S bestselling books include a a a collaboration with abram hendry. Please welcome Jason Reynolds. Guest thank you, thank you, thank you its an honor to welcome everyone to the 71st National Book awards. Im Jason Reynolds and im coming to you live from washington dc. This is our night, i know there is so much going on in the world but this is still our night and its a big deal. Its so much of a big deal but i woke up this morning anxious, nervous as usual, so i called my mother because i always call my mother when im anxious. At 7 00 a. M. , she answers the phone, she said uh oh im calling to ask if you have advice for your child. She says what she always says when i make this call, let me ask you, what did i make you say every single night before you got in the bed when you were little boy . I said i dont want to do this abwhat did i make you say every single night before you got in the bed when you were a little boy . I said, you made me say, i can do anything. She said, exactly you c
Created by americas Cable Television company as a public service, and brought to you by your television provider. Dr. Chrisome next welcome beyrer. , we talk about the road ahead with vaccine. Coming this morning on the news of another successful application of moderna to the fda on approval of their vaccine. Beyrer, what are your thoughts at this stage where we have two vaccines in the pipelines . In the pipelines . Guest this is extraordinary. Both the Pfizer Vaccine candidate and the motor in a and the Moderna Vaccine candidate are based on rna technology. These trials have gone very well. They have been very large. The data from both are remarkably similar around over 90 efficacy in protecting people from serious complications and serious diseases with covid. These are not vaccines that prevent primary infection. What they do is reduce the likelihood if you do have an exposure and you do have covid. With the Moderna Vaccine, there were no serious cases in people who were immunized,
Million. You are displaced person from the world war cold war. I am Joel Rosenthal Carnegie Council for ethics in international affairs. The of us in the carnegie family of institutions have a special affection for david. His biography of and your carnegie published in 2006 was a lifechanging event for us. Through davids work we have come to know Andrew Carnegie and all of his humanity and complexity. And there is one lesson from the book that really stayed with me. And his animated my work at the Carnegie Council. And that is as he put it, carnegies cockeyed optimism is not entirely misplaced. For all of the medicine we see in the world, progress based on reason and cando spirit is indeed possible. That idea keeps me going. In this occasion gives me the opportunity to say thank you, david. In addition to the carnegie biography, davids previous book includes prizewinning biographies of Joseph P Kennedy and William Randolph hearst. Today we turn to davids latest book, portrait of not on
Institute. And finly we have Jacquelyn Schneider who is a fellow at the stanford university. Im going to turn it over to jon lindsay to kick it off. Great thank you very much for that introduction. And thank you to the Cato Institute for hosting this. Im really actually gratefu for events there were hosted back in the befor day by cato and i w meet with a lot of colleagues and talk about the ideas that made their way into this book. Im also really gratel to be on aanel like this. I think i cited most if not all of you in this book. Some provid comments on mower incoherent drafts. So its really my privilege to share this panel with you. This book grows out of some of my personal experienc in uniform in the u. S. Navy. So i thought i would start. E first is rebecca 1999 to the kosovo war it was an airfare strike known as top gun. Im the office are at the u. S. Headquarters. Now kosovo is a really short air campan against the modern states. It ended with no nato fatalities. And to a lot o
Are proud to honor his legacy. Before introduce the speaker, quick housekeeping item, you want to have your microphones unmute, use the checkbox, questions for the speaker as we get to the q and a time in this event will be viewable online, 48 hours after the event. Let me say a few words about david rose, professor of economics at the university of missouri st. Louis, served as Department Director of graduate studies and department chair, phd in economics at the university of virginia, published numerous scholarly articles, his work has been quoted by the National Institute of mental health, the John Templeton foundation, david rose contributes to policy debates on social security, monetary policy, educational reform and healthcare reform. He works on the evolution of firms and what he calls the new business ethics. I would love to hear about that. His book, the moral foundation of economic behavior was nominated the high book prize. Why culture his new book is why culture matters mos