something like that has been happening to a lot of our institutions in american life in the last few decades. we don't think of our institutions as performative the congress is just stages were outraged when the university becomes a venue for virtual signaling or the other side, it's activism on one side or the other. when the church becomes a political stage, they become a lot harder to trust because they aren't really asking for our trust, they are just asking for our attention. in our time, a lot of the most significant social and political and cultural and electoral institutions in our country are in the process of going through this kind of transformation from mold to platform. the few exceptions most notably the military formative of our national institutions seem to prove that role because they tend to be the fewest institutions in which we are losing faith. many of the truly novel institutions of the 21st century, especially the virtual institutions of social media are inherently shaped as platforms and not as a mold. it would be strange to trust the platform and we generally

when we think about the role of institutions in american life now we might tend to think first in terms of our loss of trust or institutions and we talk about that a lot and is a trend we hear about, measures that are easy to find and paint a grim picture. gallup has kept track of what it calls on americans confidence institutions for decades and in most cases it started out doing this in the early 1970s and continues to do it on a regular basis and the trend is unmistakable. from big business and banks and professions to the branches of the federal government, the news media, the academy found confidence in our institutions have been plummeting consistently and in the early 70s 80% of americans said they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in doctors and hospitals, for example. last year at that figure was 37%. forty years ago 65% of americans that they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in organized religion but last year less than 40% said that. 60% of americans express confidence in the public schools in the early 70s, just about a third did last year. even in 1

i think that spoke to a kind of tendency in american life to respond to problems by building institutionsit is an americannd thing, alexis to telco was here and wrote a letter to his father and said if you get four americans together they will elect the treasurer. [laughter] that is one way to understand our national character, but i think we've lost a little bit of that tendency now, to see a problem and respond by organizing around it. because we have all these ways now to just express our dissatisfaction, and we inclined to expressive forms of response rather than to structural, organizational forms. we think that by just signaling on facebook that we agree with that guy, we done something about the problem. for saying on facebook that you're on the right side of something, that's not doing anything at all. and very often it's a way of avoiding doing something. in some ways it's even worse than that because the kind -- the forms of reaction the twitter and other forms of social media encourage, lead us to respond to problems in a kind of confrontational way rather than thinking about h

the american enterprise institute's Ãbwill sit down with us to discuss his books and career. nd answer your questions. here's a previous appearance he has made on booktv. >> we americans are in a sense living through a social crisis. we can see that in everything from vicious polarization and rapid culture war incident resentments and upsurge of sight as isolation and alienation, despair that is sent suicide rates climbing and driven an epidemic of opioid abuse in recent years these are deep dysfunctions and seemingly very different parts of our society but they seem to have common roots and yet it's not easy to say what exactly those routes are what exactly has gone wrong. the crisis part of the symptoms is that we can't quite seem to get a handle on just what that is. traditional economic concerns don't cut it as explanations. we went through a severe recession 2007 2008 but ended more than a decade ago and we've now been living through one of the longest economic expansions in the modern era we are very low unemployment and inflation and interest rates wages are rising it's

warren who's also running for president joining us now to discuss the real director of the american institute for economic research jeffrey tucker himself. so dorothy in took a long time to step down here i mean he really only recused himself as the justice department started to really focus on the doubleclick acquisition which arguably you could look at that and say that became the biggest piece in this antitrust puzzle correct. yeah that's exactly right and he had to recuse himself i mean i guess nobody actually once did this because then the problem with this kind of public announcements is that you're revealing to everybody that these antitrust actions are inherently political and that they are self interest on the part of government officials in in them so yeah there's a revolving door between private enterprise and government bureaucracies so just having to make this announcement just sort of underscores that and undermines public confidence and then to trust which is a good thing actually because there's no antitrust action on the part of the justice department that isn't already kind

despite the relatively strong economy so joining us now to discuss is just a writer for the american institute for economic research who joins us here in studio jeffrey good to have you know you're going to see van ok so the idea here is that the fed is warning of the growing federal deficit it's almost laughable right because it kind of really it is the one entity more than any other that is contributing to the deficit and the influx of cheap money into the market propped up market and it's all thanks to the fed correct well i mean that's been the hope one of the central banks from the beginning right to back federal debt to be to make the country too big to fail and thereby guarantee all the banks and the problem is that creates a moral hazard that's why all the spending restraints from the politicians don't work a constitutional amendment wouldn't fix it all the railing against high spending that is never worked and the reason is because the fed is there to build everybody up and print all the money anybody needs the states can't get away with this you can't get away with this families can'

to do what they did in the past absolutely jeffrey tucker editorial director for the american institute for economic research great to have you here it's good to have him thank you. and a united states federal judge on tuesday approved the merger of wireless carriers t. mobile and sprint judge victor morocco did not believe the combination of the country's 3rd and 4th largest mobile providers created antitrust concerns in the 173 page opinion the judge said the new company would continue t. mobile's undeniably successful business strategy for the foreseeable future based on the information provided the judge also suggested sprint would have a tough time remaining independent writing the overwhelming view within sprint and in the wider industries that sprint is falling further sure farther shorter of the targets it must hit to remain relevant as a significant competitor now the new group will be forced to divest some assets which will actually go to dish network corp as they make an effort to enter the competitive telecom space on the news sprint stock shot up more than 70 percent on tue

you have their takes and with more let's bring in jeffrey talker editorial director of the american institute for economic research so jeffrey let's start there you heard what some of our earlier guests had to say about this panic and how it's completely overblown what is your take is there a risk here or is this all of us thought is it a cry for more attention and more fed intervention. i don't think markets are live and i think there's the fears are real and the fears are based on serious things and we've got a whole sectors of the global economy that are coming under serious pressure right now you know with the with the halts and travel and the fear of public spaces the hospitality and industries and mentioned hotel prices i mean new york right now i mean i've never seen hotel prices as low in new york as they are right now so i mean this is this having real effects i mean for the average people the effects of this virus are going to be much more impactful from an economic point than it is from from a health point of view so this is a real supply shock and a real. i'm shocked and the heck

a lot of stuff today just jeffrey tucker editorial director of the american institute for economic research thank you so much. time now for a quick break but hang in there because when we come back we take a look at bio hacking the quest for a better longer more efficient life you're going to believe what some silicon valley leaders are doing trying to trick their bodies into running at top performance and as we go to break here the sad said numbers of the cuts. and there's enough to not. can if you could vote was more great if the. lost not going to match the d.n.a. it will be like a bad day only for the lastly of a large that it will be. the one that having. people come people. who give the neither you. nor jane need the whole. why do. so and i think she is just an honest one. the point is should we actually be charging for it because this is when we charge for things is because it's a benefit to the person who's buying it and that's the audiology to education about 30 or 40 years ago but the perspective of education was originally that education is a benefit for society in general i woul

welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm the director of social cultural and constitutional styleds here at aei, and it is my very great pleasure to welcome you to a discussion of land of hope, the new one involve history of our country by the great american historian, will fred mcklay. a book that comes as a time when questions of who we are as a people, whether we can have a unifying rather an divisive story and how to tell the story of our country in a way that neither sells short the than greatness nor white washes our national sins are really live questions in our politics and what may be an unusual way. and this book is clearly intended to speak to just that moment. so there couldn't be a better time to hear from bill about his sense of how to approach these questions. bill mcklay is a national treasure. a teacher. he is admired and beloved by scores of students, past and present. also one of the great writers of american history. his book, the masterless self --" the masterless self-and society in modern america w

many were collected by american institutions and by interested individuals over the past 30 years with their story the filmmakers reflect on how our view of the past is shaped by the context of the present day. and the directors of the american sector join me now in the studio to talk a bit more about their documentary courtney stevens and. ellis thanks so much for being on the w. so the 1st thing i want to ask the 2 of you is how you even got the idea to make this film well thank you thanks for having us the idea came from another project that we were working on in los angeles about. about reagan and reagan's politics we were doing research at the reagan presidential library and we encountered a piece of the wall right beside their their picnic table. and people would come by and say the most outrageous things about about the berlin wall and about american history and it became clear to us that this wall was a was a catalyst to get people to talk about about a. america and we were started to wonder where else in the united states was this wall and what else were people saying about it

many were collected by american institutions and by interested individuals over the past 30 years with their story the filmmakers reflect on how our view of the past is shaped by the context of the present day. well the directors of the american sector join me now in the studio to talk a bit more about their documentary so courtney stevenson passion of alice thanks so much for being on our program courtney and like to start with you what gave you the idea to make this film so for both of us the fall of the berlin wall as one of these events that was one of the 1st times that we experienced as children history happening though you know it was your parents telling you to remember this for the rest of your life and i think recently we have had so much conversation about walls and about borders and ideas around freedom in this country and we found that the wall was something that allowed people to talk about those ideas displaced on to something else now pasha do people in the united states understand the significance of the berlin wall i mean how did they perceive it well so as we as you

mike sommers of the american petroleum institute. the danger of batteries. it was supposed to be a solution to climate change, but is it hindering more than helping? this is bloomberg. ♪ amanda: this is bloomberg markets. i'm amanda lang in toronto. vonnie: i'm vonnie quinn in new york. climate change is the issue of our time. launched bloomberg green on that note, using data and in-depth reporting to illustrate the scale of the challenge. focused on the issue of lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles. alix steel has details. the 20th century was the image of the internal combustion engine. the 21st century will belong to the battery. 2040, the majority of cars sold around the world balloon powered by batteries, they will make far more pollutants and gas guzzlers, but the elements used in batteries have their own challenges. lithium is a water guzzlers. if lithium prices stay low, it may not be worth the cost to mine. the industry would likely opt for the risk your method of pumping salt water underground to extract it a good nickel is used in lithi

how we committing to our institutions can revise american dreams. with that increasing divisiveness with populist on both sides that trying to tear down the institutional frameworks we should be looking to them as sources of strength and support. showing our current crisis is to the presence of the oppressive force and then just to commit ourselves ranging from the family and schools to churches and military. the founder director of cultural and constitutional studies at the unified institutes and contributing editor of the new atlantis and senior editor and also the great debate and have appeared in numerous publications including the new york times, washington post, wall street journal and many others. please join me to welcome to politics and proseshoiom yuval levin. [applause] >> i appreciate the welcome. and i want to chat about this book and what it might say for the moment, it takes a little work to understand. it's about what has gone wrong in our country in recent years and what we can do about it. but something has gone wrong is clear but e

after that american enterprise institute director argues that supporting american institutions ratheran replacing them over unite the country. and lori and pratt discusses the next article of check your guide for more information. now here's charles murray. [applause] thank you their many friends in the audience and thanks to dalton conway for making the trip down here to be with us tonight. "human diversity" is a big book and we don't have much time. my job is to give you an overview of the main findings of the books

the american enterprise institute's Ãbwill sit down with us to discuss his books and career. d answer your questions. here's a previous appearance he has made on booktv. >> we americans are in a sense living through a social crisis. we can see that in everything from vicious polarization and rapid culture war incident resentments and upsurge of sight as isolation and alienation, despair that is sent suicide rates climbing and driven an epidemic of opioid abuse in recent years these are deep dysfunctions and seemingly very different parts of our society but they seem to have on

american enterprise institute director levin argues that supporting american institutions rather than replacing them will unite the country. and laurean pratt discusses artificial intelligence that involves decisionmaking, tonight at booktv. check your program did for more information. >> i am gavin kleespies. i know that dreary weather and change in the season makes it harder to come to programs so we appreciate seeing a full room despite the rain. if anyone is visiting for the first time i want to extend a special welcome. we're an independent, nonprofit library that makes massachusetts and american history available. we do this through thank you support of members and don nors -- donors. we make history available through our library that provides access to our amazing collection which includes close to 14 million manuscript pages and among other things the papers of three of the first six u.s. presidents. we also do this through programs for educators, programs for academics and through our public programs. we also host exhibitions and tonight's talk really kochtails with our curre

for just all of those institutions the all the major exception that is unmistakable the american public has gone from extraordinary levels of confidence to striking levels of mistrust. but what do we mean when we say we don't trust institutions cracks it has a lot tost do with what institutions are and do it goes back every significant institution carries out an important task of society to enforce the law or serve the poor to make a product and it does that by establishing a structure and the process to accomplish that task. in the process for those to carry out the task effectively and responsibly andd reliably to shape the people within it to be trustworthy we trust the institution that makes the people within it more trustworthy we may trust the political institution when it takes seriously the obligation of public interest and informs the people in it to do the .same. and that clearly shaves people to do that we trust the business because it promises the need that we have. we trust the school because it builds culture to make people devoted and we trust the journalistic institution

peacekeepers internationally in a lot of parts the world americans don't care as much about it it's going to be increasingly with their rules and their institutions and that's the problem of both american and chinese exceptionalism is that there's not a lot of willingness to coordinate on these things i don't believe that we're heading to the americans and chinese in any way looking at the g. 2 in any way looking to say how the interesting about munich right here was that the europeans have no interest in making china their principal national security concern the americans not just the trauma ministration i mean nancy pelosi to that was absolutely number one eyebrow never seen this kind of division inside the transatlantic in our last couple of minutes i want to read just a line from wolfgang ischinger who happens to be on the show and ask each of you how you would avoid this bleak diagnosis he writes the international order of mostly shaped by the west is coming apart and what emerges is not a more just one more peaceful order but rather one in which those seem to prevail who do not seem to care about international law and norms the age of impun

. >> reporter: tonight an american institution in turmoil. the boy scouts of america filing for bankruptcy amid hundreds of lawsuits alleging sexual abuse. many of them claiming the organization knew there was a problem as far back as the 1920s. thousands of men have come forward >> still feels really raw. >> never felt comfortable with myself. >> i live with this daily. >> i never knew how to deal with this >> reporter: jeff williams was just 9 years old when he says he was molested by a scout leader in cincinnati >> i want my childhood back i want my adulthood back. >> reporter: williams is not part of a current lawsuit because his alleged abuse happened nearly four decades ago lawmakers in 40 states and washington, d.c. have been working to change the statute of limitations on these cases because experts say it can take decades for those dealing with trauma to come forward only the national organization is filing for bankruptcy boy scouts of america says it plans to use the chapter 11 process to create a victims compensation trust for surv

argue supporting american institutions rather than replacing them and erika lee, director of the immigration history center in the university visit at looks at zeno phobia throughout american history. you can find a complete tv schedule on your program guide or booktv.org. >> national constitution center president jeffrey rosen sat down with ruth bader ginsburg to discuss the conversations they have had over the years. here's a portion of the program. >> the advice your mother gives you in this letter is advice you often repeat, you told it to me for our conversations and i asked you how you were able to follow that, the advice that says, and it is so important to get the exact words, first she says prepare for difficulty and stand on your own two feet like eleanor roosevelt. what was the context for when she gave you that? >> my mother's advice was don't lose time on useless emotions like anger. remorse. nv. they won't get you anyplace. so when i was angry was practicing the piano. i wasn't very good at it but it did distract me. whatever useless emotion i was feeling at

billionaire mike bloomberg his numbers are rising we cannot say the same for the prospects of an american institution today the boy scouts of america filed for bankruptcy has a dark past finally comes to light tonight the search for justice and the quest for political power 2 american stories $2000000000.00 american stories i'm bored golf in berlin.

. >> here in the u.s., president trump is urging americans institute panic. he says health officials are monitoring the situation closely. >>> the mardi gras season with . authorities are stepping up efforts to make the parade a loa tradition turned deadly. on saturday a man was hit and killed by a floaturing one of new orleans' iconic marti gras parades. >> it's really sad. >> reporter: hours before the accident, thousands of locals and visitors secure their spots for the annual event, cheering and dancing as the elaborate procession rolls through the street. authorities canceled the rest of the parade as police blocked off the streets and urged people to clear the area. in the wake of the accident, officials announcing an immediate change to the festivities going forward, banning the use of multiple floats connected together and pulled by a tractor known as tandem floats. >> i think we have tothis is a . >> last wednesday a woman was run over and by a float in another carnival celebration. the 58-year-old was tryinging to cross to the other side of the para

american enterprise institute director levin argues that supporting american institutions rather than replacing them will unite the country. and laurean pratt discusses artificial intelligence that involves decisionmaking, tonight at booktv. check your program did for more information. >> i am gavin kleespies. i know that dreary weather and change in the season makes it harder to come to programs so we appreciate seeing a full room despite the rain. if anyone is visiting for the first time i want to extend a special welcome. we're an independent, nonprofit library that makes massachusetts and american history available. we do this through thank you supp

next from the american revolution institute of the society of cincinnati a discussion examining experiences of u.s. veterans since the revolutionary war. secretary robert wilkie delivers the opening remarks. >> welcome to anderson house at washington, d.c. headquarters of the american revolution institute of the society of the cincinnati. i'm president general of the society. a position occupied by general george washington. founding in from 1783 until his passing on december 14, 1799. today is november 11, 2019 which marks the 100th anniversary of veterans day in america. originally known as armistice day and renamed in 1954 this is a day when we recognize the service of all u.s. military veterans. we are delighted to mark this important day with a special event designed to salute america's veterans. guestseased that our include a fellow north carolinian who is the veteran affairs secretary. the honorable robert wilkie. the society of cincinnati was the first veterans group. it is particularly fitting he will provide remarks. you will hear more about that in a moment. we are gathered here

that supporting american institutions rather than replace ing them there organize and led to multiple teacher strikes. explores genetics and neuroscience of human differences in latest book, espn.com senior writer howard bryant officers his thoughts on sports, politics and race in america. and journalists cony hong of 1972 campaign. this all start 6:30 p.m. eastern, check your program guide for more information. >> you're watching book tv, television for serious readers. >> good evening, welcome to kayle ridge books, it's my honor to introduce to you jim kenkins who was editorial columnist on the editorial page of news and observer for 31 years, he will introduce our special guest, please help me welcome jim jenkins. [applause] >> come on up zucch.

institution would have to be destroyed. slavery also hinder the progress of free african-americans who by extension, share the burden of belonging to a despised and marginalized race. the institution negatively impacted white men as well. one for they families held ownership of enslaved laborers, their economic and social standing disadvantaged the common white man. moreover, enslaved laborers competed with the poor worker making it harder to earn a living. those struggling non-slaveholders who sought a better life for themselves beyond the influence of the wealthy farmers needed a sanctuary elsewhere. recognized that the territories offered a solution to the dilemma poor white men faced. the whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories he declared. we want them for the homes of free white people. this they cannot be to any considerable extent if slavery shall be planted within them. slave states are places for poor white people to remove from not to remove to. new free states are the places for poor people to go to and better their condition. for this use, the nation needs these territories. b

billionaire mike bloomberg his numbers are rising we cannot say the same for the prospects of an american institution today the boy scouts of america filed for bankruptcy has a dark past finally comes to what tonight the search for justice and the quest for political power 2 american stories $2000000000.00 american stores i'm bored golf in berlin this is the day. 60000000000 dollars can buy you a lot of after trust but you can't record there's a lot to talk about michael bloomberg just a couple of berg was certainly not going to win when you have a new york city that included racist policy like stuff but 1st he needs to go unchallenged like this which he has said that he just can't hide behind the airway he has to answer questions i'm a leader who can be honest about my mistakes and i believe when you make a mistake you just learn from it. next time you write is a lightweight you going to find that he's also one of the worst debaters i've ever seen. his presence is 0. also coming up rule number one of the boy scouts of america always be prepare a motto for more than a century but not for the events o

after that american enterprise institute director argues that supporting american institutions rather than replacing them over unite the country. and lori and pratt discusses the next article of check your guide for more information. now here's charles murray. [applause] thank you their many friends in the audience and thanks to dalton conway for making the trip down here to be with us tonight. "human diversity" is a big book and we don't have much time. my job is to give you an overview of the main findings of the books and 12 minutes and professor conley's job, dalton's job, is to point the conversation in any direction he wants and will take it from there in the discussion. i wanted to write "human diversity" for many reasons, but at the center is this fact. we are on the cusp of an enormously exciting era. advances in genetic genetics and neuroscience gives new tools that will enable us to take giant strides in understanding human behavior, human society, policies and economies. we are like physicist, i'd like to say at the outset of the 19th century, poised at a moment in history

learning the american petroleum institute warned the administration that u.s.erts might not be able to meet the needs. i am a little curious about that if the oil were rerouted to china, it would need to the trade deal requires, but if you wanted to add exports on top of that, that's where you run into logistical problems. haslinda: you have to wonder what it means for the phase two trade deal. goingeah, the impact is to hang over everything with the u.s. as they try to move forward and get this phase two deal worked out by the end of this year. paul: thanks for joining us. india's markets have just opened. mumbai. to take us through what to expect from today's session. higher in the last two sessions. how are we looking at the open today? a muted start for the indian equities. ie are looking at the nif trading at levels in the opening session. -- at the nifty trading at lower levels in the opening session. the markets have started with a bit of cuts. volatility indices, we have seen in the weeks coming off of levels of 17, 18 to now almost 12 or 13 in the last