Same. Thank you all. Its been an honor. Our panel marty barrons book is the collision of trump, bezos and, the Washington Post. Few newspaper editors serve their stint in the public eye as much as marty did first at the boston globe during the expos of the priestly abuse in 2002 and then later as editor of the Washington Post starting in 2013 and through the combative Trump Administration. Marty collect pulitzer prizes, 18 of them earned under his watch at three different newspapers. Marty, can you tell us a little bit your book . Sure. This is this working . Yeah. Great apologies to people who were at the previous session. Ill be repeating myself a bit. Look, i never i didnt actually expect get to the Washington Post. I was total surprise to me. I had been working at the boston globe, got a call out of the blue and then what transpired . Sorry to the post and i when i got to the post it things change pretty quickly once i got there so six months, about six months after i arrived it wa
Same. Thank you all. Its been an honor. Our panel marty barrons book is the collision of trump, bezos and, the Washington Post. Few newspaper editors serve their stint in the public eye as much as marty did first at the boston globe during the expos of the priestly abuse in 2002 and then later as editor of the Washington Post starting in 2013 and through the combative Trump Administration. Marty collect pulitzer prizes, 18 of them earned under his watch at three different newspapers. Marty, can you tell us a little bit your book . Sure. This is this working . Yeah. Great apologies to people who were at the previous session. Ill be repeating myself a bit. Look, i never i didnt actually expect get to the Washington Post. I was total surprise to me. I had been working at the boston globe, got a call out of the blue and then what transpired . Sorry to the post and i when i got to the post it things change pretty quickly once i got there so six months, about six months after i arrived it wa
Other stops on our tour at www. Cspan. Org citiestour. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. Next come historians discuss u. S. Foreignpolicy on human rights during the latter half of the cold war. Chileters focus on iran, and cuba. They also examined the american stance on womens rights, torture and oppression in the developing world from the 1960s on. This session was hosted by the American Historical Association at their annual meeting. Its about an hour and a half. Thank you for coming to this session on human rights in the late cold war era. My name is amanda moniz. On the curator of philanthropy at the Smithsonian National museum of American History. Until recently, i was associate director of the National History center of the American Historical Association, which sponsored this afternoons panel. Amanda perry is the new assistant director. We are grateful to sarah snyder for organizing this panel. Panelistsroduce our all together and then we will hear their papers, wh
The New York Times debate. Also, Malcolm Gladwell offers his take on what Hillary Clinton has to do with an obscure painter and his plans to remake the Olympic Games. But first here is my take. I was asked to make sense about one more things that donald trump said demonstratively false. I replied that there was a pattern here and a term for a person who did this kind of thing. A bullshit artist. I wasnt using that casually. Trump has many things. Some of them dark and dangerous. But at his core, he is a b. S. Artist. Harry frankfurt, a moral philosopher, wrote a brilliant essay in 1996 called on bullshit. Frankfurt distinguishes crucially between lies and b. S. Telling a lie is an act with a sharp focus. It is designed to insert a particular falsehood at a specific point. In order to invent a lie at all, the teller of a lie must think he knows what is true. But someone in engaging in b. S. , frankfurt explains, is neither on the side of the true nor on the side of the false. His eye is