karl marx. he placed both books back neatly on the floor.not surprisingly i soon moved in with stella and had a gun in the closet that he didn't know how to use. thank you. >> thank you so much for the reading. before moving to some of the audience questions, i want to circle and allow you to put some things together began by asking you what you talk about the false arc of the redemptive narrative and how that applies to your? >> was i ready to begin with was a small passage and one of the things i think this notion that he's bringing up gratuitous violence is a violence that has no coherent reason for it. in other words you can't say it is triggered by so-called bad behavior by indian native americans were, it isn't triggered by the need to discipline people to produce occupied land or surplus value and capitalism. so, if you live in a paradigm of contingent of violence then you can actually tell stories of redemption. i need redemption in a rather abstract way. i mean moving from plenitude or equilibrium which would be between 1492, before

read the black book of communism at least 100 million human beings were exterminated in the name of karl marx and his communist ideology so i spent more than 20 years in the national security domain. i specialized in nonstate actors in regular warfare, the strategy of jihadist counterterrorism and now the last three years have been a moment for me, the scales have fallen from my eyes and i realized the greater threat we face is the falsification of history and indoctrination of a whole generation of americans. .. >> welcome you this event with michael arceneaux with his latest collection of essays "i don't want to die poor. "this is part of the virtual event sear. we're excited to bring authors to the communities. every week we'll be hosting events here on t

reviewed gorbachev smoke in moscow from moscow news i quoted from the communist manifesto where karl marx wrote that praising capitalism drag me in the ne a syrah life and building these great cities and so forth and hugo yakovlev a great honor to this city to have a so that i said give me your communist manifesto he didn't have one so i had to run around moscow i found one. trench i ran back into the parent jill meagher and the congress manager oh so here it is you know so much of. it. you know you mentioned the the vietnam war i heard a horrifying statistic the other day that the vietnam memorial wall is you know a few 100 feet long because it's got every every american who died in the vietnam war if it were actually included all the names of the vietnamese who died in the vietnam war in our vietnam war then it would be 4 miles or so long so or 8 miles something like that man is several miles long but instead it's just a few 100 feet because we only include the americans but i wanted to you know i want to talk about i don't want to run out of time i wanted to mention that you have inter

but -- karl marx, leon trotsky. a bit eclectic as you can see. salman rushdie. ian mccune. i have pretty much all of what they've written. i like to think that i have a live rather than a job or a career. and it's all to do with reading and writing. the only choosings i was ever good at -- and public speaking of that's how i make my living, but it's also what i am, who i am, what i love, and fortunate for that because there's nothing else for that. it's not as if could have ban lawyer or doctor and chose this. this chose meful this is one of your more recent books, god is not great, how religion poisons everything. when you look through your body of work, the 18 books you have written, religion or atheism kind of permeates. >> yes. there was the -- my check on mother teresa, me review of her, misspent life. in a way thomas jefferson is a lot to do with the origins of our first amendment and the virginia statute of on religious freedom, and another recent little book of mine about thomas paine and his rights of man, has to discourse on his other great work, the age of reason

karl marx, leon trotsky. a bit eclectic as you see. salman rushdie. ian mcewen. i have all of what that if writtenment i like to think that i have a life rather than a job or career. and it's all to do with reading and writing if the only choosingses was ever good at, and public speaking, which that's how i make my living but it's also what i am, who i am, what i love, and fortunately that because it's nothing else i could do. not as if could have been a doctor or lawyer and hose which is, this chose me. >> this is your recent book, god is not great, house religion poise sons everything put you look your body of work, religion or atheism kind of permeates. >> there was the -- my review 0 mother teresa, misspent life. in a way my -- both thomas jefferson is a lot to do with the origins of our first amendment and the virginia statute of religious freedom and another recent little book of mine beaut thomas payne and his rights of man. has to discores on his other great work, the age of reason. think he -- for him it was most important of all for people to be free, t