adler. and it's fitting that adler, when he takes a degree of fame in the way that durant takes fame, adler was on the cover of "time" magazine, and the subheadline read, should professors commit suicide? this was in jest, i thing. adler was a professor, too. but only partly in jest. what adler was offering throughout his life was education minus the middle man. he did this by johnny appleseeding great book discussion groups in the united states. this is right after world war ii. we just defeated the nazis and the japanese and we have this new challenge with the cold war, and americans want to know what is it about our civilization that's worth defending. the great books provided them with that, and these discussion groups were at their peak. 50,000 americans meeting in high school gymnasium union halls, ymca, hairdressers and nurses and mechanics, meeting to discuss cervantes and shakes spears and the federalist. certainly it was a great thing. certainly adler was offering education, and th

adler. unbeknownst to him, the new much younger mrs. adolor had a boyfriend who had a criminal background. some of gatherers friends were concerned and took out a private investigator and found that he was insured to a great amount of money and suspected the worst. so adler got his divorce but the pending nuptial look in his face. if you pay attention to the books he was promoting it may not work out that way. he did marry a lady a few years later with gave him $0.2. he is in easy punching bag and in a lot of stuff that is sketchy but sometimes people who were flawed make great contributions. it is such as the saints. it does hit the question. some intellectual stuff, this is making the moral%? he was into every fad that came along. the ozone there, but i could not help to admire that a guy. they have the right idea about education. >> i am with the army staff with all on time now the department the over educated white guy. [laughter] but the leading intellectuals did fine in the old country. the whole idea of america is based on the id

through a session on judaism - the ancient myths and rituals stories - and both starhawk and margot adler - came out of intellectual, atheistic, radical jewish families. they are, in a sense, the contemporary flowering of judaism, in the sense that they are returning to very ancient roots, that old rock upon which all the world's religions, i believe, have been based. >> now which changes not. >> huh? >> now which changes not. >> ah, yes. >> well, the jewish tradition, in other words, is fulfilled in both margot adler and starhawk - they're both jewish. >> yes. >> that's the point i made. >> yeah, and i think that does also fit - back with judaism, we were talking about different interpretations of the genesis story, the alienation story, and i love your myth about leaving the fires, leaving it and going out and becoming, so that more relationship could happen, more interaction could happen, and you can see it in that form. do you know what we wanted to do? well, i'll tell you. we actually thought a good way of perhaps illustrating what's going on here is to actually have a short ritual,

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but that i look at out of the introduce our first speaker, michael adler. >> at more than all for coming here. good morning. when i first was asked to at the topic here today is can diplomacy work? when i was first asked to do this before the meeting of prime minister netanyahu and president of him in washington de palma could work i thought this would be very thankful pat, but it's amazing how much things have changed over the past month and the month of march. in the first development was that the rush to where we seem to be accelerated, ground to a halt, not a screeching halt, but a halt anyways. there's still some screeching about four, when netanyahu met obama. and what happened there as the president, both gave a kind of statement the united states and eventually use force if necessary, but also that it is time for diplomacy and the israelis have elect to play, bored but that in the day after the meeting -- one a watchman time, the day after the meeting of the two leaders, catherine asked him as the foreign-policy representative for the european union sent a letter to fade shillela

our first speaker today will be michael adler, public policy scholar at woodrow wilson center. as a reporter for the press he covered the uprising in burma in 1980, the reconstruction of kuwait, after the first gulf war, the war in bosnia and moving the german capital from bonn to berlin. he covered the fall in -- from 2002-2007, and he has reported from tehran, geneva, berlin, new york, tripoli and other key cities and his curly writing a book on the diplomacy of the iranian nuclear crisis. our second speaker today is barbara slavin, specializing in iran as a nonresident senior fellow at the atlantic council it as a public policy scholar at the woodrow wilson center for scholars, she authored better friends, bosom enemies. she was assistant managing editor for world and national security "washington times," 2008-2009. prior to that she served 12 years as senior diplomatic reporter for "usa today." where she covered such key issues as the u.s. war on terrorism and iraq, policy towards rogue states and the arab-israeli conflict. she accompanied three secretaries of state on the

richard adler in case that testimony is needed down the road in a trial.is soldier received and also separately any possible issues of post traumatic stress disorder. that's definitely, seems to be where the attorney is leaning at this point in terms of a potential defense for this case, carol. >> mr. brown, services probably don't come cheap. who's paying him? is he doing this case pro bono? >> no, he's not. the family has agreed to pay him. we don't know what his fee is, but we do know that forensic psychiatrist according to his website, we checked that this morning, he charges $400 an hour, if his services are needed, it'll definitely not come cheap, carol. >> reporting live from seattle, thank you. >>> on the heels of the attacks in afghanistan, homeland security and the fbi sent out a security bulletin warning there could be retaliatory violence in the united states. says the fbi and the department of homeland security are concerned this event could contribute to the radicalization or mobilization of home grown violent extremists in the homeland, part

our first speaker will be michael adler and reporter for john thrasher press covered the uprising in burma in 1988 and the reconstruction of kuwait after the first world war, the war in bosnia and moving in the german capital to berlin. he also covered with two in zaire. he covered the iranian nuclear crisis extensive label in vienna from 2002 until 2007 he was reporting from tehran, geneva, tripoli and other key cities on the opinion issue and is currently writing a book on diplomacy of the iranian nuclear crisis. the second speaker today is barbara slavin, and a senior fellow at the council and public houses color of woodrow wilson center for scholars she authored that her friends, booze and enemies, i think on the u.s. but just that confrontation. she was assistant managing editor for what the national security at the "washington times" to does make may come it two guys name. pratchett -- is she served for 12 years his senior diplomatic reporter for "usa today" for she covers such key issues as the u.s. war and terrorism in iraq, policy rogue states in the arab-israeli conflict. s