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Community of authors book lovers and friends. We would not be here today. Tonight we are excited to have with this, the developer, celebrating the release of our new book strange rights. Tara is a contributing editor at the american interests, and columnist. In the former staff recorder. Shes written on religion and secular is him, to national geographic, washington post. New york times more and holds a doctorate in theology from oxford. Shes also the author of the novel social creature. Joining tar, roth is a columnist for the New York Times. Is the author of to change the church. That religi...

[background noises] [background noises] [inaudible] it is my great pleasure to have my bestdressed an old friend, tom wolfe here for breakfast. [applause] spin at night he cited the one thing that had not been touched was college life. We well i began to hear about the coed storm. But it was a total cold abstraction to me. I mean, i assumed it meant more. But i couldnt get a picture of it. We heard about corruption and bigtime collegiate sports. I was curious about how this affected the athletes themselves . What were they like . We part of political correctnes correctness. We know a lot about...

Youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident ...

[inaudible conversations] one of the things from the very beginning and you are very loyal. It is my great pleasure to have my old friend tom wolfe here for breakfast. [applause] i decided the one thing that hadnt been touched that i began to hear but it was a total abstraction. But i couldnt get a picture of it. We heard about corruption in big time collegiate sports. I was curious how this affected the athletes themselves. And what they were like we heard of Political Correctness because they are much more apt to be talking to professors than to students. I discovered right away that student...

This week, pales to the best moment of american literature, tom wolfe wrote in one of his manifestoes on behalf of literary realism, we need a battalion of brigade to head out into this one with far and predictable of stopping and three claiming it as liberty property. As the trouble of turning yourself into an america is that you immediately expose being trumped by reality, the critics are forever basing him from going over the top, for using cartoon characters returned is the opposite. Mr. Wolfson satire pains into significance paint with a reality that he tries to capture. Charlotte simmons...