how does this american life fit into that?ld probably sign i'm sure you could sign a deal with apple or spotify or audible for your back catalogue to become exclusive on their service. but you know, certainly in the uk, it's all up on your website for free. why? i mean, we're public broadcasters, you know, like we just wanted to be out there. we're doing these shows, we want it to be out there. we make enough money like everything's going fine. there's like right now, you know, the business model that we have is that we make our money from advertising and, you know, advertisers like we do these little spots, you know? you know, during this, you know, at the end of the show, go to 15 second like ad reads and that that's plenty of money. i mean, one question one sorry. one question i'd like to ask you just more broadly about podcasting is, you know, it's been so successful and proving to be so successful. i wonder what you think it means for public radio. is it, will it kill off public radio? what's the future for public radio a

find themselves on the lower end of the opportunity ladder in american life, so i am hoping we can advance the conversation to a place where we can have those conversations. >> unfortunately, we are out of time, unfortunately we are out of time and we have to cut it off their, but i do want to thank all of you for being here today and thank both glenn loury and john wood for two deeply informed perspectives, and i hope we can continue to have conversations like this and bring more light and heat these discussions as both of these and have done here. thank you for coming and enjoy the rest of your day. [applause] announcer: he's been is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including comcast. >> do think this is just a community center? no, it is way more than that. >> comcast is partnering with community centers so students from low income families can get the tools they need to be ready for anything. announcer: comcast supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, to be ne

find themselves on the lower end of the opportunity ladder in american life, so i am hoping we can advance the conversation to a place where we can have those conversations. >> unfortunately, we are out of time, unfortunately we are out of time and we have to cut it off their, but i do want to thank all of you for being here today and thank both glenn loury and john wood for two deeply informed perspectives, and i hope we can continue to have conversations like this and bring more light and heat these discussions as both of these and have done here. thank you for coming and enjoy the rest of your day. [applause] lobal initiative university. >> hello, everyone and thank you for tuning into this really important conversation. community colleges are close to my heart, and at cgiu, we have seen them tackle challenges. there is a leader amongst us who knows a lot about community colleges, dr. jill biden. dr. biden has spent her entire

modern maga era conservatism is mourning the fact that, and they're mine, every institution in american lifeom our team, their team. >> yet another big american company going woke. disney. >> the world of disney exposed. >> nearly leaked videos show how work disney is gone. >> then it follows become totally limp. >> look, the nfl is just going further and further woke. >> f the nfl. they're exploited of. they're anti-american. there are 1000 percent woke. >> the pentagon is on the yale faculty lounge, both cruise missiles. >> unfortunately, story after story of walkman. on >> the pentagon is under the spell of corporate america, and contrary to what austin said in that hearing, it's gone totally woke. >> i, mean look at these millionaires with the most plumbers job that you would get, which is talking on television for a living. i got, it right. whining about, oh my god, everyone is against us. and if you asked me to choose institutions, i would never describe as liberal or woke, i don't know, that's all three might be, disney then a fall, and the pentagon! but the constant message coming fr

we'll say in american life. they tend to be figureheads rather than kind of impressive, you know, substantive shapers of policy. and so they thought well make roosevelt mckinley's vice president. he'll have to hide away in an office in washington dc will be out of our hair. we won't hear from him again. the roosevelt was not really enthusiastic about taking on the job of the vice presidency. he didn't want to be a mirror figure head. he wanted to be someone who was actually shaping policy, but he believed that duty had called and therefore he must go. well that worked fine until president william mckinley was assassinated. in september of 1901 shot to death and therefore all of a sudden theodore roosevelt was now president of the united states not exactly what the boss's had predicted or really wanted when they tried to get rid of him and make him vice president. so again pause there for clarifications questions yeah, delotti. i can't remember. was it fdr our theater? was it about that had a really long term? ye

we've been looking at aspects of gilded age and progressive era american life. we've looked at the west, the jim crow south, and reforms. we're looking at how the life of one crucially important figure from this period helps to flesh out some of those abstract ideas that we've been looking at. today we're looking at the life and career of theodore roosevelt, not the last time we'll come back to him in this class, but aday specifically geared toward him. his life fits the themes of the gilded age well and it's also part of my area of research. tailor is a primarily teaching institution, and we're studying. so this is a time for me to get to talk about things that i've done some specialized research on. that's some of the background at what we're looking at here. stop with questions along the way as appropriate. i want to know any kind of background information you might know about theodore roosevelt. he's not rutherford b. hayes. one or two pieces of information to kind of get our minds going in that direction. >> is he the man with the weird haircut? >> the eyeg

tell us about all of the work you've been doing thinks about how american life has changed, why does me as a college professor -- i had been a professor since 1995. i love being a professors and universities but it seemed around 2014, 2015 something changed in the fabric of the world, things got weird, students were behaving stankly. we thought it was just on campus but it turned out 2016 this madness spread to our policies on the left and on the right. and there was a sense something changed. many people were saying it was social media. what i tried to do in this essay is say exactly what it is. it's not that we're getting stupid as individuals, we're not. social media allows people to intimidate others, make them afraid of public consequence for any word they say and that makes groups and institutions stupid because people stop dissenting, questioning, challenging. >> you refer to social media as just throwing darts. can you explain what you mean by that? >> yes. so there's a lot of our problem is based actually on issues in the news media as your previous guest was saying. there a

it says "the confirmation of judge ketanji brown jackson has changed the course of american life, says president biden." the article says "judge jackson, the first black woman to be nominated to the supreme court, celebrated her confirmation friday, saying it was the honor of her lifetime and understands what it meant to the young black women and girls who followed along with her nomination process." we have a portion of that from the white house. here it is. [video clip] >> i have spent years toiling away in the relative solitude of my chambers with just my law clerks, in isolation, so it has been overwhelming, in a good way, to be flooded with thousands of notes and cards and photos expressing just how much this moment means to so money people. the notes that i have received from children are particularly cute and especially meaningful, because more than anything, they speak directly to the hope and promise of america. it has taken 232 years and 115 prior appointments for a black woman's be selected to serve on the supreme court of united states. [applause] but we have made it. [appl

>> i think there's been a bit of a backlash in american life.y whenever you get a spike in gun violence in america, sometimes people believe that the criminal justice system needs to participate in crackdown efforts, and it is troubling that this challenge of unarmed black men particularly being shot and killed by the police remains unevaded. you and i worked hard on the george floyd justice and policing act. once again, the senate filibuster stopped that act when we had an opportunity to go on record and do something. did it solve all of these problems? no the. but it is important that the congress go on record saying that they're going to take a stand against unfair police misconduct, the killings of unarmed black men and put some tools in the hands of the justice department and private citizens of the civil justice system to recompense families so there's some accountability when these thing occur. i want to remind people that this is not inconsistent with efforts to confront the spike in gun violence that we have in america today. the last t

and examines what happens toef that character and wiper the first season was about referees in american life the second season was about coaches and third is about experts. i was sitting around a table with two producers the other day. they were saying in the past two seasons you have had things that were personal stories and they work real well. is there any expertise you developed when you were a kid that might be a way in? i started thinking about what i actually learned as a child and how different that was from people in other places might learn. i did not learn practical. i did not learn how to do anything. i learned the difference between a second cousin once removed. nobody knows the difference in america but everybody in the world. [laughter] and i thought there was a moment something i learned i really did learn exquisite interest to the world of visit what was it? i said when i was 15 years old i was the king of squires i was king of the mardi gras worganization. for a period of six weeks after baseball practice i would go over the house of the little old lady near our school whos

that's kind of the basic rule of modern american life.ible to get financial incentives if you are identified as transgender or nonbind their. one city announced you'll get guaranteed free money if you do. that's next. >> tucker: there was a time in cable news, not long ago, when we would spends every night debating tax rates, abortion, gun control, no matter how you felt about those issues, there were two sides and you could sort of understand what the other side was saying. that's not where we are now. we're in that stage where nothing makes sense. all is darkness and the policies are just designed to hurt people. another sign of this, palm springs, california, says it will pay you to be something called nonbinary. here's that story. hi, jayson. >> hi, tucker. the country's wokest guaranteed income scheme is coming from palm springs run by lisa middleton. the state's first transgender mayor the plan is effectively meant to prevent homelessness by giving 20 residents somewhere between $600 and $900 per month for nearly two years and they

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and just about every area of american life. well, some people go to a very rich, obviously, during the pandemic, we often say on this program, 40000000, maybe more need food stamps to eat tonight in your country. if anyone reads this book, one is going to have to ask the question, can change in your country be achieved peacefully, you sacrifice your health, you nearly died in the hospital. there was that mafia here to attempted. the levels of corruption, defamation can change in your country be achieved peacefully. of course, you know, i don't believe in revolution. i believe in spiritual evolution. cultures evolve if you get a chance to. yeah, i was american citizen was set up so so that we could try to help a country adapt to an agree the future. but it would help if we had public financial campaigns to take away the great influence that has existed by and from corporate interest. that would be a good start, but you know, our system is weakened by corporate influence. there's no question about it. now, is there a way to break

and was alarm that then candidate trump was stoking and appealing to some of the worst vices in american life and history particularly device or put in religious terms a sin of racism of xenophobia of misogyny. and that that was having some resonance in particular with a lot of white christians and white evangelical christians in particular and so the morning of the election or after the election might then five year old son joshua. came into our room and i my wife and i had tried to shield them from the election which is kind of impossible when you live in this area for those of you do. and he had internalized a lot more than we realized. so he comes in our room destroy and he's like, mommy and daddy. i need to know who won the election. i mean like well, think mr. trump won. and he said how did someone who said and did such mean things when? and you know as a preacher, i'm not typically speechless. but i would literally was speechless in that moment and i just felt this anguish because i couldn't explain to him nor could i understand myself how this had happened and it wasn't just about an

warned about the influence of what he called the military industrial complex on the everyday life of americans. his warning, you know, should be put in stone outside of public buildings across the country. because what happens is that a larger and larger percentage of the budget of the united states goes for military contractor. and in a way behind the scenes, it helps inspire wars and to keep us out. war is a, it is a corrupt system that, that will take money that should be used for education, for health care, for feeding people and just give it to military contractors who will make sophisticated hardware that does try to find a way to years. you know, i, i was right in the middle of that for 16 years. and i, and i refused to vote for budget, which ended up saving money from the american people. and, and, and giving it to the, to this big war machine. which just look for ways to keep think stirred up so they can find a way to use their products. i mean, you know, is there, is there a connection? look, any time. any large corporate interest have great influence over a government. it cannot be

and the first season was about referees inef american life, the second season's about coaches, and the third is about experts. and i was sitting around a table with two producers the other day, and he were saying, they were saying, you know, the past twoo seasons you've had things that were kind of personal stories, and they work real well for the ear. is there any, like, expertise you developed when you were a kid that we might, like, that might be a way in? and i started thinking about, like, what i actually learned as a child and how different that was from what people in other places might have t learned. like, the kind of things -- i didn't learn anything practical. i didn't learn how to really do anything that was a vendable skill. i learned the difference between a second cousin first removed and a first cousin twice removed. nobody in america knows the difference, but everybody in new orleans -- [laughter] and i thought, well, there was a moment, i actually had a funny experience where something i learned was so -- i really did learn are here -- like, was of interest to the wor

and why in the first season was about referees in american life the second season is about coaches and third is about experts and i was sitting around table with two producers the other day and they were saying they were saying, you know, we really nice if you'd like in the past two seasons, you've had things that are kind of personal stories. and they work real well for the year, is there any like expertise you developed when you were a kid? that that we might like that might be a way in and i started thinking about like what i actually learned as a child. and how different that was from what people in other places might have learned. like the kind of things. i didn't learn anything practical. i didn't learn how to really do anything that you could you could it was a vendable skill. i learned the difference between a like a second cousin once removed in a first cousin twice removed, you know, like nobody in america knows the difference between those two things, but everybody in new orleans knows. but and i thought well there was a moment. i actually had a funny experience where someth

there are some huge areas of american life at the state and local level that are working their way up to the courts. issues around schools and curriculum are a big one. there is so much that is still out there and to work through. i do not think we know what the influence of the trump dominated court will be. >> she is the first black woman and i think the first one who has been a public defender to become a justice. how could that shape her thinking? >> that was an interesting quirk to hear about. she was pressed about her role defending guantanamo bay suspected terrorist. those are awful people and it is not a fun job to do. knowing the importance of representing a defendant is important i think. you heard democrats say that degree of understanding of where they come from is important. it is important for judges not to be an ivory tower. so many have this ivy league pedigree. at think it meet the changes your perspective a little bit. i have seen those defendants who are entitled to the rights and privileges under the constitution. it is not something you see if you only hang out wi

darren: i think race is a challenging feature of american life. when we look at the progress of lgbt -- when you think about something like marriage equality, which polls in the low double digits as recently as 15 years ago and now a majority of americans support, i think the reason for the progress was most americans, most white americans could relate. they can relate to ellen to generous coming out on abc on national tv because she was the girl next-door who they had fallen in love with for 5 seasons. they could relate to people on the front lines leading the marches. they knew that these young people were their children and grandchildren. it is harder on the issue of race because in this country we have a difficult history. i love the united states of america because i know that there is no country in the world where my story would be possible. i revere the founding fathers in spite of their flaws because they made it possible to actually fix the problem they did not have the courage or the will to. i believe we have to deal with that fundament