on a wide variety of topics including human development, mental health, education, and social justice among others. we have over 175 videos of past events archived on our website and youtube channel. people shirt be sure to explore. thomas fisher is a board certified emergency medicine physician at the university of chicago medical center where he serves the same southside community where he was raised. previously has served as 82010 and 2011 white house fellow and a special assistant to a secretary. he worked on affordable care act regulation and the health and human services action plan for reducing ethnic and racial health disparities. emergency is his first book and he has garnered high praise for his poignant portrayal of humanity in crisis and underscoring the critical obligation we all have to care for each other. natalie moore is an award-winning journalist based in chicago whose reporting tackles rates, housing, economic development, food and, violence, segregati
of the bs guide to politics: understanding current events thro author sam sorbo, we interviewed another one who was an author. the greatest. he s not even my favorite. how did you get him to write a book? was it your idea? he decided he didn t need college. that is fine. because he ought to go to college if it serves your need and it is a reasonable decision financially. we are convinced today by the powers of the experts that everyone should go to college and spend whatever it takes. that is not a good business plan for anybody. when he told me he was going to college i told him you need to do something with your time. you need more academics. you should invest in. i suggested he write a book. what am i going to write a book about, he said. i said, well you like politics, come up with something political that is humorous. so. you sent out a tweet saying college is a very expensive lottery ticket. yes. it is. i forgot that i did that. but it is. we live in a soci
financially. we are convinced today by the powers of the experts that everyone should go to college and spend whatever it takes. that is not a good business plan for anybody. when he told me he was going to college i told him you need to do something with your time. you need more academics. you should invest in. i suggested he write a book. what am i going to write a book about, he said. i said, well you like politics, come up with something political that is humorous. so. you sent out a tweet saying college is a very expensive lottery ticket. yes. it is. i forgot that i did that. but it is. we live in a society where our schools are really forcing us to think about ourselves as the highest value college prep and career readiness. that is their focus. that is a promise. parents are like, what are your stats? how many kids go to college? how many graduate and all of that, what are they go to school, and what are their earnings potentials? our focus of life is we need to ma
chicago medical center where he serves the same southside community where he was raised. previously has served as 82010 and 2011 white house fellow and a special assistant to a secretary. he worked on affordable care act regulation and the health and human services action plan for reducing ethnic and racial health disparities. emergency is his first book and he has garnered high praise for his poignant portrayal of humanity in crisis and underscoring the critical obligation we all have to care for each other. natalie moore is an award-winning journalist based in chicago whose reporting tackles rates, housing, economic development, food and, violence, segregation, and inequality. her latest book is a play about abortion published by haymarket books. her book the southside, a portrait of chicago and american segregation. received the chicago books award for nonfiction and was buzzfeed s best nonfiction book of 2016. she contributed to southside, a collection of stories abou
precariously perched as this democracy that we re heralding on july 4 1776. we re in a perilous time. to me as perilous as it was with the continental army looked like they were getting their butts kicked. as perilous as it looked when the south attacked fort sumter. we are in perilous times with our democracy hanging by a thread. why do you say that? because we got what i call a land see an air attack happening in american democracy. the land attack is the assault on voting rights. the c attack is the attack to wash away the teaching of real american history and the air attack is the loosening of gun laws while having a narrative that the insurrection was legitimate political discourse and seeing that there was all of this violence and threat leaning raining down on election workers and election officials . so when you re looking at what s happening with voting, when you re looking at what s happening with our education system and the narratives that we come to understan