founding dean of harvard school of government. like legions of students, i vividly remember my first time walking into the kennedy school for my first form event back in 1986. it was an intoxicating place where you could feel the brainpower working in the policy being changed in the room. bram allison has been behind this magic for a very long time. setting a standard of policy since the time he was about ten years old back in 1986. he is the ultimate triple threat serving in a number of distinguished positions in academia, government and private sector. he serves as special advisor to the secretary of defense unders president reagan. he has been a trusted advisor to seven secretaries of defense, both democrat and republican. he currently serves on the advisory board of the secretary of state and the director of the central intelligence agency. he has the sole distinction of been awarded the department of defense highest civilian award, the public service medal. as many of you know he has written extensively about nuclear weapons,

and founding dean of harvard's kennedy school of government. like legions of students, i vividly remember my first time walking into the kennedy school for my first forum event in 1986. it was an intoxicating place where you could feel the brainpower working at the policy being changed in the room. graham allison has been the man behind this magic for a very long time. the standard of policy relevant scholarship since he was 10 years old in 1986. he is the ultimate triple threat serving at a number of distinguished positions in academia, government and the private sector. he served as special advisor to the secretary of defense under presidents reagan and assistant secretary of defense for policy and plans under president clinton. he has been a trusted advisor to seven secretaries of defense both democrat and republican. he serves on the advisory board of the secretary of state, secretary of defense and director of the central intelligence agency. he has the sole distinction of having been twice awarded the formative defense's highest civilian

my harvard colleague matt desmond talks about that. the impact of the psychological trauma of witnessing a killing in your neighborhood on school performance. and when you consider these combined factors, is very difficult to deny the proposition that residential segregation and school association contribute to the achievement gap. what is not clear, how they are interrelated and relative importance. since students tend to attend schools relatively close to home, segregation is a major factor shaping patterns of school segregation. but we should carefully distinguish between two types of segregation we have set up. racial segregation and income segregation. those kinds of segregation in combination that are associated with poor performing schools. and this reminds me of the research of one of my former students at the university of southern california. the sociologist anne owens. in a 2016 sociological -- american sociological review article, income segregation of households with and without children, owens re-examines the longitudinal

it was an op-ed by more health policy specialists or affiliated with harvard. professors of public health at hunter college city university of new york as well as lecturers at harvard medical school. adapting the findings of a 2012 study to a scenario in which 20 million americans lost coverage, which turned out to be lower than what the c.b.o. found for the house bill -- they estimated 23 million would lose coverage -- himmelstein and woolhandler estimated there would be 43,956 deaths annually due to the g.o.p.'s health policy changes. so can sanders' assertion -- i'm quoting again from politifact -- be supported by the peer-reviewed literature alone? and then they cite some studies. 2002, a panel of more than a dozen medical specialists convened by the federally charted institute of medicine estimated that 18,000 americans had died in the year 2000 because they were uninsured. in january of 2008, stan dorne, a senior research associate at the urban institute, published a paper that sought to update the i.o.m. study with new data, replicating the study's metho

eastern, harvard university sociologist and author william julius wilson. >> afternoon citizens do not fully understand the complex forces that have increased for example their economic woes. economic insecurities create conditions that are breeding grounds for racial and ethnic tension. >>> the new museum of the american revolution has opened in philadelphia just blocks from independence hall and the liberty bell. the opening ceremony included former vice president joe biden, historian dave mccullough and cokie roberts. this is an hour and 40 minutes. ♪ ♪

tech.o virginia gogot into harvard business school. was in the navy, later goldman sachs. asl done in hollywood first -- wound up in hollywood first in filmvestment banker financier. once you make some money, he moved over to the creative side and began making conservative documentaries -- amy: made some money, we're talking "seinfeld." >> yes. the weird detail in bannon's life is while he was investment baker, he brokered a deal pictures,stle rock which owned "seinfeld," which was in its infancy at the time, and ted turner, who wanted to buy the shows. as bannon tells in the book, when they sat down at the table, turner was short of cash and so rather than let the deal fall apart, bannon took in lieu of its ordinary advisory fee, he took a basket of residuals from five television shows, including "seinfeld." as we all know, "seinfeld" when on to become i think the most

after you graduated from harvard law school in 1943, you joined the us military and joined a battalionng for the invasion of france. what are your key recollections of that time? i enlisted wherever i could get into the army, and i was a buck private, the lowest rank you can get, assigned to be in the artillery battalion. in that capacity, we landed on the beaches of normandy. france was deprived by the germans. the only to move the war forward, to get rid of the walkable was to defeat the germans. i sailed from lands end, the tip of england, across omaha beach, which was still, er, had been cleared by the time i got there a bit, but there were many soldiers in american uniforms still lying in the sea, face down. there were many armoured vehicle still in the water, and we have to push on from there into france and defeat them. i was with the artillery all the way, many battles on the way, and it was only when we got into the german occupied, and germany itself, that we began to encounter possible war crimes. as nazi atrocities were uncovered, you were transferred to a newly created war

i graduated from the harvard law school and i passed the bar but i had no clients of any kind.leased to get a telegram from the pentagon inviting me to come to the pentagon and they wanted to talk to me. i arrived there and they said "dear sir," they had never called me sir before, they wanted me to go back to germany to help with war crimes trials. i had done that during the war days. the last several months in the war as we occupied portions of germany and france that had been occupied, we ran into examples of crimes of all kinds, the most obvious ones, what we called the allied flyer cases, very little is known about that. flyers were being shot down in german—held territory were almost invariably beaten to death by the german mob. it was part of our first war crimes cases so i had that kind of experience with me when i left the army. i took that back to germany when i agreed with some hesitation to go back to germany and help with trials which would follow the international military tribunal. why did you hesitate? was it because you didn't want to...? it's a horrible experi

i graduated from the harvard law school and i passed the bar but i had no clients of any kind.ased to get a telegram from the pentagon inviting me to come to the pentagon and they wanted to talk to me. i arrived there and they said dear, sir, they had never called me sir before, they wanted me to go back to germany to help with warcrimes trials. i had done that during the war days. the last several months in the war as we occupied portions of germany and france that had been occupied, we ran into examples of crimes of all kinds, the most obvious ones, what we called the allied flyer cases, very little is known about that. flyers were being shot down in german—held territory and they were almost invariably the can to death by the german mob. it was part of our first war crimes cases so i had that kind of experience with me when i left the army. i took that back to germany when i agreed with some hesitation to go back to germany and help with trials which would follow the international military tribunal. why did you hesitate? was it because you didn't want to...? it's a horrible

giving a lecture early on in his ministry and there's been an absolutely ferocious fight at harvardover fossil fuel. harvard has one of the strongest fossil fuel divestment movement in the country but the administration of the road intransigent within. it's important for the fossil fuel divestment movement because of course harvard is so iconic and if harvard would make the decision it would help other schools and other institutions to also make a similar decision. talking to some of the activists there i realized that the arguments during the obama years that the school used to make was well, we don't really think divestment is the most effective way to fight climate change. we think it's more effective to have policy. there was a credible possibility that the obama administration would introduce policy that would be quite strong. the introduce a clean power plan which was not strong enough but it wasn't a figure of course it is being undone by trump. of course there is no credible prospect at this moment of federal legislation on climate change of the real carbon tax, for instance

danielle allen, professor at harvard who is doing a memoir called "cuz" about her cousin who died who was destroyed by the prison system in los angeles. she is this brilliant academic who tells this person story, could change our understanding of american incarceration. >> did you do her first book as well. >> i did,ment she is one of several dozen university professors at harvard, and this book is so surprising for her because it comes -- it's personal, it's wrenching, it comes as a due -- dubois lecture. >> another one -- >> a book on the origins of creativity. which few people have examined. he examines how the humanities and scientist must come together in the future. he discusses how humid are human through their language and through their creativity. people always said creativity developed 10 years ago. he said it's over 100,000 years ago. the paleolightic age and he traces the history with really stunning results and observations, that music and speech and art and humanness. >> founding father. >> guest: i love this book. john quincy adams has finally come into his own. he was

and the harvard bloomberg partnership was really a way of equipping us mayors, who are executives ofions with a lot of diverse shareholders to be managing our problems, our priorities effectively. >> but can you actually do that or is the federal government who's shifting a lot of responsibility locally giving you an impossible task? cities can't run deficits. >> whether they like it or not, cities are where the action is at. people are moving to cities. the economic activity is happening in cities and people don't trust washington, d.c., but they trust mayors and they trust their cities. whether we like it or not, we have to lead when it comes to building a strong american economy on transportation. on infrastructure and on fighting climate change. we're not getting that leadership from washington where you're seeing that leadership is from across leaders in the united states of america. >> you said after the president left the paris climate accord phoenix was going to stay in it and follow the guidelines, are you sticking to it? >> not only phoenix, but hundreds of mayors and citie

are the first point harvard business school does not. take sponsorship form companies so i'm pleased to say. although we have corporate donors . giving leaders of faculty under no pressure what they what they write at at all so that's that's quite an important point and we actually have a very large environmental group which is doing print the of criticism of a lot of corporations give away as wrote in this book i was primarily interested in this book in entrepreneurs who were motivated by include terms saving the planet so that is the prime focus so large corporations only come in at the end and they come in and in a section when i'm talking about every morning and you talk about that i'm talking about greenwashing and i'm talking precisely about this apparent contradiction between suddenly every business is green and yet we know the planetary fundamentals are continuing to deteriorate how corrupt the companies in your book that i mean the famous stories about general motors bribing los angeles city council to destroy its public transpo

you know the leader there, his daughter went to harvard.hing, you would put a lot of american colleges out of business! [laughter] >> we are talking about something a commission seattle chicago and we have to communicate that we are serious. north korea has was been a problem. in 1950 a speech was given basically saying it is outside the perimeter. six months later, you know north korea invaded and 67 years later, we are not being threatened with missiles. it is a serious problem. and in addition to the nuclear problem that we have, we have a second problem. this is a guy that is akin to the suicide bomber willing to blow himself up in the process. that gives him unfortunately a lot of leverage. because almost any real choice that you click whether his china one north korea, there is pain with duck on the other side. >> what about this idea that is picking up steam that the ambassador mentioned? i have seen someone like - suggest that maybe we are moving towards acquiescence here. >> look, you have weapon. it is the price, is forcing you to

that is when harvard pulled the plug. for963 harvard fired leary turning undergraduates onto it. he then moved to upstate new york to an estate to conduct what he called lsd experiments. millbrook was owned by one of his followers who had inherited -- obviously an heir to a wealthy new york city fortune. experiments were rather cautious, although they were by no means serious. he was still trapped inside his own head in the world of the research scientist. he was a research scientist since world war ii. he had all the jargon. where everything was set up and you had to keep lab notes. spoke that jargon, his behavior became increasingly bizarre under the influence of trips.sd he was taking acid every day. lsd seem to breakdown innovations, break up marriages -- it certainly broke up to his -- it certainly broke up his. liked this. he liked all the women that came to millbrook. andwould give them lsd a and they would do whatever he wanted them to. he became a guru and proclaimed, most famously, turn on, tune in and drop out. lsd,ng on meant taking tuning and met tuning into yourself

david: you get into harvard and realize there were a lot of smart people there. were you unique?t many cellists? yo-yo: i don't know anybody, myself included, wanted to be something like that. i mean, one thing that is interesting in music is that mastering an instrument is there to serve the purpose of expression, and the purpose of doing something in music is to music,ur voice, so in there is no such thing as, this is the greatest anything, because it is about learning forever and finding the most of expressing something as precisely as possible. david: you began her career as a leading cellist and played for symphonies and on your own and so forth. someave now recorded 90 albums, maybe more than that? 20 grammys, so you have become a dominant figure in the classical music world, so does that put a lot of pressure on you to perform up to the highest standard everything that time, or do you relax a little bit? yo-yo: you know the phrase, you are only good as your last performance. some of that is true because i think what you are talking about, and i don't want to belittle that,

harvard is such an exclusive college.pply to be the top in the country. stuart: if you been fraternities and sororities, you are saying they should do something about underage drinking, a feature of sororities and fraternities. >> colleges have been fraternities and how successful it has been for them, they still have these problems of sexual assault. williams college leads the nation in sexual assault. banning fraternities and sororities won't solve anything in the problem is harvard itself does not take a stand on underage drinking like it should because they only give a warning for the first offense for underage drinking. stuart: is that a big problem for you? >> it is not. stuart: underage or other eyes. i don't think of it is a huge problem in american colleges with a free speech as a problem. >> it is so widespread. people when they go to college i told this is the time to experiment and have fun but don't do too much because that would be bad but they are told you should be drinking and having a good time and learn

harvard. would go to there he had some success, but he was mortified to be rejected by the socially or stages club to which is father had belonged. upon graduation from sandhurst would see the world as a junior army officer in the cavalry, and at the same time as a highly paid war correspondent, a most irregular role for a british army officer. eight years older than at dr, churchill would become world-famous by the time roosevelt entered harvard. as a british army officer, churchill proved intrepid in battle. in cuba, india, the sudan, and attainfrica, he would the world-renowned he acclaimed as a vehicle to enter parliament. at that time the future prime .inister thought himself unique i think it is fair to say that he always thought himself unique. at that time, he would confide to a lady friend, "we are all believe that i worm."obal -- glow would marry his cousin, eleanor, in 1905 in the wedding uncle, theer by her then president of the united states. churchill was grandson of the due in 1

during the summit of the 14th year it was decided that theodore and not elliott would go to harvard. this decision had to do primarily with the mysterious illness. he had begun to have periods of delirium, fainting spells, blackouts, rushing of blood to his head that made him scream out. suddenly he was afraid to sleep by himself and frightened of the dark. it's so funny my illness comes from the nerves and is in serious but my body is getting so thin i can get a handful of skin off my stomach and my arms and legs look like i have the strength of the baby, he wrote to his brother. i jumped involuntarily at the slightest sound and have headaches. some historians have suggested that despite elliott retreated into illness as a way of avoiding competition with his brother. this conclusion presupposes all illnesses psychosomatic and it seems an unfair assumption. nevertheless there is little doubt that even as a very small boy, elliott felt he was in the shadow. the. certainly elliott tried to do his best. i think all my teachers are satisfied with me but in the same letter dated early in

giving a lecture there was a ferocious fight harvard has one of the strongest fossil fuel movements in the country that the administration has been intransigent with them the of harvard is so iconic if you make the decision they could help other schools to make a similar decision. but i realized that the argument during the obama years was we don't take investment is the most effective way we think is more effective to have policy and there was incredible policy that is quite strong pro of course, that is undone by trump and there is no credible prospect of federal legislation on climate change and that argument is gone. so when michele obama said when they go lower we go i during the dnc she was talking about tone and not joining them in the better of the attacks but i think we should adopt a similar approach as relates to policy and action as they lower the bar we have to raise the bar everywhere we have power. the mayor of pittsburgh announced that he was elected by the people of pittsburgh and not the people of paris so people were stepping up to say pittsburg voted for hillary

story of the western frontier and then those the uncompromising activist who was the graduate of harvard college so that is a nice story for a. >>. >> next year is the 140th anniversary we have four divisions. . .

harvard law review. clerked --that she he clerked on the d.c. circuit court before he clerked for chief justice burger. bywent to nyu in 1981, and 1988 he was dean of the law school. 's tenure there was extremely successful. the law school is firmly ensconced in the rankings as one of the top five in the country. by 2002, he had been elevated to president of nyu. he served there until the end of 2015. during that tenure, freshman applications doubled. the endowment grew by over 200%. minority in rome and went from 11% to 19%. throughout -- minority enrollment went from 11% to 19%, and throughout all of this he continued to teach. -- we are going to have this get ready for our lecturer -- he set up a variety of other important including president of the federal reserve bank of new , president of the american ,ssociation of law schools president of the new york -- thank youience -- it was 43 years ago that chief justice burger founded the society. to talk about warren burger, president john sexton of nyu.

david: you get into harvard and realize there were a lot of smart people there. yo-yo: yeah.hem who said i want to be the leading cellist in the world? were you unique? there weren't that many cellists? >> i did not even know anybody, myself included, who wanted to be something like that. it's not -- i mean, one thing that is interesting in music is that mastering an instrument is there to serve the purpose of expression, and the purpose of doing something in music is to find your voice, so in music, there is no such thing as this is the greatest anything, because it is about learning forever and finding the most concise way of expressing something as precisely as possible. david: you began your career as a leading cellist and played for symphonies and on your own and so forth. as you have done that, you have now recorded 90 some albums, or maybe more than that? yo-yo: i don't know, i don't keep track. david: an enormous number. you have won 20 grammys, or something like that. so you have become a dominant figure, the most well-known figure in the classical music world. so do

harvard has one of the strongest fossil fueled investments in the country.but the administration has been intransigent with them and it's important for the movement because of course harvard is so iconic and it would help other schools and other institutions to also make a similar decision. talking to some of the activists, i realized the arguments the school used to make is we don't think that it's the most effective way to fight climate change. we think it's more effective to have policy and there was a credible possibility that the obama administration would introduce policy that would be quite strong. they introduced th introduced an powerplant that wasn't strong enough, but it wasn't nothing. of course it is being undone by trump and because there is no credible prospect at this moment of federal legislation on climate change and a real carbon tax for instance, that argument is gone and anywhere where we do have power we have to use it. during the dnc when michelle obama said when they go low, we go by, i think that was the best line of the convention.

that was when harvard pulled the plug. in 1963, harvard fired leary for undergraduates. he then moved to upstate new york to an estate to conduct what he called lsd experiments. millbrook was owned by one of his followers who had inherited it -- obviously an heir to a wealthy new york city fortune. leary's experiments were rather cautious, although they were by no means serious. he was still trapped inside his own head in the world of the research scientist. he had been a research scientist since world war ii. he had all the jargon psychologists used. everything had to be set up as an experiment and you had to keep lab notes. although he spoke that jargon, his behavior became increasingly bizarre under the influence of daily lsd trips. he was taking acid every day. lsd seem to breakdown inhibitions, break up marriages -- it certainly broke up his. it led to a lot of exhibitionist nudity, he noticed. leary liked this. he liked all the women that came to millbrook. he would give them lsd and and they would do whatever he wanted. he became a guru for the hippie movement and

i was thinking about this when i was speaking at harvard, giving a lecture.early on in the administration, there was an absolutely ferocious fight at harvard over fossil fuel divestment. they have one of the strongest divestment movements in the country. it's really important for the fossil fuel movement because harvard is so iconic and if they were to make the decision it would help other schools and other institutions to also make a similar decision. talking to some of the activists, i realized the argument during the obama years was we don't really think it's the most effective way to fight crime and change. we think it's more effective to have policy. there was a credible possibility that the obama administration would introduce policy that will be quite strong. they introduced the clean power lan plan which wasn't strong enough and of course now it's being undone by trump but there's no credible prospect at this moment of a real carbon tax, for instance, that argument is gone and anywhere where we do have power we have to use it. during the d&c when mich

facebook ceo mark zuckerberg called for a radical change in his speech to harvard's graduating class >> we should explore ideas like universal basic income to make sure everyone has a cushion to try out new ideas. >> it's an unconditional periodic cash payment that the government makes to everyone, whether you're unemployed or wealthy, a $1,000 monthly government check would replace all current welfare programs, including social security. another supporter, elon musk, said there's a pretty good chance we end up with a universal basic income due to automation the cash could fund basic needs like food and housing while people find new jobs in the digital economy, but opponents warn the digital allowance could actually increase poverty. could universal basic income or would it make people not want to work we have two views today, michael tanner and jason furman, harvard kennedy school professor, chief economist to president obama gentlemen, thank you both for joining us today michael, let's start with you. this idea of free money seems to violate the american work ethic. why do you thin

announcer: tonight, harvard university sociology professor and author william julius wilson on race relations in america. he says the on a plumbing cap between white and black's -- the unemployment gap between whites and blacks can be explained by race. here is some of what you will see tonight. mr. wilson: in order to keep things in perspective when talking about the gains of more privileged blacks, it is important not to overlook the continuing interracial disparities. for example, a report from the center of economic and policy research reveals before the great recession, there was only difference in the unemployment gap between recent black and white college graduates, age 22-27. shortly after13, the economic downturn, the gap had a surged to a 7.5% difference. race is obviously a factor at play here. because historically the periods during and immediately after downturns have adversely affected blacks more than whites. announcer: that is professor and author william julius wilson. see all of his comments tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> washington post with the latest that coul

the students entering harvard this year along with the other current members would be allowed to remain in those societies. >>> it is 6:48 am. >>> let's take a look at the traffic. what do we need to know heading out the door? >> i want to mention that is not on the mac yet, a problem in napa where they have an overturned mail truck near kelly road that was loaded with u.s. mail. that is a pretty serious thing in the mail is all over the place. they have diverted the freeway in both directions on 29 causing a big traffic jam. starting with highway 101 in san rafael, traffic looking good in both directions. southbound 101, the commute direction is not a major commute but will be a little bit slow in parts of novato. also slow on the richmond-san rafael bridge getting into san rafael. talking about highway 24 into lafayette, moderately heavy past the lafayette bart station. at the bay bridge there is a line starting at the maccarthur maze and coming around to the toll plaza about a 25 minute delay. on the peninsula it's not a bad commute on 101 and 280. it is 6:49 am. >>> there is a lot o

the president of harvard says he >>> happening now, harvard university proposed a ban to social clubs. the president of harvard hopes the closing will reduce problems with sexual assault and alcohol abuse. check out the facebook page for more information. >>> also, calls republicans at cal invited another conservative speaker to compass. the author, former editor at breitbart. tonight -- a lot of finger pointing after that ugly confrontation between skateboarders and police >>> okay. tonight a lot of finger pointing after the ugly confrontation between skate borders and police officers. this happened last night near dolorus park in san francisco. an skate session turned house tail. >> reporter: san francisco police say they were concerned about skateboarders going down the street but became urgent when they heard one of them had fallen and needed medical attention. they say right away, the situation they were met with resistance and in some cases, it turned hostile. we heard from some skate boarders today and they believe police response was more of the issue. >> so basically it was a

i think sometimes we don't get to see exactly how genius the harvard, whether it's at harvard, teachingna central which is a lot of alumni in this area. it's showing the genius of the culture and make sure it's being taught the right way or shown the right way. it's shown a different light. that's what i hope you can take on the film. >> well, all right, a lot of folks are looking forward and thanks so much for being here. >> thank you. >> i love that. the genius of the culture. we have to look at art because it's not just a traditional stuff that we look at. it's an expression and it's so exciting and why did we have courses like that why we're in school. >> it's your challenge. >> yes. >> the by products of this film festival, it's one of the reasons why it's a wonderful idea. can't way to see it. >> hope it does well. >> all right. target, getting rid of something that's been saving people money, what you need to know before you head to the store next time. >> also, ahead at 5:00, we'll tell you about some food this one is different. it's a kind of coffee that's being pulled from the