please help me welcome danielle markowitz. [applause] student thank you sharon for making it possible for me to be here. thank you to all of you for coming out on a really beautiful autumn night learned monday lovely things to do in this neighborhood are doubly grateful you are spinning the router here. i will spend the next half hour or so speaking and i hope we'll have a conversation. what i will see will to be be demoted to denouncing american hypocrisy. i'm going to use it of constructing a trap that is there is the rich and excludes the rest. and contributes substantially to the inequality discord and dysfunction that increasingly played in our society. and this might seem an eccentric and even a begotten mentor. the hypocrisy itself seems to us today a common sense. it is hard to object to the idea that people should get ahead. based on their own accomplishments rather than their parents cast or class surely that is the right way to get everybody a fair shot at success. but matt copper sees nothing great leveler that we

danielle markowitz. this seems to me, is being written about. in his new book, which new york times calls an ambitious and disturbing survey of american upper-class. markowitz makes an important and distressing argument and we have the honor of hearing from here tonight. there