And i am glad i didnt have to answer them and thank you to chris and kevin for doing that. We will reconvene in 15 minutes for a panel on civic virtue. Thank you for being here. I am a fellow here at the Stockdale Center and its a pleasure to be with peter to discuss virtue. He is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the author of numerous books and he is director of constitutional studies at the American Enterprise institute and the author of numerous books. We will start i think with peter. The thank you. It is great to be here with my panelists and thanks to ed and the Naval Academy for this opportunity. I thought it might be useful to do something unusual, for me at east to approach the panels topic of civil virtue and its decline and its reinvigoration from a somewhat autobiographical perspective. Long ago and far away when i went to college, the cutting edge topic is something we called engraved tones and the critique of liberalism. We have leading authors and books and
Been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for th it is really wonderful for us to have jonathan back at the carter library. You know, it has been several years since jonathan was here. He was here for a book about jackie robinson. And that has probably been seven or a neck years since then. And what is really neat is that jonathan had decided to kick offs book tour for his new book. His book just came out yesterday. And do that here at the jimmy carter president ial library, which is really, i think, great. This is his sixth book. He has written, as i said, about jackie robinson, lou gehrig, muhamed ali, al capone, as well as the foursome who really did the push to get the approval of the Birth Control pill. But the thing that you see in jonathans writing is an immense amount of research that goes into it. And i think he comes by that naturally. His dad was an accountant. So a stickler for details. And his mom is a community activist. So if you think about that and think
Read book so people across the country are able to have conversations about that experience, Kao Kalia Yang is one of the best to take us there. Her new book the song poet, a nice companion piece to a memoir about her father and his role in keeping history alive through the oral tradition. I thought both books were moving, giving me such insight into the role of culture and family life, made me think about how it works. Without further a do, help me welcome Kao Kalia Yang. [applause] can you all see me . Okay. Can you all hear me . Even if you cant see me. Thank you for being here. Im delighted to be back. Two years ago i was here with the late home, her and i am glad to bring you the song poet. I am incredibly proud of this. Im working on speaking slower. People told me i speak too fast. You give me some feedback afterwards, okay . The song poet came out of a conversation i had with my father a few years ago. I asked my dad how does a song poet become . He looked at me a little bit an
That was after words, booktvs Signature Program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed. Watch past after words programs online at booktv. Org. Host university of wisconsin professor jennifer ratnerrosenhagen, who was Frederick Nietzsche . Guest he was a 19th century german philosopher who wrote many, many, many, many books on philosophy and all sorts of different forms. And all of them some after riskic, some essayistic, some longer formally teaks, and all of them critiques, and all of them had something to do with the challenge of universal truth. So he took as his enemy the notion of universal truth, and pretty much all of his work has something to do with his effort to tear it down, excavate it, look at the history of that idea and to show that anything that we take to be universals like, oh, god [laughter] are human creations. But theyre not rooted in nature or necessity, theyre not mirrors of reality. Host he wrote at one time god is dead guest and he wrot
Pharmaceuticals, how the world did you get into College Sports . Guest i have had an eclectic career havent i . So i got into College Sports in a few ways. Like you, although not nearly at your level, i played sports in high school and college. I actually had a d1 athletic scholarship that mysteriously became an academic scholarship after i injured my back. I was so i always had an interest in sports. About 15 years ago i did a project with the inquire where i get to look at the business of College Sports. I guess that planted a seed in the back of my brain that at some point i like to come back and just look at the influence of College Football. Even then it would already have an extra ordinary impact on the university. Then what happened was it continue to grow in the money continue to grow dramatically. The scale of the sport continue to grow. So long story short, i propose doing a project at the washington post. They did not want to do it. I proposed it as a book seven years ago. M