Sponsored by wells fargo. Tv critic for National Public radio, and im here with a couple of very esteemed authors, Christopher Caldwell, an american journalist, former Senior Editor for the Weekly Standard and author of the age of entitlement, america since the 60s. Hes joining from washington, d. C. We have historian, journalist, wall street journal columnist and author of the people no of the war on populism and democracy joining us from kansas city. I am in st. Petersburg florida. We are going to make this happen through the magic of video chat. So thank you for coming. I appreciate it. It seems your books in different ways are describing how we have landed in this crazy political time that we are in right now where we are understanding how the movements and politics. What i would like each of you to do is give a thumbnail synopsis of durable and what it might say about whether or how america sort of landed on the road to populism. What do you think . Its more like the railroad for
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You. Before i go further, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, what other gadgets you may have, so they do not interfere with our system. Thank you. As you know our host tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor. We are pleased to have her with us tonight and want to thank or on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call upon her to participate in events like this. It is quite important to us and quite important to you. We very much appreciate it. I will tell you briefly a bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last night baseball game, i gather. Undergraduate work at princeton and went to yale law school, then joined the District Attorney office in New York County as an assistant District Attorney. She was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. That attracted attention and before long, she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york. Six year
The first time, welcome to those who have been with us since friday. This journey began. Welcome to the philip roth. Unbowed and our weekend long celebration. The life and legacy of novelist and newark native philip roth on the occasion of would have what have been his 90th birthday today in fact would have been philip roths 90th birthday so happy birthday, roth. My name is carey and im a coproducer of the along with jon schreiber, president and ceo of njpac. Rosemary steinbaum, a trustee of the newark public library. Chelsea keyes njpac, director of strategic initiatives. James shapiro, professor of english at columbia university. And bernard schwartz, director of Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd street y. Over the course of these past three days, weve been telling a story. On friday, that story was about newark or, as they apparently say here. Newark, one syllable not to a majority minority city whose, cultural, political and economic and triumphs have in many reflected the Greate
on trial. several prosecutors are working on that very task, even as donald trump s civil fraud trial stretched through the december of 2023 and in 2024 as you probably heard because you re watching the news defendant trump faces several criminal trials in different jurisdictions while running for president again. so, special counsel jack smith leading the prosecution of trump s coup in washington. and separately the stolen intelligence documents case in florida. atlanta d.a. pushing ahead on a long-term plan for those rico trials after winning convictions of trump aides through this 2023. and then the smaller criminal case in new york. taken together, over 90 felonies charged. that is not normal even if it has been normalized. the first coup trial initially slated for march while those schedules can of course change, america s facing more serious warnings from people who know about this, from actual legal experts, discussing a very real possibility that one of the major poli