Welcome. My name is Vivian Schiller and im the director of aspen digital. Were blunt glad you could be with us today. The New York Times bestseller list can often seem to be a veneer of the National Psyche and this year it seems to reflect a nation going through an awakening on matters of race. Books written by people of color and about matters of race and racism have filled those lists, both fiction and nonfiction. Thats the good news. Sadly the Publishing Industry does not necessarily always reflect that reality. The recent twitter protest hashtag publishing pay me exposed the disparity in the industry between black and nonblack authors. There are few people of color who serve as publishing staff or literary agents and even fewer who operate at decisionmaking levels and for those who are published, sometimes the marketing exposure can be sub optimal. This year of National Reckoning on racism were going to take a look at the industry, the book Publishing Industry and whether it can br
Thank everyone for coming, my name is parker van houten, fifthyear senior at the university of kentucky, i start study Performance Arts administration and im happy to be here on this blustery ca morning. So our first presenter today is an associate professor of Political Science at kentucky state university. Author of the books taboo 10 fax you cant talk about. And the 50 million question, please welcome wilfred riley. And our next speaker is the author of 11 books including thought criminal, beyond woke, google archipelago, and the simulation of freedom to name a few. Please welcome michael rectenwald. And finally these gentlemen are joined by kylie carlino, senior media strategist at Regnery Publishing who will moderatethe panel. Thank you for coming to this. Im excited about this conversation. Were going to be talking about the state of speech and Book Publishing specifically. The dystopian idea of book banning is becoming a trend among american publishers. Regnery publishing where
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the senate i would ve lead through that level of reform, then on that condition certify the election results, served up to the president, and signed that into law and on january 7th, declared the reelection campaign pursuant to a free and fair election. i think that was a missed opportunity. for those familiar with schoolhouse rock and the sci-fi shun of power, the vice president has neither the authority to send legislation right to congress, or the authority to simply deny election results. but, it is notable that since 2020 2022, vivek ramaswamy seems to disagree with 2023 vivek ramaswamy. in his book just last year he mocked trump s election lies. he called his arguments week and he said the reasonable republicans don t believe that the election was stolen. and, on the question of the vice president specifically, he wrote, quote, mike pence, a man that i have great respect for decided that it was his constitutional duty to resist
a lot of reasons and one is by putting throughout controversial incendiary remarks. he s very much in the mold of donald trump in that way. and he s absolutely not backing down at all. in fact, yesterday after he was on with me, he tweeted out a repeat of his original comments. he said, he was referring to our interview, the remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination. that was a reference to ibrahim kennedy, somebody swamiramaswam referenced on the campaign trail. he s quoting her. it s racist. it makes the grand wizard of the kkk proud, driving reactionary attacks and needs to end. yeah. it sort of shows the split screen america is facing when you showed images of the march on washington, biden is inviting the members of the family to the