thank 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

thank you,it's also my pleasuree yuval noah harari this evening to discuss his new book nexus a history of information networks from the stone age to a.i. harari is an academic, historian and philosopher for his ability to take complex history and present in an accessible manner and nexus he turns his attention to the existence crisis we face in the age of artificial intelligence, providing both the historical on theories of information, as well as a warning about. non-human intelligence. if, say, if we sapiens are so wise, why are we so self? he asks. harari is the author of five books, including the bestselling sapiens, and he's considered of the world's most influential intellectuals. his a lecturer at hebrew university and a fellow at the university. cambridge's center for the study of existential risk. he has also co-founded the social impact sapiens ship. tonight he will be in conversation. nicholas thompson, the ceo of the atlantic. thompson is worked as the editor in chief of and as the editor of newyorker.com. join me in welcoming yuval harari and nicholas thompson. hello, yuva

thank you,it's also my pleasuree yuval noah harari this evening to discuss his new book nexus a history of information networks from the stone age to a.i. harari is an academic, historian and philosopher for his ability