dictionaries at oxford university press and it's your job to add words to the dictionary.t-truth, was this an easy decision? what does it signify for this country? >> well, that's a question that is beyond what i can answer but what we noticed this year is that post-truth, a word that's existed with more or less its meaning since 1992 suddenly was spiking in usage and not only here in the united states but also in the uk around the brexit referendum and internationally as people talk about filter bubbles and whether -- how we're absorbing media. as we looked at the words we've been tracking over the past year, this one really struck us as resonating with the kind of themes and spirit of 2016. >> is it resonating because it infers the truth is occasionally dead? >> well, it's based on a critique that says that it -- that the truth has become less important or less difficult to identify. you know, post usually means after, like post-war, but in post-truth it's more like post-racial or post-national, it means something more like no longer relevant, no longer as important as i

the book "the age of em: love and life when robots rule the earth" which is published by oxford university press in may 2016. dr. hanson is associate professor of economics at the center for study of public choice at george mason university and research associate at the future of humanity institute at oxford university with nine years experience as a research programmer at both lockheed and nasa. so obviously he is a diverse research interests including but not limited to group insurance, broadband and the bioethics of health care. you can read more about his work on his blog at overcoming bias.com. it will be worth your time, the financial times said robin hanson one of those original thinkers i in the world and this fascinating account of our future society is like nothing you read anywhere else, astonishing stuff. please help a welcome robin hanson. [applause] >> i'm going to give a short talk and we'll have lots of time for questions, and i know there will be lots of questions, so get them ready. now reading unless you beg me. this is all of history on one graph. on the x. axis is log rhythm

this month oxford university press published "path to war" the history of the american esponses to the great war, 1914-1917. please welcome dr. michael neiberg. [applause] dr. neiberg: i want to thank jerry for that kind introduction and i do work at the u.s. army war college. the sole disadvantage of that is that i'm supposed to tell you that everything you're going to hear tonight is the express opinion of me, personally, not the department of defense, the u.s. army, the u.s. army war college, or anybody in my chain of command. so we've got that oust the way. i want to thank you for the invitation to be here. i've had several good friends who presented here in the past and all urged me to come here. it is a great pleasure to be here and talk to all of you here today. this talk is based on a larger project. it's based on a book that jerry mentioned. looking at american responses to the war in europe from when it began in 1914 until u.s. entry in 1917. and this is the subject that i'm afraid we as a community of historians have not treated particularly well. we have either looked at it

harvard university press in 2011, which the wall street journal said was one of the five best books ever written about the war. published "the blood of -- the blood of men." this month, oxford university press published the history of the american response to the great war of 1914 until 1917. please welcome dr. michael neibe rg. [applause] dr. neiberg: well, i want to thank him. i do work at the war college. these sold us a manager of that is i'm supposed to tell you that the sole thing you are going to hear from me tonight will be just for me and not from the war college or anyone in the chai -- chain of command. so we got that out of the way. it is a great pleasure to be here and to talk to all of you here today. largerlk is based on a project, based on a book that jerry mentioned. looking at the american responses of the war in europe from when it began in 1914 until the u.s. entry in 1917, and this is a subject i am afraid we as a community of historians have not treated very well. we have even look at it exclusively from woodrow wilson and his close group of advisers, or we have taken some half-truths from then and mix them in with half-truths from the 1960's and shook

friends and colleagues and oxford university press, which has had enough faith in me to publish my book oh, and here's a pretty picture. yes. yes, sir? >> thank you. thank you. the battle of saratoga in europe is called the battle of bennis heights. my question is, if that's true then all these battles on the flank were unnecessary and not in any way decisive. even if they had succeeded, they'd just have come up against the fortification. mr. snow: that is certainly true for the battle of beam isis heights. the first battle which was fought a couple weeks earlier is usually called the battle of freeman's farm. at that time the fortification, the american fortifications were not yet complete. i think arnold was probably right and the other generals agreed with him. it was gates that was reluctant to send the men forward to fight out in no-man's land. he wanted to make it a defensive battle. but i think that arnold and the other generals were correct that the left flank was insufficiently protected and they could have been flanked pretty easily by the british. the british had really struc

university press next spring. he has published widely and popular press and holds a law degree from oxford. after josh, we'll hear from david hayes, who is currently a distinguished visiting lecturer at stanford and consulting professor at stanford's wood institute for the environment. prior to that, served as deputy secretary and chief operating officer at the department of the interior in both clinton and obama administrations. before there, he worked in the private sector and chaired the environment land and resources department. former chairman of the board visitors for stanford law school and the vice chair of the board of american rivers. and he also formerly served as the senior fellow for the hewlett foundation, and graduated from university of notre dame. after david, we'll hear from -- we moved around a little bit. actually, before we hear from david, we'll hear from kerry kircher. he retired recently as attorney for the house of representatives. he served for more than 20 years in the house of representatives. he is known for his insistence in the office of general counsel, opera

university press next spring. he's also published widely in scholarly journals and popular press. he holds a law degree from yale and doctorate and political science from oxford. after josh we'll hear from david hayes, who is currently a distinguished visiting lecturer at stanford and consulting professor at stanforstanford's institute. prior to that he served as deputy secretary of the office of the interior in the colin of any clinton and obama administrations. he's chairman of the board of the environmental law institute, and the vice chair of the board of american rivers. he also formerly second as the seni served and received his jd from stanford university. after david we'll hear from -- we've moved around a little bit. actually before we hear from david, we'll hear from kerry kircher who retired recently as general counsel to the united states house of representatives where he served for more than 20 years in that office. he is known for his insistence in the office of general counsel operating on strictly a nonpartisan basis and over the course of his career with that office, he participated in a significant number of high profile cases that concerned

press. a law at the time in 1623 would have required any publisher to send a copy of every book that published to the major universities, including oxforduniversity. the library by the way-- bodily was not a fan of place. he saw them as trivia, but apparently they changed their mind because the copy of thefo first folio ended up there. once the first folio sold out, a second, third and fourth folio were also produced. they are much less valuable and they include a place were attributed to shakespeare, but not written by shakespeare, so you can imagine the first folio sells pretty well, so the publisher says maybe we can find more place by this shakespeare guy. they are not bite shakespeare. they are not by shakespeare. nonetheless, when a copy of the subsequent folio, second-- third of folio comes to the library they figure the first folio is superfluous, so they get rid of it at a library sale. sold for 24 pounds. wouldn't you like to have been about sale? think of that as you walk out of the library and not friends of the library had their sale cart out there. you never know what you will find. so the library disposes of this copy as