and this legacy that carla and barbara meade began with the staff of politics & prose and you, the engaged customers, this legacy continues under the new ownership of brad graham and lissa muscatine. now, i want to just take a minute on some brief history history on israel and palestine in this store. under carla's chairing the free marketplace of ideas, this very place, exposed in a public forum at politics & prose the wrong-headedness of the book, "the israel lobby and u.s. foreign policy." there's a lot of questions, should a place, should they have a place to discuss their ideas. and carla and her team said, yes. but the give and take of ideas exposed what the authors were about. politics & prose has also hosted writers who present the palestinian perspective and scholarly writers such as bernard lewis and perceptive journalists such as tom friedman, jennifer griffin, thomas litman, greg meyer, robin wright, among many others. i'm particularly proud because at other times politics & prose has hosted writers who are moral leaders in israel. more than once david grossman, amos -- [inaudi

as you know, i am trained to come it was carload cohen's house band and she and barbara meade, together with the stellar staff here at politics & prose and need to be engaged and lovers of books and ideas in the community of writers, publishers, editors, agents have made politics & prose into more than a bricks and mortar bookstore. it's a setting for the discussion and dissemination of ideas and it's a hollowed public space where people meet, talk, and disagree in a civil way. and i will continue to have way in the leadership of its new owners, brad graham and melissa muscatine. so, i just want to -- continuity will stand and appropriate changes will be made, to. but not around what is a community institution around ideas. i very much wanted to introduce francis fukuyama tonight because i respect them, even as they told them to my thai civil society activists in asia and africa work on civil society and we have a lot of vigorous discussion about the end of history 10, 15 years ago. so that's one reason. the more important reason is he is an open-minded scholar who embraces big ideas, i

as you know, i am trained to come it was carload cohen's house band and she and barbara meade, together with the stellar staff here at politics & prose and need to be engaged and lovers of books and ideas in the community of writers, publishers, editors, agents have made politics & prose into more than a bricks and mortar bookstore. it's a setting for the discussion and dissemination of ideas and it's a hollowed public space where people meet, talk, and disagree in a civil way. and i will continue to have way in the leadership of its new owners, brad graham and melissa muscatine. so, i just want to -- continuity will stand and appropriate changes will be made, to. but not around what is a community institution around ideas. i very much wanted to introduce francis fukuyama tonight because i respect them, even as they told them to my thai civil society activists in asia and africa work on civil society and we have a lot of vigorous discussion about the end of history 10, 15 years ago. so that's one reason. the more important reason is he is an open-minded scholar who embraces big ideas, i

as you know, i am trained to come it was carload cohen's house band and she and barbara meade, together with the stellar staff here at politics & prose and need to be engaged and lovers of books and ideas in the community of writers, publishers, editors, agents have made politics & prose into more than a bricks and mortar bookstore. it's a setting for the discussion and dissemination of ideas and it's a hollowed public space where people meet, talk, and disagree in a civil way. and i will continue to have way in the leadership of its new owners, brad graham and melissa muscatine. so, i just want to -- continuity will stand and appropriate changes will be made, to. but not around what is a community institution around ideas. i very much wanted to introduce francis fukuyama tonight because i respect them, even as they told them to my thai civil society activists in asia and africa work on civil society and we have a lot of vigorous discussion about the end of history 10, 15 years ago. so that's one reason. the more important reason is he is an open-minded scholar who embraces big ideas, i