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and the philadelphians are writing to boston and the connecticut ers are writing to boston. they're not writing to each other yet. they're that comes with the formation of congress and the creation of these new bonds. so there's this moment between the tea party and the seating of the first continental congress where boston is uniquely this communications node. and if they were then embarrassed by being as they been four years earlier, a complete failure on the t non consumption on importation front. this would corrode the legitimacy any claim that boston shouldn't pay the t to get the port act open. it should be simplest solution of the whole problem and that in fact paying for the t was one of the things that congress took up as a potential response to all of this. and could well have been a step forward. you've us so much to think about here and there. i know plenty more that we could that we could talk about in the book. but i want to be respectful of our audience here and make sure that we reserve a little bit of time for any questions you all may have. so, emily, who o
and the philadelphians are writing to boston and the connecticut ers are writing to boston. they're not writing to each other yet. they're that comes with the formation of congress and the creation of these new bonds. so there's this moment between the tea party and the seating of the first continental congress where boston is uniquely this communications node. and if they were then embarrassed by being as they been four years earlier, a complete failure on the t non consumption on importation...
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and there's a magazine here in boston published here in boston called dollars and you were probably in that involved with that, too. so i think you're right that to many economists to speak among themselves and try to jockey for favors, academia and to have some kind of influence in government. but there are a lot of economists out there where we're at umass amherst, the umass boston where julie teaches in boston college, who really spend a lot of time on and how we can try to explain things better to students and everybody else. it's an uphill battle. you can say something about that, know there's a great chapter on it. economists and one of the to me one of the interesting and brave things that gerry did in the book was, in that chapter, he he explain sort of the group think of of economists and why they can't do the things that your talking about the ways in which the profession is is structured it's sort of hierarchy it's lack of tolerance for dissent and so forth. but he also took on another dimension of this, which very few people have been willing to talk about, and that is the
and there's a magazine here in boston published here in boston called dollars and you were probably in that involved with that, too. so i think you're right that to many economists to speak among themselves and try to jockey for favors, academia and to have some kind of influence in government. but there are a lot of economists out there where we're at umass amherst, the umass boston where julie teaches in boston college, who really spend a lot of time on and how we can try to explain things...
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the city of boston urging, quote, the yeomen of new england as the chief conservative element of the republic to come to burns aid in defiance of federal authority, sons of liberty groups were formed to preserve the freedom of fugitive slaves, to resist the encroachment of the federal government on liberty. gentlemen, richard, earlier on, how southerners reconciled their states rights with their increasing demands for national debt. the stronger federal government power and its is a great question. i mean, what what i was trying to emphasize when i'm talking about this is that the real advocates of states rights in the late forties and certainly in the 1850s were not southerners. they were northerners, the northerners who were passing personal liberty laws, effectively, as it were, trying to nullify federal law. it was northerners who were mobilizing themselves, using the language of the american revolution, talking about the the yeoman of new england coming to the aid of in defense of freedom, in opposition to a federal government that as, in the case of anthony burns was acting in,
the city of boston urging, quote, the yeomen of new england as the chief conservative element of the republic to come to burns aid in defiance of federal authority, sons of liberty groups were formed to preserve the freedom of fugitive slaves, to resist the encroachment of the federal government on liberty. gentlemen, richard, earlier on, how southerners reconciled their states rights with their increasing demands for national debt. the stronger federal government power and its is a great...
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so they people say, well, police started in boston, so in 1821, from 1821 to 1823, a man, an enslaved and just terrorized the state of georgia in south carolina and the interesting thing about force joe was like he was kind of like a myth, but it wasn't a black myth. it was a white like why people say he could disappear here and he must've had extra long legs because he get away. but really what it was, was he was smart. he quit, he camouflaged his clothes, he created bulletproof vest in 1821, right. and so he terrorized the state of south carolina for three years. and at eventually it came to a head when he walked onto the governor's plantation and shot the slave overseer in broad daylight because it was like y'all know forest or don't play and so that i love that story of course so because it's the story of not just like we talk about, you know, slavery and in terms of the underground railroad. but we this was telling the story of maroon communities where people would escape and it's like, yeah, we all stay here and like they say, there's a part of the great dismal swamp between vir
so they people say, well, police started in boston, so in 1821, from 1821 to 1823, a man, an enslaved and just terrorized the state of georgia in south carolina and the interesting thing about force joe was like he was kind of like a myth, but it wasn't a black myth. it was a white like why people say he could disappear here and he must've had extra long legs because he get away. but really what it was, was he was smart. he quit, he camouflaged his clothes, he created bulletproof vest in 1821,...
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as a result, boston became a slave unsafe for the couple. and they left again. and another stage their escape to england where they lived until 1869. by the way when they returned and a plantation in georgia that shows you have some gumption. the crafts joined were joined in the lecture circuit by another former henry brown who escaped from richmond in a dramatic fashion in 1849. created in a box and sent to philadelphia box henry box brown took his box with him wherever he went. face first would possibly recapture he too left for england where together with the crafts they played a critical role in winning british support the abolition in the decade before the civil war and brown brown would have his himself boxed in manchester and sent across the pennines to leeds and pop out of his box. he was a man had a flair for the dramatic of short man as you could if you were going to put yourself in a box. but a rather rotund figure. so always dress and flambeau orient waistcoats. he was a very character. in march 1850, as the decade as the debate over the fugitive sla
as a result, boston became a slave unsafe for the couple. and they left again. and another stage their escape to england where they lived until 1869. by the way when they returned and a plantation in georgia that shows you have some gumption. the crafts joined were joined in the lecture circuit by another former henry brown who escaped from richmond in a dramatic fashion in 1849. created in a box and sent to philadelphia box henry box brown took his box with him wherever he went. face first...
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added, was the leader of the gang john wilkes booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. so this is just part of the story that you see continually appearing in the civil war era, because among his many other legacies, lincoln left us an amazingly diverse and inclusive america. in 1865, although it didn't become so without some violent pushback and resistance, admittedly. but in the end, nearly a quarter of and i can't believe i wrote the union army on ed bars day a quarter of the federal army spoke with a foreign accent official washington this town saw civil war diversity firsthand for first time in april 1861, when the 69th new york infantry under irish born colonel michael corcoran arrived here and set up camp on arlington heights. lincoln and william seward visited the right here in this town when the 37 new york, the so-called irish rifles encamped at the capitol building, lincoln paid another visit. and while when general louis blanquer paraded on the white house grounds with the 6/8 new york, the so-called germa
added, was the leader of the gang john wilkes booth who was killed by a trigger happy british immigrant boston corbett, under the command of an irish born captain. so this is just part of the story that you see continually appearing in the civil war era, because among his many other legacies, lincoln left us an amazingly diverse and inclusive america. in 1865, although it didn't become so without some violent pushback and resistance, admittedly. but in the end, nearly a quarter of and i can't...
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he's academic post at boston university, harvard, among other institutions. he currently teaches at brandeis university. bob was also a staff writer and a columnist for the washington post. chief investigator for the senate banking committee. executive director of president carter's national commission on neighborhoods. and economics editor of the new republic. he's won numerous prestigious awards, journalism awards as well. the paul hoffman award of the united nations development program for his lifetime on economic efficiency as well as social justice. he's educated at oberlin college, london school of economics and university of california at berkeley. he's also the author of 14 books, including the 28 new york times bestseller obama's challenge america's crisis and the power of transform primitive presidency. bob is here today because has written a incredibly interesting and timely book and the is going big. fdr his legacy biden's new deal and the struggle to save democracy. in this book, bob draws a line through a line from fdr to joe biden and describes
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she's also on air investigative reporter for boston's whdh tv and has won 37 emmys, 14 edward r murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking. lee mcintyre is presenting his new book on this information how to fight for truth and protect democracy. the effort to destroy facts and make ungovernable didn't come of nowhere. it is the culmination of seven years of strategic denialism in on disinformation. lemack entire shows how the war on facts began and how ordinary citizens can fight back against the scourge of disinformation that is now threatening the very fabric of our. in the words of michael shermer, quote lee mcintyre has emerged as our foremost scholar of science denier and an intellectual activists combatting the attempted assassination truth in the teeth of fake alternative facts, conspiracy, identity politics, postmodern ism and epistemological relativism. lee mcintyre is on this expertly identifies who the enemies of truth are and how to counter claims with reason, science and. compassion. a tour de force scholarship and advocacy. we are so pleased that it i
she's also on air investigative reporter for boston's whdh tv and has won 37 emmys, 14 edward r murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking. lee mcintyre is presenting his new book on this information how to fight for truth and protect democracy. the effort to destroy facts and make ungovernable didn't come of nowhere. it is the culmination of seven years of strategic denialism in on disinformation. lemack entire shows how the war on facts began and how ordinary citizens can...
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lee mcintyre is a research fellow at the center for philosophy and history of science at boston university. he is the author of dark ages, the for a science of human behavior post-truth and the scientific attitude defending science, denial, fraud and pseudoscience all published by the mit press, he is joined in conversation by hank phillippi ryan, the usa today bestselling author of 14 novels of suspense. she has won multiple prestigious awards for her crime fiction, including five. agatha is five anthonys and the coveted mary clark award. she's also on air investigative reporter for boston's whdh tv and has won 37 emmys, 14 edward r murrow awards and dozens of other honors for her groundbreaking. lee mcintyre is presenting his new book on this information how to fight for truth and protect democracy. the effort to destroy facts and make ungovernable didn't come of nowhere. it is the culmination of seven years of strategic denialism in on disinformation. lemack entire shows how the war on facts began and how ordinary citizens can fight back against the scourge of disinformation that is now
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and coming to us from massachusetts, o'connor is a journalist and a teacher of journalism at boston college as a regular contributor to new york times travel section o'connor's writing has also appeared in the oxford american the believer. gq, financial times and other publications. what brings us here tonight is o'connor's debut nonfiction book that asks the question what it about bigfoot that has caught our imaginations? for those who have seen time and time again the classic image of pacific northwest official or unofficial mascot, i'm practically every surface, but haven't yet delved into the history. the legends and the mania. the secret history of bigfoot is the place to start. while the debate bigfoot's existence continues, the fact that the large humanoid ape has a has become a cornerstone of american culture. and in this book o'connor guides us on an adventure filled with shrouded forests, firsthand accounts and conventions to see why that is so again, welcome to panels heroes crossing. please join me in welcoming at john o connor. right. hello. hi hi. all right, it's nice to be he
and coming to us from massachusetts, o'connor is a journalist and a teacher of journalism at boston college as a regular contributor to new york times travel section o'connor's writing has also appeared in the oxford american the believer. gq, financial times and other publications. what brings us here tonight is o'connor's debut nonfiction book that asks the question what it about bigfoot that has caught our imaginations? for those who have seen time and time again the classic image of pacific...
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the two planes that took down the two world trade center towers came out of boston. father, one of our moscow correspondent, was killed in one of those planes. and so, you know, highly sensitive to the national security implications. on the other hand, the government had engaged a in a had created a sort of a surveillance regime that was getting bigger and bigger and bigger and and sweeping up a lot of the private of not only people overseas, but a lot of them a lot of americans and a lot and and so the question was is there a public interest that we should should tell the american public about this or we just remain silent and let this surveillance regime continue to expand on the grounds of national security? and, you know i thought a lot about it and read the espionage act of 1917 quite closely, because there was always the possibility that we could be prosecuted and anyway, i made the decision that we would go ahead and we would publish that and, you know, there was a lot of outrage. the intelligence community, of course, that we were doing stories. they were fur
the two planes that took down the two world trade center towers came out of boston. father, one of our moscow correspondent, was killed in one of those planes. and so, you know, highly sensitive to the national security implications. on the other hand, the government had engaged a in a had created a sort of a surveillance regime that was getting bigger and bigger and bigger and and sweeping up a lot of the private of not only people overseas, but a lot of them a lot of americans and a lot and...
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i had been working at the boston globe, got a call out of the blue and then what transpired? sorry to the post and i when i got to the post it things change pretty quickly once i got there so six months, about six months after i arrived it was announced jeff bezos, one of the richest people in the world, was going to be buying the post from the graham family, which had the post for 80 years. that was a surprise. everybody, the name of the parent company, the way was the washington post company. i thought a company with the name the washington post company would always hold on to the washington post, but it turned out not to be the case. and the deal closed a few months later. and then he set out to try to transform us, really for the digital era, turn things around. we were sinking pretty, pretty badly. and then along comes donald trump. in 24, the summer of 2015, presidential. we'd never seen one like that before. president we never seen one like that before. and ah, and i thought somebody should tell that story of how we dealt with one of the dealing with an owner who's one
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i know there are some of you from boston. you go to boston today if you've ever to the liberty hotel, that was the charles street jail. it had opened in 1851. by 1973, it had fallen apart. and a federal judge ordered that it be closed. and now for a mere six or $700 a night, you can stay in a prison cell at the street, jail. so appleton is thrown in prison there he is taken to trial. the prosecutor charges him with being the head of an enormous trading ring in appleton. innocence to this charge. he goes to trial in june of 1862 and he find a lawyer to defend him. seward and the prosecutors and the marshals worked pretty strategically to keep him from being able, to get adequate counsel. and so uncle represented him. and from what i know, never want to hire a relative to be your lawyer. and his relative did not him. well and i mean part it may be he didn't have a lot to work with but the strategy that they came with was they had about a dozen women, girls sitting next to him, including his mother, his sister in law, and of his
i know there are some of you from boston. you go to boston today if you've ever to the liberty hotel, that was the charles street jail. it had opened in 1851. by 1973, it had fallen apart. and a federal judge ordered that it be closed. and now for a mere six or $700 a night, you can stay in a prison cell at the street, jail. so appleton is thrown in prison there he is taken to trial. the prosecutor charges him with being the head of an enormous trading ring in appleton. innocence to this...
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the prestigious boston consulting group was hired and has provided their initial report. unfortunately, their analysis confirmed what many of us had feared, and much worse. according to the report, south carolina has the most fragmented health and human service delivery system in the nation. as a result, for example, 77% of our states young people with major depressive episodes do not receive mental health treatment, according to the organization mental health america. this ranks lowest in the country. our citizens and families are suffering as a result of this dysfunction. with little to no coordination between the relevant agencies, south carolinians seeking assistance are forced to navigate through a confusing landscape of offices, agencies, and officials as they seek help for a loved one or dependent. too often the fault of the cracks of a system that does not coordinate, communicate or collaborate. and that is not acceptable in our state, ladies and gentlemen. the time is come for dramatic restructuring. for the consolidation and streamlining of these agencies into o
the prestigious boston consulting group was hired and has provided their initial report. unfortunately, their analysis confirmed what many of us had feared, and much worse. according to the report, south carolina has the most fragmented health and human service delivery system in the nation. as a result, for example, 77% of our states young people with major depressive episodes do not receive mental health treatment, according to the organization mental health america. this ranks lowest in the...
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there are ten regional headquarters housing staff responsible for the major regulatory programs in boston. new york city, philadelphia. atlanta. chicago. argo. dallas. kansas city. denver. san francisco. and seattle. the scientific work of epa is also decentralized and takes place in laboratories located across the country. air pollution work takes place in raleigh, durham, north carolina. toxicology and industry engineering in cincinnati. groundwater research in ada, oklahoma. pesticide biology and gulf breeze, florida. and ecosystems research in corvallis, oregon. this scientific effort is essential to meeting the environmental challenges that still lie ahead. we need to know a lot more about how toxic substances behave in the environment and what affects various exposure levels have on human health and the environment. this knowledge would help us control the risks from these substances without sacrificing the benefits of the technologies that produce them. we need more information on long range transport of pollutants through the air. acid rain is an example of this kind of transport.
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boston the march weather in boston. come here. so thanks for having me. wrote how democracies die six years ago as a in an effort to warn americans about of what could happen most of us alive who grew up in the united states had never confronted a serious crisis of democracy. but in my day job i studied latin america. my coauthor daniel studies interwar europe. and so we had a study for much of our professional lives democratic crises in democratic breakdowns. and we wrote how democracy die? primarily to the process of how a democracy gets into trouble in an effort to warn of what could come here and after we published the book, we got questions from journalists at talks like this over and again, which is, well, what the hell do we do? what do we do? and we didn't have an answer to that question in the first book. and i'm sure we had the answer to question the second book, but the second book was an effort, first of all, to dig more deeply into how we got into this mess, how the us got into this crisis. and secondly, to think seriously about how to get ou
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essentially the entire group of people who were known as boston brahmins. well basically opium traders and they were very closely linked to other they made vast fortunes in china through in opium. the russells, the forbes family, which is almost iconic of american capitalism itself. so the interesting part of it is that these guys would go off to china when they were 16, 17, 18, sometimes, you know, one of the biggest, most opium traders was a man called john cushing, who went out a 16 year old boy. and he was basically adopted by a very famous chinese trader called reuben jang, who was known as kwa, who was then probably the man in the world. and he made he made cashing incredibly wealthy so crushing came back to america as one of the richest men in in the whole country. and great catch because he wasn't he wasn't very so these guys came back they were in their twenties usually they had all this money and often chinese traders give them money to invest in america so they being in canton for them was incredibly important because they learned about currencie
essentially the entire group of people who were known as boston brahmins. well basically opium traders and they were very closely linked to other they made vast fortunes in china through in opium. the russells, the forbes family, which is almost iconic of american capitalism itself. so the interesting part of it is that these guys would go off to china when they were 16, 17, 18, sometimes, you know, one of the biggest, most opium traders was a man called john cushing, who went out a 16 year old...
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i've been kind of part of the amazing that's happening right here in boston around civic engagement, which which is such an honor now. that being said, i didn't think i was going to write another gun book. i'll just start with a personal part of this, which is my last book, dying of whiteness, was about a lot of things, but it was a lot about gun suicide in missouri. i spent a long time living in cape girardeau, missouri, in the south of missouri, among families who had lost relatives, children, very often to gun suicide. that book was intense and exhausting, and i like it just felt like this was the story that was story i wanted to tell about guns in a way. and i was ready to go on to like, i don't know, i would joke with my like a book about puppies, you know, or ponies, or something like that. like, i'm not a downer but maybe i. and it was just that there was this moment in 2018, i'm kind of finishing dying of. and there's this moment when you live in a city in the united states or a town or a neighborhood. i mean, it's almost inescapable. that said, we have more mass shootings, c
i've been kind of part of the amazing that's happening right here in boston around civic engagement, which which is such an honor now. that being said, i didn't think i was going to write another gun book. i'll just start with a personal part of this, which is my last book, dying of whiteness, was about a lot of things, but it was a lot about gun suicide in missouri. i spent a long time living in cape girardeau, missouri, in the south of missouri, among families who had lost relatives,...
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so before we get to even eight states having a boston slave man before the end of the revolution, both massachusetts and pennsylvania done so in different ways. pensilva anyhow, with graduated emancipation, but nonetheless, both have committed in that fashion the massachusetts story is particularly important. there drafted the state constitution. the language of the declaration flows straight into the massachusetts state constitution. the language of the declaration and constitution were immediately used in massachusetts by abolitionists, free african-americans, living in boston at the time. they put petitions to the assembly to end enslavement. they took the case to the court. the supreme judicial in massachusetts. and by virtue of a judicial decision in 1783 that ruled that enslavement was incompatible with the massachusetts constitution on the grounds of the language in. the constitution that came from the declaration of independence. enslavement was abolished in massachusetts. so that's the second important lesson of the story. the abolitionist movement had to grow greatly in force
so before we get to even eight states having a boston slave man before the end of the revolution, both massachusetts and pennsylvania done so in different ways. pensilva anyhow, with graduated emancipation, but nonetheless, both have committed in that fashion the massachusetts story is particularly important. there drafted the state constitution. the language of the declaration flows straight into the massachusetts state constitution. the language of the declaration and constitution were...
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so i know a lot more some of the sailing ships that came out of boston in new york. i don't know as much about about. i would not be surprised if that was the case, given some of the businesses that did business here, like the whitney company, that whitney company was like nonstop trading with with cotton out of out of new orleans. so i wouldn't be surprised if they were in the slavery business, too. but i'm not an and i shouldn't, especially in a room full of people from newburyport. i shouldn't. i shouldn't presume to tell you the history of this town unless i am. yeah, i'm. i'm an outsider, right? i don't want to come in and contaminate you with without fear of. saying i'm usually not humble. so i thought i'd read in several books that there were clusters of free blacks living in some of these southern cities. why weren't they where they considered sources of contamination? also? yeah, so that's a good question. and so you'll notice, though, that when i had that map of the states in which you have free black sailors that are prohibited, you'll notice that maryland
so i know a lot more some of the sailing ships that came out of boston in new york. i don't know as much about about. i would not be surprised if that was the case, given some of the businesses that did business here, like the whitney company, that whitney company was like nonstop trading with with cotton out of out of new orleans. so i wouldn't be surprised if they were in the slavery business, too. but i'm not an and i shouldn't, especially in a room full of people from newburyport. i...