join me in welcoming yuval harari and nicholas thompson. hello, yuval how are you? i'm fine, thank you. it's a real pleasure to be here with yuval. he is not only a great historian, as you all know, he is a very kind in the green room. among his many duties, signing books, answering my about israeli politics. he also helped read a bedtime to my ten year old, who is a huge of unstoppable. so thank you, yuval? it's my pleasure pleasure. all right. so what i want to do in this book. is i want to go through some of the history, some of the stories you tell. i'm going to ask you a few questions about characters you introduce, the ideas they represent. we'll go through some of the arguments you make about history, about ai and about democracy. and then i hope there'll be some time at the end to go through some your apocalyptic thought experiments. does that work? yeah absolutely. and i have a whole series of questions, several thousand that people have sent. i appreciate that. we'll get to those as well. first question, what is that bird. oh, that's a difficult question.

you so much to politics and prose thank you so much dear theater and you most of all to yuval noah harari. and now joining us on booktv is george landreth, the. his book is called let freedom ring again. ken, self-evident truth, save from future decline. let's start with your subtitle, landreth. what do you mean by self-serving? well, i'm kind thinking of the idea that, you know, all men are created equal, endowed by their creation and the rights among these are life, liberty, pursuit of happiness. getting back to these ideas that every american, every human being actually has inalienable rights. and we to respect those rights and our government ought to be organized in way that it's focused on protecting rights and and not necessarily them. and i think as government has gotten bigger and bigger and bigger, it sometimes transgresses that principle. so then it starts to order us about and treat us like we're subjects rather than citizens. and so i would argue that we went from 13 what i would call fairly insignificant colonies to militarily and, economically compared to the rest of the wor

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even zionist historians like uval, noah, harari, are predicting the end of zionism. was that faithful day last october, the beginning of the end for the zinist project in palestine? joining me in the studio, as usual is residence expert david miller who's widely regarded as the uk's preeminent scholarly critic of israel. david's a senior research fellow at the center for islam and global affairs at istanbul zame university and is a co-director of the lobby and watch dog spinwatch. our guest contributor today is the investigative journalist patrick henningson who founded the independent news and analysis website 21st century wire. welcome to the show. david the alaxa flood was an unprecedented operation by the palestinian resistance wasn't it? it certainly was. i mean. let people forget, they think is being hamas and of course hamas is the leading force in the resistance, but there are six or even seven armed groups were engaged in a flood, including the pflp, the popular front for liberation palestine, the democratic front for liberation palestine, second biggest gro