el capitán ahab cazó a moby dick con fines lucrativos.comprender lo importante que fueron estos productos en nuestra historia. incluso nos otorgaron algo de arte americano. el tallado en marfil es el arte de tallar diseños en los colmillos de los cachalotes. el presidente john f. kennedy era fanático de los tallados y tuvo una gran colección. pero para encontrar la ballena con los colmillos más asombrosos, hay que viajar hasta el ártico. ♪ estos son los dientes del narval, colmillos, en realidad. los machos tienen colmillos que pueden alcanzar 3 metros de largo. ♪ los machos usan sus colmillos para impresionar a las hembras, pero el verdadero impacto de estos colmillos se vivió en la edad media. el colmillo de un narval era idéntico al cuerno mítico del unicornio. una copa fabricada con el cuerno del unicornio, teóricamente neutralizaría cualquier veneno, así que los comerciantes hicieron una fortuna vendiendo copas hechas de colmillos del narval la realeza. ♪ pero hay otras ballenas que no tienen dientes. ¿quién los necesita cuando se pu

and as ahab said, "my means and my methods are sane. only my object is mad." the inability to stand up, whether it's over the inevitable financial dislocation, these people are harvesting the country. anytime hedge fund manages and let's never -- managers, and let's never forget at institutions like this, half of the trustee boards come from this class. most of them should be in jail. when they walk into inner city areas and talk about poor children's education, it's not because they want kids to read and write. it's because they know the federal government spend $600 billion a year on education and they want it and they're going to get it. there is no mechanism left except civil disobedience and having covered movements all arounded world, the revolutions in eastern europe, the two palestinian uprisings, the street demonstrations that brought down milosevic, you know the continueder is there. i spent the last two years in the poorest pockets of it country from camden, new jersey, to the pro douse fields in florida and the coal fields in southern west virginia

and as ahab said, "my means and my methods are sane. only my object is mad." the inability to stand up, whether it's over the inevitable financial dislocation, these people are harvesting the country. anytime hedge fund manages and let's never -- managers, and let's never forget at institutions like this, half of the trustee boards come from this class. most of them should be in jail. when they walk into inner city areas and talk about poor children's education, it's not because they want kids to read and write. it's because they know the federal government spend $600 billion a year on education and they want it and they're going to get it. there is no mechanism left except civil disobedience and having covered movements all around the world, the revolutions in eastern europe, the two palestinian uprisings, the street demonstrations that brought down milosevic, you know the tinder is there. i spent the last two years in the poorest pockets of it -- of this country from camden, new jersey, to the produce fields in florida and the coal fields in southern west vi

in captain ahab's whaling crew, men of everyace are thrown togeth in pursuit of the elusive and the mythical. diaz sees in this a parable of america then and now. he teaches creative writing at m.i.t. and recently received a prestigious macarthur fellowship, the well-known and coveted "genius grant." junot diaz, welcome. >> oh, thank you for having me. >> well, i've wanted to have you, because i've wanted to ask one of america's foremost storytellers, "what's the story you're telling yourself out of this election?" whe it s banas tchi that election. but i think probably the thing that comes out most forcefully after the election is how little people were expecting the voting, the sort of, the electoral body that made obama's victory possible. i mean, i think there was -- no one was talking about the sort of numbers that showed up for obama. no one was predicting the diversity of the vote. no one was predicting that sort of the republican strategy for sering a romnevictorwould come to grief so kind of spectacularly. i mean, i'm telling you. even the communities who came out to vote, i think,