Author of everything is illuminated, extremely loud and incredibly close and here i am as well as the nonfiction work eating animals and eating the weather. Jonathans book everything is illuminated was inspired by his journey to ukraine to find a family that hid esthers father. The success of the novel awakened worldwide interest that led to new careers for esther. Armed with a tattered black and white photo and a handdrawn map, esther finally made the trip to ukraine herself found more than she ever hoped she would. We are honored to have both esther and jonathan with us for what is to be there for public dialogue about the book. But before we begin a few quick things to note. Tonights conversation will follow with an audience q a and you can submit your questions into the chat box and we will do our best to get to as many questions as we can but bear with us because we have hundreds of your snide and very many questions to get through. This program is being recorded live and will be
Matt innovation is one of the least understood. Is the reason most people say, live in prosperity and wisdom. In the main ingredient in the secret sauce in these innovations is freedom. Freedom to exchange experiment in imagine invest in fail. Liberals have argued that from the 18th century that freedom means prosperity but i would argue if never found the neck mechanism to drive change in which one causes the other pretty innovation is that drug chain, the missing link. Innovation is a child of freedom and the parent of prosperity. Matt, you think you have written a contrarian book in 2020. There seems to be a growing belief. Living standards have been stagnant for decades, both only helps the elites rated and innovation comes from smart planners implementing industrial policy carefully chosen sectors. Matt this is a contrarian book. It is because i said that innovation is the product of free people exchanging ideas freely. And yes we are experiencing innovation although, i do argue f
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Questlove 1173 steve and now, here he is, jimmy fallon [ cheers and applause jimmy thank you very much, everybody. What a crowd what a great crowd already welcome everybody. Welcome to the tonight show. Thank you so much for being here [ cheers and applause weve got a great show for you guys tonight well you guys, this is huge, earlier today, House Democrats unveiled the official articles of impeachment against president trump, which the media called giant, historic, and a very big deal. Thats right, the impeachment has now reached baby yoda status [ laughter ] as she announced the charges against trump, nancy pelosi called it a solemn day. Yeah, you could barely tell she was flossing behind the podium [ laughter ] the charges against the president are very grave a solemn day. [ cheers and applause at the press conference, adam schiff said for congress, the impeachment is not a matter of facts, it is rather a question of duty. Trump heard that and was like, hey, speaking of question of