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Preparation for the event tonight and they said that is the new faulkner biography. I said well, you got the faulkner part right. The best way i can describe this book is equal parts military history, social commentary, and literary criticism. And i think it will appeal equally to fans of any of those subjects. What the book really did for me is force me to give some serious thought to where faulkner stands at a time when we are asking ourselves some difficult and longoverdue questions about our countrys historic difficulties when it comes to matters of race. Was he something of a pioneer on t...

The scope of what we are talking about when we are talking about changes in policing. Instead of focusing primarily on reform, there are conversations about defunding or shrieking or abolishing the police, fundamentally changing the institution of the police and what they do. Data is really being proffered in many ways as this sort of panacea or Silver Bullet with many of these issues. In the defunding debate, lets say we are going to defund the cut costs. People say data can be used to allocate resources more efficiently. Or lets reduce racial bias and officer decisionmaking. Lets automate it...

Useful information. Preachers evangelize in that sense only . Not at all. With us today is a literary scholar and teacher who will discuss with us how makers of art and literature, fiction, film, poultry, or bringing us good news and revealing to us truths that can help us live wisely and well if that is we know how to read their books and watch their films. How do we watch and read even the products of our secular culture so as to grow and wisdom and grace. Stay with us as we talk with doctor margaret about fiction, film, and faith around us and the depths of rich human insight that can be fo...

Its the late show with stephen colbert. Tonight iowas karen olivio and aaron tveit and a performance by moulin rouge the musical. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from t cheers and applause stephen one more time come on hello, citizens stephen thats all right yeah, beautiful thank you. Thank you, friends and neighbors. Welcome to the late show. Im your host stephen colbert. Happy friday, my friends. cheers and applause or is it . laughter its not. Im actually taping this on thursday for scheduling reasons. I previously scheduled myself to be balls deep in an old fash...

Today we are going to discuss an overview of america in the 1970s. In the beginning of the century we talked about how it takes a bit of time or historians to understand what an era is about at least 25 years of perspective. The 1970s were seen as a bit of a joke of a decade. Bellbottoms, disco, bad hair. In recent years historians have seen the 1970s is very important. In some ways william more important than the 1960s which seems to get a lot of attention. One of the themes historians have talked about is calling this era the age of limits. We will get to a little bit about what that means. ...