Spring and summer long on our crowd cast a channel and i want to take a moment to say thank you to the Madison Public Library and the Madison Public Library foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering. Im just so excited to see john nichols. The support for these events has been unwavering and theyve been so dedicated to bringing these author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe we have seen an incredible uptick in our audience, people from all over and its just absolutely wonderful to see the response so thank you to everyone here tonight and all of the sponsors that made sure that these keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring you to the screen and step away myself. Hello everyone thank you for joining and larry thanks for coming all the way from massachusetts to be here tonight. Larry is on cape cod as we speak and we have about 100 people with us and as wa
Foundation. Their support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwavering and they are, oh my gosh, im so excited to see john nichols. Their support for these events has been absolutely unwavering and they have been so dedicated bringing author events to all of you whether you are watching in your home in madison or across the country or across the globe. Seen an incredible uptick in her audience of people from all over and it is just absolutely wonderful to see the response. Thank you to everyone here tonight and everyone who comes and to all the sponsors who made sure these events keep going. Without further ado i would like to bring john and mary to the screen and step away myself. Larry tye. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining us. Larry, thanks for coming all the way to massachusetts to be here with us. [laughter] larry is on cape cod as we speak. You have about 100 people or close to 100 people with us and some more may join us as we go along and as was explained upfro
Book demagogue but senator joe mccarthy and larry will appear long side john nichols who many ourself know from his various roles at the Capital Times, associate editor, the nation magazine, and progressive. We couldnt be more delighted to be hosting these events for you all spring and summer long here on our crowdcast channel and i want to take moment to say thank you to maddison Public Library and the foundation. Theyre support for online cultural events has been absolutely unwaiverring, they are my gosh, im so excited so see john nichols. Their support for these events has been sluicely unwavering and they have been so dedicated to bringing author events to all of you whether youre watching watn your home or across the country or across the globe. We have seen an incredible uptick in our audience of people from all over and it has just absolutely wonderful to see the response. So thank you to everyone who is here tonight. Everyone who has come to one and to all the sponsors who made
But before i do i want to extend on your behalf and mine a warm welcome to colin himself and to our 2 distinguishedcommentators. As you probably know, colin is a professor at the start school in policy and government at George Mason University and is also a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise institute our neighbor next door literally. Colin has made his mark thinking deeply about american politics and this book is trademark dueck. It examines the concept of conservative nationalism, a phenomenon brought to public attention conspicuously through the rise of President Trump. In terms of both the history of ideas and how these ideas have found a manifestation in modern American History especially in the debates about americas role in the world so the book is both encompassing and granular simultaneously. And despite the gravity of the subject i can assure you its a very delightful read. I read the book over the last weekend and i commend it to your attention. So welcome colin,
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