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And has written a great deal for the magazine the american prospect. Mostly what she has been doing is writing what i think is quite a Remarkable Book patriotic , betrayal. It is what we will be talking about this evening. It is a subject of enormous importance, even though it is about things that happened 50 or 60 years ago, i think you will see that there is an echo in that book for things going on today. I would like to begin at the point in your life when you got involved with this story. You were a student at the university of colorado, in the early 1960s. In 1964, you attended a conference of the National Student association. What was that . What was the conference like . Karen nsa was a Membership Organization of 300 universities and colleges in the Un ....
The night that i win the emmy. Being on the Supreme Court was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. Rick hertzberg, welcome. Great to be here. Nice to see you again, and for no particular reason except just to talk politics, which i love to do. The oh, im ready for that. And especially with you. So lets start with the president. Lets start high up on the chain here. You wrote a book after the 2008 campaign. It was a collection of essays, in fact, published a book called obamanos the birth of a new political era. Has it turned out in the intervening years as you expected it would given your thoughts about him back then . Well not really, no. But of course its traditional among political pundits to say, well theres nothing really surprising about anythi ....
Them are just going to say, i dont believe that. You know, maria, theres a certain paradox about this. There are about, to the best of our calculation, about 27 Million People in the world in slavery. And youre right, thats double the number that were taken out of africa in the entire 350 years of the transatlantic slave trade. But the paradox is that 27 million in todays global population is the tiniest, the smallest fraction, of the global population to ever be in slavery. So its large raw number, but its actually a very tiny fraction of the global population. Hinojosa but does it still mean that there are more now . Its pretty easy to say, because were at 27 million, that we have possibly more now than weve ever had in history. Hinojosa and you say that slaves now are cheaper . Thats all about this global population growth. Because as the population went from two billion up to almost seven billion today, just in the last 50 yea ....
Its great to have you here. Thank you. Hinojosa you decided to write this book, but you didnt have to write this book. No. Hinojosa you could have just put this chapter away. What was it that made you say, you know what . I have to tell my story about being the first black woman prisoner of war . Well, there was so much out there, floating around, misconceptions about the experience and what happened to me. I just really wanted to set the record straight from my point of view. Since the book has come out, ive come to the realization that no matter what i say, theres going to be people who believe what they want to believe. But i know that i have put the truth out there. Hinojosa you are basically raised in an army family. Youre an immigrant from panama. Yes. Hinojosa your dad joins the army, and he goes and he serves in the first gulf war. Yes, he did. Hinojosa and at that point youre a kid, and i remember in your book you wrote that what it was like to have your father away was just h ....
The night that i win the emmy. Being on the Supreme Court was an improbable dream. Its hard work and its controversial. Without information, there is no freedom. And its journalists who provide that information. Window rolls down and this guy says, hey, he goes to 11 00. [laughter]. Rick hertzberg, welcome. Great to be here. Nice to see you again, and for no particular reason except just to talk politics, which i love to do. The oh, im ready for that. And especially with you. So lets start with the president. Lets start high up on the chain here. You wrote a book after the 2008 campaign. It was a collection of essays, in fact, published a book called obamanos the birth of a new political era. Has it turned out in the intervening years as you expected it would given your thoughts about him back then . Well not really, no. But of course its traditional among political pundits to say, well theres nothing really surprising about anythi ....