and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm evan smith. he's an activist, academic and author who is one of the true icons of the american civil rights movement. a ten-term veteran of the georgia legislature, he helped found the student nonviolent coordinating committee and served as president of the southern poverty law center, and chaired the board of the naccp for more than a decade. he's julian bond. this is overheard. ♪

and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm evan smith. this week one of the still new century's brightest foodie stars, a former prolific writer for the normal times, a editor of the "new york times" magazine, the co-creator of the blog food 52 and the author of several books that pivot off of a love of cooking and eating. her latest book just published is the essential "new york times" cook boofnlgt she's amanda hesser. this is overheard. >> amanda hesser, welcome. >> thank you so much. >> hardly know where to begin. there are more than a thousand recipes in this book? >> that's right. >> and you cooked every one of them. >> oh yeah, and moore. >> are you sick of cooking at this point? >> i'm not. well, i took six years to do it. so... >> but still, even if you do the math it seems like a lot. >> it's a lot of cooking, yes, i will not deny that. but it was great. it was like how often do you get a chance to cook 1400 recipes? >> just do that, right. so this is a question i'm sure you've been asked, which is

and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm evan smith. he's a celebrated advocate and activist on behalf of the environment conservation and responsible stewardship of the planet. a graduate of harvard university, he's chief prosecuting attorney for the hudson riverkeeper and president of the waterkeeper alliance - watchdog organizations dedicated to protecting the water supply for communities everywhere. he's robert f. kennedy jr. this is overheard. ♪ >> robert f. kennedy, jr., welcome. >> thanks for having me. >> very, very, very nice to have you here. i want to begin by nodding to the calendar as we sit here taping this interview. it's earth day. i want to ask you why we have to have an earth day. why is every ddy not earth day? why do we have to turn it into a once a year recognition of what we ought to be paying attention to and celebrating all year long? >> well, it's a reminder of a -- of the, of an, of an important day in our history. was the largest public demonstration in american history, earth day

and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm evan smith. he's a celebrated academic, an acclaimed author, and an energetic activist whose great cause is rights and freedoms in the digital sphere, but he's also increasingly an advocate for accountability and transparency in institutions, and for the quaint notion of the public trust. he's lawrence lessig. this is overheard. >> lawrence lessig, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> very nice to see you. >> it's great to see you. >> let me go broad with the first question here >> okay. >> and ask you whether the public good is a nonstarter conceptually these days? i mean obviously it's a real thing. it's a defined term of economics. we know there is such thing as a public good. but is it possible to work for the public good or to believe in the public good in a society like ours today? >> i actually think that the society has radically different views about what the public good is and that we shouldn't try to pretend that we're all the same. >> right. >> i think

and also by the alice clayburg reynolds foundation and viewers like you. thank you. >> i'm evan smith. he's an activist, academic and author who is one of the true icons of the american civil rights movement. a ten-term veteran of the georgia legislature, he helped found the student nonviolent coordinating committee and served as president of the southern poverty law center, and chaired the board of the naccp for more than a decade. he's julian bond. this is overheard. ♪ >> julian bond, welcome. >> thank you. >> an honor to have you here. >> my pleasure. >> let me ask you about the arc of your involvement in the civil rights movemeet, which i assume you believe continues today. >> indeed so it does. >> you go back to the late 50's when you were a student in college when you helped to found the student non-violent coordinating committee. i date your association with the movement back that far. >> that's right. >> would you agree? >> yes. >> so what have we learned over these years? how far have we come and how far have we not come in your estimation over th