one of this guy alexander be berkman. he tried to assassinate henry clay pitt, the pittsburgh steel mogul in the '90s. he goes to jail for this assassination attempt. he was proud of it and label it the first terrorist attack. he stabs him but he survives. berkman is living in san francisco in 1916. he is jewish, a radical, an anarchist so very much in line with these attitudes. he publishes, and i think you will catch the subtlety of the headline of the newspaper, he publishes a newspaper titled "the blast," which is, of course, an anarchist newspaper. he is immediately catching suspicion. with him was his friend and on again, off again lover by the way, emma goldman, the same woman going to give the preparedness speech. so she's around san francisco at the time as well and they were very much in cahoots. to give you one example of kind of the anti-immigrant attitudes about berkman and goldman who were both jewish, that he were described as the kind of people who pop up as any radical movement that promise also financial

it is true that berkman the fourth amendment issue to be argue d.here's the paragraph he's asking to be overturned in the brief. it was one paragraph out of 20 pages of the brief, this friend of the court brief. he wanted it to be longer. he had argue d with his colleagues about having that the focus of the brief. but they really also wanted to tease out this obscenity issue so that dominated it. the first thing he said is we want to overturn. he was floundering on this issue. and i think this is in your statement. he's the one who asked to have time at oral arguments before the supreme court. that a member who had written a brief would actually do the arguments. and berkman took it upon himself to contact kerns and then i want to present oral arguments. . it was important for that reason as well. >> larry is in naples, florida. >> caller: i would like to you to comment from the starting decision about which can the police can do no wrong. i think the supreme court going all l way up to map was the start of judicial activism. i'd like for you to add

but berkman stood up, first thing he said was, we want to overturn wolf v. colorado. and he said kearns, because kearns was floundering so much on this issue. and i think implicit in your statement, he's the one who asked to have time at oral arguments before the supreme court, that hadn't been done before that the person who had written the amicus brief, would do the oral arguments, so berkman took it upon himself to contact kearns and say to the supreme court, i would like to present oral arguments, so it was important for that reason as well. >> larry is in naples, florida, hi. >> caller: i would like for you to comment in the weeks decision, which talked about the one-sent verdicts. in which the police could do no wrong. and i think the supreme court starting with weeks all the way up to mapp, was the start of judicial activism. i would like for you to address that and then that mapp was taught about the states to the 14th amendment, which is led us to where we are now. is that not correct? >> was this seen as the start of judicial activism? >> i think that the co

look at the disinformation campaign going on against hr mcmaster and right now, the harvard berkman centersed a report, a comprehensive look at the media landscape. it has shifted so that the polls used to be sort of left and right and now they're center left and far right. the center right is gone. the center right media is dead basically to america. breitbart had taken over. and if that man is spurned he will come after trump and although he calls himself a nationalist he's an alt-right nationalist. he uses the word kuk all the time and he's got a vengeance, and he's signaling. if trump lets go of bannon it's game on like we have never seen. >> let me ask you the question that i have been harassing philip about here. who's in charge of donald trump? >> well, donald trump is in charge of donald trump. that's no question there. nobody can reign him in. i don't like this idea that he went rogue. he can't go rogue. he's at the top. he's the president. he sets the policy and the tone. he sets it all. so people can try as they might. but at the same time, republicans that i have spoken to toda

and let me just say that there is not a person on this faculty, that i rely more on than michael berkman. he has been indispensable to what i've done here at cwi, what my staff has done. the way we've been able to connect with gettysburg students. and they are students who adore him. this is the highest praise you can give a teacher. i hear time and time again that michael berkner's class on historical methods, it's called a boot camp. and the kids who come out of that boot camp are exceedingly well trained and they come back to me time and time again and say that michael is their favorite professor and he is a man who has exceedingly high standards. i am very pleased to have two very dear friends in john cliff and michael berkner here to speak with a book that they edited with university press, florida. did i get that right? and the title of the book is "james buchanan and the coming of the civil war." i introduced john kwist and michael berkner. >> good morning, fellow history addicts, we glad you're here, we're glad to be here and pete, thanks for the kind introduction, to john and me

and the university of pennsylvania law school and has held fellowships at harvard's shorenstein and berkman centers, the open society foundation and princeton center for information technology policy. she was cnn's bureau chief and correspondent in china and japan between 1998 and 2004. and she serves on the board of the committee to protect journalists. so i thought we'd start with lee because he has the data. let's talk about the state of partisanship and polarization in the united states. is it worse than ever as we constantly hear and what role in that partisanship and polarization, to what role did the media and, sort of, our new media landscape play in that? mr. rainie: the simple answer is, it's the most intense that it's been in the time that it's been measured but it hasn't been measured for very long. but there are a couple of special dimensions to it now that have not shown up in the data in years gone by. the first thing that's happened over the past 30 years is there's been an purification of our political parties, 92% of democrats are now more liberal than this moderate republ

and the university of pennsylvania law school and has held fellowships at harvard's shorenstein and berkman centers, the open society foundation and princeton center for information technology policy. she was cnn's bureau chief and correspondent in china and japan between 1998 and 2004. and she serves on the board of the committee to protect journalists. so i thought we'd start with lee because he has the data. let's talk about the state of partisanship and polarization in the united states. is it worse than ever as we constantly hear and what role in that partisanship and polarization, to what role did the media and, sort of, our new media landscape play in that? mr. rainie: the simple answer is, it's the most intense that it's been in the time that it's been measured but it hasn't been measured for very long. but there are a couple of special dimensions to it now that have not shown up in the data in years gone by. the first thing that's happened over the past 30 years is there's been an purification of our political parties, 92% of democrats are now more liberal than this moderate republ