[laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense i think it is kind of an interesting phenomenon. I think that will be studied. Host when you think about today, do you compare it to any other period in history . Guest no, you know, as a historian, im interested in analogies. I think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to find one thing to be like another, all the time, just in the same way, you know, im the kind of person that sees likenesses in family members. I look at a new baby and say oh that looks just like great grandma so and so. But at the same time, even as i say that, i recognize that a lot of that is my need for familiarity.
And tom keene. We welcome all of you across the xm,on, particularly sirius jenna 119. 119. Morning channel good morning on bloomberg television. 40. 59. Oil, one of our themes today has been the hateful language we have seen from some of our talent, and i want to go to alex morales writing on your united kingdom. The Prime Minister facing a northern revolt. That is hate filled. Theres no other way to put it. What is a revolt up north . Jonathan i think it is an accurate description. Manchester is being pushed into tier three, the heaviest set of restrictions. The labour mayor is pushing back. Back against boris johnson. He is being asked for more money. That is the sense of things, that we are not in it together. There is much more Division Within countries, and not just the u. K. You have seen this playing out in spain, and you will see more of it through europe through the winter. Tom the division in america is seen by the debates last night, debates plural. It really comes down to a
I think the perceptionce that many people in the United States and also around the worldhi that this is an extraordinary unusual time in a sense where we are out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that wonderment. And he gets kind of an interesting phenomenon. When you think about today do you compare it to any other time in history . As a historian. Im interested in that. We have a cognitive tendency. In the same way im the kind of person that seems like this and family members. Our need for familiarity. For most of my career as a historian. What time is this like. It is an easy story to write. I think theres a whole crop of president ial biographers who go out on talk shows. I generally find them to be not i in this era. Its actually a way to kind of contain the chaos. It is a way to avoid what is truly strange about this. What do we mean when we talk about American History. How are we to reckon with the fact that our present day is so p
You today by your television profess provideer. And now on book tv we are live with author and Harvard University history professor jill lepore who over the next 2 hours will be taking your calls and comments. Professors book include secret history of wonder woman, these truths, history of the United States and the newly published if then, about the cold war origins of data mining and social manipulation. Harvard professor jill lapore, before we get into the substance of your book, as a historian, what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed . [laughter] guest i think we have so little perspective on this moment that it is quite impossible to say. I think the perception that many people in the United States and, of course, also around the world have that this is an extraordinary uni shall time is something that we are in a time out of time will be a curiosity in the future. People will look back and wonder about that very sense alienation. I think that would be
His writing has been honored by the legacy award for creative nonfiction and any a literature, in his new book afropessimism, memoir and philosophy flowthrough and from one another as Frank Wilderson discusses an afro pessimist world of the occult with examples from his own life which in turn inform a lot. The screen is all yours. Guest it seems new every time. I thank everyone for coming up and sharing their evening with me in the auditorium of the free library of philadelphia. We are to gather like this perhaps. As horrible as this is, would have been in an auditorium. It is not worth the extra numbers. I hope everyone is safe and healthy. I am going to share with you an episode from my book. Those of you who have seen the book or read my other work or some are familiar with afropessimism, there are two trains running and i told John Williams of the new york times, what is the chain of critical theory which speaks to explain the structure the structure of black suffering that cannot