Im one of those rare creatures that we profile in this book. The font is conservative professors on liberal arts campuses or intimidated. There is the sense that conservatives are moving into enemy territory. But that isnt what we found. We interviewed over 150 conservatives in the social sciences and humanities. And we found they tell us the universituniversity is a much me tolerant place than we sometimes think and then the rightwing critics of the university tell us it is. What specifically did you hear from these professors . A lot of them felt away from home in the university because large swaths of the university are not as politicized as we think they are and the conservatives gravitate towards the least politicized quarters of the academy. Academy. So, they often become a subfield in other disciplines that are not in American History and claimed to be historians, military historians. Its deeply politicized by the left and therefore they find the economy to be a relatively. If t
Wakeup call for us and we say, whoa, youre right. We want to be the country that we have long been with want to be the country that sets the right International Norms elm want to be the country setting the example that other people should follow that will make the world better. We need to get out there. We need to be saying to other states, yeah, we are going to be in this in between war and peace land forever where threats wont look like uniformed military personnel. So how do we collectively come up with some kind of International Rules and institutions that both recognize that those threats are real but dont throw human rights and the rule of law out the window in order to respond . Let figure this out. Its going to be hard. Let figure it out. I dont know which path well go down. W hope its the latter path. Host so, rosa, you are writing this book at a time when were about to transition administrations. People will be coming to youve, if they vest already, some shy go into governmen
[inaudible conversations] good evening. On behalf of Bradley Graham and on behalf of the entire staff, welcome. Its a pleasure to have you here and a pleasure to be hosting nadia lopez here to discuss their book by bridge to brilliance. If you have any is nomaking device noise making devices take a moment to silence them. Nadia will discuss her book for 30 minutes and well take questions. We encourage questions of just other use this microphone here by the pillars so everyone can hear and for the cspan audience. After the question and answers its a great help if you fold up your chair and just place it against the bookshelf and come up and get your book signed and say hello and the becomes are for sale right where you walk in. Nadia lopez is the founding principle of mt. Haul bridges academy. She committed to creating a an environmenty students, staff, Work Together to create successfully engaged adults. The bridge to brilliance tells both her story and the schools, from nadias only mi
With the bicycle shop in one of the brothers was just fascinated by flight and he studied birds and then translated that to how to build an airplane and they went to to kitty hawk, North Carolina because that is where they thought the wind patterns would be best. It is wonderful story. Also about not just about that family and their relationships, but also about america at that time as we were looking at what had happened to manufacturing in the Industrial Revolution and the innovation that was going on in country at the time. Does it surprise you that the sister to a bed of shortchanged in this . Well thats pretty typical, but it was nice to hear the really Important Role that she play. Im still, im not finished with the book. Im only. Im only about a quarter of the way through. I am looking forward to see more the story he talked about in the conversation. What kind of books are you drawn to. Guest it depends on what i am doing at the time. I always try to have something serious that