We lived in a two bedroom. I fealt like the luckiest kid in the kid in the world was i was. I thought the world was my oyster and it was. I could do anything i wanted. I dont think a lot of kids feel that way anyway. And i want to make sure every kid in minnesota feels that way. That they have a shot and they can bet on themselves and that they have the opportunity to get a good job. And to put a roof over their familys head and food on the table and have access to Quality Health care and be able to go on a vacation and have a secure retirement and that their pension and Social Security will be there. That is what i want. I want minnesotans to bet on themselves. And i know the people of minnesota. And if we bet on ourselves; we have great innovators, Research Universities and we can do this. Thank you to the moderators first. I want to thank al franken for being here and i want to thank the audience. This is an important part of the american politic system; that we can come together an
Service. Some of it is benign. We call things, put a metadata label on things like the amount of storage you are using in your online storage or the average file size. But even that has implications and we embraced the idea of transparency and consent, and all of that data. As you go up the scale with may be content being the end, the most private, the stuff that people have the highest expectation of privacy around. But other things about new york communicating with our right up against content. In terms of what that can reveal about peoples relationships, associations, thoughts, beliefs, et cetera. Theres very important privacy locations around the. You mentioned transborder issues and the fact that people around the world recognize privacy as an interest, in many cases a human rights. Whered we stand, what are you aware of or what do you know about, is there any progress being made multilaterally or bilaterally or in terms of developing standards for transporter surveillance, transb
Review in 1955 that the opponents of the new deal consented and even embraced the term conservatism. They thought all along that they were that drove liberals. What to do with the welfare state, that is a big question. I would say in general that i think simplicity is always better and what things we can do to simplify the process by simplicity and in the political logic of the welfare state as it has been created in this country and by other groups is that we, to use one of built up please passphrases, with rack and admitted as complicated as possible. Money comes from us in a variety of ways. It goes to different people in a variety of ways. Nobody is ever quite sure whether they are a net importer or not exporter of all of these free range dollars. At the conservative interest investors compare the pier we should admit in a way that the new deal has sort of one. Liberals act as though they have to keep bribing people to create the charade that everyone can be a net importer of a fin
The miseducation of the american easily to attend the way to a meaningful life. In it he argues the most soughtafter universities in the country fall short of providing the key components of a good education every student should have come a lesson on how to think i maybe created and maintained goals in life after the university education. This program is about an hour. Host i think im the students and families, its a perfect contribution to the literature and im grateful for it and the nation should be grateful. I will start with the more difficult one. It appears you didnt receive tenure at yale. He didnt acknowledge that in the book and im wondering why not. Guest that is a question that comes often from the fellow academics who wonder whether the book is a product of the sound great. Its rate. Its because of people in the ivy league i didnt want to make my story part of it. The book is for the general readers. No one of any sense that as a junior faculty member at yale experts to be
Is in their parties primaries. If you are seen as being unorthodox can, as you were saying, or as Party Loyalists would say unfaithful to the partys positions on these issues, you tend to get Interest Groups who come after you with funds. They will often mount a primary opponent that makes your life difficult. And there are all kinds of institutions now in place and resources in place that really keep the parties politicians towing a very ideological line on these issues. So more and more thats become quite unusual in american politics. Host all right. Subtitle, how issue ownership drives and distorts american politics. Whats the distortion . Guest the distortion that i find in the book is the theme with which weve led our conversation, which is that i find lots of instances where the parties actually pay less attention to what the public wants on the issues they own than on the issues they dont. So, again, the Affordable Care act is a great example. This is a policy that is pursued he