Would greatly appreciate that. Okay thank you all, thank you alsouch. Hope you will stay in touch with each other. Okay byebye. And we wrap up our coverage of the recent brooklyn book festival and author discussion on multiethnic representation and publishing. Hi, i am suzanne im the ceo of penn america delighted to welcome you beyond prepositional politics and publishing. Assist in moderating this important discussion. We believe that the historic exclusion of certain people invoices from publishing is very much a Free Expression issue. Something that we can and must tackle as an organization with a mission to defend free speech. We work to up lift lesser heard voices those of the incarcerated, incarcerated, unseen in our program and we also bring together wide ring of stakeholders authors, publishers, editors need executives to discuss boundaries and how to break them down. So we have long been engaged in the debate concerning diversity and equity and publishing. And now, as the Unit
Welcome to stand together, uniting discrimination town hall by the Human Rights Commission. And im the host and i produce programs at the commonwealth click of california and kcew, San Francisco bay area. This is the first of many town hall decisions that discussions that we will do to discuss the discrimination. What we need to to do to come together as communities so well try to get to all of the major issues today but if we dont, dont worry, this is one of the many town hall discussions that well do. Before we begin our program, here are a couple of special leaders in the city who have remarkeds. And id like to introduce you to the executive director of the San Francisco Human Rights Commission. Director davis . Thank you so much, michelle, and i look forward to the conversation with our panelists. We are very grateful for this opportunity to have a conversation together. We will continue to have discussions. We are saddened by the increase in case incidents of hate crimes, but we a
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Depth. The next three hours shall see many of the authors who appeared on the program. We were also joined by an author, cornell west and the heads of Simon Schuster and rectory publishing. There is something there is still something that brings tears to my eyes. I hope it wont do it now. On the seventh of december, or the eighth of december 1941, i went to what you would call a problem, an event, you know. I was the equivalent of a freshman at the university. I came home atoc 2 00 oclock at night, the light was on. Excuse me. [inaudible] americas and the war. Yes. And why did that touch you so much . To act because we knew it was going to lose it. Would that mean for you and hungry . I did not cry then. How old were you . Eighteen . I was 18 yes. With that interview with the late author john lucas, indepth was born 20 years ago. 2000 leading nonfiction fiction authors of our time have appeared on indepth. Freeman, colton walker, bob woodward, george well, just to name a few. So over t
Ill hop of here and let everybody get started. Thank you so. All right. Well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day youre watching this. Ive got a brief power point im going to use to get into this book. Its based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. That was my job as a collaborator. I have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as ill mention. So my job was to keep my co lab to keep it for a lay audience. Before i get into the book i discovered a very interesting study done by the democratic fund, their voter study group, that is actually an examination of attitudes in america of authoritarianism, and i will define authoritarianism for us. We could spend i could do a whole book on that subject alone. But i think most people have a pretty good idea what it is. Larry diamond at stanford shared this information with me and its fascinating. Americans are overwhelmingly love their quote democracy, but that overwhelmin