i'm curious, when you go to harvard law school and you are at the top of your class, when you start harvard school, there is an intimidation factor. you have 600 people. when did you realize you were really good at law school kind of things, taking exams? did you know you were going to be a great student and therefore become a potential professor? or were you nervous the first year or so? justice breyer: i think i was pretty nervous. i remember talking to a friend of mine i had been undergraduate with and he was there. we both said, well, this is the end of our great careers after our first year. and we both did pretty well. david: you were on the harvard law review. sometimes you get the clerk on the supreme court -- you get to clerk on the supreme court for another justice. what was that like? justice breyer: terrific. he had loads of energy. jack kennedy said he was the smartest man he ever met. david: you clerked for him and went to teach at harvard law school. when you went to harvard law school, did you say this is going to be my life, i'm going to be a professor? you can teach great

she earned her phd at harvard, setting testosterone is taught there ever since.umerous teaching awards on behavior class with the harvard top ten tried and true. esteemed a company this evening and treasure into book as i am. reframe tonight conversation. feminist institution is to stay in heart and complex conversation. to assume and seek to provide clear information of choices about our bodies and our communities. the most marginalized among us. who possesses the power to shape narratives and therefore to shape the policies. we are living in an era of being actively recruited especially children, doctors, parents, teachers are trying to help them. this other times when science was recruited and often still is. justify further supremacy. the advocates teach us often a double edge sword for people who try to deviate from the standard line on the bell curve. talk about power and human desire. she argues in her book is useful for all of us in our world. but we do with it is up to us. i'm personally invested in this conversation i'm a transgender man and a diabetic.

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it really brings back memories from my earlier time at harvard just to see the name harvard square mentioned in the times around that. it also just to see you and text me again that is truly meaningful, thank you for taking the time. and i will tell you, the book was something i always loved as you have always loved literature, writing,re the power of the words to stir emotion. i have marveled at that, wondered aboutwo that. my whole life growing up into adulthood, through critical practice and the progress always returning to literature. very hard to share with the broad public, the essence of what we do it is a challenge even to convey what we do too many scientists. to answer your question, the first challenge was if i want to share some of the excitement of the science, if i want to share the important experiences from the clinic. if i want to help everybody understand this better, this moment in time and our progress toward understanding ourselves is going to be very challenging to figure out how to do it. what is the right voice, what is the what the book is. it is a mix of science and

students they're never intending to take so harvard, princeton, gayle and you harvard, princeton or yale up apply that's one more rejection it makes it more exclusive. it's an extremely unethical act it's wasting people's time, wasting their money, leading them on increase the prestige of the university and the ranking systems. >> what was your college experience would you do it differently today? >> i went to a small liberal arts college for undergraduate. graduate school phd and a large public university taught at both types of institutions. i see some similarities some differences i offer the same advice into the high school students when i talk to them today, think about it strategically. pick a major base out what you think will be suited and trying to discover yourself are trying to find a new path, hobby or consumption in life. in other words, think a way to get to college efficiently. one thing i would have done is continuing in the community college credit not the general education requirements out of the way. what we will find is these are the major contributor to the cost of c

harvard decided to continue having classes. i got into, i knew at some point they were going to call up more conventional giller forces like me and i had to start contemplating the idea that i would eventually go to afghanistan. i wasn't scared. i wanted to go to afghanistan because i was so mad. i was dealing with a side issue, one of my good friends is a tall indian man. at that time, there was a lot of racism going around. i was hanging out with him a lot to make sure he wasn't getting picked on. this was a very extreme time. i felt useless at that point because i knew that i was trained to defend the country and i was not doing it at that point.sponse -- cities emergency response to the terrorist attacks. this is two hours.

harvard decided to continue having classes. i got into, i knew at some point they were going to call up more conventional giller forces like me and i had to start contemplating the idea that i would eventually go to afghanistan. i wasn't scared. i wanted to go to afghanistan because i was so mad. i was dealing with a side issue, one of my good friends is a tall indian man. at that time, there was a lot of racism going around. i was hanging out with him a lot to make sure he wasn't getting picked on. this was a very extreme time. i felt useless at that point because i knew that i was trained to defend the country and i was not doing it at that point. it was a very odd feeling. >> you are looking at the scene from a short while ago from memorial plaza in new york city on the anniversary of the september 11 attacks. 20 years ago, president bush was in a school in florida when the plaintiff the world trade center . after being taken to military

harvard decided to continue having classes. got into, i knew at some point they were going to call up more conventional giller forces like me and i had to start contemplating the idea that i would eventually go to afghanistan. i wasn't scared. i wanted to go to afghanistan because i was so mad. i was dealing with a side issue, one of my good friends is a tall indian man. at that time, there was a lot of racism going around. i was hanging out with him a lot to make sure he wasn't getting picked on. this was a very extreme time. i felt useless at that point because i knew that i was trained to defend the country and i was not doing it at that point. it was a very odd feeling. ♪ >> this year marks the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. join us for life coverage from new york, the pentagon, and shanksville, pennsylvania saturday on c-span. watch online on c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. you can be part of a national conversation by participating in the student video competition. your opinion matters. if you are a s

you also went to harvard and yale. so, you know a lot about and you know they throw a lot of money at the public schools have horrific teacher's students were essentially calling all the shots. what has gavin newsom done wrong and what we do in terms of education, and kevin kiley. >> thank you for having me on i taught tenth grade english. kennedy: they don't pass there's no one at per grade level proficiency it's all the same. any who.

ted cruz is a graduate of harvard, josh hawley, bill and hillary clinton is a graduate of harvard law school. those law schools produce mostly high-priced corporate lawyers and they also produce politicians, some of whom end up on the united states supreme court. and they end up on the supreme court by successfully navigating the politics of the con fourmation process. they navigate that process in the united states senate, which is in and of itself an anti-democratic institution. each state gets two senators. that leaves republicans overrepresented in the united states senate. the united states senate creates an asterisk that must appear at the end of every sentence that calls the american government a democracy. the number of united states supreme court justices fluctuated until 1869 when the number was set at nine in federal law. those nine judges were the final judicial authority in a country of 38 million people and only 37 states in 1869. we now have 332 million people whose legal issues are far more complex than the legal issues that faced the 38 million people who were served

. >>> move over harvard, forbes has named uc berkley the number one college in the country. the magazine chose it because of the school's lower tuition costs when compared to other schools, the quality of education and diversity. harvard regularly topped the list, but the forbes ed tors say the pandemic made them rethink the rankings. it is the first time force has put a public urts on top. as for harvard, slid to number seven. >> >>> we'll show what you happened in high school football next. >>> we'll show what you happened in high school football next. >>> we'll show what you happened in high school football next. >>> we'll show what you had in high school football next. boost and cricket charge you more for unlimited 5g. metro doesn't. introducing the big 5g upgrade. just twenty-five bucks a month gets you unlimited 5g and a free 5g smartphone. that's half the price... ...for one line of unlimited 5g smartphone data ...plus a free samsung galaxy 5g when you switch and trade-in. all with the power of the t-mobile 5g network. rule your day with 5g. only at metro by t-mobile

harvard were involved in moderna --mit or harvard were involved moderna moderna in involved in -- involvedn moderna. your background is different than many people from m.i.t. and harvard. >> i was born in beirut of armenian parents. it lived there until the civil war in 1975 and ended up escaping and growing up in canada. david: you were a teenager when you went to canada. >> i was a teenager and i was extreme -- extremely fortunate. my family, they took us as political refugees. we escaped lebanon. david: you went to mcgill university. what did you major in? >> chemical engineering. it was an interesting field at the time because that is a field that first got drawn into biotechnology when that industry started. david: after you graduated, you went to m.i.t.? >> yes, i was a first graduate from what was called the bio process engineering center. it was the first time engineers were being trained to do advanced work in biology. the notion was this industry was being born so you need engineers to come up with how to make the products. that's how i got involved. david: were there a lot of ar

or harvard with its focus on empiricism. it was more about theory and math.t the university of chicago, it was more about how economics could be applied to everyday problems, in an empirical way, using data to analyze everyday problems. sowell comes out of that tradition. the first book he wrote was an economics textbook for college graduates, it's full of graphs and explanations. his best-known book is called basic economics, and it is essentially an economic textbook with no grants and jargon, written for the general public. tom is quite proud of that work, and i think it is evident that his focus in terms of using his -- using the discipline to people who are not trained in economics, that is something his mentors did. tom has done that as well. most of his books are not written for his peers in the academy, they are written for everyday people, unlike friedman , sowell felt the duty of a scholar is not to talk to intellectual gears but explain the discipline to the public. susan: is that still in print? jason: jeff: i believe it is in his fifth edition no

that was the model for harvard students.a is redemption to belief in a higher power in an actual god. all this discussion about inclusion, we had a christian chapel, peter gums, he is now deceased. he was also gay but he brought in the dalai lama to my freshman year, the first time i wanted to harvest chapel was to listen to the dalai lama so it's not a christianity or judaism or a particular religion but you're going to have a space in a liberal arts university for faith, then make it of faith for a place, god. don't put an atheist in charge, i think that's an implicit attack on religion, right now they want to check everything by apologizing for it, ranging from capitalism to religion, here is apologizing for religion by putting atheist and start of the chapel of stealth, i think it's bull hardy. >> shannon: he says people need to have conversations about living a good and -- 20 people to do that with the students who aren't atheists leading faith parts of campus. thank you both for winning income agreed to see you. >> goo

harvard session. >> harvard wasn't really on my radar.o. in that moment of stepping on campus, i recognize that i was in a physical space of extreme power, privilege and that maybe this was the point in my life to step into that and marshal it for a thing larger than myself. >> while at harvard, amanda's poetry garners further recognition. in 2017, amanda is named the first youth poet laureate of the united states. her work put on display here at prestigious morgan library. when they said that they wanted your work here among the greats, what was that moment like for you? >> that was amazing. and it was really the first time that anyone had said, "hey, let's put your work kind of in historical context." and so to have it alongside people like mozart, you know, my handwriting, it's -- it's a -- incredible thing. i remember one time a girl in my class, she said, "you always have such big dreams and plans for yourself that are impossible." and now i'm looking back in my head and saying, "yes, you do have big dreams and ambitions for yourself

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. >> 's son joe junior was going to be graduating in harvard in 1938 joe was studying government and he had made special area of interest and at that time most important it was because that was the war in which church had taken a side difranco as opposed to the loyalist which was socialist and communist. one thing i have to say joe and joe junior underworld of communism. jack in the meantime has just started his first year at harvard he's only two years younger than joe junior but he was a sickly child going 1947 the family discovered he suffered from addison's disease. but at this time nobody had any idea what was wrong with him and he became a very interesting case, he goes to europe that summer with his good friend billy and that's available for jfk library online and it really does make very interesting reading because you have joe junior writing to his father and expounding everything that he says that my father says that my father believes in jack has read so much he's definitely the reader of the family he is trying to understand what's happening between communist and fascism

it really brings back memories for my earlier time at harvard just to hear the word harvard square mention remember the times i spent wandering around there. and also just to see you it's very meaningful thank you for taking the time. and i will tell you the book was something i had always loved as you have always loved literature and riding in the power of words to stir emotion. i have marveled at that, wondered about that. it is been part of my whole life growing up into adulthood and through clinical practice. always returning to literature. i had always thought it would be very hard to share with the broad public the essence of what we do. there are scientists that are a challenge even to convey what we do to many scientists. but to answer your question, the first challenge was if i want to share some of the excitement of the science pretty want to share some of the important experiences from the clinic. i want to help everybody understand this better, this a moment in time and our progress toward understanding of ourselves. it's going to be very challenging to figure out how to do it.

between those two, they're giving harvard a bad name. >> i have harvard shame. >> sorry to hear that.oming out of these quote/unquote elite institutions who are highly educated, who are willfully making decisions to -- for personal and political gain. and what dr. ladapo, what we've seen is if you actually listen to this guy, he is an intelligent, well thought out individual. and he elaborates on his points. and i agree with some points and i disagree with a lot of points. and he has allowed himself and his black skin and his stellar credentials to be used by right wing politicians and those with agendas. and as much as i want to root for him, i'm not going to root for somebody who's actually enabling someone like governor desantis and other politicians to put the public health and the public interests at risk for their own gain and that is the problem. he is a prop. and he doesn't realize that he -- what happened to dr. rivkees who was the previous surgeon general who was mia throughout the entire pandemic, is going to happen to him. if he is going to be out there, he is going to be

currently she is a professor of history and the ratcliffe professor at harvard and she's the director of the charles lawrence center for studies in american history. i'm not kidding when i say she is prolific she is the author of six books, her first book ties that bind from the organization of american historians and the prize from the american studies association. the house on diamond hill won the national council on public history and the american society for book prices. her novel, yes a novel, cherokee road was a land award finalist. tales from the haunted south is a lecture series and the dawn of detroit was the award of social history the james a rally prize in the history from the organization of american history, the james bradford best biography price from the society of historians of the early american republic in the right legacy award nonfiction at american book award. in the book we are all here to learn about all that she carries llin the journey of black family keepsake which has an outpouring of faith. some of that faith i will focus on comes from the report and she s

watching tonight showed up for authors, publishers, indie books ali and incredible staff here at harvard book store. the link is in the chat if you'd like to purchase a copy of united states. please member to shop local and from all of us at harvard book store be well, stay safe, and have a great weekend. bye-bye, everybody. >> thank you. >> here's a look at some publishing industry news. >> you can watch all of our past programs anytime at booktv.org. >> during a recent virtual program hosted by the harvard book store, atlantic staff writer clint smith looked at the legacy of slavery in america and how it is affected history. here's a portion of that discussion. >> i was watching the statues of robert e. lee, justin davis,, come down and hometown in new orleans and thinking about what does it mean that i grew up in majority black city in which the memorials -- just started thinking about how the city reckoned with or failed to reckon with its own relation to the history of slavery, a history that is ingrained and embedded in the physical infrastructure of that city and a profound way. t

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he was a-- probably about 23 or 24 he was trying to put together a book deal after he got out of harvard, and the publishers guide of the agencies guideline, rather, he says, he has described himself as born in kenya. he was lying, but that's what he said. he was not born in kenya. donald trump by the way never accused him of being born in kenya even though he's accused of having accused him of that, he did not. what happens next then is that fades away. no one pays attention to that, but in 2008 a gentleman named phillip berg a prominent pennsylvania democrat and attorney, former deputy attorney general of the pennsylvania, he files a lawsuit, he's also a hillary supporter, to get at the birth certificate of barack obama. that's what he wants to see. i want to see the birth certificate, i'm a citizen in good standing and i want to see it. he wrote a book that i don't think anybody read, but me. and he couldn't believe that they weren't taking him seriously. they didn't. at least the media did not take him seriously. the obama camp and dnc did. they hired the most high powered democratic

at harvard you look super didn't you harvard you look 5uper didn't you have the letters of the pandemic will be what, for a future pandemic?— future pandemic? i would say irobabl future pandemic? i would say probably the _ future pandemic? i would say probably the key _ future pandemic? i would say probably the key global - future pandemic? i would say i probably the key global lesson, future pandemic? i would say - probably the key global lesson, and this is going to be essential in the future is to have some kind of early warning systems so if 5omewhere future is to have some kind of early warning systems so if somewhere in the world like we saw in wuhan at the world like we saw in wuhan at the start, something doesn't feel right, there are a lot of questions, a local epidemic, then those countries should have an obligation to report that, to seek help and then also i think there is a role for the international community to respond to that. so maybe like an imf —type emergency response system for future outbreaks. bud imf -type emergency response system for future outbreaks.— for futu

big, we get harvard university, that this is the best science. so my obligation is to use the very drug they say is so great. so for example, process project and really work in the trials process can all sorts of adverse effects. and those of us who are old enough to remember when pros that came to market it was, the drug itself was on the cover of magazines. our powers are such now that we can give you whatever personality you want, that's how great our knowledge is advancing. that was the story told. what did science tell us? you know what they found in the 1970s. for the 1st studies done in germany. what do they see? all sorts of psychotic events, worsening of depression, homicidal, suicidal impulses. so much that the german authority said this is a dangerous drug. we're not going to approve it. and now go read the studies that were reported by the americans. the psychosis is gone, the homicidal problems are gone. imagine your mother and i know mothers who said to their kid who got depressed over breaking up with a girl or something like that.