up next, author david kalan talks about modern day philanthropy. philanthropy. >> good afternoon and welcome to the thinking tribune annual lit fest. i'd like to... >> we have a gray-haired approval. i met him in downtown new york city literary regular parties and gatherings that use to invite people, fact brigades and phone brigades before the internet and knew him over the years and went on to work with him when running world policy institute and he was at the most national think tank, we worked closely on a number of projects, so i had the pleasure to read his earlier books, the cheating culture, the moral center, he has written seven of them and i have always been impressed by david because he asks really hard questions. he comes up with an opinion but is very good about seeing both sides and trying to find where things come together and where we can come up with solutions. he is not an ideologue. he is the real deal so i could not be happier to see david in chicago today. i wanted to kick off by throwing out a couple numbers that he talks abou