Welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is something to remind us what were here for and were enormously grateful to have a friendship that extends beyond any of us individually. To begin, i have to thank our teams at. T. A. At the new school for bringing us to this evening. Look out for stuart pennebake
Hello, im john reed faculty here in the Creative Writing Program and the director of the creative Creative Writing Program at the new school. The one time i was on this stage, i was a board member of the nbcc chairing a category. Its my great honor tonight to welcome the nbcc and to welcome to this Years National book. Critics circles awards. The new school and the nbcc have a long standing relationship going back to the very earliest years of the nbcc. Our faculty have been Board Members and awards recipients and our communities have worked together in classrooms and and events since before the memory of anyone here, the annual awards have been hosted at the new school for over 20 years. This few years have been very challenging for all of us with covid, we are finally back on campus for an in real life nbcc simone and of course at the new school we are emerging from last fall when all of us were tested and our ideals and faith in one another and the future working with the nbcc is so
Monday night at 8 00 p. M. Et on cspan2. This week on lectures in history, Carlton Basmajian talks about the northwest ordinance which was an act of congress to organize and governed the newly acquired territory from the ohio river to the mississippi. He describes the 18th Century National planning effort which divided the territory into a grid pattern, and proposed a Transportation Network of roads and canals. He argues this process of development was also applied to the Louisiana Purchase. This class is 50 minutes. He makes a specific argument about how the United States has been intensively planned. This is the theme we have been building. He makes a argument about the intensity of the planning, particularly at the national scale. That is something i will talk about today, specifically, to bring us along this argument. As a rehash of what we talked about, settlement cities and migration cities, referencing Lewis Mumford from last week, we are saying there is a group of settlement ci
He makes a specific argument about how the United States has been intensively planned. This is the theme we have been building. He makes a argument about the intensity of the planning, particularly at the national scale. That is something i will talk about today, specifically, to bring us along this argument. As a rehash of what we talked settlement cities and migration cities, referencing Lewis Mumford from last week, we are saying there is a group of settlement cities along the eastern seaboard a philadelphia, other cities like new york and boston. Then, there are migration cities. We talked about pittsburgh and st. Louis. Were two groups of cities some of the earliest planned communities, european communities in the u. S. , and how important they were to the process of planning. Also, how they reflected each other. Grid and howut the it influenced cities, subsequently. Today, we will talk about land allocation. We are going to talk about canals and roads. We are going to talk about
Establishment republicans. Tea Party Republicans were, however, favorable towards mitt romney, a 77. Paul ryan, a 79. Ann romney, 77. Even george w. Bush, 72. More favorable even than the Establishment Republicans. So this is consistent with the last paper that said, you know, as we got when they really had a rally behind their candidate, the feeling thermometer questions indicate that perhaps they did that. So whether those divisions are going to persist is when we looked add the media question. So im going to turn that over to jay morris. Well, its clear that theres a division on several issue positions and on how Tea Party Versus Establishment Republicans view, um, certain candidates, certain issues. Do they get their news from different sources, we already know through the research on partisan media that democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives, get their news from very different sources in todays fragmented media environment. When you look here just at Tea Party Versus Esta