Hochschild who was a Founding Member of americas communist party. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone, and welcome to politics prose. Hi name is matthew zipf, im part of the events team here. Each year we host close to 1,000 authors here at the wharf and at union market. Please see our web site, politics. Prose. Com or pick up a paper copy of our Events Calendar at the desk. Before the event, i do have a few short housekeeping items. First, please silence your cell phones so we dont have any buzzing or ringing during the event. When its time for the q and a session after the presentation, please come up to the microphone there as we are recording the event via audio. Please also make sure that your question is, in fact, a question [laughter] if you have a dissertation, we do have a selfpublishing arm. [laughter] well have a signing for the book up at the front at this table here after the event. If you do not yet have a copy, we have plenty available for sale at the regist
But essentially, monopolies and Financial Institutions that facilitate that monopolization across the country and thats what we are focused on. We have special concerns about the power of Big Technology platforms but in general we think that a lot of the economic and social problems that we are experiencing in this country today can trace back or be exact exacerbated by the dramatic outsized levels of Corporate Power that exists in our economy today. Host how did you come to that view . Guest we looked around at the world essentially. If you look at markets. If you look at Market Structure you will find that whether it is large markets like media, telecom, healthcare, online retail, amazon for example, or even small markets like Peanut Butter and cheerleading and watch components and software you have seen that over and over a handful of businesses and handful of corporations have rolled up those markets and essentially act as governing agents for other actors in that market. Host isnt
[inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone and welcome to politics and prose. My name is matthew zipf part of the events team. Each year we host close to 1,000 offer1,000authors across the the locations here at union market. If you would like a full list of the Upcoming Events please see the website, politicsprose. Com or you can pick up a copy of the calendar at the desk. Before the event tonight, i have a few short housekeeping items. First please silence your cell phone so they dont have any buzzing or ringing during the event. When its time for the session after the presentation, please come up to the microphone as we are recording via audio. Please also make sure your question is in fact a question. If you have a dissertation, we do have a selfpublishing arm. [laughter] we will have a signing up at the front of the table after the event. If you do not yet have a copy we have plenty available for sale at the register at the front of the store. Finally at the end of the event,
Thank you so much, its great to be here, thank you for coming out. In every room there are always survivors so if you start to feel distressed by what im sharing obviously its okayto get up and take a break. Theres a National Sexual assault hotline is one 806 56 hope. So im going to start withthe story. In boston was a sweet student. Hot summer nights, sex with his girlfriend and its pretty much the sexiest story in the book. Thats not thestory on going to tell, sorry. But he was a good guy. He was the kind of guy who had developed a series of nicknames for the kinds of orgasms his girlfriend had because he wascommitted to making sure sex was something that felt good for her to. But austin also sexually assaulted someone. He told us a story about the night freshman year he was in a room with his roommates girlfriends roommate. So the roommate has a girlfriend. Two people get shoveled into the same bedroom together. The girl was pretty drunk and she said to him she wasnt interested in d
Industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Reading everybody. Welcome to politics and prose. Im bradley graham, a coowner of the bookstore along with my wife lissa muscatine. While theres certainly been a lot of news this week, much of it of course about the start of Donald Trumps trial in the senate, but some important things have been happening in russia as well, particularly an announcement by Vladimir Putin shifting Greater Authority to parliament which has left many wondering what this means about putins on plans to relinquish the presidency, or not, in a few years. We are especially fortunate to have with us this evening an expert on putins russia, joshua yaffa, who is the moscow correspondent for the new yorker. Yorker. Hes been covering russia for much of the past decade, and his new book between two fires offers a truly fascinating and revealing look at the impact of the putin era has had on, above all,