everybody who applies to harvard. we were all scored and you get a bunch of scores and they're on academics and extracurriculars and fairly objective and you also get a personal rating, meant to assess things like character and integrity and leadership, so it's a pretty subjective reading and no one disputes that asian americans receive a lower personal rating as a group than other racial groups who apply. even the district court, which was otherwise fairly favorable to harvard, agreed that there's a statistically significant negative correlation between race and the personal rating for asian americans and the challengers say, that's because harvard is using that rating in order to affect the number of asian americans who come into the class. harvard says, no, we're not biased in that way. maybe there's bias that filters in from high school teachers or guidance counselors, but it isn't us, it has to be somebody else in the process and the third thing the challengers say is, they're ignoring a race neutral alternative.

involvement on one of the boards of harvard. so i suspect the court decoupled them so she could participate in the consideration of the unc case. host: if we could talk about a pair of cases you are involved with -- the actin versus fcc and ftc versus kaufman case. paul: thank you for mentioning them. i will introduce the topic by going all the way back to the beginning of the panel and talking about that first case where the question was did the sackett family essentially have two wait through the epa process before they could bring their challenge or could they say at the begin of the process, wait a second, this is crazy. our property is not in the jurisdiction of the federal authorities. there are analogous questions that arise all the time in the context of administrative agencies, particularly when the challenger thinks there is something structurally problematic about the agency. that could be everything from your whole agency is unconstitutional and humphrey's executor should be overruled or it could be something more mo

you can see the vacating lower court opinion for factual development of how harvard uses race. that would punt the eventual overruling of bucky. looking at justice o'connor's 25 year look at the shot clock, he says in 25 years, we might not be able to justify the constitutional deviation over 19 years into that. that is the most obvious way. >> the 25 years sense is fascinating to me because in 2003, i was a sophomore in college, so i wonder if there is any such thing as a throwaway line to the court of opinions. how seriously do you think the justices will take that? >> i do not think any buddy on any side of the question will take it seriously. >> i had one thought which was listening to the presentations which struck me of how many of the cases we were talking about first came to the court on the emergency docket to the other ones i discussed when the other amy said, and the other thing we were trying to see last year and continued to see is that the court be more creative in how it deals with this deluge of cases coming on the emergency docket. it has received a lot of crit

>> harvard law school. >> you got into harvard law? >> , what like it's hard? college. also the most prestigious and often tops the ranking in u.s. news and world reports best universities but harvard doesn't always get it right. no one is perfect. what do joy reid and the unabomber have in common? they both got degrees from harvard. which is why no one should be surprised to hear about newest hire. according to axios, brian stelter who was just fired from cnn for performance issues has just been hired to teach media studies. already telling "primetime" that brian stelter doesn't require the students wear a mask in the classroom but every student is wearing a mask anyway because they are embarrassed to be seen taking brian's class. what's brian's title? brian is a fellow. not a little fellow. just a fellow. and his lectures will focus on threats to democracy. does brian have any background in national defense or political science? no. but this is where liberals land when they fail these days. harvard university. a little advice to the students, don't try to. >>

vacating the harvard uses race.that would be a way to punch the eventual overruling into justice o'connor's 25 year end of shot clock for 25 years now might not be able to justify this extraconstitutional deviation. over 19 years into that. that is perhaps the most obvious way. >> the 25 year sunset is fascinating to me first 2003, my daughters born to 2003. she is now a sophomore in college. so i wonder i don't exist any such thing as throwaway lines in court opinions but how seriously do you think addresses will take that? why celtic anyone on either side of the question takes seriously. >> 51 thought, listening to you many cases knew of the ones i discussed of amy's. one thing we started to see last year and i think continue to see is the court being more creative in how it deals with the deluge of cases coming on the emergency docket. i received a lot ofei criticism. how it resolved those cases. we saw it respond to that criticism. taking cases from that docket and moving them. and now with the capes counted out

teaching at harvard it is ridiculous.y that i support them teaching a cap class at seven at the end of every lecture another guy comes and goes okay don't do any of that. [laughs] [laughs] that was stupid. >> greg: talk about a soft landing for him. so brian stelter landed on another brian stelter. [laughs] is that possible? >> jamie: i want to say happy birthday, i just turned 47 years ago. [laughs] [laughs] >> greg: larry. [cheers and applause] larry this is your first time on the show i been waiting for this forever it's good to see you. >> larry: say hello to the black vase of whites are promising. don't laugh our target for that title. >> greg: on even know if that made when you make of this is kind of hoarder or bolt relative this? is a purely political act? >> larry: when somebody on the view i think it was sunny and she said, for years i've been saying that donald trump was illegitimate. the weeks that she did that because they finally realize the hypocrisy, al gore will still tell you that the supreme court put g

david: and harvard's a great place. i'm on the board of the harvard corporation. you choose to go to princeton, which is a great school, over harvard? harvard is a great place. i loved it. my mom really wanted me to go there. i tell the story all the time that she told me harvard was like coca-cola, that anywhere in the world that i would go, including an african village, if i said harvard, people would know what i was talking about. and princeton was like sprite, she said, we only knew it in america. and at the end of the day, after visiting both, a princeton alum named richard messner called me every single day after i got into princeton and told me why princeton was the better school for me. and he ultimately invited me to a lunch with bill bradley, and between the two of them and john rogers, the founder of ariel, i was triple-teamed. and ultimately, i said any school where people would be this fanatical about the school and having someone go there must be a really great place. and so, against my mother's wishes, i chose princeton. david: and you never regrett

you know, if harvard doing that, you know, then if harvard university doesn't see its obligation this way, i think we are profoundly failing given the particular standing we have this society. so i also want to think of the event that we have here today and, this whole project as one of the contributions that we as harvard university need to make to strengthening the fabric of society in some but that. thank you again everybody thank you to the audience i hope you will acquire our book you will engage with it not because not primarily we want the book to be but we do want the book to be bought. what we want the ideas to spread. and the idea is to contribute to kind of debate that is needed towards this country being able to continue to hold together and my name is desiree. i'm with the san marco bookstore. i want thank you guys for coming out tonight. i did for your first hear about this book in january when i was reviewing the summer catalog with my penguin random house rep. and it seemed like an interesting topic. and when i saw that dr. seabrook was from usf, i thought well, i thin

after harvard she clerked to the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit and supreme court justice marshall. after washington for a law firm, she became a professor at the university of chicago law school and then harvard law school and made important school alley contributions. she also served for four years in the clinton administration as associate counsel to the president and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. between 2003 and 2009, she served as the dean of harvard law school and 2009 president obama nominated her as solicitor general of the united states. a year later, the president nominated as associate justice of the supreme court and took her seat on august 7, 2010. we are honored to dialogue with justice kagan and hear her insights. please join me in welcoming her. [applause] [indiscernible] his role in shaping and making it into the global law firm. i got to know him even before i was -- i came here five or six years ago because, i started out my teaching career at another chicago law school and people in chicago, th

and a heaping dose of climate theology, all imported from harvard. he imposed carbon caps on braddock, pennsylvania. he said it would bring more manufacturing jobs back. he called this initiative carbon caps equals hard hats. so expensive unreliable energy will mean more manufacturing job. how no one laughed at him. john fetterman kept going. in a 2009 advertisement for himself, he promised that, quote, with a smart, economically viable carbon cap policy in place, communities like braddock can begin to build its manufacturing and middle-class back up. this whole notion if we can continue to operate as we have been, and ignore climate change, is ludicrous. ha-ha-ha. they loved it at the aspen institute. and to be fair, john fetterman did not ignore climate change. he talked about climate change endlessly. he made climate change the centerpiece of his administration in braddock, pennsylvania. as for actually running the town or improving the town in braddock, he was not interested. not even billings interested. that's proveable. as mayor, according to

. >> why does it cost $60,000 to go to stanford, harvard, or the other schools? >> basically kind of a space race of tuition started in the 1970's. harvard was the innovator on this. they created a model called the high tuition, high aid model. while there were a lot of families willing to pay the full freight for the prestige of going to harvard, date could use the proceeds, they could use the proceeds to offer discounts on financial aid to lower income students. the problem is as schools competed for students come schools without the wherewithal also had to offer luxury amenities and perks to attract kids. but without the endowments or other ways to offer the same levels of financial aid, so you have seen the fastest percentage of tuition increases has been in-state tuition for college students, which is the sweet spot of how we want to educate the middle class, to give him a chance for public education. that is where tuition has risen the fast is and where so much of this loan crisis has accumulated. >> will bunch, going back your own college experience into t

. >> i turned down harvard and uc berkeley. >> harvard, penn, yale, duke, emory, vanderbilt. these are the places these sophomores turned down to come to spelmacollege, an all women's hcbu. >> you don't have to prove you are smart enough because we have already shown our excellence. >> in high school, i noticed if i had good academic standing or success, it was like, wow, i did not know i could do that. this is what is expected of you here. reporter: on the premed track, it was her experience at the majority white high school that led her here. >> i had the responsibility to represent for the black community and speak for other people about their experiences. it was very exhausting having to represent all of the time. reporter: patrick said her parents were split on her decision. her dad favored harvard. her mom, spelman. for her, it came down to a sense of belonging. >> the percent of black students at ivies is very small. that could be a daunting statistic to be walking into. there are so few people who look like me, who share my experience. i'm going to have to prove mysel

our distinguished speaker this evening is john roy price the road scholar and harvard educated attorney who migrated from 1968 rockefeller campaign to that of nixon. he promptly joined the new nixon administration in 199 working with daniel patrick moynihan and later working with domestic adviser john ehrlichman a special system to the president for urban affairs. he ultimately became head of government relations for chase manhattan bank and present ceo of the federal bank of pittsburgh. a special note jonas joined this evening by his daughter alexandria so welcome to both of you. john's new book "the last liberal republican" an insider's perspective on nixon's surprising social policy" reveals the influence of those of moynihan and ehrlichman and the broader demonstrations very at ease. these men who surrounded the president impacted american social policy for decades much of which we are only realizing now. richard nixon shocked democrats the extent of his -- he proposed a guaranteed family income and almost achieved a national health insurance program as a republican but i will save

up to her phd from harvard taught at harvard for a while then got into politics. so to speak staffer lbj and other i think you'll say a few words about this. lbj was really her focus for quite a while then she got into writing and has written all these wonderful books i have offered her. blurb anytime she wants it my blurb for her will be if doris kearns goodwin wrote a book a biography of bullwinkle. i'd buy it and read it in one night. so let me introduce to you doris kearns cooper. thank you. i'm so glad to be with all of you today, and i'm really glad i can talk to you tonight. and especially i want to talk to you about one of the most unappreciated aspects of leadership that i've discovered in all these years that i've been studying leaders and that's the ability to find time to relax to refuel to recharge to replenish energy. it's something that's harder and harder to do in our modern world when our cell phones travel with us everywhere we go. but in recent studies that i found it claims that our brain needs time to recharge or we run out of juice like our c

you would not see 50 black women graduate that from harvard or yale. reporter: a first-generation college graduate is one of only two black females running fortune 500 companies. >> there is something deep in my gut around taking on big challenges. i am not afraid of those. reporter: while hcbu's cap for just 3% of secondary educations, they produce 13% of all african-american undergraduate degrees. >> it's clearly racial justice to attend to the ways in which african-americans cannot attend white colleges. reporter: a professor has been teaching at spelman for more than 50 years. >> they see a black college president and here over and over again this is a place made for you. reporter: more than 60% of students are pell grant eligible, and tuitions 30% lower than predominately white institutions. they also enroll more academically underprepared students. >> we punch above our weight. women think about what we are able to turn out with less resources than many of our peers . reporter: there are still challenges. with less financial help and for smaller

a fellowship at harvard university on threats to democracy. this is how low harvard has sunk.ty. let me be a guest lecturer. i will 2 uninterrupted hours and show all of the lies he and his former liberal network colleagues have been pedaling to this country for years with proof they lied. will humpty's class detail how he pushed the russian collusion threat or jussie smollett's fake claims. i can't believe how low they snuck. the struggles for pennsylvania and that senate race are tightening. fetterman's troubles are undeniable. here he is struggling to speak in pennsylvania. >> the most important race for the senate here for 2022. we have to replace [inaudible]. he had a chance to match me up again. he quit. let me ask you another question. who wants me to be the 51st vote send me to d.c. to make sure i will than vote. thank you. >> sean: fetter man is not truthful about his health issues and unfit for office. he likes to act tough but lived off his parents for decades and brought his house for $1 from his sister. wants prisoners out of jail and wants to eliminate fracking a

fetterman had spent his adulte life going to school, first tofc business school, then to harvard fos ofr a so-called mast of public policy, which for the uninitiated is an utterly meaningless document that you pay hundreds of thousands of dollars tndreds oo get in ora tell people that you went to harvard. >> but in this case, it wasn't expensive at all. it was free . his dad paid for c it and paidad for everything else, as the it, philadelphia inquirer put it, for a long stretch, lastingfor well into his forties, deep into middle ag stre veterans, mn source of income came from hise parents. they gave hicamem his family fifty four thousand dollars in 2015 alone. >> in other words, john fetterman was a classic trust. tafari, a flaky middle aged man looking for a purpose in life5,a and braddock, pennsylvania. he found one in twr arrio thousd amve a year after arriving in braddock, fetterman announced he was running for mayorazhat he and amazingly, boldly given that he was a professional student living off his rich family. john fetterman decided to run as a blue collar, popular. o qu bue

i'm of harvard lavished. that's a question. i believe that comes to you quite late, or maybe even after you've already left the place you are visiting and then love my calmed anti and our mouth and then it comes to again. and it makes you think about the fact that you are standing there on for like guns i am. uh huh. i know you just read the in and out and look around it and make sure you're conscious of what actually just came in to be this vesta granted them recently, shavani chakrabarti completed a project for helga block stores. as the architect in charge of construction. it's called house of oldest through and features light colors and large windows. there's a bright space on the ground floor that's only divided by the stairwell. shavani chakrabarti describes the task. this design and the structures that were chosen to be executed on the construction side. also that you now have this smooth facade and don't see anything. so it all lose procedure. and also i'm trying, in this case to implement helga blocks dos design just t

megan is dean of harvard radcliffe institute. daniel pierce paul professor of constitutional law at harvard law school and member of the history department. in 2019, she was appointed chair of the presiding annual committee on harvard and the legacy of slavery. she is a member of the american academy of and sciences. the american institute and the american philosophical society. a fellow of the american bar and a distinguished lecturer for the organization of american historians, the law library of congress. ashland below will interview her today, discuss her book, civil rights queen constance baker motley and the struggle for equality. civil rights queen is a book that explores the life and times of constance baker motley, the pathbreaking lawyer and judge dean brown. nagin. once again, we are so pleased you could join us today. and with that i will turn it over to. law librarian of congress. happy anniversary, law. library of congress. thank you, dr. hayden. afternoon to our audience, our patrons and colleagues, and, of course,

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tamiko brown megan is 18 at the harvard institute and a history professor at harvard university during her earlier book is " courage to dissent the book we are going to be talking about today is "civil rights queen." kate clifford larson is a distinguished scholar whose earlier books include a biography of harriet tubman and "the assassin's accomplice." today we will be talking about "walk with me," a biography of fannie lou hamer. i'm going to assume many of you are like me. maybe you have heard a little bit about fannie lou hamer. maybe you have not heard anything about constance modly. i'm hoping will introduce us to the subjects of these books. yours is, i think, unjustly less-known. will you tell us about constance motley and why you chose her? ms. brown-nagin: happy to. thanks to all of you for being here. i'm delighted to share about constance baker motley, who is a legendary civil rights lawyer who in her time was very well-known. i set out to write about her because it is the case that people today do not know her, to the extent that they should. legendary civil rights lawyer

earlier this weekend, i spoke with two experts on this issue, alecia mcgregor of harvard university, tompkins, the president of the american association of birth centers. thank you both for joining me. alecia, let me start with you. what is happening right now with the number of facilities that deliver babies in this country and how significant is it? alecia: without a doubt, our system of obstetric care in the country is in a crisis. when you look at the number of maternity wards that have closed between 2006 and 2020, they're in excess of 400 across the country. some states have higher rates than others. so places like pennsylvania, north dakota, we see very high rate the hospitals that are most deeply impacted by maternity ward closures tend to be those hospitals that are known as black-serving hospitals or latino-serving hospitals. so they have a greater share of black and latino patients than other hospitals. in fact, hospital care tends to be relatively segregated even to this day, and that remains the case for at the hour of childbirth as well. lisa: aubre, what about the supp

also harvard 2009 which won the stuart l burnath book prize from the society for historians of american foreign relations. there's time mark will answer your questions at the close, which you can submit on the q&a tab at the bottom of your screen. so with that i'll pass this over to him welcome mark. thank you again for joining us tonight. thanks, ron, and thanks to your whole team for setting this up. i'm really pleased to be with you on the heels of this president's day. it's a great time to look back on presidential history at the same time that we're trying to understand this this really difficult and significant moment of history that we're in right now and living through especially the events of the last couple days, but we'll take a look back and maybe that will help to put some of what we're currently living through in some kind of perspective. we're here on the 22nd of february the 290th birthday of george, washington. i remember when february 20 we had a february 22nd off for watching this birthday and february 12th off for lincoln's birthday now combined into into single pres

most of these were harvard they were harvard lawyers. these were smart people, had alger hiss actually convinced them of the fact that he was innocent when as the evidence came through the the woodstock typewriter, they were able to ascertain. priscilla here said that, in fact, this top secret state department papers on all this evidence and people that had alger hiss and whittaker chambers together in the same the same home all of this evidence that the defense team really believed this man, or were they simply doing their job? is good lawyer and defending him to the best of their ability, but that they had real doubts. there were people at the time that thought that alger hiss was actually innocent. but here's priscilla hiss might be guilty that maybe she, the one who stole the stopped secret papers out of the briefcase of alger hiss and copy out and turned them over to whittaker chambers. there was a lot going going at the time and the judge, edward dimock is is to figure this out. and he enlists his grandson, who is a astro physicist

will look at her life and legacy of britain's longest serving monarch british journalist ash sarker, harvard professor who just wrote a piece in "the new york times" "mourn the queen, not her empire," and priya gopal, author of "insurgent empire: anticolonial resistance & british dissent." >> the passing of een elizabeth ii is a solemn moment. as we mark this historic occasion, the time have come to reflect on the institution she was part of, the british monarchy and enormous wealth, privilege, power, and inequality that it represents. amy: railing in washington to protest the mountain valley pipeline and legislation to fast-track fossil fuel projects. >> the voices and sources of people gathered here today say more than no sacrifice zones. we say let us live and let us thrive. amy: all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. southern california is bracing for torrential rainfall as tropical storm kay packed winds of up to 70 miles per hour, expected to bring up to a years worth of precipitation but instead of relief f

the fact that the first black president of the harvard law review and he got a contract with simon and schuster. and he missed the deadline and they canceled it. and they wanted the money back. and so his agent came to me said look there's a very interesting young fellow named barack obama. would you like to meet with them? and i did. and i was very impressed. this was 1994 maybe. and 95 at the latest. and he had written much of change to my father. we finished the book and published it and at the time we came out. it did nicely was well reviewed and so on but it really wasn't a sensation nine years later 2004. when he spoke as the keynote speaker at the democratic convention the exactly the same book. was reissued and so four million copies. and when he and michelle left the white house. he got 65 million for his books. and i like to say that the ark of $40,000 in 1994 to a young man just out of law school and starting a career in politics to 65 million is probably a some of record in publishing. but in both cases, he probably deserved 40,000 for me and 65 million from the people who

harvard, what are we doing? >> john: you mentioned he wore his politics clearly on his sleeve.a, public pollty and politics, who should be teaching those courses? >> how about a journalist? that would be awesome. maybe an older gentleman or gentle woman who has been in the trenches, followed a story and uses the magic word "sources." that would be cool. you know, someone from a 10 to 15, 20 years ago when we celebrated what it was to be a news person, a journalist. there's a million of them out there. so i would go -- they're unemployed because they don't pick sides. so just throwing that out there. softballing it up there. >> sandra: tyrus lets us know how he feels. i want to have you back on the railroad situation. >> yeah, bring me back. i'm not a conductor but i'm worried about the railroads. >> john: with everything that you've done in your life, at some point you drove a train. >> sandra: never a train engineer? >> no. but i built a lot of train tracks when i was a kid. >> sandra: now you're coming back. >> john: i had an electric train as a kid. does that count? >> elect

caroline elkins is professor of african and african-american history at harvard university. her most recent book is titled "legacy of violence: a history of the british empire." she was awarded the 2006 pulitzer prize for her first book "imperial reckoning: the untold story of britain's gulag in kenya." her research into britain's brutal suppression of the mau mau movement in the 1950's resulted in a court case that helped lead to reparations have more than 5200 surviving kenyans who were subjected to systematic torture and abuse under british rule. also with us, mukoma wa ngugi is associate professor of "literatures in english" at cornell university. his most recent book is titled "unbury our dead with song." he is the co-founder of the safal-cornell kiswahili prize for african writing. in 2020, he was part of the initiative at cornell to change the department's name from "department of english" to "literatures in english." he is the son of world-renowned kenyan author ngugi wa thiong'o. after queen elizabeth died. our guest wrote -- "my uncle was deaf. he was asked by brit

many of them like harvard university's own endowment they're bigger than a hedge fund. a 54 billion-dollar endowment. >> yeah. >> these universities, go ahead, greg. >> you go ahead, brian. i like you better. if you will, okay to go ahead and speak on this i was on a college board and what i saw is while i don't disagree with the intent of some of my colleagues wanting to tax some of these endowments. i think more as kamala always says get at the root of the problem. the root of the problem colleges and universities have no incentive whatsoever to stop spending. i was on a college board of my alma mater, the president at the time did not know a program she didn't like a new program she didn't like to fund. if you go on the campuses these days we're now having majors in gender studies, some of these other things that are not marketable. there needs to be a transformation, a true transformation on colleges, universities stopping reckless spending congressman steil your final word. >> absolutely. greg is perfectly right there. we need to get college costs under control. th