. >> and his book the making of americans democracy and schools, e.d. hirsch argues using charnel senter teaching methods instead of focusing on academic content is a problem with early education. the manhattan institute in new york city posts this 45 minute event. >> i have this -- i didn't choose this picture. it just happened to be one of put on for the discussion period, which by the way is always valuable here at the manhattan institute and so i'm not going to exceed my 20 minutes. i want to be sure we have plenty of time for a question period. but that was an awfully pleasant picture to put up before i have my more sober graphs, and that -- i don't know whether any of you have actually seen it. it is a 42-foot wide mural that dominates shepard hall city university, and it was done by ed wim slash field in 1904. it's called the graduate. and you can get the image of the idealism that expired particularly new york state at the turn of the century and how successful it was then. some of the themes of this new book, the making americans are new to my riding

[applause] >> e.d. hirsch was a distinguished fellow at the hoover institute and also the founder and chair of nonprofit core knowledge foundation. to find out more, go to or knowledge.org. >> pulitzer prize-winning oscar neil sheehan offer of a bright shining lie has a new book out on a theory piece in the cold war. what is an icbm? >> an icbm is a rocket with a hydrogen bomb in its way. it's fired up into space, travels through space at 60,000 miles an hour for six to 7000 miles a minute would come down and strike here it it crosses -- there's no way to stop it. they've never been used. you and i would probably not be having this conversation if it wasn't for these people. they built this weapon not to make war with but as a way to say over and over again this is the first history of the humankind which is being built not to use in war but to deter war. >> i wanted to start with what an icbm was because i think that tells the story of bernard shreve are in the to upgrade it. >> he was six years old when he c