You pull them together in this book with a larger argument about the failures of liberalism. I thought it might make sense for you to. [inaudible] reading a little bit from that introduction. Oh, sure. Absolutely. The emphasis in essays in this book were written in response to the Anglo American delusions that climaxed in brexit, the election of donald trump and, finally, a calamitous response to the covid19 outbreak. These range from the 19th century dream of imperial liberalism long championed by the colonists in which capital, goods, jobs and people freely circulate through the proclamation of an American Century of free trade and modernization, the attempt by american cold warriors to seduce [inaudible] away from communist revolution and into the gradual u. S. Alternative or consumer capitalism of democracy to the catastrophic humanitarian wars and demagoguic explosions of our times. Wrote in 1957 at the height of the cold war are the fanatics of western civilization who regard the
The jealous and emancipated. John brown, Abraham Lincoln and struggle for american freedom. Purchased the book likely from a cappella books, there is a link in the chat at the right of your green go to the link provided on the website. Please submit your questions at the bottom of your screen. Use the q and a, it tends to be less credit that way. I will get to as many of them as i possibly can. Chair of history of the university of texas at boston, hes authored 30 books on u. S. History, the moment First Americans and biographies with both finalists. Thank you so much for joining us. My pleasure. Delighted to be back. Abraham lincoln and john brown, well covered by historians. What did you want to add to the understanding of these famous american martyrs writing about them together . I think teaching American History with 35, going on 40 years, some of the biggest questions of history are essentially questions to get down to almost moral questions. As a moral question at work here that
Welcome. Thank you very much for coming. My name is paul elie. Im an author and senior fellow at the Berkeley Center here at georgetown and im very pleased to welcome today Pankaj Mishra for a conversation about his new book age of anger. A few words about pankaj. He is one of the most accomplished, acclaimed and versatile writers working in english today. Born in north was india in 1969, he writes and reports from london, india and points worldwide. A contributor to the new york review books, the new yorker, New York Times magazine, bloomberg view, the leonard review books, Financial Times and plenty of other publications. His books include the novel the romantics, an end to suffering, a novel ive had to teach in my course at georgetown. Quotations to the west, from the ruins of empire in 2012, that book led the economist to characterize him as a leading indian public intellectual with a surprising perspective as the air. The turkish novelist and Nobel Laureate called the book the Ama
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Of murder and torture against british soldiers who served in iraq, has been struck off for dishonesty. Mr shiner paid thousands of pounds to a fixer to find iraqi clients. Hed already admitted acting without integrity and his firm is no longer in business. The defence secretary sir Michael Fallon said mr shiner had brought great pain to soldiers and their families. Our defence correspondent Jonathan Beale has been following the case. Once an Award Winning human rights lawyer, tonight, phil shiners reputation lies in tatters. He made his name at the expense of the british armies and the taxpayer in legal aid. Accusing soldiers of widespread abuse during the war in iraq. I dont know whether people we re iraq. I dont know whether people were killed but i think something went wrong. We need to find out who was responsible and hugh in command yuriko koike going on here. They we re yuriko koike going on here. They were kept naked, they were sexually humiliated. Who in command and what was go