And i think by any terms, he is doing great. He is a household word. Those are just two examples of people who were passionate and knowledgeable and found their way into an area that people were not following. It was extraordinarily, these are the people you should be looking to, not me. My path was weird and cannot be followed. Lets open it up to questions from the audience. When you come to the microphone, please give us your name and where you go to school. If anyone would like to come up. Here is our first inquire. He is adjusting it. Until someone gets the courage up, you mentioned nate silver. He offers the fascinating thesis that it is that talking heads on all the cable channels are the ones who are constantly predicting things that, believe it or not, have the worst prognostication records. He said that the amount of minutes you are on television are inversely proportionate to the accuracy of your predictions. I listen to your show every sunday afternoon. I want to know, i saw
Well, good evening. Everybody. Welcome to tonights presentation on Charlie Chaplin who is known universally as an iconic comedian. What is not so generally known perhaps is the political impact of his humor. A subject about which we will learn more this evening. First let me thank our series sponsor Davenport Company not only for their support of tonights lecture, but for the support they have provided for the program over the years. The davenport farm was our very First Corporate sponsor and they have not only continued that support. But have been instrumental in securing additional benefactors as well. I cannot emphasize enough how much the generosity has meant to the development of our program . The university and its students as well as the larger Fredericksburg Community are deeply indebted to them for this. Now speak of this evening, dr. Steven j farnsworth received his ba in history from the university of missouri, kansas city and a ba in government from dartmouth. Followed by b
Well, good evening. Everybody. Welcome to tonights presentation on Charlie Chaplin who is known universally as an iconic comedian. What is not so generally known perhaps is the political impact of his humor. A subject about which we will learn more this evening. First let me thank our series sponsor Davenport Company not only for their support of tonights lecture, but for the support they have provided for the program over the years. The davenport farm was our very First Corporate sponsor and they have not only continued that support. But have been instrumental in securing additional benefactors as well. I cannot emphasize enough how much the generosity has meant to the development of our program . The university and its students as well as the larger Fredericksburg Community are deeply indebted to them for this. Now speak of this evening, dr. Steven j farnsworth received his ba in history from the university of missouri, kansas city and a ba in government from dartmouth. Followed by b
Unstable. We are seeing extremism. We are seeing a major shift in this region. We are not dealing with iran in a vacuum. The decisions we make have to be decisions for the region. We are dealing with a United States that is tired of war. It has not gone well in the two big wars it conducted in the middle east. It spent trillions of dollars, a lot of mud and blood and treasure. It is very clear that the americans are more interested in nationbuilding at home. These are important context to bear in mind. Hopefully the Iranian Regime will change. Hopefully, the administration will take diplomacy very seriously. Or that sanctions really change the koran and governments mind and they change course the iranian governments mind and they change course. It is quite likely and possible that iran may go nuclear before any of these things take effect. Before sanctions, as rigorous as they are, produce a result, or before there is a democracy movement. Then, we are really left with two choices. We
Influencing machine. She sat down recently at fort university. This is an hour and 20 minutes fordham university. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Our moderator is the author of four books on cultural programming and for 15 years, he was the head of special projects at the directors guild. He frequently moderates and events around the city for bafta, the screen actors guild, the producers guild, the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences. Please welcome brian rose. [applause] next, but could not be more delighted to have Brooke Gladstone here tonight. She is the managing editor and cohost of nprs on the media and author of a highly acclaimed book the influencing machine. we will be doing a signing of her book. She has been at npr for many years, including a threeyear stint in moscow where she covered the last turbinate years of president yeltsin. I know all of you die hard groupies out there will agree there is something about brooke that pulls you in. Each week, even at 7 00 a. M.