it includes the discussion that's always the whole purpose of the filibuster and it's deeply anticonstitutional not in the literal sense but in the sense of the constitution. >> you have been talking about our writers of the time and i was wondering the writers of the whole lost generation used to be the biggest. when i was in school they were the people that we were given to read. now it's largely gone. why do you think that is? >> academia as we know, i assume you are roughly my age in your thirties. [laughter] i taught for many years at cooper union. everyone is on a scholarship is the top 1% of college students. on a retired because my students didn't read any more. it was pointless. how could you talk about things when they had no vocabulary and they were good hard-working kids but it's not just reading american literature, they aren't reading anything. through the 1970's and 80's they were at the very top of people's list. you couldn't be considered a college graduate. >> a question up here. >> [inaudible] >> on the liberalism of the way that you describe it to the democratic party as a w

it's deeply anticonstitutional. deeply, deeply. not in the literal sense, but in the structural sense of the spirit of the constitution. >> a question here i missed. oh, yes, go ahead. then you. >> all right. >> you've been talking about the writers of the time, and i was wondering, these writers, writers of the whole lost generation of the 20s used to be the biggest writers. when i was in school, they were begin to us to reed in american literature, and now largely gone. why do you think that is? >> first of all, they read theory, not american literature, i mean, academia as we knew it -- i assume you're roughly my age, in your 30s -- >> 29. [laughter] >> people in college don't read. i taught for years at cooper union, and i don't know how many know it, a small school, on full scholarship, the top 1% of the american college student, and one of the reasons i retired was the students didn't read anymore. it was pointless. how can you have a discussion or talk about thing with them and no vocab, and they were good kids, hard working