i am david cohen who is carla cohen's husband. she and barbara meet with the stellar staff at politics and prose and you, the engage and articular lovers of books and ideas for and community of writers, publishers, editors and agents that made politics and prose into more than a brick and mortar bookstore. it is a thriving community institution. it is a setting for the discussion and dissemination of ideas and a public space where people meet and talk and disagreed and do it in a civil way and it will continue that way under the leadership of its new owners, brad graham and alyssa musket. continuity will-around ideas and public space. i want to introduce frances fukuyama tonight because i respect him even though as i told him i'd taught civil society activists in asia and africa, work on civil society and we had a lot of vigorous discussion about the end of history ten or 15 years ago. that is one reason. be more important reason is he is an open-minded scholar who embraces big ideas, who is not encapsulated by silos or artificial