We are using this time to reach out to our senior phallus, friends and constituents to talk about the important issues and ethics in public life that are at the heart of the councils work. So thank you all for joining us. Todays topic is democracy on the verge, leadership in times of crisis. This title is a play on the title of the new book, lincoln on the verge, 13 days to washington, written by our good friend and carnegie fellow ted widmer. Great to see you ted. Thank you its good to be here. Im going to let ted described the book i will set the outset it is really a thriller. The book is cinematic, its philosophical, it is a great story. And for me it is inspirational. Like all of teds work, lincoln on the verge, uses the path to enlightenment future and suggest a better future. This is not a bad formula for an entrant understanding the intersection of ethics and Public Policy for this and many other reasons im grateful to ted for his own leadership in our field. In addition to his
Conversation with cyntoia brownlong i want to thank molly who just heard from its her suggestion we bring cyntoia to campus. She was also instrumental in developing the program for cyntoia visit and tonights event, so thank you molly. [applause] i also want to thank jess burns and all of my colleagues for their work on this form and so many other events throughout the year. Id like to acknowledge more than a dozen cosponsors of tonights event. There are really too many to name individually but i hope you sell them recognize on the screen before we started. It is gratifying that so Many Organizations acrossga the universe will be joining us to support this event. Head demonstrates the concern and commitment of so many students, faculty, staff with the issues we will discuss with tonights guests. We understand these are challenging topics that touch on difficult personal experiences. I want to encourage you to support each other, to seek support from offices like careli and others at tuf
With her tonight. And we also are very excited to announce that this very new book has already released as number eight on the New York Times best seller list. [applause] and number 88 on usa today. So with that layla, welcome. Thank you so much. Very happy to be here. Are you on . Here it comes. Can you hear me . Try again. Can you hear me . No. Will you grab the third myth. Sorry about that. Thats okay. Sudden technical never happened before. Its because the tv is here. So, you can hear me, right . Ill ask a question and hand this mic over to layla so she can hear you. So, im going to start with this really fascinating workbook and book and a really great exploration of the topic of that we are all bed to talk but more tonight, but in this boom youre asking white people, in particularly white people in the United States, like me, to confront the racism. You say outright you know this can be ununcomfortable process. What motivate you to tackle this as a write center. Yes, so, its so i
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