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Incredible Boston Review and its lead ed editors. All of us have been proud contributors to the rich intellectual tradition curated by Boston Review, and i just think its really important to say in this moment before our countrys more famous publications were willing to run pieces on police and prison abolition, racial capitalism, black radical thought and the ethics of resistance, the boston the review really provided one of the major forums for these ideas to be debated with seriousness and su...

Tiffany shlain, the power of unplugging one day a week. I am so happy to be here. Tiffany, its an interesting time to think about unplugging during this moment, the coronavirus pandemic, many of us find ourselves even more tethered to screens because we cant do things like meet people in person, go to our workplaces or schools or hang out at a cultural venue. So first, well hear more about the book from tiffany and then well have a discussion. Thank you. Its great to be here, i am from the bay a...

Analysts of American Culture today. Author to change america, most of the most popular part in america. Following the conversation between you and i sessions with our moderator. At any time you think of something youd like to ask either of them, submitted in the questions box. And where you are as many questions as we can the time we have before we get to the discussion want to introduce a special guest to pick up the program. Special guest Heritage Foundation president , missus k gold james. Im...

In conversation. Part of our ongoing Virtual Event series. Were so fortunate to be able to be here with their authors and their writing. Every week we will be hosting an event via zoom. This evenings event well have your questions available. If you go to the check section. They have also included in the chat. And lastly. The technical logistics may come up. We apologize in advance for that. We will do our best to recall any issues. Im so pleased to introduce tonights the speaker. With the gradua...

In this clip he recounts the aneurysms that mr. Biden suffered in 1988 following his failed run for that years president ial nomination. And how it impacted his life and political career. You have to member joe biden was forced out of the race in september of 87 by a series of revelations, none of which individually were kind of minor and almost laughable when you look back at them. But by the time they were digested from the great long snake of the press corps, it was biden have been drummed ou...

Thank you so much for being here Debora Mackenzie its really an honor. I was really delighted to read your book. Is the first book ive ever written. Amazing, its also been challenging to create an account of a pandemic while his ongoing, can you tell me about that process. I understand why it has not happened yet, i am writing about the things we can write about now, i deliberately took a step back and i am not writing about things untold and about government, im not talking on that level auto i...

About the imaginary area it was exciting to be somehow in my boyhood terrain and is deeply familiar to me in one thing or another the books are easy to write, i did feel for was enough in the last word and forth book is enough but then i had a half book ten years later. People would murmur robert rabbit when i go by, does not happen too often anymore, im not exactly like him, our books are short in rough background but he stayed and i left is one way to put it. Every ten years readers were treat...

Book the accidental president , now we have him here virtually to talk about his new book about the 1948 elections going 78 years to another Election Year and you will be amazed how similar it sounds in some ways and in others what is different is politicians were all younger than they are today. That is one big difference. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book. I want to say a couple things. Thank you for having me lose the Commonwealth Club is a wonderful place to be. I know ...

[inaudible conversations] good evening and welcome those newcomers and repeat offenders. If you look around you notice in impenetrable books are out there in the world. That being the case it is always refreshing to find one whose impact with the proportion to the length and have to and the Tipping Point is one of those books with from time to time a work appears that acts as a decongestant for the brain , one strong spray and the intellectual passages clear up even if they were blocked in the f...

Virtually as well. Host is so give us an update five months into this. Guest its been like a roller coaster, to be honest. Weve had ups and downs. Weve, we were able through the ppp loans to be able to bring our staff back. Unfortunately, when we brought them back, our storeses were under, were still hut down because of the pandemic here in florida. But toward the edge of it we were the end of it we were able to open around the beginning of june or so. Actually not june, i think it was july. Now...