Candidate hillary clinton. All quiet on the western front was First Published in 1929. The book is an account of a german soldier serving during world war i, it was described as one of the greatest books of all time. He is reading a biography of former president Richard Nixon and that is look at what donald trump is reading this summer. A division of www. Norton, the oldest independent in america. Of the 90 what books do you publish . Guest serious nonfiction and literary fiction. Books that can change the culture. Host we are here to talk about some of the books coming out this fall. Lets start with a serious one called rat f. Guest rat f is by david daily and it tells the story of how the country has been redistrict it since 2010 to ship all these congressional districts over to the republican base. Both of the architects have spoken with the author and traveled these districts and you will see district to go 30 miles like michigan, and pontiac, michigan, shows how these districts we
Committed to some sort of democracy. Its not like we are saying we dont mind if we produce a bunch of students that are marcus and we think that would somehow, we would have done something wrong along the way. Host professor thomas with the decline in liberal Arts Education overall in the country are we losing civics . Guest thats a great question and should be a serious concern to us. In fact at the end of the book i oppose the great challenge in our day really is the potential commercialization and the career turn in liberal Arts Education which threatened to eclipse the more robust liberal arts element and when you think of how in the founding generation the biggest threat in some sense might have been from religion in our day the biggest threat will was a commercial nature which in interesting ways its probably because of the success of american constitutionalism. The forwardlooking version of it really wanted to create a thriving commercial society and we have done that but now do
I hope so. Thank you [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening is a beautiful evening things for joining us were very excited to host this launch here in washington d. C. Of the new book for this brave new world that is already getting excellent reviews in the wall street journal that should be the second thing you read after her book. But we are privileged tonight to joining in and and and conversation both her and steve are cofounders and principles at the gates group rand i will give you every sketch of their biographies because theyre so wellknown to was in this room a lawyer and former investment banker teaching at university and a portfolio for dippers and he was the undersecretary of state for Political Affairs and is on the board of advisers. And of course, serving as National Security advisor and assistant secretary of defense rather than National Security affairs and as chairman of the u. S. Institute of peace. This book is really a wonderful piece of f
We want to saying diane and the pristine for their partnership. A round of applause please. Are also want to note books are for sale following tonights conversation. If you ever doubted those devoted to maintaining hierarchys are rooted in race and sex, reed pushed out. Xi jinping tells us how schools are crushing the spirit and talent this country need getting desperate tonights conversation is syed farook of Field Support for new york public schools, speaking to tonights daughter, dr. Xi jinping. Give these women are real welcome. Tonights conversation would not be complete without hearing voices of young women from dr. Morriss research. Actress goldie christina, but we at present pushout the criminalization of black girls in schools. [applause] this is the cry, was thrown to the ground and physically and verbally assaulted after she refused to leave her friend at the enforcement of a Law Enforcement officer that went viral. Pushed her face into the ground as she, a bikini clad teena
Got to love it. When you think back to your high school years, do you recall memories like these . Youre wearing sweat pants. It is monday. So. So you cant. Whatever. Thats is discusting. You ct sit with us. Classic scene from the hit movie mean girls. Been long believed that girls have no problem with using weapons like gossip and social isolation to deal with their peers. Social science call this relation until aggression, but new study shows boys are more likely to use this behavior. While girls are more likely the victims of the behavior. The study also used scale to rate aggression from moderate to hi, and most of the meanest kids, well, more than 66 , were boys. The researchers published in the journal aggressive behavior. Interesting journal to subscribe to. Yes. Your aggressive behavior is in, sir, just sign right here. Well, what do you think of this, kerry . You why surprised boys werent meaner . You know, i always kind every tend to boys being more like physically aggressive