then will jump right in. scott here no interest in giving a speech before mr. asking questions. what you start asking questions. there we go. just in time for thanksgiving. a book to help you deal with people with whom you disagree. everyone, get out and get your copy. gavel, intro, questions. please send yours up. they don t have to be related to just the book. here weit go. my name is melissa caen. welcome to the commonwealth club hosting of the scott adams. in his new book loserthink scott dison did epidemic of mental shortcuts that he believes is making as prone to believing in bad ideas. racist,g that gun control is equal to full compensation and most importantly avoiding self reflection join personal relationships and period were very excited to have him here with us tonight to discuss his new book. loser thing. and whatever else you guys would like to ask him. he has told me that that thing is loft off-limits for so they go. please welcome scott adams. [applause] l
librarian singing timbuktu which told a riveting story of how timbuktu in northern probably managed with very brave helpers smuggled more than 350,000 historical manuscripts out from under militant to safety about 600 miles away. the book was a bestseller established as someone for truly, a great story. and he s done it again with his new book which recounts another to tail of adventure. this one about wildlife. josh is a journalist by trade and hannah, a pretty adventurous globetrotting run himself, working for newsweek over nearly two decades. he joins this week in the late 1980s in the business and cleanup writer, is off to cover the rest of the world on postings that based him in berlin, jerusalem and back here in the u.s. in los angeles. for the past decade and a half, he s continue to report and travel widely, a range of publications. four years ago, he won the national magazine award and reported for peace title, nurses are dead and i don t know if i m already infected
carville, jeff flake, karl rove and bret stephens with your moderator bob shrum. [applause] to my right is james carville, he led the clinton campaign and many campaigns before that. next is senator jeff flake. [applause] who i now feel on becoming best friends with, the author of the conservative arrear senate republican to disagree with trump. third is karl rove, the strategist for the 2000 - 2004 bush campaign and a powerful voice in the public arena in the gop and finally bret stephens, the new york times columnist who recently wrote an op-ed entitled can anyone save the gop. now, james has asked me if he can start this off by presenting a gift to carl go ahead. carl writes the urine column making predictions for 2020 and his first prediction was james carville would be happy to win the national temperature. so you are one-for-one on the year and i bought you a gift, do you know who that is. that is general sherman who is the first president of l.a. shoe and assist ki
bloodiest ground in america. hopefully we will have the opportunity to commemorate and recognized some of this stories. i am proud to be presenting for you a fabulous lineup of speakers over the next day and a half. an excellent tour on sunday morning, and to consider what a sunday and how that is our legacy. kicking things off for our program is our keynote speaker, dana shoaf. he comes to us from civil war times magazine. for generations of people that magazine has served as the single most influential and accessible point in the civil war history. there for 16 years. he has been editor for seven. he has also left some commentary copies for us upstairs. when i asked him about coming down here to speak as part of our symposium, i told him the team and i said what is something that is interesting to you these days? what gives you the chance to explore? as a magazine editor heat oversees the stories of so many other people that perhaps he had not had the time to explore th
colleagues with emerging civil war, welcome to spotsylvania. it s a great location to be because you can t turn around without tripping over civil war history. it s a pleasure to welcome you to spotsylvania county, what is literally the bloodiest ground in america. few days over the next we will have the opportunity to commemorate and recognize some of those stories and some of the legacies. the theme this year is civil war legacy. i m proud to be presenting for you a fabulous lineup of speakers over the next day and a half, and excellent to her on sundaymorning tour on morning. kicking things off for us is our keynote speaker, dana shoaf from civil war magazine. for generations of people it has served as the single most influential and accessible points in civil war history. been there for 16 years, he has been editor for 7, and he has left some complementary copies for us upstairs. thanks to dana for bringing some of his work to us. i want to ask about coming down here