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Hall seattle and we are set up in the cafc right over here and our special guest tonight is you know howard, theyve been set up in the library showing off really cool mask games and im so excited to welcome you to tonights very special math theme doubleheader with Eugenia Cheng and Amir Alexander. This event is presented by townhall as sort of our big homecoming festival. Im hoping many of you might be returning for the first time after a couple of years while weve been remodeling the space and for a lot of you this might be your first time at town hall. This is the type of things we exist to ...

Normally do, and then it will be up to you to ask questions and whatever you want to talk about. We found out about the cspan coverage this morning but apparently you guys knew about it earlier in the week, because this is a team out of austin that has come here. Fantastic. Im tickled to death they could find santa anna on a map. And they have come to be with us this afternoon as part of that. It is taped. The idea, i think, is they will send a tape back to d. C. And it will be unfiltered, unedited, the way i prefer it. So whoever runs it, whoever is responsible for that, thank you for letting...

Times and i want to get your perspective on after the 2 million a week gold cartel is making just moving people across to mcallen. You know this well. Real problem. Can you talk a little bit about that as one of the opening point in making a great what . Guest youre right congressmen. The work you are doing is so important to enlighten the American Public about the vise grip the cartels have at the border. The horrifying and appalling impact that has innocent people on both sides of the border and whether things i think is really important to eliminate in chapter 1 of the book of what i call t...

Host what is the thread that connects all these topics. Guest one of the great things as journalist you can do anything you want. Im not a scholar. I dont have a specialty. Having said that there is a connection. I fells i would say its america after world war ii. This country really coming into its own as this global power, this supreme power, really. That fascinated me, and what is it like to be a leader in this world thats your world, your time, your world. So that drew me initially to the wisemen which i did with Walter Isaacson, and then john paul jones, couple centuries before, but even ...

My name is rebecca and im on the events team and tonight we are really excited to have [applause] [inaudible conversation] this is not his first thing he has given us to write. Casey has been writing for new yorkers and New York Times, for others for many years now. Many of you probably noticed because you are here but in all of her work she has been superhuman ability to make everybody else fascinating. Its a clear and this could not be more true for this book. In this one, casey marks to intertwining mysteries. One is a story of reverend Billy Maxwell in his trials and the other unfinished w...