you may know me as a programming lead for the at their interpreters and maybe recognize me for my time in colonial williamsburg, portraying previously inslee black people. this evening i have the pleasure of serving as your moderator. i am also joined by ali, you hope right, my dear colleague began her career in williamsburg when she was in the third grade. she was a performer in a plea on my own time, and the black music program. she has collaborated with many other departments in the foundation, as well as with other museums over the course of her career. she s worked with a variety of educational visitations as actress, storyteller, writer, researcher, and mentor. please welcome hope right. thank. you she has received many awards, including the statewide atlantic faculty award for rising star category. professor larsen is a scholar of constitutional law and legal institutions with a focus on how information dynamics affect the vote. her work has been featured multiple
see more entertaining. less confrontational. it may may cause people to take a look at what is happening to the culture from a different point of view. host: what are some inconvenient truth is. guest: unless we return to our constitutional form of governments in this generation, or must we see some form of moral and spiritual revival which we saw and the founding of a country and the great awakening that gave birth to liberty in our civilization in the first place, we we might be totally and irrevocably screwed. the course that we are currently on. so this book is humorous, although at times unsettling warning. it s like a road sign danger ahead turn back now. host: without giving away the ending, how does the and the various plot form. guest: the various plot is sort of a contemporary homage to the screwtape letters. lorna farias was cast by hell with destroying the united states over a century ago. now he is so confident that his plan has worked that he connects al
collaboration and survival in nazi germany. professor, where did the writing of art in the third right come from. guest: this book project is the completion of a trilogy and the idea began about 30 years ago when i was a graduate student. i was at harvard university, i went to the school to study french history. my first professor said you are going to specialize in this narrow topic on dissertation soon enough so i want you to write a research paper on a different topic, different country, different era. so i had been sitting in german as an undergraduate and i had a knowledge of german. i was interested in world war ii, my father was born in 1930 and and i grew up with stories about the war, the hunger and such that world war ii also always seemed essential. and i was interested in cultural history. my undergraduate thesis had been on the role of the arts and the black civil rights movement. and i thought something german, world war ii in cultural, and i came up on the to
over the course of his investigation, kessler identifies an underlying factor behind much of our emotional struggles and mental suffering. it s the first new theory on mental illness in 50 years. capture is an intimate and critical exploration of the most enduring human mystery of all, the mind. please help me give a warm welcome to dr. david kessler. [applause] thank you, monica, and thanks to book passage, one of our favorite bookstores, and thank you all for coming out this evening. this journey, the journey that led to capture, began about 25 years ago for me. i m at fda, we began the investigation into the tobacco industry, and i had to learn everything i could about nicotine. and i became very interested why somebody would pick up a cigarette, smoke one and then 780,000ing more over a lifetime. so i had to learn everything i could about nicotine, about addiction. then i became very interested in overeating and trying to understand why that chocolate chip cookie ha
tonight s event is going to be a double-click event. talking about confronting, but also the revolutionary life of paul robison. his birthday was actually a week ago. this guy, horne is a brilliant scholar, brilliant historian and i want you to give a round of applause and welcome him here. [applause] all night, all day. we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. all night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. first of all, let me say that it s an honor and pleasure to be back here to read and not. i was here months ago to introduce two other new books that i ve written and i can iterate to be quite an honor that they ve invited me back again. for those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was the young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore. and he is in a long list of such young but people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. i m thinking of khmer rice in cleveland and eric garner in staten islan