is lenny bernstein who is covering the sry for the "washington post." >> give us an idea of how big this project is and what they're trying to accomplish. >> sure. this project is probably the most ambitious effort to compile a repository of medical data that's ever been understain. they want a million people to give them various forms of information, everything from filling out a survey to allowing them to sequence your entire genome.t and they wople from alls walk life, all over the country, different racial you groups, ethnic groups and they're taking steps to make sure they st it. enivasan: what happens with the information when they get it, what are the applications, uses, hopes that they ask get from ? r the applications are endless. the idea is to fose growth much pre--of precision medicine, preventions and curefully to your particular set of needs. so the idea would be a that we would have this gianrepository of information that various researchers could lve into and examine and use to come up with approaches to all kinds of diseases. it's most easily understood right now in term

the centerpiece of which is a party at lenny bernstein's house, a famous conductor.er of left-wing causes. this is a party for the black panthers. they are a distant memory but they were a murderous group of self-declared revolutionaries who wanted to create their own country within a country and they embraced violence in there that day's ms-13. >>paul: here's a scene with them at a manhattan salon. >> it's bernstein's 30 room duplex - - avenue apartment. little cheese balls - - >>paul: mmm, these are good. [laughter] >> it seems funny in retrospect that we now realize what tom wolfe understood that this kind of trivialization had very bad effects. because what it did is it made many moral ideas into silly clubs with which to be your enemies. so we see it today. we see on campuses today. you can't wear a certain halloween costume. you can't even utter the word of a certain halloween costume whether it's a sombrero, it's considered to be politically incorrect. tom wolfe would not be able to write that essay today. >>paul: that i wanted to ask you about because it's so

in his radical essay, about a party at lenny bernstein's house, a party for the black panthers., the black panthers are a distant memory now. they were a murderous group who want toded to create a country within a country. they embraced violence. they were that day's ms-13. >> paul: here's the theme with them at a manhattan salon. >>'s it was the bernstein's 13 room duplex park avenue apartment, a maze with cheese balls and crushed nuts. >> paul: i remember the lead, mmmm, these are good. >> it seems funny in retrospect. we realize what tom wolfe understood was that this kind of trivialization had very bad effects because what it did was it made many moral ideas into really clubs with which to beat your enemies. so we see it today. we see it on campuses today. you can't wear a certain kind of halloween costume. you can't even utter the word of a certain kind of halloween costume, whether it's a some soo or whatever, because it's considered politically incorrect. tom wolfe would not be able to publish that essay today. >> paul: that's something i wanted to ask you about. radical