four years, she becomes the dean of the harvard law school, first woman dean of harvard law school. six years after that, president obama invites her to become solicitor general. first woman solicitor general that we've ever had. and then only one year after that, justice stevens retires and president obama names justice kagan to the supreme court. she's now going into her 10th term here and we're very privileged to have her as the host of this evening, justice kagan. [applause] justice kagan: thank you, jerry, so much -- jeremy, so much. as you could tell, i couldn't keep a job. [laughter] justice kagan: thank you for everything you do and for everything that society does for the supreme court. this are -- historical society does extreme the good work in reminding people of the importance of our constitution and our judicial system and its history. and we're deeply appreciative. this evening marks the second of the society's 2019 leon silverman lecture series, which is devoted to dissent in the supreme court. on the way over here, professor justin driver and also jerry limit remind

i went to harvard law. harvard said they never had a defined students before i told them i had never been to harvard law school before. didn't know the other solutions that would be. it was an interactive process to find the solutions make it right. now, i work as an advocate for disabled people. i know there is injustice and i know the way to ending justice, all of us have a choice. we can accept order tolerated or advocate for justice. my book, "haben" for that deafblind woman went to harvard law. helps to fight the injustices against a lot of the disabled people. it encourages people to join us in fighting to an injustice against disabled people. a lot of people do not know about access for the disabled. there are tools like the content access guidelines. and designing accessible things. some people really don't know about them. so you give them on the opportunity to learn about them. but if they have education and the skills to meet these services make them accessible, then there's the eda and then ther

did he check at harvard? if mitchell's whole thing is the book never existed because he couldn't find it. gould died in 1957 maybe it ended up at harvard and just mis-categorized. so i went to the library to look for it and found all this other stuff that proves that everything mitchell said was wrong and i fell down the rabbit hole of needing to find out whether the book existed and mitchell was lying the first time or whether the book didn't exist and mitchell was lying the second time. wrong, not necessarily lying. so i went on this crazy Ãb supposedly it was never written, i did find the volume in the new york public library and mitchell's papers which had only been given to the library. was incredibly thrilling. it was funny because à >> host: jill lepore, if i could ask you to get more in the middle of the camera. we don't want to lose you. we hear from ariel in portsmouth new hampshire, arielle, these go ahead. >> thank you for taking the call, i appreciate you for keeping this program for so many ye

she followed marty to harvard and when he went to new york she left harvard law school and followed him to columbia. when her high school classmates from flatbush, many of whom were in that class at columbia law school, right, found out that ruth, keke bader, was coming to their law school to finish up with them, they heaved a collective sigh and knew that each one of their class ranks would now go down by one. and they did. she graduated first in her class at columbia. her teachers tried to get her a supreme court clerkship. she arguably is one of the smartest people who ever sat on that court. her teachers tried to get a supreme court courtship but there was not a supreme court justice who would take a woman into his chambers nor would the court of appeals judges take her into their chambers. no women. she wound up as a district court clerk and then she ultimately started her real career as an entry-level professor at rutgers law school. her break-point came when some of her women students came and asked her to teach a course in women and the law. she did a typical ginsburg thing, wen

he was a harvard man, wilson was a princeton man. that might have been doomed to fail to begin with. putting that aside. it did garner a majority in the senate, it did not garner the two thirds majority required for ratification. it is not impossible to think that a healthier wilson would have been able to convince the senate to go through with it. we have a different assessment of his legacy. i'm intrigued by how you are framing will sony is a mom and intellectual origins and the idea of anarchy. his extensive writing about the reconstruction era. can you talk about that and make the connection between how he is writing about conceptualizing an arc-ism in applying his ideas on self determination, particularly as a relates to colonize people. >> that's a great question. i'm not qualified for a cycle analysis, so i can say for sure whether wilson's experience in the u.s. civil war was one of the elements at the basis of his fear of anarchy. i would not be surprised if it was. a boy who goes up in antebellum virginia, and suddenly the

host: harvard professor jill lapore is our guest before again to the substance of your books as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world will be viewed? >> we have so little perspective on this moment is quite impossible to say but the perceptionptio t many peopln the united states and around the worldha have the extraordinary initial time. in a way that was experiencing. host: thinking about today do compared to any other period of history? guest: know. as a historian i think we have a cognitive tendency to enjoy analogies to be thing like anotherre f. and then to say that looks just like my great grandma with the baby but then also with my need for familiarity so as my career as a historian that is a journalistic tick to understand there's a whole crop (-left-parenthesis presidential beyond the one - - biographers as a way to contain that chaos as a way to avoid with that moment in time. host: you gave a talk on your book what do we mean in american history? how do we reckon that it is two different as to share a common ancestry as a people and it seems a fairly perilou

from harvard law school, graduating magnet come allowed a, where she was supervising editor of the harvard law review. a job description that i assume she means they did the really hard work. she then corked for judge at manner of the u.s. court of appeals for the district of columbia in 1986 and 1987. she then served as a clerk to justice thurgood marshall during the 1987 term. it doesn't stop there. she worked as a lawyer in private practice in the department of justice before returning to harvard law in 1999, a scant four years later. she was appointed the 11th, only the element dean of the harvard law school. president obama nominated her as the 45th solicitor general of the united states. she was confirmed in that position on march 19th, 2009. the following year, president obama nominated her as an associate justice of the united states supreme court on may 10th, 2010, and she assumed her present roll on august 7th, 2010. please join me on giving a warm welcome to our very busy and very generous host, justice elena kagan. >> (applause) >> well, thank you so much. thank you to the supr

harvard professor jill lepore. before we get into the substance of your book as a historian what is your contemporary view of how our world is going to be viewed. >> i think we have so little perspective on this that it's quite impossible. i think the perceptionce that many people in the united states and also around the worldhi that this is an extraordinary unusual time in a sense where we are out of time will be a curiosity in the future. people will look back and wonder about that wonderment. and he gets kind of an interesting phenomenon. >> when you think about today do you compare it to any other time in history? as a historian. i'm interested in that. we have a cognitive tendency. in the same way i'm the kind of person that seems like this and family members. our need for familiarity. for most of my career as a historian. what time is this like. it is an easy story to write. i think there's a whole crop of presidential biographers who go out on talk shows. i generally find them to be not i in this era. it's a

maybe, maybe the book ended up at harvard and has been this catalogued? so we get ready go to class to go to the libra to look for found it was other stuff that prove like everything he said about gould was wrong. i kind of fell down that rabbit hole. have needing to find out whether the book existed and if mitchell was lying the first time or whether the book didn't exist and he was like a second time. so not nestlÉ raw not nestle line but run. in this self arranged hunt was the actual longest book ever written and supposedly never written. i did find is in the new york public library and mitchell's papers. and it was incredibly thrilling. and it was funny because the book was a mess. >> now joe if i could ask you to get more in the middle of the camera, we do not want to lose your you're almost out of camera range there. we don't want to lose that as we hear from ariel portsmouth new hampshire. ariel please go ahead. >> thank you for taking the culprit i appreciate the fact that you've kept this program for so many years. i want to keep the question si

he went to harvard, and to harvard for law school as well. clerk for judge world on the d.c. circuit. and was in the solicitor's office with a solicitor general. and then was in private practice before going on the bench. and professor randall kennedy, to my left, who is a road scholar. graduate of yellow law school. also on the d.c. circuit. join the harvard faculty in 1984, and has been a very productive prolific author of books. remarkably when most of his colleagues are writing arc to cool, she's writing books. and i thought of particular interest the american academy of hearts in sizes, in the american philosophical association. so we have an array of three marshall clerks, for, including myself as well. i was there in 74 75. for d.c. circuit clerics. and all of us, like virtually all of our other alumni, justice marshall chambers i think we're very much affected in our careers and our lives by the experience of having in his chambers. and in close contact with him for a year. so we're going to reminisce a little bit, if that's okay. i'm not sure if there will be more to

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i was a nieman fellow at harvard. at harvard at the time there was not a single professor of labor history. at this point now, there is only one major newspaper that employs a full-time labor reporter. that's "the new york times, " and it is steven greenhouse. and he has a lonely job. now, many people advocate heartily for free trade today, but there aren't a lot of people speaking up for the defense of the working people in america. and in fact, that is what frances perkins devoted her life to doing. is to talking about the problems of working people and try to find ways to solve those problems, ways that could also keep americans businesses strong and prosperous. now, if frances perkins were standing here today i can almost assuredly tell you what you think she would be talking about? she would be talking about jobs today. should be talking about how to generate jobs and how to bring good paying jobs back to america. she would be talking about smart employers who are finding ways to grow their workforces, economic p

he also serves as director of graduate programs at harvard's weatherhead centers and co-chair of harvard international and global history seminar. he is co-editor of the global and national history series for cambridge university press, the volume "empires at war 1911 to 1923" with robert gurwath which reframes the history as a global war of empires and the international other begins of anti-colonial nationalism. dr. manela will close our symposium with a lecture that x explores how president wilson's convictions were form the, how they shaped the 1919 peace settlement and how that continues to impact us today. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming dr. erez manela. [ applause ] >> thank you for that kind introduction. i want to take a moment to thank lraa, matt, camille, all the rest of the staff at the world war i museum and memorial, including everybody who's kept us organized and on time and well fed throughout these two days. the second time i've worked with this group. and i've been amazed by your intellectual engagement and wizardry, so i would like to take a moment to

i think she went to harvard law. was dean of harvard law school. you think she has thought about the world? sen. kennedy: am sure she -- judge barrett: i'm sure she has, and i am very impressed. sen. kennedy: do you think she has thought about climate change and has personal feelings? judge barrett: i don't know. probably, but i cannot say what justin kagan has thought or not about. sen. kennedy: you have personal feelings about abortion, don't you? judge barrett: i do have personal feelings about abortion. sen. kennedy: have you ever thought about how we deliver health care in this country? judge barrett: i do, but one of the things about the judicial role i have repeatedly emphasized is that i have got personal views and personal feelings on a range of matters, just like every human does, and just like every judge or justice does. sen. kennedy: that is what i'm getting at. my colleagues say -- and senator harris said, even know you have a personal opinion about abortion that you will violate your own to put aside those personal feelings and fairl

university, and i was a neiman fellow at harvard and in harvard at that time there was not a single professor of labor history. at this point now there's only one major newspaper that employs a full-time labor reporter. that's "the new york times" and it's stephen greenhouse and it has a lonely job. now many people advocate heartily for free trade today, but there aren't a lot of people speaking up for the offense of the working people in america, and in pacfact, that's what fras perkins devoted her life to do, and devoting her life to the life of working people and trying to solve those problems and ways that could keep america's businesses strong and prosperous. if francis perkins were standing here today i can almost assuredly tell you, what do you think she'd be talking about? she'd be talking about jobs today. she'd be talking about how to generate jobs and how to bring good-paying jobs back to america. she'd be talking about smart employers who are finding ways to grow their workforces, economic policies that bring good-paying jobs to america, and she'd be talking about ways t

the harvard bookstore is one of those places in my memory. i can remember individual books that i have bought there. i remember buying edmund kosice father and son down in the basement there, and it's just a place that has a particular flavor and i love the bookstore and i'm happy to be part of it even if i'm not in the bookstore. i was trying to write about something that happened a long time ago in this book, and -- but it just occurred to me that since i didn't know everything about what happened a long time ago because the documents were being withheld, that i would write about what was happening while i was trying to write about what happened a long time ago. i ended up, instead of having one timeline which is a timeline of the early cold war, harry truman, korea, china, a a gathering sense of suspicion and paranoia. i also wanted to write about my own life as i was trying to make sense of that early. it just happened -- early period. my wife and i got to rescue dioxins the day before -- dioxins. start the scene comes to the book but hap

i was a nieman fellow at harvard. at harvard at that time there was not a single professor of labor history. at this point now there's only one major newspaper that employs a full-time labor reporter. that's "the new york times," and it's steven greenhouse, and he has a lonely job. now, many people advocate hardily for free trade today but there aren't a lot of people speaking up for the events of the working people in america. frances perkins devoted her life to talking about the problems of working people and trying to find ways to solve those problems, ways that could also keep america's businesses strong and prosperous. now, if frances perkins were standing here today, i can almost assuredly tell you, what do we think she would be talking about? she would be talking about jobs today, how to generate jobs and how to bring good-paying jobs back to america. she would be talking about smart employers who are finding ways to grow their workforces, economic policies that bring good-paying jobs back to america. and she w

. >> today on noon eastern in-depth, live 2 hour conversation with harvard professor jill lepore, the history of wonderwoman, these truths, the history of the united states and the book of ages joining your conversation with phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets, watch jill lepore on noon eastern on book tv on c-span2. >> hi, everyone cheryl adkisson. we are here to talk about his book, one of the most stories about our time and hasn't been well told until now. we will talk about that today. i got to know carter page professionally and i was blown away by the facts as the case when you cover stories where powerful interests are trying to shape them and you're not getting the true picture. he will talk about all of that today, carter, ask we start with you giving a brief background of your education, where you went to school and very briefly your job experience in career? >> yes, sheryl, thank you so much for doing this today, great to be with you. i grew up in duchess county, new york and i received a nomination to the u.s. naval academy which i started a week after graduat

y otra va a entrar en harvard el próximo año y si la cierran hay que manejar 40 minutos >>> el 90% es hispano este semestre como una discriminación >>> mientras que una familia y estudiantes se manifestaban líderes escolares realizaban una junta electoral donde el tema principal fue el futuro del plantel es que si lo cierran le ahorran 2 millones de dólares al año al antel >>> quiero implementar una educación fuerte >>> el distrito escolar de casi 18,000 estudiantes afirman que los cierres a causa de disminución de alumnos y el costo de operación de la secundaria la idea sería reasignar a los casi 700 estudiantes a otros planteles, la misma estrategia que tomaron al cerrar en junio >>> espero que todos aprendan del pasado ignorar el problema y tener esperanza no es en estrategia el temor es la educación bilingüe que sus hijos también reciben >>> queremos que sepan que no se trata del dinero sino de la educación de las tres hijos los otros no tienen programa de doble inversión >>> esto solo afecta a los latinos >>> gracias por este informe vamos a estas imágenes en vivo e

joseph henrich at harvard university, welcome to hardtalk. it's good to be with you. you are now in the middle of a heated debate about human evolution. now, i'm used to thinking about evolution in terms of genetics — darwin's survival of the fittest. you seem to put your focus not so much on biology, much more on cultural conditioning, nurture. am i right? yeah. i mean, one of the unique things about our species is that more than any other species, we're dependent on acquiring large bodies of information from those around us, from the 5ocietie5 we grow up in. and in fact, our brains have evolved to be able to take in and learn how to process information. so our motivations, preferences, emotions, heuristics — all of these things we can acquire in order to adapt to the cultural technologies and languages and institutions that we have to confront in the world, so we're very much a cultural species. right. and you have written a book which has caused many waves. now, there's an acronym at the centre of it — weird — which stands for western, educated, indu5triali

and you seem to be saying that — let's say we, because you're at harvard. i'm here in london — we in the west have evolved in ways which are very different from human beings in pretty much all other places around the world. can you explain? well, i mean, the coining of the acronym weird is meant as a consciousness—raising device for people who study human psychology, for behavioural economists, cos when some colleagues and i began to put all the data together that was available from the experimental behavioural social sciences, we found that over 90% of it, and often as much as 96% of it, came from americans and people from the uk, french, australians, canadians, and that this actually gave us a very biased picture. when we looked at other data from other societies, we found out that not only were westerners one slice, or these populations most commonly studied, one slice of humanity, but they were a particularly unusual slice. along a number of important psychological dimensions, they ended up at the end of the distribution, so what i've spent the last

. >> next on book tv, institute for political innovation founder, catherine and harvard university professor, michael porter offer their strategy, the american medical system works. an american university professor, joseph campbell talks about the history of pulling an impact on presidential races and later, historian discusses the sinking of 17 allied ships in italy in december 1943 including john harvey inter-american ship secretly holding 2000 mustard gas bombs. consult your program guide for more information, booktv.org. >> good afternoon. thank you for tuning in to our lifestream. i'm university professor at the university of toronto. before we get started, the land by which university out operates for thousands of years, most recently, the river. today from his home to clinic and people and we are grateful for the opportunity to work on this land. the university stands in solidarity with the ongoing protests against systemic racism and discrimination. i have the pleasure of introducing catherine and michael, a business leader, entrepreneur and speaker, founder of the institute for poli

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a group of three professors and doctors who teach at harvard, stanford, and oxford recently co-authored an open letter in defense of herd immunity. it's known asas the great barrington declaration. the letter begins -- "as infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists, we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing covid-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call focused protection." the letter goes on to state -- "those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal." the great barrington declaration is named after a town in western massachusetts which is home to the american institute for economic research, a koch brother funded think tank that sponsored the open letter. many other public health experts have expressed alarm over this call to embrace herd immunity. on wednesday, a group of doctors and scientists signed an opepen letterer in the lancet medical journal stating -- "the evidence is very clear -- controlling community spread of covid-19 is the best way to protect our societi

so the harvard kid was upset because at harvard they know racism when they see it. that's another thing that we learned last night. supposedly most impressive people in our society are not impressive at all. they're dim, they're silly and they're humorless. on some level, they know that about themselves. that's why they're so self righteous. if you ever wondered why the most privilege people are so mad, that's your answer. they're fraud and they know we know it. back to the debate last night. at one point joe biden told us that hundreds of these children brought here by coyotes, possibly dragged, have been separated permanently from their parents by the trump administration, which hates families. 545 children to be exact. now, if you believe that was true, you'd be upset about it so be happy to know it's not true. it's not even close to true. the vast majority of the parents of these children have been located by federal authorities. they're refusing to reunite with their children. a dhs spokesperson says in one lawsuit, the plaintiffs have been able to contact the

all of you went to gayle or harvard law school. most of you went to ivy league undergraduate. princeton was a big part of it. there's not much diversity in that respect on the court now. is that anything that you think has an impact? >> some high courts have proportional geographic representation. so a certain number of justices come from the west coast, provinces. we don't do that, in fact it was one stated that for a time it was vastly over represented. and that was our sonia, because there was chief justices o'connor and rank hearst. population of arizona that. >> until justice goglia passed away, there were four view from five boroughs of new york city. >> so we were diverse, the only thing we were messing with staten island. (laughs). >> i'm sure the president if he had an opportunity, whoever the president was, would have been looking for someone 50 years old from harvard and staten island. >> there's quite a few of them by the way. >> should that matter? there was a time earlier in our history, when there were certain geographic areas were presumed to be -- a southern s

so the harvard kid was upset because at harvard they know racism when they see it. that's another thing that we learned last night. supposedly most impressive people in our society are not impressive at all. they're dim, they're silly and they're humorless. on some level, they know that about themselves. that's why they're so self righteous. if you ever wondered why the most privilege people are so mad, that's your answer. they're fraud and they know we know it. back to the debate last night. at one point joe biden told us that hundreds of these children brought here by coyotes, possibly dragged, have been separated permanently from their parents by the trump administration, which hates families. 545 children to be exact. now, if you believe that wasas true, you'd be upset about it so be happy to know it's not true. it's not even close to true. the vastbo majority of the pares of these children have been located by federal authorities. they're refusing to reunite with their children. a dhs spokesperson says in one lawsuit, the plaintiffs have been able to contact th

ofing up next, megan greene harvard kennedy school, senior fellow. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ ♪ jonathan: wednesday morning worldwide, a classic risk off set up. that's the price action. it looks a little something like this. well, lisa, it might be on a daily basis. [laughter] -4.1%. keep an eye on the banks today. down in europe, down 7% on euro banks. this week alone, we are off by 6.7%. euro weaker, yen stronger, dollar stronger. it is just that risk aversion really getting behind a dollar bid. euro-dollar down to $1.1745. the u.s. 10 year, 76 basis points. going into the ecb news conference tomorrow with christine lagarde, it is what is happening to italy, or rather what isn't happening to the italian debt market. yes, btp's are softer. italian bonds are lower. yields are higher by almost five basis points. but eight or nine months ago, i think you would have seen a much more vicious move off the back of what is happening in europe this morning. tom: as we look at the data right now this morning, gold out of bed and right back to support $1894

went to harvard, super bowl champion, has eight children and he's a pro-life advocate. happy to have them on tonight. thanks so much for joining us. >> thanks, tucker. >> tucker: it does seem -- even if you're for legal abortion, it does seem a little bit weird to spend as much energy on a topic that dark. what do you think that's about? >> i think that abortion being legal in this country somehow legitimizes it to be pro-choice or pro-abortion crowd. antiabortion -- if roe vs. wade is overturned, then somehow their whole moral framework will be rattled. >> tucker: having abortion at the center of your moral framework seems like kind of weird place to be, doesn't it? >> it does to me. you know, i think -- obviously this is a confirmation hearing for supreme court justice, but the conversation we should be having is is abortion right? it's well-known that i'm a pro-life advocate, have been for a long time. nobody has ever come up and ask me why am i pro-life. it's pretty self-explanatory. if you're pro-choice or pro-abortion, that's where you have to do the explaining an

some of that was intentional and in terms of his research for his thesis at harvard. he ultimately turns that into a book, why england slept. and i do not know that it pays all that much attention to his father's role in that. but he looks at what is the to later, i think it informs his you of the cold war, and how do you respond? so it is an interesting time. paul: interestingly, that book, john kennedy gave a copy of it to franklin roosevelt. jfk signed it and franklin roosevelt signed it. siu have the fdr collection and that is one of our most precious possessions with the fdr and jfk signature. you may not know the story. it is one of my favorite anecdotes. in 1940, when kennedy came back from europe, he came to visit the fdr library that was under construction at the time. he left a gift for fdr. note, a copy of the thank you note that fdr wrote to jfk. it is a scribbled note so it is a little bit hard to read. it appears to say thank you for the machine gun and goggles. alan: really? paul: everyone was can you like can you imagine john f. , kennedy dropping off

although the harvard report was sponsored by the airline and airport industry. it mirrors previous studies that show that commercial airplane filtration systems can eliminate viruses you can get to see grandma. this thanksgiving but the feet and go but such reports are counted by last week's revelation that 13 of 49 passengers in an irish airlines flight contracted the virus during a 7 and a half hour international flight. 9 of them will win mask and several were distance from other passengers. there's still some question whether the virus was contracted on the airplane. but such incidents don't bode well for holiday travel this year. >>a sacramento international passenger capacity will be down 33% over last year that's better than the 40% or more at other airports airports may be less crowded but because of a reduction in the number of flights expect full airplanes. >>and virus protection protocols like social distancing in lines along with infrequent travelers you've got more kids more strollers that sort of thing so i think we can probably look forward to alm

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school and what i would. recommend for the troubled ministration to look at is that in fact the people who have benefited the most from affirmative action programs are in fact white women followed closely behind by asian people so trump may actually be helping people who he would be looking to to continue his presidency coming up in the upcoming election idea that academia has been discriminating against white and asian students has been an open secret since i was in college which is longer ago than i care to admit don't get me wrong i believe that if that systemic discrimination is happening it is wrong but the answer to the problem is not further discrimination and frankly i think it is insulting to black students and to a spandex suit and to imply that they need to be given a leg up because of their race that they're not for some reason able to gain admittance just through the merit of their marks we are so used to the culture of political correctness we've almost beco

i asked and an instructor at harvard medical school. iasked him what he made of the cdc's bindings. absolutely no surprise to me and many of us here in the united states. the cdc has had a little trouble with its influenza statistics over the years and have done a lot of estimating instead of a lot of estimating instead of a lot of estimating instead of a lot of counting. when you actually compare hospitalisations it is a little bit better because then you really can say, ok, of the people who were sick enough to require hospitalisation, how do they fare. the study shows that in that rupert is five times worse for cove rt in that rupert is five times worse for covert than flu but what i want to say is that that actually may be makes it looks too rosy for flu. covert is worse than that and the reason is that we actually know that the rate of hospitalisation is far higherso the rate of hospitalisation is far higher so once you reach hospitalisation it is five times worse but you are, in all cases, a higher likelihood to be hospitalised. this says five times andl be hospitalised. this

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school and what i would. recommend for the troubled ministration to look at is that in fact the people who have benefited the most from affirmative action programs are in fact white women followed closely behind by asian people so trump may actually be helping people who he would be looking to to continue his presidency coming up in the upcoming election idea that academia has been discriminating against white and asian students has been an open secret since i was in college which is longer ago than i care to admit don't get me wrong i believe that if that systemic discrimination is happening it is wrong but the answer to the problem is not further discrimination and frankly i think it is insulting to black students and to a spandex didn't imply that they need to be given a leg up because of their race that they're not for some reason able to gain admittance just through the merit of their marks we are so used to the culture of political correctness we've almost become nu

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school what i would. recommend for the child ministration to look at is that in fact the people who have benefited the most from affirmative action programs are in fact white women followed closely behind by asian people. trump may actually be helping people who he would be looking to to continue his presidency coming up in the upcoming election idea that academia has been discriminating against white and asian students has been an open secret since i was in college which is longer ago than i care to admit don't get me wrong i believe that if that systemic discrimination is happening it is wrong but the answer to the problem is not further discrimination and frankly i think it is insulting to black students and to a spandex to dance to imply that they need to be given a leg up because of their race that they're not for some reason able to gain admittance just through the merit of their marks we are so used to the culture of political correctness we've almost become numb t

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school so we are very concerned that this could set a precedent and actually reduce diversity but what we're really afraid of is that this continues this trope that somehow white people in the united states are being discriminated against more than people of color and that's something that is simply not true and we have to get to the bottom of if we really are going to become a post racial nation seems that agent is a single doubt that if the minority group west affected by affirmative action do you think it's fat hardworking asian students to be excluded from top universities due to these rules. absolutely not i stand in solidarity with asian people asian students who worked extremely extremely hard i think that that should absolutely be looked into that should be investigated no one who is qualified to go to a top university should be disqualified solely because of their race and if this is happening to asian people it warrants investigation and it warrants being raided

, and that harvard at the time, there was not a single professor of labor history. at this point now, there's only one major newspapers that employs a full-time labor reporter. that's the new york times. and it's stream in greenhouse, and he has a lonely job. now, many people advocate heartily for free trade today, but there are not a lot of people's speaking for the defense of the working people in america. and in fact, that's what frances perkins devoted her life to doing. talking about the problems of working people, and trying to find ways to solve those problems, ways that could also keep americas businesses strong and prosperous. now, if frances perkins we're standing here today, i couldn't assure you and tell you that what do you think he would be talking about? she would be talking about jobs, today, she would be talking about how to generate jobs, and how to bring good paying jobs back to america. she would be talking about smart employers, who are finding ways to grow their workforces, economic policies, step bring good paying jobs back to america. and she

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school and what i would. recommend for the troubled ministration to look at is that in fact the people who have benefited the most from affirmative action programs are in fact white women followed closely behind by asian people so trump may actually be helping people who he would be looking to to continue his presidency coming up in the upcoming election idea that academia has been discriminating against white and asian students has been an open secret since i was in college which is longer ago than i care to admit don't get me wrong i believe that if that systemic discrimination is happening it is wrong but the answer to the problem is not further discrimination and i greatly think it is insulting to black students and to a spandex to dance to imply that they need to be given a leg up because of their race that they're not for some reason able to gain admittance just through the merit of their marks we are so used to the culture of political correctness we've almost beco

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school what i would. recommend for the troubled ministration to look at is that in fact the people who have benefited the most from affirmative action programs are in fact white women followed closely behind by asian people. trump may actually be helping people who he would be looking to to continue his presidency coming up in the upcoming election idea that academia has been discriminating against white and asian students has been an open secret since i was in college which is longer ago than i care to admit don't get me wrong i believe that if that systemic discrimination is happening it is wrong but the answer to the problem is not further discrimination and frankly i think it is insulting to black students and to a spandex to dance to imply that they need to be given a leg up because of their race that they're not for some reason able to gain admittance just through the merit of their marks we are so used to the culture of political correctness we've almost become num

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school what i would. recommend for the troubled ministration to look at is that in fact the people who have benefited the most from affirmative action programs are in fact white women followed closely behind by asian people so trump may actually be helping people who he would be looking to to continue his presidency coming up in the upcoming election idea that academia has been discriminating against white and asian students has been an open secret since i was in college which is longer ago than i care to admit don't get me wrong i believe that if that systemic discrimination is happening it is wrong but the answer to the problem is not further discrimination and frankly i think it is insulting to black students and to a spandex to dance to imply that they need to be given a leg up because of their race that they're not for some reason able to gain admittance just through the merit of their marks we are so used to the culture of political correctness we've almost become n

it was published by harvard in 2013. in dozens of articles and book chapters, including one entitled "henry kissinger: the emotional statesman." and the second book was published in diplomatic history. after finishing a book manuscript, she is writing a book currently on the relationship between henry kissinger -- she is the most recent president of society of historians. we are delighted to have her with us. you have the floor. >> thank you for having me. we congratulate tom, that was clearly a major achievement. it occurred to me last night that for the field of u.s. foreign history, writing a book about henry kissinger is a bit like climbing mount everest. there is a small but sizable number of people who undertake the challenge because it is such a challenge. one of the things that makes it such a challenge is that they are in a large party -- a large waddy of scholarship and kissinger. a number of things contribute with kissinger. i want to touch on a few things and post two questions. the two things that stand out

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that at harvard and the university of virginia this year. what do you tell your students are some of the most important lessons you learned? >> thank you very much, if i give you the full answer and students are out there do better on the exams by hearing what i think, just take note. i came upon this course because i wanted a better understanding of what my role was as a judge, what am i supposed to do with the constitution, what roles am i supposed to play? both from being a judge and from the courses and hearing interaction with students, it happened the day after i was confirmed by the senate for my seat on the d.c. circuit, a happy day for me. i was in my office, the general counsel at the time. i was the recipient of many congratulatory phone calls from people from around the country who i had known and worked with before. one was from a fellow i worked with in washington d.c., he observed a distinguished member of the d.c. circuit who has long since passed away, and went on to clerk on the supreme court. and so he gave me some advice

kennedy who didn't have great grades it is said was accepted to harvard university because his grandfather attended the school and what i would. recommend for the troubled ministration to look at is that in fact the people who have benefited the most from affirmative action programs are in fact white women followed closely behind by asian people. trump may actually be helping people who he would be looking to to continue his presidency coming up in the upcoming election idea that academia has been discriminating against white and asian students has been an open secret since i was in college which is longer ago than i care to admit don't get me wrong i believe that if that systemic discrimination is happening it is wrong but the answer to the problem is not further discrimination and frankly i think it is insulting to black students and to a spandex suit and to imply that they need to be given a leg up because of their race that they're not for some reason able to gain admittance just through the merit of their marks we are so used to the culture of political correctness we've almost become

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we are live with arthur and harvard university professor jill lepore who will be a guest on our monthly call in program "in depth," she will discuss lesser-known stories from american history going back to the founding of the country. also this weekend political satirist and journalist pj o'rourke talks about his most recent collection of essays on american history, economics and culture. on our offer interview program "after words," foxbusiness news host lou dobbs offers thoughts on donald trump's agenda, find a full television schedule, booktv.org. now we kick off the weekend with james copeland who argues america is over and by non-elected agency officials. >> we know we are preparing to vote in a huge election. we will be electing all sorts of -- congress, state legislators etc. a fascinating new book written by our guests today looks at the unelected, the title of jim copeland's book is the unelected, how an unaccountable elite is governing america. ..

i'd be the only sitting justice who didn't attend school at harvard or yale but i'm confident notre dame could hold its own and maybe i could teach them a thing or two about final. as a final note, mr. chairman, i would like to thank the many americans from all walks of life who have reached out with messages of support over the course of my nomination. i believe in the power of prayer and it has been uplifting to hear so many people are praying for me. i look forward to answering the committee's questions over the coming days. and i am fortunate enough to be confirmed, i pledge to faithfully and impartially discharge my duty to the american people as an associate justice of the supreme court. thank you. >> thank you very much, judge barrett. let's try professor o'hara. any luck with her? >> i'm here, chairman graham. >> thank you. i apologize for the problem. the floor is yours. >> that's very kind of you. it's anticlimactic to because you heard from the most important you need to hear but it's kind to take the time. i have known judge amy coney barrett for shy of 20 years and i want to