you know, shakespeare would have said that, charles dickens, tolstoy, all of the great writers would literary writer, a guy who actually has an enormous, immense gift with words. does that stick in your throat? i�*m too old now for it to stick in my throat, but there was a time when i resented it very much. and there was also a time when i believed, as a younger man, more naive, that there was a way to build a bridge between, let�*s say, the literary and... ..and the popular. that there was a way to actually have both things at the same time. and i think there was a time when that did happen, although, even at the height of his popularity, charles dickens was loved by the multitude, by the people in the cheap seats, if you will. they crowded the docks at baltimore when the latest edition, the latest chapter of little dorrit came in, and the dock actually collapsed and people drowned because they were so anxious to see what happened next. and the literary critics of that day felt that that was just below them. because there is this sort of elitist attitude, isn�*t there? that if too m

you know, shakespeare would have said that, charles dickens, tolstoy, all of the great writers wouldighly commercial—thriller guy? you're not really seen as a literary writer, a guy who actually has an enormous, immense gift with words. does that stick in your throat? i'm too old now for it to stick in my throat, but there was a time when i resented it very much. and there was also a time when i believed, as a younger man, more naive, that there was a way to build a bridge between, let's say, the literary and... ..and the popular. that there was a way to actually have both things at the same time. and i think there was a time when that did happen, although, even at the height of his popularity, charles dickens was loved by the multitude, by the people in the cheap seats, if you will. they crowded the docks at baltimore when the latest edition, the latest chapter of little dorrit came in, and the dock actually collapsed and people drowned because they were so anxious to see what happened next. and the literary critics of that day felt that that was just below them. because there is th

you depend on the issues like that cause you have to to have issues like that so the dickens i saw you make sure that you would move don't move there are so you have to be good to the land of the state of the london. i must. of been some people not says you have to be tough for them to begin to get it so. you have got guys who must be tough so that the boss will see that you're doing a good job and i just on the bolivia that up are you out of there well did you become. more and more people are crowding into nairobi slums migrating from drought stricken country sites in search of food water and a better life. for the rents in the slums turned into a kind of trance to many of them abundant. from which they find no escape. 6 6 acne is more of asia is 57 years old she's lived here for 18 years now. but of course one of the calls i came to the slum of mcgarvey so my children could go to school right now there are just no jobs for me left and i used to get all that john so i could be the school fiascos or the pandemic came here i think got a lot of harder there aren't any jobs anymore i don'

somewhere, someone, they will pick up dickens or shakespeare and realize there is literature and it reaches to the deep stuff. is fundamentally more satisfying because it's connected to the whole. >> civilization survived as a book in a monastery and it is invisible. it manifests in a church or building or a new work. it is carried on and carried out and carried within individual minds. there is never a cause for despair in this regard because it is always they are percolating somewhere. we just prefer it to shape our whole life, not just the interior of a monastery. >> somehow, we have to open it up and let it percolate. that is a skill that takes training. thank you for than that and we will be back in a couple of more minutes and we will have one more segment about catholic art and artists. >>> welcome back. our guests are james matthew wilson and joseph bottum. we are talking about civilization and it is percolating beneath and invisible, sometimes. a book in a monastery. civilization has exploded onto the world wide web and that seems to be where people are living. can you explain her

baltimore is a microcosm of many urban areas in america and it is like dickens would say the tale of 2 cities. you have great investments in certain parts of town and other and looking like a ghost town. anyways is the ground 0 for racial apartheid in america. where racial zoning was. racially richard 2 covenants were also created here. we have a myth in this country that the reason neighborhoods are segregated is because people like to live with one another who are of the same race or because african-americans have too little income to move into white neighborhoods or because this private prejudice that prevents african-americans from buying homes in white neighborhoods and that's all true but it's a tiny tiny part of the truth. there's intentionality with the capital decisions that were made around housing in the forty's and in the fifty's and i think people are logged to sleep thinking that certain things happen by default rather than by design you have the effigy in the federal housing administration a veteran's administration they subsidize home building in the suburbs and then

royal church at the heart of london is doing its bit as part of the vaccination drive so charles dickens is buried just behind me geoffrey chaucer is a bit there as these people who look down just after they've been vaccinated they'll get only look at it is. it's an example of the lengths the u.k. has gone to and the success is showing. you look you know what to do when you're older so don't go over a 3rd time brits have got their 1st job far ahead of european neighbors i didn't sure thing it was extraordinary until to do it here westminster abbey the nation's great great seat of coronations and goodness knows what goes through in the sights of oscar wilde and john dryden robert browning and poets corner for brits praying for lockdown to be over soon they certainly come to the right place. and frank as for watching stay safe and see who gets an. immense company push all bloodshot zone out in the morning and climb a tree different office story this is my place when photos one week. course can really just. we still have time to where i'm going. to. watch this. and you hear me now oh yes we

royal church at the heart of london is doing its bit as part of the vaccination drive so charles dickens's berridge just behind me geoffrey chaucer is over there as these people who look down just after they've been vaccinated they'll fill me up they only look at it is . it's an example of the lengths the u.k. has gone to and the success is showing. you know let me know when it is when the ota so don't they go over a 3rd time brits have got that fast job far ahead of european neighbors i didn't sure thing it was extraordinary until to do it in westminster abbey the nation's great great seats of carnations and goodness knows what else was in the sights of oscar wilde and john dryden robert browning and poets corner for brits praying for lockdown to be over soon they certainly come to the right place. and frank thanks for watching stay safe c.e.o. gets an. eco india. from points i did with a message. mega nyack recycle sars which in india sometimes only worn once for a special occasion. she has one goal in particular that chante distract me from the mind is the new murders in. ethiopia. in 9

royal church at the heart of london is doing its bit as part of the vaccination drive said charles dickens's berridge just behind me geoffrey chaucer is a good there as these people look down just after they've been vaccinated. only to look at it is. it's an example of the lengths the u.k. has gone to and the success is showing. you look you know what it is when you so don't over a 3rd time brits have got their 1st job far ahead of european neighbors i didn't choose a thing it was extraordinary until to do it here in westminster abbey the nation's great great seat of coronations and goodness knows what goes through in the sights of oscar wilde and john dryden robert browning and poets corner for brits praying for lockdown to be over soon they certainly come to the right place. and free thanks for watching stay safe see who gets a. challenge to come on. the scene under scene karl resign kenya's comes on disappearing and in the morning raid to marine conservationists are trying to stay ahead of the decay and preserve what's left of them and they are counting on the support of local fisherman.

firm to quote assisted in explaining the real situation in the country the firm dickens' and mets in canada is owned by ari been monash he is a former israeli intelligence officer turned on turned lobbyist what he tell us about not formalised clients and his modus operandi is so ben bernanke she has worked with the former president of zimbabwe robert mugabe he's worked with the military government in sudan he's got a long list of clients and he is company is known for its manipulation of the media even now we're seeing became a national giving interviews ways trying to pin the blame on unsung suchi for the persecutions of the writing is as if that somehow absolves the military of guilt even though it stands accused of carrying out many if not most of the atrocities and he said that the civilian government was straying into the orbit of china which seems to be an attempt to rebrand the coup as being pro-west or very at the very least anti beijing and he's also admitted that there's a lot of money in this for him he says that there is a big bonus in it for him at the end of the day if

for myself and even to expand more so for me something positive and i'm living it and i believe in dickens' to come. support is an ordinal position at that is the breadbasket of africa off southern africa i believe because the us are not taking a step. i know that this is al jazeera i mean the headlines dozens of people have been killed in an attack in the town of palma and more than mozambique following a 5 day siege among the victims 7 civilians who ambushed a fleeing a hotel hundreds of locals and foreigners have been evacuated and some of them arrived in the port city of pemba nearly 5000 people have now fled fighting in venezuela and taken refuge in neighboring colombia venezuela's military is carrying out an operation against an armed group near the border that a somber m.p. .

dickens and a few others are about it and he's basing this on a novel that he is comes completely re-conceived about whaling. so this is one of the great literary historical exams. and to go back to his office and he basically his letters are wonderful at this time. he looks out, the snow across the field. and it gives him a c feeling. he is just in it. just descends into it, and so he's pulling this novel apart, and he just starts. it's like someone taking an old quaker manifest, tearing it apart, and getting and architect to start doing new gables and things that don't fit, it's experimental. he is just creating this thing and it's as much driven by his own psyche, as it is material. and he is working feverishly. he starts in the morning, and his family members are instructed to leave his food outside his door. and sometimes it's four clock in the afternoon before he opens that door. he says he is working in his subsequent novel which is very autobiographical. he describes the process in which he is writing muggy dick and he already had we guys it seems to be a function of his years out ther

dickens and a few others are about it.e's basing this on a novel that he's completely reconceived about whaling. so they move out to arrowhead in the berkshires and it's one of the great literary historical museums. you can go up to his office and look out and see mt. graylock. his letters are wonderful at this time. he looks out and there's snow across the fields and it gives him a sea feeling. he's in it. he just descends into it. so he's torn this novel apart and he just starts -- it's like someone taking an old quaker mansion, tearing it apart, and getting an architect like gary to start doing new gables and things that don't fit. it's experimental. he's just creating this thing that is as much driven by his own psyche as the material. and he's working feverishly. he starts in the morning. his family members are instructed to leave his food outside his door, his locked door. sometimes it's 4:00 in the afternoon before he opens that door. in the subsequent novel "pierre", he basically describes the process under which h

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he can't support this there are very few writers at this time who can support themselves, you know dickens in a few others are about it, and he's basing this on a novel, you know that he's completely reconced about whaling so they move out to arrowhead in the berkshires and it's one of the great literary historical museums, you know, you can go up to his office and look out and see mount greylock and and he begins writing letting and this letters are wonderful at this time. he's you know, he describes he looks out this snow across the fields and it gives him a sea feeling. you know, he's he's he's in it. he's you know just descends into it and he's so he's torn this novel apart and he's just starts. it's like someone taking a old quaker mansion. you know tearing it apart and and getting an architect like gary to start, you know doing new new gables and things that don't fit. it's it's experimental. he's just creating this thing that is much driven by his own psyche as it is the material and he's he's and he's working feverishly. he's you know, he starts in the morning his his family member

to have bizarre medically and i want to go one dickens america we are. also the macos. and one of the states to have. a. chair for will that have been thought that i've had one have at my end it's give 101 much a lot of support but. a lot of raisins in the finish it's the. next you will need to know me enough a lot of it is a myth. that is i'm going to want to have the new at it when it hits that have a. new home but one of the other of them will. ultras come from all walks of life that are united by their own wavelength so much for that. the goal isn't just what you do in your spare time for the old transfer it's like. thank. you. moment to how it was that one who got on the holiday. what awful hahaha so sudden i'll buy the obama how much mom has the best little keep it good the the one and also some as i knew them had been as good as new almost again wasn't any the what all one is and all we had we had it's what i was not how did they knew. thank you our. thanks. to our. nick on the 2nd in the from what is a quote i was going to have and read it but not for the full m

. >> let's play a little dickens here and ask what the ghost of christmas future -- at the end, theyay is this what has to be or can i still change it? can we change it and could jay powell change it or for that matter, the administrative government? ray: our basic situation is we are spending a lot more money than we are earning. that gap exists. and a balance sheet means we owe a lot more money and owing that money is somebody's financial assets that they might sell. it is not an easy thing to change because what do you do? spend less money? and if you spend less money, you give less checks out or if you cannot get people to easily earn money and change that. it is a difficult dilemma. it is a particularly difficult dilemma i think you are going to see late this year and beyond that. shery: bridgewater associates co-cio and founder. you can catch that full conversation on wall street week airing leader on friday. price concerns are raveling investors. feeling a selloff in treasuries even after the fed predicted near zero interest rates for 2023. running us to discuss is julia hermo

. >> if you could, and just relay it to director dicken so she can communicate it to the rest of us so that we can help fill in some of those holes there. >> yeah. >> that would be great. >> this is fantastic work. really. just fantastic work and i can't wait to see the final output from the professor when it's done. in that last week, let's make a big push. >> thank you, very much for all of your support. i mean, i think just hearing this, i wish i could share this with you right now. that's why i just wish i could share it with you guys right now because i know that hearing everyone's stories is why we're here, right. we want to share those with people and push for change and i think i cannot wait until she puts it all together to be able to be in hopefully much of that remain them so can you hear them in their first person voice. >> perhaps the commission can create a report we can distribute to policymakers with a few quotes and the top-level data that really might effect decision-making. there's a real opportunity there. i'm happy to connect with you about that off line. the next

lose a may alcott and you had her borrowing records on display and i thought what was she redding dickens and she was reading thrillers. she really loved sort of not only writing and also reading stories, and i remember one title in particular, book called "why did he not die" which then actually some friends of mine got me a copy of. i don't know if this shows up but i'm a proud possessor of "why did he not die? "but in any event, that's not why we are here tonight. we're here to talk and say a few words about a worse place than hell, and so to begin. a worse place than hell started in my mind with a question. and that question was, what would it be like to understand terrible battle, not in terms of how it affected the outcome of the war but how it changed the shape of a nation's culture. the battle at the center of my book is the battle of fredericksburg, and certainly other battles that were more significant militarily and politically when things of -- fredericksburg had an outsized effect on american cultural life bought of it tent of a quintet of extraordinary lives that it dramatic

it was, as dickens wrote, the best of times and the worst of times.incide, i'vein quarantine for a year, and that's as much of the book that i've read. a little trouble focusing. you see, it was the worst of times because we saw the toll that this pandemic had all across america, with people losing their loved ones and their jobs, and having to adapt to a stark new reality. and, of course, the previous administration really shanked their response. it's ironic that they discouraged masks, because they should be ashamed to show their faces in public. but the past year was also the best of times, because where our leaders failed, we saw americans stepping up, helping each other out, working to get through this together. and even though this virus ground a lot of things to a screeching halt, it was inspiring to see americans fight to make sure we still made progress, whether it be taking to the streets to demand an end to systemic racism or taking to the voting booth to bring new leaders. and like a lot of you, i had big plans when the quarantine started. i told myself i was going to get in

maybe the most you can say is what historian bradley said of him while paraphrasing charles dickens. he was the best of generals. and the worst t >> next, the rights activist cleveland cellars talks about his work in the 1960's with the student nonviolent coordinating committee. he also recounted the 1968 orange work massacre, when state troopers fired on students. three students were killed in what became known as the orangeburg massacre. former charleston, south carolina mayor joseph riley conducted this interview at the citadel, where he is now a professor, and the school provided the video. in 1918, a flu virus infected one-third of the world's population. in 30 minutes lora vogt with the , national world war i museum and memorial the correlations discusses the correlations between the 1918 pandemic and today's global crisis. joined by nancy bristow from the she isjoined by nancy bristow from the university of puget sound. and into hours on reel america, three films that were nominated for or won academy awards. fmr mayor riley: hello. i of joe riley, the former mayor

maybe the most you can say is what historian bradley said of him while paraphrasing charles dickens. he was the best of generals. and the worst thank you so much. you're watching american history tv every weekend on c-span 3 explore our nation's past american history tv on c-span 3 created by america's cable television companies and today we're brought to you by these television companies who provide american history tv to viewers as a public service. from thomas jefferson's books to saturday night live's parody of joe biden. tevi. troy talks about how popular culture influences presidents and how in turn presidents leave their imprint on the culture. here's a preview. all right. life is a bit of a mixed bag for a president. i would say, you know, it came out during the ford administration and they before it had this unfortunate propensity to stumble a couple of times even though i must say that he was he was perhaps the best athlete ever to be president and he was actually drafted by the nfl in football. but ford was relentlessly mocked for his clumsiness and his stumbling and they

these are not charles dickens novels. if caffeine is what gets you through. how refreshing when you are doing this to come across a justice scalia majority opinion dissent or concurrence. they stood out for the liveliness and writing this the honesty the request of the good quest for truth fricative carried yes whether justice scalia was a text was the purpose of this a living constitutionalist or originalist. one was get to know him seemed like a lot of fun. i really wanted to learn to write like him. of course it's unrealistic but so be it try to learn to write as well as close to him as you could. that is how i got to know him. that's why i started working with him. and then of course it was really easy-to-follow under his influence his passion for getting his dedication to finding the right answer, making sure you're being honest about was going on in the case, not being afraid to second-guess yourself. to involve an occasion in his passion for the writing. there is no way you could finish a year with him and not want to be a better writer. so much of bec

for myself and even to expand more so for me something positive and i'm liking it and i believe in dickens to come. support is an ordinal position at that is the breadbasket of africa off southern africa i believe it was the youths are not taking a step. still ahead on al-jazeera a stunning goal from qatar is there iraq up another victory in europe that's coming up in sports with peter. a sister turned human rights activist the day her brother is locked in a notorious goes back to desert prison. her fight for his freedom sees her exiled surveilled and betrayed by those closest to her. but her resolve is unshaken. only the devil lives without her. witness on al-jazeera. examining the impact of today's headlines didn't matter you're rich or poor what your religion is you are battling this and i mean you're staring at it in the face and you're dealing with it setting the agenda for tomorrow's discussions that are unfolding on capitol hill international filmmakers the world class journalists bring programs to inform and inspire you each and every one of us in the responsibility to change all t

david: let's play a little dickens and ask about the ghost of christmas future.say, is this what it has to be or can i change it somewhat -- could we change it or could jay powell change it? ray: our basic situation is that we are spending a lot more money than we are earning. that gap exists and a balance sheets means that we owe a lot more money and that owing that money is someone's financial assets, that bonds that they might sell. it is not an easy thing to change because what do you do, spend less money? and if you spend less money, you give less checks out? it is a difficult dilemma, and it is a particularly difficult dilemma that i think that you are going to see, particularly the part that is late this year and beyond that. >> bridgewater associates co. cio and founder, ray dalio. you can catch the full interview on wall street week erring later on friday. head out next, why singapore is building back better in the pandemic. we discussed the changes it is making for migrant workers. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> model minority myth was not something that was f

>> he had lost to david dickens the first time and out campaigning him both times.on. they said who is the person who is going to be able to get a quality of life back, who is going to be able to allow people to actually walk the streets and take the subways? that's when new york city blossomed into the cultural, entertainment empire that it is in the world. without public safety the city cannot return. the workers will not return. the entertainment venues will not open up. the restaurants and bars could open up but there will be nobody there to basically fuel the taxes that have to be paid to subsidize our social network system. >> bill: looking at your platform you want to overhaul property taxes and a proposal for vocational training for students including charter schools. it could be good stuff. the hill is there to climb, curtis. thanks for coming on today. >> you know curtis has climbed many hills. i took a licking, came back ticking. i will save new york city no matter what your party affiliation. >> dana: from california high school students taking legal act

. >> if you could, and just relay it to director dicken so she can communicate it to the rest of us so that we can help fill in some of those holes there. >> yeah. >> that would be great. >> this is fantastic work. really. just fantastic work and i can't wait to see the final output from the professor when it's done. in that last week, let's make a big push. >> thank you, very much for all of your support. i mean, i think just hearing this, i wish i could share this with you right now. that's why i just wish i could share it with you guys right now because i know that hearing everyone's stories is why we're here, right. we want to share those with people and push for change and i think i cannot wait until she puts it all together to be able to be in hopefully much of that remain them so can you hear them in their first person voice. >> perhaps the commission can create a report we can distribute to policymakers with a few quotes and the top-level data that really might effect decision-making. there's a real opportunity there. i'm happy to connect with you about that off line. the next