Good afternoon, everybody. So for the last six weeks in this class, weve been examining the political thought of the imperial crisis. That is, weve been looking at the debates between British Imperial officials and american whig patriots. And that debate has really in many ways come down to one issue which is, broadly speaking, what is the british constitution and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies . And more specifically even the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the British Parliament and americas colonial legislators . And over the course of about 12 years between 1764 and 1776, the British Parliament passed a series of laws. In 1764, it began with the sugar act and then a year later the stamp act and then in 176768 the townsend acts and then the tea act and then the coercive acts and then in 1775 the prohibittory act. But standing behind all of these acts of british legisl
Of the American Revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati. My name is William Pless lunger, i am president general of the society, a position first occupied by george washington. He held the post from our founding in 1783 until his passing on december 14 1799. Today is november 11, 2019 which marks the 100th anniversary of veterans day in america. Originally known as armistice day, and renamed in 1954, this is a day when we recognize the service of all u. S. Military veterans. We are delighted to mark this important day with a special event designed to salute americas veterans. I am especially pleased that our guests this evening include a fellow north carolinian who is the nations secretary of veterans affairs, the honorary robert wilkie. The society of the cincinnati was our countrys first veterans group, so it is particularly fitting the secretary will be providing remarks. You will hear more about that in a moment. We are gathered tonight to listen to a distinguished pa
Human activity has brought us to the brink of the worlds 6th major extinction of it and the people in this film just come take it anymore. Donald trump opens up a new front in the co the 19 war this time against the World Health Organization the experts will weigh in on this edition of politics. On tuesday President Trump announced that he would do with the whole contributions to the World Health Organization and blame the agency for not alerting his in ministration to the dangers of the coronavirus for reaction im joined by Andrew Sullivan former acting administrator of the centers for medicare and medicaid during the Obama Administration he joins us from minnesota whats your reaction and into. Strong and the w. H. O. Well thanks for having me on. You know this is its not an opportune time to start to defund any efforts at Public Health i think that should be hopefully obvious to most people you know donald trump is no fan of Global Institution i think he certainly would want to take
Medicaid during the Obama Administration he joins us from minnesota whats your reaction and into. Strong and the w. H. O. Well thanks for having me on. You know this is its not an opportune time to start to defund any efforts at Public Health i think that should be hopefully obvious to most people to donald trump is no fan of Global Institution i think he certainly would want to take steps to make sure that blame is placed didnt places other than where he is im not suggesting that joe the c. B. C. Or anybody else plenty of blame to go around but in the middle of a crisis to take the feet up the street that you need in the middle of a global epidemic doesnt make a lot of sense to me was the obama admin and what the Obama Administration is you know would have been prepared for this. Well look its hard its hard to prove a negative i think i think id say 2 things one is there was a. Structure in place that would have been able to respond more quickly and i think thats thats the 1st thing t
Scientists. Regularcience club our hangout, our main layer is in brooklyn but at secret science club north we are back your tonight in manhattan as part of our fifth miniseries here at symphony space. So we really like to thank all the people at symphony space, the staff, particularly kathy landau, joanna thompson, rebecca whites, james and zack and wiki for helping us to expand our universe and wehe hope yours al. [applause] bighand for them. A very big thank you to the bar. The bars to the back into the left. They have concocted our cocktail to your or however you say it, its called thehe atlantis. Its a fabulous blue glowing drink. Its thing for the Space Shuttle which our speaker was a crew member and its very tasty. We highly recommend it. To expand your universe further. Also thanks to cspan who is coming us here tonight. Want to give a shout out to dinner if you like to find more about the secret science club and Upcoming Events here in brooklyn or anywhere in the universe, some