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Group outgroup mindset can easily lead to extremism, marginalization, and religion may be the most powerful form of identity formation but just as powerful is violence. How do you know who is us and them . If youre fighting alongside me, youre us. If youre fighting against me, youre them. So, far from religion and violence being the two things that are at odds and should have nothing to do with each other, they have, as everyone knows throughout history, been much more aligned than we would like...

Thank you very much. Thank you for coming out. [applause] i guess i will just go into the book store. And sign if if you have a book here ill sign them now. Whatever. You dont have to buy a book. Thank you, mark. You want me to do this . You tell me. You like this . Okay. Youre watching book tv. Nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. Now on booktv, Danielle Allen, author of our declaration a reading of the declaration of independence in defense of equality, and joseph ellis, autho...

The world into the kind of future that we want. We cant sit on the sidelines. We cant retreat. We are going to have setbacks. We are going to have disappointments but over time, our story has become the dominant story. It represents the hopes and aspirations of people everywhe everywhere. That is what i want americans to understand than the main reason why you wrote this book. I know theres a big debate going on about our role in the world and we have some real unfortunate consequences to deal w...

250 years. This is not the right way to tax wealth in this country. If i could rewrite the u. S. Tax code [laughter] [inaudible] take the same tax revenue. Increase it. Keep it exactly. Transformed into a progressive tax that work. In effect would reduce the tax. Very little net worth. A huge mortgage and huge debt. And, during to go to mexico. The real problem. [inaudible] progressive taxes, local method. [inaudible] but it was the same one century ago. They could not do anything. And then some...

This event is sponsored by a group known in the United States as the patriotic millionaires, a group of 100 millionaires and billionaires calling for their taxes to be higher. Deal have anything like that in europe . In europe we usually dont pay much, but sometimes dont get that much in exchange either. It is not perfect and i think each country nobody has invented the best system of Higher Education because we need to find ways to combine efficiency and it is complicated. It is extremely impor...

Pole. Youll also see books about the u. S. Border patrol, israel, fracking, the taliban in afghanistan and the American West in 1776. All this and much more, 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors on cspan2. Booktv, television for serious readers. Up next, a. J. Baime appeared at the Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest to discuss the arsenal of democracy about the creation to have u. S. Bomber force prior to americas entry in world war ii. This is about 40 minutes. Thank you very much, john,...

One of the things that President Trump told me in the presidency, theres always dynamite behind the door. The real dynamite is President Trump. He is the dynamite. Woodwards reporting revealed that the president knowingly downplayed the risk of the coronavirus to the American People. Other reporting has also uncovered Trump Administration officials interfering with cdc reports on covid19. This all comes after reports that mr. Trump called mex of the military losers and suckers and a whistleblowe...

Meant the afternoon everyone. Welcome to the 36 printers row book says. Please go give a special thank you to all of our sponsors. [applause] before we begin with a silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes. Well have time o at the end for questions and answers and we ask that the you use the microphone and asked her questions. Please welcome amy stanley and deborahan cohen. [applause] hi there. Its great to be here and its wonderful to be talking about this book. If you picked u...

Intellectual life of america by writing a biography of Thomas Sowell and i will begin in a way, how do you explain and i think another answer nevertheless i want your answer, how do you explain that one of the finest minds of the last halfcentury is unknown to half a minute half of america . Guest well i got to use todays prologue. Thomas sowell was canceled long time ago. Hes a conservative. Hes a black conservative and way back in the 1970s and i began writing about racial controversies. He wa...

Bad so it is hard to do that. I did try to correlate i think it was a gdp with the degree of smoking it was is essentially zero. The repeople smoke to the richer the country but it was not a causation. Probably rich countries have more pressure on smokers than not. [inaudible] it is not accessible on line but it is a paltry 20. But we had to figure out in there not known for the marketing drive. It says 15 pounds in the zero fat tax. [laughter] a fat tax. Any other questions . The book unlucky s...