now it falls to me to bring steve clemmons up here. i generally feel silly introducing steve clemmons because it already turns out that everybody always knows him. if you do know him is a man who believes deeply in servicing the next provocative idea, hearing from as many points of view as possible, which makes him a perfect fit for "the atlantic," he's the editor in chief of our lives division, the guy who brought us all together today. so stove. >> thank you, james. i want to say that we are being covered today by cnbc, bloomberg, we're live all day on c-span. and we have many blogs that are streaming this live as well. so we've got a big community outside this room. we're going to be putting -- so those of you, tweet, if you like something, tweet it. if you hate something, tweet it. i think the notion, we had a dinner last night preceding this. and one of my friends who was there, david corn, msnbc commentator and kind of a good, bluff, progressive radical writer, and i'm sure david would like that depiction, texted me after he left