we're fortunate to have with us today, joshua muravchik, who spoke, "making david into goliath: how the world turned against israel" seems particularly relevant to current events. dr. muravchik has written hundreds of major articles in u.s. newspapers and intellectual journals on a wide array of your foreign policy, political and ideological topics. the author of nine previous books, including heaven on earth: the rise and fall of socialism, exporting democracy, for filling american destiny and trailblazers of the arab spring, voices of democracy in the middle east. he is currently a fellow at the foreign policy institute at johns hopkins university school of advanced international studies. for many years he was at the american enterprise institute. from 2011 to 2013, he was also a fellow at the george w. bush and to two. he was a fellow in residence at the washington institute for near east policy and before that in the 1970s he was a congressional aide to representative james o'hara and patrick moynihan. joshua. [applause] >> thank you for coming here to hear what i have to say. i am

we are fortunate to have with us today joshua muravchik whose book "making david into goliath" how the world turned against israel" seems relevant to current events. he has written hundreds of articles in intellectual journals with foreign policy and political and ideological topics the author of nine previous books including heaven on earth the rise and fall of socialism and trailblazers the voices of democracy of the middle east caribbean fellow at the foreign policy institute at johns hopkins school and of indians to studies infirmity years at the american enterprise institute from 2011 to 2013 also a fellow at the george did you bush instituted and a fellow in residence in before that in the seven days a congressional aide to representative james o'hara and patrick moynihan. joshua? [applause] >> thank you for coming here for what i have to say. i am grateful for that. it is a striking coincidence of process to repeated self and times over the past decade and a half is now taking place once again that it strikes back in self-defense and then receives widespread criticism around the

have since taken hostage by how moss -- hamas to advance the agenda we are fortunate to have joshua muravchikis booktv of lynn how the world turned against israel" that seems irrelevant to the events. he has written hundreds of articles of a wide variety of policy of topics the author of nine previous books including heaven on earth the rise and fall of socialism and fulfilling america's destiny and trailblazers with the voices of democracy in the middle east and currently a fellow at the foreign policy institute at the school of international studies and for many years was at the american enterprise institute 2011 through 2013 of fellow in the george debut wishes to it before that's it is a congressional aide to o'hare and senator moynihan. [applause] >> the queue for coming here for what i have to say. it is a striking two incidents that a process that we have watched repeated itself many times is now taking place once again that israel is attacked that strikes back in self-defense and then receives widespread criticism around the world from the united states and the media. this is the subj

we are fortunate to have with us today joshua muravchik whose book "making david into goliath" how the world turned against israel" seems relevant to current events. he has written hundreds of articles in intellectual journals with foreign policy and political and ideological topics the author of nine previous books including heaven on earth the rise and fall of socialism and trailblazers the voices of democracy of the middle east caribbean fellow at the foreign policy institute at johns hopkins school and of indians to studies infirmity years at the american enterprise institute from 2011 to 2013 also a fellow at the george did you bush instituted and a fellow in residence in before that in the seven days a congressional aide to representative james o'hara and patrick moynihan. joshua? [applause] >> thank you for coming here for what i have to say. i am grateful for that. it is a striking coincidence of process to repeated self and times over the past decade and a half is now taking place once again that it strikes back in self-defense and then receives widespread criticism around the

. >> thank you and with that can i ask members of the audience to join me in thanking joshua muravchik. [applause] he will be outside if you want to buy books and i think we will have some spam which is out there in the atrium. thank you. if i'm not mistaken this is the 30th democracy but at johns hopkins published since the series began in 1993. these volumes mostly but not exclusively draw upon article that previously appeared in the journal have addressed a very wide range of regional issues related to democratization around the world. for any of you who may not be familiar with the journal of democracy is a publication sponsored by the national endowment of democracy that has become the leading global forum or serious analysis of the problems and prospects of democracy around the world. larry diamond who is also my coeditor of the journal will serve as the moderator of today's discussion and i will limit myself to a few brief remarks by sleep out the book itself. today given the intense worldwide focus on the shattering events in ukraine the arab world for the first time in several

joshua. i'm sure in muravchik. he will be outside at the table if you want to buy books and i think we also have sandwiches. in the nature you. thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> welcome to both tv special that for some of the places our producers have visited in 2014 as we continue to explore the unique history of literary culture of america. [inaudible conversations] with the help of our cable partners, for the next hour we will take you across the country from day one, oregon to st. louis, to mobile, alabama. we begin in utah where we toured 25th street with author sal halley. >> twenty-fifth street is south is actually not that unusual. similar streets have popped up in other cities whether beaumont, texas, held half-acre, for verse, larimer and denver. but what makes auditing 26 street somewhat unique is that it arose right middle dumars settlement. you have the mormon peoples party which was struggling to retain control of the city. on the other hand, you have the railroad, whic