Why an Ordinary Life Can Be a Good Life

The modern age equates a good life with being extraordinary and distinguished. But the truth is likely to be quite different: learning to cherish and appreciate an ordinary life belongs to wisdom and the art of living. For gifts and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: https://goo.gl/4nVG6t

FURTHER READING “We live in an age with a high regard for extraordinary lives – that is, lives that the vast majority of us will never lead. Our heroes have made outsized fortunes, appeared on gigantic screens and demonstrated unique virtue and talent. Their achievements are both dazzling and continuously, in the background, humiliating…” You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: https://goo.gl/EwazUX MORE SCHOOL OF LIFE

Michael Isikoff and David Corn, “Russian Roulette”

Michael Isikoff and David Corn discuss their book, “Russian Roulette” at a Politics and Prose event at George Washington University on 3/27/18.

Star journalists Michael Isikoff and David Corn have made headlines with their reports on the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia—and made it into Rep. Nunes’ memo on surveillance to the House Intelligence Committee. In Russian Roulette, they present the incredible account of how Moscow hacked our democracy in a covert attempt to help Donald Trump win the presidency. As in their bestselling Hubris, which uncovered the truth of the Iraq War, Isikoff and Corn expose what amounts to a cyber Watergate.

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but he is masterful and understanding
how media and celebrity works and how to
message you know and he knew he was
talking to people and it’s kind of
cynical I talked to people in his
campaign during the campaign he they
said we’re just reaching people through
headlines through headlines lock her up
build a wall make America great and I
they didn’t really care what came after
that that’s that was a strategy for them
and so they were reaching people on what
they will tell you was an emotional way
forging a bond emotionally and it’s
really hard to tell someone when they
feel an emotional bond that you’re wrong
manipulate no one it’s not even if
plated you know that’s one of the
arguments they make well you know you’re
saying the American voters are so stupid
that they were you know they were
manipulated by whatever the Russians did
and and you know Trump
you know heightened
the sense of division that’s part of his

strategy and I it’s gonna you know and