columbia university. he s the author of more than 15 books including the language book and the power of table. he s currently writing his 20th book. please give a warm welcome to john mcwhorter. [applause] thanks everybody. i want to talk to you not too long about a new way of hearing language and i think it ....
have you always been a reader? yes, i have always been a reader. science fiction has always been ply favorite followed by the political thriller genre. does it help you in your work here? it it helps me unwind. there is a lot of reading to be done here but it is all bills and reports and non-fiction. one is the redistribution by the university of chicago professor who dives into the incentives that show americans not to work too hard. the other is the scandal of money by george guilder. he is from wealth and poverty. it deals with the federal reserve is right now making the wealthier people better off but the policies over the last six years in particular have kind of hurt the average guy. .. this week on q&a, robert kaplan. mr. kaplan discusses his book, in europe s shadow: two cold wars and a 30-year journey through romania and beyond. c-span: you start in the proto logging by talking about books prologue by talking about books. why? guest: becaus ....
books about them to explain their past. those books be due to other books. often very obscure ones. we travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. the relationship between travel and good books is inextricable brian:. why a book about romania? robert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? robert: my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. i stayed in youth hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. weaverey taught me reading that all these countries were the same. what i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. really start not my session with romania. that happened later. it happened in 1981. in the fall. i was getting out of the israeli defense forces. i was in jerusalem. , a seemingl ....
those books be due to other books. often very obscure ones. we travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. the relationship between travel and good books is inextricable. brian: why a book about romania? robert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? robert: my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. i stayed in youth hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. that journey taught me that all these countries were the same. what i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. that trip did not really start my session with romania. that happened later. it happened in 1981. in the fall. i was getting out of the israeli defense forces. i was in jerusalem. i found a book, a seemingly obscure book by ....