trying to close down its last abortion clinic. texas trying to shut down 75% of their abortion clinics and the question will be, will they take the case and if they do we should get a decision before the presidential election. it is going to be come to does it violate a woman's constitutional right to shut down every abortion clinic in the state if you say it's to protect her. we don't know know what role justice kim burks will have an deciding to take these cases. we learned that she wears a special collar for dissenting, next june there will be no camera in the court but anyone sitting in the room will not, any liberal is not going to want to see that dissenting collar. >> i have to make one point before we go, christmas is coming, hanukkah is coming, the

book is for sale after this program, it makes an excellent president. for whatever holiday you choose to celebrate. i hope shawna and arendt will go sign copies for you. i hope you will join me in thanking them for this excellent conversation [applause]. >> a now a book tv a literary tour of anaheim california with the help of our local cable partner, tying trend time warner. we sit in at a class with chapman university where students are studying the

writing of holocaust survivors. >> we're going to be reading parts of the memoir called the vienna paradox. to be doing that apart to feel our way into the topics were to be talking about next evening but also because i think we already begun to look at the article to realize the term holocaust survivor is very complicated. this class actually began to when we learned that professor would be coming to chapman university for four years beginning in spring 2011.

the president and chancellor of the university, doctor doty and doctor strube asked them if they would be interested in coming back as a presidential fellow for a week each spring. to my very great surprise and delight, he agreed. so my colleague in english jan and i have created a course to engage students in different disciplines within the university and really come to understand him not only as a holocaust survivor and witness but as the author of 60 different books which encompass many different genres. so it began as a kind of

adventure for my colleague and i. the best part of teaching is you sometimes get to sit in a seminar with students and read works that you have not had a chance to read before. i think part of what makes a class like this such a really wonderful learning experiences bringing together students who are taking the course for general education or credit and different disciplines. their students in the class who are taken for religious studies credit, certainly many of the things we will be talking about in the course are religious things. and ethical themes. students taking the course for history credit, other students taking up her english credit. there are students who are business communication, business major, fill majors, i think that

is part of the great luxury of being able to teach a seminar class like this, is limited to about 20 students is to have them be able to learn from one another. sitting around a table, very literally literally sitting around a table and having the chance to have those kind of disciplinary conversations. the question of how to connect the history to the writings, we begin as one would expect with night and night, not only story of what happened to professor and his family in the gado, and in auschwitz and we are also trying to look at the world, and the message that created that,

what were the factors that came together that would lead ultimately to asher woods, i think we really have to look at the history, we we have to look at the power of propaganda, i think that leads us to think about and the questions about our own time, what messages we listen to, how deeply we probe at messages. i tell my students always to -- when someone says this is for our good, to ask what is the good. for whom? sometimes we get tired of asking that question. i think if we learned anything from giselle and his writing i

think it's to keep asking the question even if we cannot find the answer. keep asking the question. for myself and i have been doing this now for quite a few years. i never teach the same course twice. i'm always changing books i'm always trying, with some success, sometimes, trying to bring books together in conversation with each other. i think a very fine short history book like the one by doris called warren genocide, it can be a kind of scaffolding within which we can place the memoir like night and we'll be reading some brief section of other writers, and help us to

frame the discussion where we go deeper, in some way very good history text can provide a canvas that allows you to develop the smaller areas and choose the colors, it all fits together, one memoir another memoir, speaking in my class earlier today about the fascinating memoir by marjorie who is a great scholar of postmodern literature she has a new book coming out in may, the edge of irony talking about her memoir of being a child in vienna, leaving her home with her parents in 1938 and how much her life was affected by nazi

-ism, but in such a different way then ellie giselle. i think history provides structure in which we can then go in depth into individual experience. i think one thing one does not want to do in teaching something as complex as the holocaust and other similar topics whether you talk about what occurred in darfur or wherever is to overwhelm with the magnitude of it. i think we look at a screen and we see the bodies as the footage that came out of from bougainville men and other camps and often our first response is to say, that is horrible and

there's nothing i can do about it. i think what we really want to do is teach in a way that connects into the jewel and experience that makes you feel that by being a dedicated, involved citizen of the world you can make a difference. i see my role as an educator, it is to try to mentor students so when possible they can connect with silver -- survivors. they not only learn all the norms of different stories that make up the hc