Before introduce Arundhati Roy, i want to tantillo business. I want to thank the organizers sponsor of this teaching, haymarket books. Haymarket is a publisher of a number of books including the absolutely extraordinary collection of nonfiction essays written over 20 years. My seditious heart and a fourth coming book, azadi freedom. Fascism. Fiction which concludes with the essay, the pandemic is the portal which is the title of an foundation for our conversation today. Haymarket also publishes other critical radical thinkers such as angela davis, naomi klein, and so many others. In this moment in which we are reckoning with crises, with suffering, with deep injustice, its especially important for us to support critical thinkers, freedom fighters, and as part of that task i would encourage you all to buy books from a market, to join the haymarket book club. We are inviting people to make donations to the publisher during this discussion, and there will be information on the screen abou
Sen. Flake good morning. This mic doesnt work very well. I dont think any of them do. Ok, we will get it. Senator, obviously a lot going on right now. You have a new book out, conscience of the conservative. To get started, lets talk a little bit about that book. It echoes a number of the comments that Barry Goldwater made in a similar book 56 years ago. And some of the same themes. If you could talk about the book and why you thought it was important to do that now. Sen. Flake thanks. Barry goldwater ] nterruptions from audience indiscernible [indiscernible] we will have questions from the audience a little bit later. [inaudible] mike were going to take some questions later. We have some questions prepared for the senator. [inaudible] mike we will have opportunity for questions from the audience a little later. You dont support Climate Change mike apologies. Sen. Flake no worries. Mike may not be the first one. Sen. Flake wont be the last today, im sure. Barry goldwater felt that the
Sen. Flake good morning. This mic doesnt work very well. I dont think any of them do. Ok, we will get it. Senator, obviously a lot going on right now. You have a new book out, conscience of the conservative. To get started, lets talk a little bit about that book. It echoes a number of the comments that Barry Goldwater made in a similar book 56 years ago. And some of the same themes. If you could talk about the book and why you thought it was important to do that now. Sen. Flake thanks. Barry goldwater ] nterruptions from audience indiscernible [indiscernible] we will have questions from the audience a little bit later. [inaudible] mike were going to take some questions later. We have some questions prepared for the senator. [inaudible] mike we will have opportunity for questions from the audience a little later. You dont support Climate Change mike apologies. Sen. Flake no worries. Mike may not be the first one. Sen. Flake wont be the last today, im sure. Barry goldwater felt that the
Well. Well. Is this one . Okay. Alright. Got you. Okay. Well well get it before the event is over here today. Well senate doors lot going in washington right now. Constructive politics and return to principal to. Talk a little bit about that book at echos and number of the comments that Barry Goldwater made in a similar book 56 years ago and maybe you can talk about the book and why you thought i was important to do that right now . Barry goldwater. Thanks. I think were going to take some questions later. We have some questions prepared for the senator. We just want to know are you with chlt with. We have opportunity for questions from audience a little later. Later. Barry goldwater in 1960 felt the conservative movement and the Republican Party had been compromised at that time by the new deal and felt there need to be a manifesto or blueprint for conservatives to follow and he wrote the conscious of a conservative at that time. This book that i wrote is very much in homage to senator
We have more people arriving but they will be uh sherdsherd. I want to thank you for joining us today for this lunch of our lunchtime dialogue series americas rural opportunity, i want to thank all the people in the room, as well as hundreds of people livestreaming and those watching live on cspan3. I wonder how many there are. I am jeanette executive director of the Aspen Institute director, we do a lot of work out in the country connecting, motivating and equipping local leaders to build more prosperous regions and advance those living on the economic margins, since 1985 Aspen Institute has focused most of its work in Rural America and through our experience over those years we have learned full well that Rural America is not fly ovover country, rather live in, work in, start a business in, and raise a family in country, recent media headlines have focused on the decline of critical sectors, Community Health crisis and more. It reveals an important but less publicized invasion and co