Story and how to tell the story of the country in a way that neither sells a short the National Greatness or whitewashes our National Sins in our politics and what may be an unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak the gist of the moment to hear about how to approach the questions. Wilfred mcclay is a national treasure. Hes first and foremost the chair of the university of oklahoma he is admired and loved by scores of students past and present and one of the great writers of American History. His book the self and society of modern america was just the best book in American Intellectual history. Its a students guide to u. S. History and why place matters, geography, identity and civic life in modern america acted in the service of the country he served for 11 years on the National Council of humanity is which is the Advisory Board of the National Endowment for the humanities. Hes a member of the u. S. Commission which i told you in order to challenge myself to pronounce t
Good evening everybody. Welcome to the American Enterprise institute. Im yuval levin, director of constitutional studies at ai and it is my great pleasure to commute to a discussion of the land of hope, the new one volume history of our country by the Great American story and Wilfrid Mcclay area is a book that comes a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather than a divisive story and of how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither some shorts our National Greatness north white washes our national sins, are really live questions in our politics and what may be on unusual way and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment though there could be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of howto approach these questions. Bill mcclay is a national treasure. Pure and simple. He is first and foremost a teacher. Behold the blankenship care and history of liberty at the history of oklahoma. He has admired and bowl o
Akwy sessiak ak akwywy situation of etrade. Will has the highlights. Hey, carl as you said, just last hour we were talking with james gorman, the ceo, and said he first got attracted to etrade back in 2002 when he was still at merrill. He said the conversations this time got real in december. Heres what he had to say about that 13 billion price tag i never worry about strategy. Im never trying to copy what somebody else is doing we have to do whats right for Morgan Stanley you have to be opportunistic, move and move quickly. We put in a very full, i think appropriately, a bid for a Great Company with an iconic brand if we tried to to do it on the cheap, that would have created turmoil. You get the job done thats what we did this is what he said about the rationale for the deal we bring in a group of technologists that i think will drive Technology Platforms even further than that weve been able to do they have Online Banking we can roll that to premium clients. We have a lot of young c
Revolution when the u. K. Was really an important think place in the world you know that fired all these things and they were everything shut down and gone away now and they and Boris Johnson got to give them an answer as to how leaving the European Union is going to give them things that they used to have but dont have anymore lets talk about the realities in the practicalities of this when they come back to that big building there when you get people like michael gove you know who drove the whole thing not just during Election Campaigns the kind of kept him in a box during the campaign he drove the run up to the original referendum a little bit but overnight he was saying and i quote if m. P. s are expecting to glide through a process over christmas and january forget it its not going to happen so theyre theyre clearly feeling empowered because they are literally in power now. But theyve got to live for vested in a zest just to push and push and push so it may be that somebody was ta
Called russian propaganda this. Morning live from. Moscow its tuesday the 26th of november just turned 18 am here now welcome to the latest update with me kevin starting in protest torn hong kong with the chinese territories and acknowledge the weekend election right where antigovernment candidate secured a landslide kerry says it may have reflected unhappiness with the government. People who felt that the government has not handled competently the. Legislative exercise and. And we have started up that dialogue with the community but unfortunately with the unstable and vironment and a chaotic situation i cannot do more of that sort of i hope that. The environmentalists will allow me to do it now so following sundays record turnout opposition candidates swept up 90 percent of District Council seats are the winners largely symbolic because councils deal mostly with local issues and got little political leverage but they do some say in choosing hong kong as leader the vote comes 6 months