Serving. Watch booktv this weekend on cspan2. I am very delighted to welcome you to our event today. Its on the conservative case for class actions a book written by professor fitzpatrick that galvanized this debate. We have three outstanding speakers, panelist i should say. Our first is the head of the class action practice here at gibson, dunn crutcher. Is litigated and defended countless class actions including over 20 dismissals of class action cases. You may have a sense of where his position is on that. He is a graduate of georgetown, undergraduate, and University Virginia law school where he was on the long review, and is alo the author of the chapter in the popular guide series on so please welcome christopher chorba. [applause] our next panelist is the profession selfie wrote the book. He is a graduate of notre dame where he was runnerup valedictorian, but he made up for that when he went to Harvard Law School and one the diploma. [inaudible] a lot easier, a lot easier. And he
Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
Im the owner. For a little bit of history, the strand was founded by my grand father benjamin bass in 1927 in an area thats just a block over aalok along 4th avenue. It was called book row. There were 48 used bookstores at its height. In the 92 years since then, all of the stores have shuttered except for the strand. And thanks to readers, were Still Family Owned and still thriving. Tonight im so excited to welcome the founder and the editor of the wildly popular leftist magazine to discuss this book the socialist manifesto, the case of radical politics in an area of extreme inequality. Since founding, its been described as a light and dark times, hes been a columnist for the guardian u. S. The manifesto presents a history of socialism and an argument for the end of inequality, and we couldnt be more thrilled to hear about it. Were also excited to be recording tonights conversation with a broadcast from our friends at cspan. Joining him in this timely discussion is a writer, current af
Response at the centers for Disease Control and dr. Kahn has been in the fight to contain the worlds deadliest diseases. Hes not the first to have done so they draft history he hasut been fighting diseases and doing deadly wars against deadly contagion spread of factors never been a time when humans were not affected by microbes that fought against them. Our speakers speaker has had his own brushes with viruses and Infectious Diseases and contagion. For example in 1995 he worked among red cross workers in the apollo crisis and after 9 11 he was called to washington to the Senate Office building and in 2003 he was called to hong kong to quarantine victims. These are just some of the stories that dr. Kahn chronicles. As an epidemic intelligence officer, disease hunter d welll his mission for for two decades was to prepare the public for disease outbreaks and health emergencies. He has seen it all. While dr. Kahn tells us microbes will always be a problem he also writes not all epidemics
Us to come here once a month. Today im pleased to announce our october speaker, karen swallow prior. She will be discussing a new book, hold it up, its a little one but a good one. Its called on reading well, finding the good life through great literature. In her book she chooses a number of great books of western literature and explores in each one a single virtue like prudence, justice, faith, love, and the results, i can tell you i can attest personally of reading it is you understand the virtues better and you want to practice them in a better way. Shes a professor of english at Liberty University shes won multiple teaching awards. She writes frequency on literature culture ethics and has had her articles of many places, christianity today, the atlantic, the Washington Post and many, many others. In addition to reading well she is an author of another one called booked, literature and the soul of me. In which she tells a story of how her deep love of reading overtime, with that she