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In the Miami Book Fairs virtual author series. We have become virtual of sellers and doing virtual author events. Its great to see all here tonight. And also from a personal perspective i just want to thank all of you out there for all of the incredible support that you shown, books and books and writers everywhere in this very, very difficult time that we are all facing. All of us at books and books in Miami Book Fair i thinking of you and really helping hoping that you and your family are safe and healthy. We presenting this series that only with the Miami Book Fair because they are like fam...

[laughter] you know what that means i received walkout storm the stage strategy in Southern California the blockade that prevented anyone from actually attending my talk. Students of color at nearby Pomona College and the fascist white supremacist ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that have the lethal conditions of which people are forced to live. So to have an audience still in its seat willing to listen is an unusual experience that may take me a while to get accustomed to. We have heard a lot of the crisis of free speech on College Campuses but not about the root cause, the vic...

So history as you all know is about words. Thats why you are here. The stately rhythms of the declaration of independence, the cadences of the constitution, but its also about sounds. Its about the muffled drum at lexington and concord and the sound of the surf at omaha beach, sound of a minister at the march on washington calling on us to live up to the full meeting of our creed. And its also about music, and music is one of the most universal expressions. You can listen to song with which you might disagree, more ingeniously and more profitably and you couldmo ever listen to e speech about s...

1971 . I think that a martian left would would be the easiest way to sum it up. I was a leftwinger but i didnt make enough sense to actually be a communist or anything like that. When did the transformation occur . Well, it was gradual. It took place over in fact, i just wrote about it. Theres a book coming out from the Hoover Institution is backing this, why i turned right and its the story of a bunch of us and why we became right. It actually is a long story and i wont tell it. Ly give the short version. I was a radical leftist, very much in favor of some sort of marxist socialist thing in a...

Into the and i demonic young dictate dictator could not be more timely. The book provides insight into who kim jong un is, what makes him tick and what to tell up at night. The book has earned wide praise from among the leading thinkers and former policy practitionersdealing with north korean issues and were fortunate that they will for the next hour with us down what we need to know about how north korea operates , who jung pak who kim jong un is and what is going on in north korea so welcome them to this conversation. They both areformer intelligence analysts who represent the best of their ...