and this man was a historian at princeton. he was a double major in history and poli sci.e doesn't believe history actually involves a record of things changing. instead it is history as let's go back to the salem witch trials. it makes me so angry. >> if you can, reflect on a moment about the direction you think this country is headed in, in 2022, versus 50 years ago, 1972. >> what i would say is we seem to be heading into a religious state, it is going to be a state run by evangelical christians and instead of what we were doing in 1972, which is widening access to the good things this country has, for people of all races, for people who are gay, for people who are disabled, we seem to be rolling that right back and we're going to really restrict all those liberties that some of whom were guaranteed us in the constitution, some of them, like the era have yet to get into the constitution. but it was a really hopeful moment and now we seem to be going into a very dark period that doesn't feel hopeful. >> professor -- >> one hope, however, is that we were all -- the class -

good old princeton, signs. -- science. thought fantastic, stabilization wedges, whatever those were. my grandmother made great pies. we thought of wedges, too. apple, cherry, africa -- ap ricot was the bes and here were the stabilization pies. and i looked at the solutions that basically infused them. and i couldn't believe what i was seeing. and 11 of the 15 solutions could only be adopted by large multinational corporations. 8 of them being cola, -- goal, gas, and oil companies and the 10th being an appliance company. there was one thing to do -- drive less. this is the solution? and what was left out? what was left out was affordability. every one of these things was deeply underwater financially, so these corporations would never it. second that was left off was consumption, materialism. that was left out, not even address. population was left out completely. no one talked about how many or why. no discussion of the role of women. none. that has been a hallmark of the movement is to pretend a gender does not exist. and

so i got in touch with a couple of the woman who went to princeton with me.l. we have to make something happen here. we have to do something. we weren't sure wet. and then i finally decided i would draft a letter. i put it up on a google document, and i started contacting women in our class asking if they were willing to sign. and quite quickly, we got a lot of signatures, both from the class of 70 to end the class of 73 which would have been the class in which roe v. wade turned 50. they would have been the ones to celebrate that. and it sort of happened very quickly. there were no negatives. there were no people who said that they didn't want to sign. everyone was thrilled we were doing this. and very urgently angry about it. >> our cecilia richards, we are seeing now that the estimate is basically half of the women of reproductive age in this country will lose the constitutional right when they lead off becomes officially the official opinion of the court. we now know that it could expand the deprivation of rights, could spread all across the country if th

it wasn't princeton, was when i was on the cost and had to leave princeton and find something to do with myself and the world. i was watching the way the world was once you're out of school . and especially new york but everybody wanted to go to work on wall street and everybody's working on their careers . and i came from a place where you really work defined by what you did for a living. you really work defined, you are defined by who your mama was and what school you went to. it was genuinely a place that's turned on family values. there was not a lot of talk about worldly success. probably because there wasn't a lot of worldly success but partly because it was a somewhere between a stagnant and stable place. and i tell this often. my father is sitting in the front row. this will give you an idea of the spirit and i told you this before in which i grew up. up to the age of about 17 you would every now and then say to me you'd recite the lewis family model for me and he told me it was on a coat of arms which is preposterous when you hear what the lewis family motto is. three words in l

it is when i had to leave princeton and find something to do with myself and the world. i was watching the way of the world was once you're out of school and everybody wanted to go to workut on wall street. you were not defined by what you do for a living. you are defined by what neighborhood you grew up in at what school you went to end it was a place that turned on the family values. there wasn't a whole lot of talk aboutld success because there wasn't a lot of success but it was betrayed in the stagnant and a stable place. and my father who was sitting in the front row this will give you an idea and i've told you this before up to the age of about 17 every now and then he would say you would recite the motto three words of latin whatever they are and the point of the story is i believed him. to receive and perform an arduous w task. i still don't know where he got it from, but i thought those were the words we lived by. but we were still happy. the childhood was so happy so all ofm a sudden. it's very successful. people are making more money. theyer are so miserable.

it wasn't at it wasn't at princeton. it was really when i was on the cuspect when i had to leave princeton and find something to do with myself in the world and i was watching my i was watching the way the world was, you know, once you're out of school. and especially it was new york, but everybody wanted to go to work on wall street and everybody's kind of grabbing and getting and worried about their careers and and in this i came from a place where you really weren't defined. by which you did for a living. you really weren't defined you're defined by who your mama was and what neighborhood you grew up in and what school you went to and it was it was a it was genuinely a place that turned on family values. and there was not a whole lot of talk about worldly success now partly because there wasn't a lot of worldly success, but partly because it was just you know, it was it was a stagnant stagnant it was somewhere between a stagnant and a stable place. i tell this often my father who's sitting in the front row. i mean thi

she could not get into princeton and you know, she she really makes a point of that. don't let anyone do that to you and that's another one of those common messages. she's she's certainly doesn't mince words and she doesn't shy away from the controversy and i agree. she did it, you know, very effectively i'm looking at time. we don't any questions yet, but please do it's flare questions at gmail.com and i guess before we bring nancy virus back, but before you know, well i can throughout some more questions too until we get some from the audience but in general one of the other things that was interesting about michelle obama was that she didn't rely on traditional media to get her story out. yeah. she used, you know. nancy reagan started it showing up on different strokes in a cameo, but she was doing cameos on multiple like with her joining forces. she was on nashville. she was on sesame street on how many times but she you know, she had she there's a wonderful video of her sending out first tweet by a first lady, you know, twitter instagram pinterest. she was everyw

and i would say in many ways, in comparison to the daily way, journal princeton, the pharmacy in comparison to many of those people, i would say i'm actually doing much better because they are in dire, straight particular communities are severely impacted and continue to be so particularly those who his livelihood depend on the fuel, for instance, which has been in shortage, the kerosene, which i mean in shock age. and we saw a lot of them attacked by pro government supporters on the tuesday. yet earlier today in the treat better than good. i bet our departure issue not going to court, rejects of both of attempts to push you towards racial and religious this harmony. what was he talking about? good question. it's quite interesting that the president said bad considering dive, he came to power on an overtly thing, but it's nationalist platform. that was id channel, anti muslim. i'm one by and he boasted about the fact that he was elected by the singular majority and doubtful for him. and we have seen, even since then, since he came to power, how the government tried to use religion. i know m

to leave princeton and find something to do with myself of the world. i was watching the weight the world was once you're out of school. especially when it was new york everyone to go work on wall a street everybody's grabbing, getting, worried about their careers. i came from a place where you really were not defined by what you do for a living. you were defined by who your mama was and what neighborhood you grew up in, what school you went too. it was genuinely a place that turned on family values there is not a whole lot of talk about worldly success partly because there's not a lot of worldly success but partly because it was a summer between is stagnant in a stable place. i tell us often my father sitting in the front row this will give you an idea of the spirit have told you this before in which i grew up, up to the age of about 17 he would every now and then say to me he would recite the lewis family mottopr and would tell me it's on a coat of arms which is preposterous when you're at the lewis family motto is at three words of latin and it whate

now he's at princeton. i said allen, where? here is my scenario, where my they had the constitutional convention in 1863, assuming it went on? would it be in, boston, something like that? he will be back and he said well, it probably would have the framers in 1863 would've considered columbus ohio. and i said, columbus a hail? really? >> yeah, don't forget a couple things. one is they want to give a nod to those western states, west of the appalachian. to, ohio is the third largest state by population. they probably would've given some saw to columbus ohio. ultimately he said, certainly not new york. new york was very much embed with secessionists, more so than any other city in the north. so probably they would've gone to boston. here we are in boston! 1863, the gentlemen that you see on the right are james ashley and john bingham, two famous figures who ultimately crafted the 14th amendment. they certainly would've been at the 1863 constitutional convention. topics of conversation would've been those that were part of the equ

tony morrison herself taught literature at princeton for 17 years.artments. thank you to both of you. you are both veterans of the velshi banned book club in different ways. you helped us with tequila mockingbird. and at the, you got us started with this. you are the first person i talked to on tv about this. so a big deal to have you both here. and it allows us to study books where we cannot get the author, obviously. we cannot make tony morrison available. but you teach this course a lot. when you come back to? it what is about beloved to that workers? it's just good literature, that we should all hear. or the things within the? >> there are a couple of reasons. one, it is historically so significant. right? it tells you the story of how slavery became the national institution with the fugitive slave act. so that south of runs away from slavery and can be caught in ohio. it also tells the story of the post slavery period without interstitial period where the promise of citizenship became still elusive. but there are these human things are so import

don't look at me that way. >> princeton. >> princeton's fine. >> he is a morehouse man. >> talking aboutsaying i want to march, do this, unionize, not sure i want to vote, i will say the former republican in me, when i see people marching, when i see people saying look at our signs, the former republican in me, organizer in me -- and a lot of democrats think this way. why don't you knock on doors? register them to vote. tell them you will be back to drive them to the voting booth. why don't you get their phone number? why don't you ask if you can plant a sign in their yard? i would not be protesting outside of kavanaugh's. next door i would say hey listen, we've got a lot of things. could i put a yard sign in your front yard? are you interested in volunteering? do you need a ride to the polls? that's what i want to see. the march is great. hooray for signs. >> connect it to something. >> i said when people said you can never win, i said they don't have a choice. i will drag them to the polls if i have to. i don't see that focus with some democrats. >> i think you could probably be an exc

born and raised in this country went to princeton but his his made his career in israel. he runs a think tank in jerusalem. and he as i mentioned earlier he has. spearheaded you know, you might call it a movement. i don't know if it's that organized, but it goes under the name of national conservatism, which is a with a rethinking of what conservatism should be all about particularly in the united states and and western europe. and how conservatism relates to liberalism it liberalism in the in the classical sense. it's it is a brilliant book provocative, but i think compelling. it's the book i'd say since i've been working here one of the ones that i'm i'm definitely the most excited about. will have a book coming out from senator cruz a pretty soon on the called to see justice corrupted on the weaponization of the justice system. so that's a much more, you know, kind of. political political book huzoni's book is political, but it's political theory. senator cruz's book is is on you know a really important. political issue which is the what we call the weaponization of ju

i believe correct me if i am wrong, princeton university pub lushed that study that achaefb achievinguld be the size of four south dakotas to develop 100% clean energy here. how accurate is that? >> you i haven't locked at that study. use a lot land space but we do have incredible alternative solutions and so one thing we strongly support. is rooftop solar. here in california, we have enough rooftop space to zwren rate more than three-quarters of electricity needs just from the sunrates on our roofs. similarly, wind has tremendous potential. clear, we don't have any off shore wind yet but we are really hoping we can go big on offchauffeur wind as well and get at least went gigawapts of our energy. it would be like 25 mile office miles off who are. >> just last week, govern ever new ap office confirming to us the govern ever wants to keep the nuclear power plant down nur lan lewis obis bow? and why not go in that direction? >> well, nuclear pow harz a hot of principal. it is incredibly risky and it is very expensive. in fact, any of the upgrades to keep diablo canyon even longer kwoo c

to when he was placed in the ground was barely one hour in princeton, new jersey. so extremely modest calvin coolidge's was probably the last of the modest funerals in 1932 were just several hundred guests attended this funeral in northampton, massachusetts. after that, we see where franklin roosevelt died in office in 1945 and there was this that major event, but it was unplanned because no one expected him to die. and that leads us into john f kennedy the next president to die and just very quickly after john f kennedy who also died on planned is when presidents started to do this pre-planning of funerals and and wondering binder that turned into three or that grew over time. so that's when we see the modern the modern-day state funeral that were so familiar with now really start to form after kennedy. really herbert hoovers was the first one that had that pre-planning that had gone into it. yeah, and as you've pointed as we both pointed to the the planned element of it is as geneus said, okay. well, you don't know when when it's going to happen. my gosh with joh

grover cleveland's funeral, from beginnings, from when the funeral first started at his home in princeton to when he was placed in the ground, it was barely one hour in princeton, new jersey, so extremely modest. calvin coolidge's was probably the last of the modest funerals, in 1932, where his several hundred guests attended his funeral in northampton, massachusetts. after that, we see where franklin roosevelt died in office in 1945, and there was this major event but it was unplanned because no one expected him to die. and that leads us into john f. kennedy, the next president to die. and just very quickly, after john f. kennedy, who also died unplanned, is when presidents started to do this pre-planning of funerals. and one ring binder that turned into three, or that grew overtime. so that's when we see the modern, the modern-day state funeral that we are so familiar with now, really start to form after kennedy, really herbert hoover's was the first one who had the pre-planning that had gone into it. >> yeah. and as you pointed to, as we both pointed to, the plan element of it, as jean

i reached out to a great civil war historian who's now a princeton a guy named alan wells though. everybody should read his book about gettysburg. he was a when i reached out to him. he was at the time at gettysburg college, but now he's at princeton and i said, you know alan where here's my scenario where might they have held the constitutional convention in 1863 assuming it went on and i said, would it be new york or boston or something like that? and he's he wrote me back and he said bow they probably would have considered the framers probably in the 1863 probably would have considered columbus, ohio and i said hold on this ohio really and he said yeah, don't forget couple things one is they want to give a nod to those western states west of the appalachian to ohio is the third largest state by population. they probably would have given some thought to to columbus, ohio. but ultimately he said certainly not new york new york was very much kind of in bed with the secessionists more so than any other city and in the north, so probably they would have gone to boston. here we are i

she is now a professor at princeton university. and so.what she wrote about finland sweden joining nato the threat of russia invading finland or sweden is small, but accepting their military alliance will intensify 20th -century divisions in europe. in the 21st century. main the question here should be how to achieve the best result for the whole of europe, an integral free and peaceful europe as george w. security structures and systems, eastern european countries, including russia e vladimir alekseevich what do you think? is it even possible in the current conditions to create in europe such an inclusive indivisible a security system that russia officially stood for for many years, but a system in which russia would be a full member, what henri is talking about and does russia need it in the current circumstances, taking into account the trends in the development of the global world that we are now observing, well, we have always said that we are in favor of an inclusive security system, i absolutely agree with you that the balance of po

the state service held in finland look set to apply for nato membership of the prime minister in princeton's said, it must happen without delay, finn, and share the 1300 kilometer border with russia. the government has said the cremeans unpredictable behavior is a pressing issue. russia is cooling filament later aspirations. a threat. sudanese security forces have fired tear gas and stung grenades that protested, rallying against the countries military rulers. thousands demonstrated in the capital cartoon, demanding a civilian government, and expressing that anger at the stores transition. there's all the headlines and use continues here and i'll just 0 off the inside story. ah, is israel a rogue state? its army has killed al jazeera, generates shooting up laughlin in cold blood, and this is not the 1st time will is well get away with its cries and who can hold it to the account. this is inside story. ah, ah, hello and welcome to the program. i'm hashem, abala sheen, a walk i was a household name across the middle east. the veteran al jazeera janice and y spread praise for more than 2 decade

alex graduated from princeton and works in clean energy plant in california prior these to follow me all over the world. they attended three high schools each and i could not be more proud of the young americans they have turned out to be. as i talk about my family, i reflect on my own life. my dad -- came to america and became an army officer. over the years, we lived in europe again and again. we were blessed with multiple science -- multiple assignments there. fast forward to our u.s. command army forces in europe, i have had the opportunity to work with -- work closely with the agency to advance our, national security objectives. for the last three years, i have done so under the leadership of general walters. i would like to publicly thank him for his mentor ship and his leadership during that time. i would also like to thank you, the united states congress and especially this committee. my first tour as a general officer in 2014, the congress has worked tirelessly to support -- to serve our men and women. the military -- to respond to russia. in response to this crisis, the ill

the author is the professor of african american studies at princeton university, she is the author of many award-winning books as well as awards including the 2019 biography prize. from the pan american foundation dr. perry is a native of birmingham alabama who grew up in cambridge massachusetts, and chicago. she currently lives in philadelphia. please welcome ali hepburn and dr. imani perry. >> welcome, so pleased to be here. i will put my box down, here. thank you everybody for coming it, it is just a pleasure to be here and to speak to you about this wonderful book today. i guess the first thing is that we tweeted something about whether florida is considered part of the deep south. it started a thread that was very interesting. so, sam imani what would you say an answer to that question? >> absolutely, absolutely. i love that you posed that question. i think our image of florida tends to be sells florida and it tends to be miami and disney. and, the first sentence of the florida chapter is florida's a pistol. >> i was going to cite that. >> it is a double entendre because it is ab

here because mass shootings in this country are now so ubiquitous that some research conducted by princetons before public anger over a mass shooting in this country to dissipate. three days. and then the country moves on.— the country moves on. devin willis, thank— the country moves on. devin willis, thank you. _ for more on this story, you can take a look at our website — all the latest at bbc.com/news. the story has really gripped the world. 19 children at an elementary school now dead and two teachers as well. let's get some of the day's other news. the republican governor of the american state of oklahoma has signed into law the strictest abortion regulations in the us. oklahoma now prohibits all abortions except in cases of medical emergency, rape or incest. many republican—led state legislatures are rushing through anti—abortion laws later this year, anticipating that the supreme court will soon overturn the constitutional right to abortion established in 1973. the government in pakistan has called in the army to help protect key official buildings following clashes between police an

the author is the professor of african american studies at princeton university, she is the author of many award-winning books as well as awards including the 2019 biography prize. from the pan american foundation dr. perry is a native of birmingham alabama who grew up in cambridge massachusetts, and chicago. she currently lives in philadelphia. please welcome ali hepburn and dr. imani perry. >> welcome, so pleased to be here. i will put my box down, here. thank you everybody for coming it, it is just a pleasure to be here and to speak to you about this wonderful book today. i guess the first thing is that we tweeted something about whether florida is considered part of the deep south. it started a thread that was very interesting. so, sam imani what would you say an answer to that question? >> absolutely, absolutely. i love that you posed that question. i think our image of florida tends to be sells florida and it tends to be miami and disney. and, the first sentence of the florida chapter is florida's a pistol. >> i was going to cite that. >> it is a double entendre because it is ab

the author is the professor of african american studies at princeton university, she is the author of many award-winning books as well as awards including the 2019 biography prize. from the pan american foundation dr. perry is a native of birmingham alabama who grew up in cambridge massachusetts, and chicago. she currently lives in philadelphia. please welcome ali hepburn and dr. imani perry. >> welcome, so pleased to be here. i will put my box down, here. thank you everybody for coming it, it is just a pleasure to be here and to speak to you about this wonderful book today. i guess the first thing is that we tweeted something about whether florida is considered part of the deep south. it started a thread that was very interesting. so, sam imani what would you say an answer to that question? >> absolutely, absolutely. i love that you posed that question. i think our image of florida tends to be sells florida and it tends to be miami and disney. and, the first sentence of the florida chapter is florida's a pistol. >> i was going to cite that. >> it is a double entendre because it is ab

carol swain is former professor at princeton, vand bilt and senior fellow for constitutional studiesoins me now. statement from bu's president. this increase does not keep pace with the current rate of inflation and cannot offset university operations or fund salaries. assuming that word salad is true, dr. carol swain, where is the money going? >> i think it is such a waste, university education these days because they are not teaching young people how to be critical thinkers, how to be prepared to live in our society, they are not teaching them to respect the constitution, i think parents need to think long and hard about whether or not it is worth it, even at elite institutions they turn out future supreme court justices, members of congress, newspaper editors, we see what is happening to our society and part of that is because we're not educating young people to be citizens of america. >> todd: let's get to more on that. new survey by harvard student newspaper finds pour % of graduates lean conservative and 2.4% lean very conservative. how can we have a functioning democracy when

alan blinder will join us from princeton. we have david blanchflower from dartmouth, as well. be a terrific set. jonathan: i don't know what he will say, but i'm looking forward to it. tom: right now we digressed to the issue of the moment. as we have done with ukraine and covid, find legit experts. that would be elaine kamarck, senior fellow at the brookings institute, professor at harvard, but she is a student of presidential success and failure. you wrote a definitive essay, i thought, very balanced for brookings yesterday this raging debate of abortion. at the end of it, you predict, off the experience of covid, a tsunami of fear he -- fury. when does the tsunami hit? elaine: thank you for having me. . it hit last nigh with demonstrations outside the supreme court. these will continue. this will increase turnout for the midterm elections. a sleepy and kind of indifferent democratic electorate i think has gotten a big wake-up call. i think people will come out to vote in november, perhaps even upending those elections which we were assuming we go to the republicans. tom: li

just days ago he was unwilling to say who when the last presidential election, when we all know princeton alumni west point grad dave mccormick, knows exactly when the last election. >> yeah, this is part of the reason why you saw three republican candidates and up with less than a third of the vote in this race, is that republicans couldn't really figure out who is for real, here. they distrusted dr. oz and mccormick for different reasons, and for one reason in common and that is there from out of state. so they started to flirt with kathy barnette, until trump and sean hannity put it into that. so you end up with the split verdicts, and we may not know for sometime who the republican nominee is going to be. >> i hope you wore your january 6th dakota ring, because we need help on this one. all, right the justice department is now asked to see the house committees transcripts of its closed-door interviews, what does that tell you about the progress of both these investigations? >> i think it says that the justice department is prepared to show the world where it is in its investigation, i

i would like to thank my sons, alex graduated princeton and works at a clean energy startup in california. nick is stating physics in the university of california. they attended three high schools each and i cannot be more proud of the young americans they turned out to be. as i talk about my family reflect on my own life. as my -- my dad is an italian immigrant, i was born in a military officer -- hospital during the cold war. we were blessed with multiple assignments in europe. for the past 4.5 years i have been fortunate to command our u.s. army forces in europe. for the past year, in africa, i've had the priceless opportunity to work with the interagency, our allies, our partners to advance our common national security objectives. for the last three years, i have done so under the leadership of general walters. i would like to publicly thank him for his mentor ship and his leadership during that time. i would also like to thank you, the united states congress and especially this committee. since my first tour as a general officer in europe in 2014, the congress has worked tirelessly t

princeton, columbia and dartmouth and stanford. >> he has not made up his mind yet.he said he's proud of his accomplishments and will work hard at whatever challenges come his way. >> you never know what's going to happen. the worst they can say is no. >> kudos to that young man. as for the application process he found many of the schools that he applied to waived's. that made the whole process more cost-efficient than he expected. >>> happening today mayday marches and rallies will be focused of rights of immigrant workers. the march on market street begins at 10:00 am. in santa rosa it is set for 1:00 p.m. to the old courthouse square. coming up later today joined the bay area focus talkshow. it starts at 12:30 this afternoon. catch it on our streaming service. also our sister station. >>> napa police have arrested a man who they say drove a car through a wall at a gas station in the radley place. he was caught on camera with his leg dangling out of the window. police say after the crash he forced his way inside of the store. he made off with cash and other items.