amhurst and harvard, but for me head start is where i got my start. there's so many things i had to learn what other people just seemed to know and i'm perfectly okay with raising my hand and asking for that clarification so that next book project is going to be my reflecting on what does that mean, even as you-- especially as i stay in the academy because i haven't left. like when i left miami at 18, that was it. i haven't been back. i've been in massachusetts the rest of my life. i went to amhurst and then came over to cambridge. like i haven't left. and i'm still learning so many new things in the job that i have, but the cool thing about it is, being in that room and i remember this, i'll never forget being in a room and someone said something, scanned the room, saw that i was there and then backtrack and say, sorry, and then went on to-- went to explain the shorthand that they had just used. and it made me realize, what does-- why diversity in that room matter and it was in that real moment, i was like, okay, the work is having some kind of reson

so i say i'm an alumni of amrs, i'm an alum of harvard two times over. but my first like alumni who if that's even a were was head start right. that's what i got my start and so many things that i had to learn where other people just to know and i'm perfectly okay with raising my head and asking for that. so that next book project is going to be my reflecting on. what does that mean as especially as i stay in the academy? because i haven't left like when i left miami at 18, that was it. i haven't been back. i've been in massachusetts the rest of my life, went to amherst and have and then and then came over to to cambridge like i had to left. and i'm still learning. so many new things in the job that i have. but the cool thing about it is being in that room and i remember this, i'll never forget being and being in a room and someone said something, scanned the room, saw that i was there, and then backtrack and say, sorry and then went to went to the explain the shorthand that they had just used and it made me realize what does why diversity in that matter

i'm a llama harvard two times over but i first like alumni was headstart. that's where i got my start. there's so many things i had to learn with other people seemed to know and i'm perfectly okay raising my hand and asking for that clarification so that next project is going to be my reflecting on what does that mean especially as i stay inthe academy because i never left . when i left miami at 18 that was it. i've been in massachusetts for the rest of my life. then came over to cambridge, like i haven't left and i'm still learning so many new things in the job that i have . but the cool thing about it is being in that room and i'll never forget being in a room rand someone said something, scanned the room, so i was there and backtracked and said sorry and then went to explain the shorthand they had just used. and it made me realize why diversity in that room matters. and it was in that real moment i was like okay, the work is having some kind of residence but also my presence in the academy is. i hope to continue to push universities to do that kind of wh

harvard and legacy of slavery asked me to be part of the undergraduate experience. i want to understand not just when they were home but how the inequalities in their lives were affected by those closures and not having the option of that sanctuary. that's how it started. that email that transported me back to being a broke first generation college student at amherst college for the first time, every one going on cruises and going skiing and i can't afford to go home to the home cooking i was missing from miami.it that was the origin of it, to lend a scholarly lens to a very personal experience. >> host: i want to sit in that moment for a second, thinking about the disparate experiences students had when campus is closed during covid. tell us about what you were hearing, the murmurs on campus, walk us through that immediate aftermath of campuses closing out what students were going home to. >> the stories i heard were truly amazing. two students whose experiences stand out to me tremendously and itge was, one captured how the pandemic task force, all the rage. one s

law school, just like jack smith did and then he would go from harvard law school like jack smith did to the manhattan district attorney's office and build a career as a federal prosecutor, always being paid dramatically less than his harvard law school classmates who chose money as their first objective after graduation and became partners in giant corporate law firms that support every move that the billionaire class makes every day in this country. jack smith's choices were the choices of movie heroes. jack smith's harvard law school classmates could not comprehend a career spent living on government salaries. for what? justice would be the answer to that question in the movie version of mr. smith goes to washington but that is not what happened in the real story of jack smith going back to washington as a special prosecutor investigating donald trump. the first former president to become a federal criminal defendant, donald trump was also the second former president to become a federal criminal defendant when jack smith brought the second of two indictments against donald trump in

still hold assist records for harvard? >> a few of them. >> by the way, he was much taller before spending decades in washington where they found of ground him down a little bit year by year. >> yeah. >> and during my decade of covering the federal government at washington, i always felt that the inspectors general were the most powerful officials that americans never heard of. i'm pleased that you've done this terrific book to pull back the curtain on with an ig's do. especially when several major federal departments are to be led by folks to put it kindly could use some oversight. let's talk about what an inspector general is and does. >> when i first heard it, you you have the dude running the track for factory and next to him, the party would put a commissar to look over his shoulder. is that what an ig does? >> not really, dan. i'll answer that question, first, let me thank you for moderating and texas book festival for having me, i have to issue the address about the basketball because when people see me they don't b

they know how to get you from andover to harvard to j.p. morgan. that's what they do, they are good at itbut if you're looking at people developing practices that are helping students , also our small liberal arts colleges especially those that are tuition driven . or that are just trying their best to stay in the black they are also struggling with how u to do a university investment. so it's a lot of lessons that i think i tried to highlight in my book for a range of schools like the university of rochester. two different institutions but that have very the same intentionality behind helping students understand that the four-year college is not some kind of protective time from life's problems, highlighting how both types of institutions can help. one does a good program, one does it through universal policy so there are ways in which we can do it and i hope highlighting understudied and underreported programs that shows that we all don't know by name i think i'm hoping we can hold on to some space to help us. >> we have time for one more questio

larry summers, the former harvard president and u.s.. in this ad, they announced they were done waiting for america's universities to fix themselves. uatx received initial approval from the state of texas and raised nearly $200 million from private donors, in part to cover tuition. kanelos was named president. >> our work is to stir up settled ideas. >> he says that to the detriment of learning, colleges have become echo chambers. >> what is going on on campuses? >> it's as if people expect there are two versions of everything and therefore there's a right version and a wrong version. depending on which side you stand. but the truth is that one opinion meeting another opinion shouldn't leave us with two opinions. it should leave us with better opinions. >> what do you mean by that exactly? >> christian values we have -- >> to combat fears of saying the wrong thing in class, uatx comes armed with a weapon. tell an american audience, what do you mean by chatham house rule? >> the chatham house rule is a great british invention. it says if

in this case, harvard, and win a lot of money. the harvard game was the first game that they bribed the boston college players and about a year later, after the game, sports illustrated broke the story that one of the mobsters confessed. and it was in sports. and a friend of mine sent me the article showing that the harvard game was the first game that they bribed and on top he wrote hey glenn, i guess you played your best game when the other team was in the tank. and by the way, these were not just any old who seen the movie goodfellas. pretty much everybody. they were the two main characters in goodfellas who did the bribing. henry hill, played by ray liotta and jimmy burke, played by robert de niro. they were the ones who bribed. and if you look at the movie, there's a scene in the bar, by the way, which they have a basketball game in the background, and they said, oh, is that one of the games up in boston? we were shaving points and one of the other mobster says, don't worry, it's a lock. so when later when i was nominated to

i was the captain of the harvard basketball team. and our biggest game of the season was against boston in the boston garden. but it was also the same day that i had my final for the rhodes scholarship, and there was a problem because the final interview was in baltimore and the game was in boston. so i was torn. but had an alum from harvard who saw the situation and said, i'm going to send a plane down to pick you up the baltimore airport private plane after your over, before the dust elections are made, fly to the boston garden. you can make it in time. the tip off and that's what happened changing in my uniform on the way there i got to the garden a few minutes before tip off. boston college was a strong team favored by 12. i had the best game of my college career. i 19 points, 14 assists and eight steals. they were favored 12. but it was nip and tuck the whole way we were up. they were up five. they won the last minute by three points. then i oh my goodness. i have to call to find out if i'd want a rhodes scholarship. so in my un

what are those two career stories telling students at harvard law school today? answer. it really depends on what your life tied up to. if you want your life to add up to a sense that you have done your best to make the world a better place, to bring about justice, you may not always win , but you can always be satisfied that your time on earth has made a positive difference. if your goal is to become deputy attorney general in an administration, basically of an oath breaking insurrectionist who committed the greatest crimes against the constitution in our history, and it looks like you may have gotten away with it. if that is your goal, then that is an alternative path. but the remarkable and wonderful thing about the law is that your path is not predetermined. you can choose to do the right thing. i wish marek garland had done the right thing, which would have been to appoint special counsel much sooner than he did. he waited maybe 20 months too long. i heard in your last segment the prediction that it wouldn't really have mattered much, because we are so corru

the book started because i was invited to be thought to the harvard experience. was just like i have to go back to the very moment i got the e-mail i was sitting in my room, the foam ding, ding, ding the only thing i hear is this murmur i was living on campus was like wow it has to be done. when i read the e-mail i thought back to an e-mail i got along time ago sitting at amherst college where i learned the dining help would be closed because in that e-mail it said this students are encouraged to stay home after spring break. i thought back to myself what about those students who were not going home who don't have a home to go to or who know home and harm are synonymous? that e-mail did not outweigh anything for the very students who were the most vulnerable on campus. so that moment sat with me harvard legacy of slavery reach out to me just me too be part of understanding the undergraduate experience i was like i want to understand what happens to students. not just when they went home but have inequalities or in their lives were affected by the closure in havin

how does a harvard psychology professor discuss gut reaction? well, as a psychology, i'm interested in them. i study them or at least try to understand them. i, i think people go with their gut way too often by i'm interested in what gut feelings consist of and what do they consist of. sometimes they consist of. a an urge, a desire that feels overwhelming in the moment, but that another part of you knows it won't be so good for you in the long run you eat the delicious dessert now knowing that you'll regret it when you get on scale tomorrow morning you someone says something that rubs you the wrong and you explode knowing that that will poison your relationship or are you a bad reputation you do it anyway. you've got a deadline like you feel compelling to watch the movie on tv rather than work on the report. so we always have many things tugging us, things that feel really good. now. but what feel so good? maybe tomorrow or, a year from now or five years from now? and the gut often is go for if it feels good, do it now is also gut feeling that w

i'm carl university professor at harvard. harvard and i write mainly the burqa revolution, slavery and on cello. jefferson davis the family. so this book about our duty recently that my most recent book and i'm very happy to. and i'm david cole i am for another couple of weeks the national legal director the aclu where i've been for the last eight years. but i'm also professor at georgetown law school and mark lilla and then they had to read the opening statement. i am a professor of humanities at columbia university. i'm also here as a longtime contributor, and i, too, the new york review of books. they've also published several my books, which would be out there. and so they've asked me participate and share today to get this going, i would like to ask a question. the premises of the charge i just read to us today. so i want to ask is there a free speech problem on campus? there are people on the left and the right who would say there is on the left, you hear complaints about limits placed on individual protesters and gathe

we have harvard university showing data indicating rfk jr. is right.ributor liz peek. liz, welcome back. you're a great writer. you know, this bomb shell data out of harvard. i'll give you the floor in just a second. i want to get through it. harvard is saying that processed food literally kills up to 678,000 americans a year. it says that's more than all the u.s. combat deaths from the revolutionary war to the wars in afghanistan and iraq combined, plus estimates the cost of these kind of diseases from the sick food supply at $16 trillion from 2011-2020. what do you think of this? >> yeah, can you imagine that the entire democrat establishment is trying to protect those kind of numbers and we spend in the united states twice of what wealthy oecd countries spend per person on healthcare and we have among the worst outcomes. if any industry in america is right for disruption, it is healthcare, and i think it's terrific. look, rfk jr. has this vaccine dubiousness or skepticism that, by the way, caused a change in the way people do manufacture vaccines. i

we're so pleased those this event here at harvard bookstore tonight please join me in welcoming dr. genevieve guenther and. thanks for coming and. i want to start by saying this is really a wonderful book in it you start with quote from greta thunberg that says now is the time to speak clearly. and i feel like this is also what you have in this book. it's so crystal clear and it's prose in its argument. it's not always the case. so i want to by saying that and congratulate you on having achieved that, it's hard to speak clearly and in part what the book is about. it's a book about the language of climate politics. the title also. it's very clear. and but what what does that mean? a book about climate about the language of climate science. you to think about science. you also have to think about persuasion. the language we use science. but it also becomes tool for either information or disinformation. and i think that's sort the terrain that the book covers. what we'll be talking about, the book begins with a kind of typology of different terms, different. we use the activists, the d

harvard did not respond to repeated requests for comment or more detail.e people have praises appraise isprofessors taking ths for students calling this election divisive and stressful recent jewish graduate said it is a double standard. >> this is a harvard university that cannot condemn their own students who are calling for in the united states between people to recognize that any democracy in the united states sometimes your coalition does not always win. that is okay. looks over at the university of oregon the assistant director of university and sorority life making headlines after his tirade mocking supporters of president elected donald trump. >> you can literally go beep if you voted for donald trump. if you are so sad about your groceries being expensive, get a better leap put paint job or to better life get a [bleep] education produce something because you are [bleep] stupid. i hope you go jump off a [bleep] bridge. >> he tried to reach out but never heard back university spokesperson tells fox the employee has been placed on administrative leav

there's a place for them at harvard university or ohio state or anywhere else. we need to be reaching out and looking for the talent in those communities that maybe, in a different -- if history had been different, would have been in those institutions. but because history is as it is, are not in those institutions. that seems to me to be the way to go. west, were you trying to change his -- were you trying to change his opinion or just help him arrive closer to the truth as you see it? >> you know, my dear sister, i come from a tradition of lifting every voice. i don't want anybody to be an echo. i want people to find their own voice, just like a jazz woman or a blues man. and my brother's got his own voice. so i want him to find his voice and he'll land where he lands. when i see my brother, i don't have to eliminate his constructed whiteness. he's a human being in a particular body, but he's made in the image and likeness of god. he has something there that is worthy of a certain kind of treatment, no matter who he is. and so the history is there. white privi

one harvard professor estimates u.s. companies spend 8 million on diversity training alone. initiatives in private companies and government level, you have not tackled root of the issue, higher education. they need to be torn out from colleges and universities, which are funded from our american dollars. >> todd: if you wouldn't go along with dei under biden administration, they were threatening to sue you, bad press or government action against corporations. if there is no longer that threat of government action, dei would stop. you are saying it might be too strong for this to go away with snap of a finger, kaylee. >> kaylee: the bullying and intimidation and the idea that opposes dei is racist or oppressive. anti-dei are pro merit, pr proequality and pro-common sense. 66% of americans, including 54% of democrats said in a poll they do not want companies making hiring sdiz r decisions based on race or sex. fall into the will of the american people. >> todd: why did democrats lose? ashes dam schifflin says everybody is to blame for harris' loss. listen. >> i think the entir

difficult here can, i leave them to harvard instead. now, this is the source of a campus legend, which heard that such clause exists in his that you know, if yale ever monkeyed with the conditions would get the painting's not true because because wadsworth back off you know and then the harvard scheme ended and one of his stipulations was that he be buried beneath his standing portrait of washing sand after the battle of trenton. and he and his wife were and the gallery has been moved twice since he first built a and each time they are have been respectfully disinterred and reburied. so if you go to the art gallery now colonel trumbus there and and his wife sarah in the basement so fascinating and i guess we'll end on this one and this is the $32,000 question here. did trumbull ever offer any indication of a favorite painting of his or more the one that he took more pride in? well, he said of revolutionary paintings, if he had save one from a fire, it would be princeton. that's interesting, because people a lot of people kind of like th

i university professor at harvard. i write mainly about the american revolution, slavery and monticello, the jefferson davis family. this book is about -- recently the most recent i'm very happy to be here. >> and i'm david cole. i am for another couple of weeks the national legal director of the aclu were had been for the last eight years, but i'm also a professor at georgetown law school. >> i'm mark lilla, and i am doing guilty statements. i'm a professor of the humanities at clover university. i'm also here as a longtime contributor and i, too, the new york review of books. which wout there. and so they've asked me participate and share today to get this going, i would like to ask a question. the premises of the charge i just read to us today. so i want to ask is there a free speech problem on campus? there are people on the left and the right who would say there is on the left, you hear complaints about limits placed on individual protesters and gatherings, pressure alumni, donors, sanction or fire teachers and ri

in the 17th century if i was walking down harvard square if we had harvard square outside massachusetts and somebody handed me a pamphlet printed on a printing press i would have been pretty impressed and more inclined to believe them. not everybody has a printing press. this must be legit. then we became more sophisticated. i don't know if jen z -- if you find yourself reading, you have my book. a hard copy of time magazine or the new york times, sometimes your eye falls on newsprint. it is designed to look like an article but it is actually an ad. ..but it is actually an ad, and it takes you have a second to realize it is and at. you just have pattern recognition that tells you, right? we don't have that at the same level on the digital stuff, and every time we do, a new medium arises. we have to figure out how to kick through that and really understand what is real and not real, right? that is the difference between the person who is correctly upset with the administration because we have not solved their economic problem and the person who is happy with their economic circumstance b

she moves him his harvard a she decorates it for. she is the one who will sell six west 57th street after the death of her mother as well. she will oversee construction of sagamore hill. well, he is absent. she'll take care of his for three years while he's in the badlands. and more consequentially, you she she meets queen victoria, her stay in london and she becomes an emissary of information from the u.k. to the u.s. she the one who suggests that theodore roosevelt consider assistant secretary of the navy, which, of course, will propel into his role in the roughriders. she's the one who has the white of her home. 10 minutes from the white house, known as the little white, where he will sneak away for all kinds of meetings. i mean, in theodore roosevelt's own words, bambi was the feminine atlas on the whole world rested. and then their younger sister, connie, love. connie. connie. so, eleanor roosevelt put it best if you wanted advice. you went to bambi. if you want sympathy, you go to connie. connie is the emotional outlet. she's a

. -- i know him from fox, he is very smart and well educated, princeton and harvard and distinguished military man. with any number of bravely medal wuss wrote a great book war against warriors, and wants to root out d.e.i. and crt, and concerned about the way that defense department is going. he is qualified. what do you make of that? that is a break of fresh air. >> you use term that i would apply to the people that president trump is picking, smart. they are highly intelligence people that is the first cry tieria, you need people that want to aggressively implement the president's agenda of dramatic change. the status quo is unacceptable, 35 trillion in debt, federal government is trampling over our freedoms and rights. certainly suppressing economic growth. we need regulatory relief, and tax relief. and he is speaking people who will -- picking people who are not cautious by bold like he is, he will be responsible for his picks. larry: i would like to -- >> i would like to speak to pete thing, he is a great pick, he has he is a warriors' warrior, enlisted men and women of military

and he says, there are jews at harvard? [applause] and i say, yes, but they hate israel. and he says, there is an israel? and i realize our historical situation enables what we are saying, that is, we are strong enough to also be compassionate and we are also strong enough to strengthen ourselves in the jewish values that not only have brought us to this point but have enabled to such leaders who can speak in such beautiful ways to suffering, aspiration, hope, solidarity, all the values i know every single person in this room cherishes or you would not be in this room. [applause] i got some pretty firm marching orders so we need a closing message from each of you. there is no way to sum up all of this. but these are in all sorts of different ways the leaders and those who care most about the jewish future in our country. what have you to say to them? >> i will share a very short story which is we took a trip with our community to central europe a couple summers ago and visited a town in slovakia because one person who organ

i applied to one business school, harvard. i said if i am less to get into harvard, i read the book, and i said if i can get into this place i will go, and i went. david: then what did you do? >> i thought that private equity was -- i wanted to be involved with companies vs. just being at a bank and private equities seemed like the way to get the most responsibility and was where all the smartest people were going. and i joined this five-year-old young firm called blackstone. i went there and three months into it, drexel went out of business and i got a call from mark rowland -- mark rowland. and initially i was like, i'm good. you guys just went out of business, but i decided to follow him and i joined apollo, which had 12 people at that point. david: so you are one of the cofounders, and you were there for how many years before you left? >> 32 years. david: and you are the head of private equity? >> there were only 12 people. david: but you were leading private equity. >> i was leading private equity and then i was running t

apply for one business school, harvard and i said if i get into harvard, i read the book, if i can get into this place, alico, and i went. i wanted to be involved with companies versus being at a bank. private equity seem like the way to get the most responsibility, where all the smartest people were going. and i joined this 5-0 young firm called blackstone. i went there in three months into it, drexel went out of business and i got a call from mark rowan who had been the star associate and he said look, we are starting up this firm and initially i was like, i'm good. you guys just went out of business. but i decided to follow him and i joined apollo which had 12 people at that point. >> so you helped to start that firm and you were there for how many years before you left? >> 32 years. i started off, there was only 12 people. i was leading private equity, and then i was running the firm. the firm went public. what happens in the investment business as you get kicked upstairs, so ultimately it became the three of us form the executive committee and i was running the firm day. damon: ho

i applied to one business school, harvard and i said, if i'm blessed to get into harvard, i read the book, but if i could get into this place, i would go and i went. david: so then what did you do? josh: i felt that private equity was -- i wanted to be well with companies versus just being at a bank, and private equities seemed like a way with the most responsibility, it was where all the smartest people were going. and i joined this young, five-year-old firm called blackstone. i went there and three months into it, drexel went out of business, and i got a call from mark rowen, who had been the star associate at drexel, who i had worked with, and he said, we are starting up this firm. initially i was like, i'm good, you guys just went out of business. but i decided to follow him and i joined apollo, which had 12 people at that point. david: you are one of the cofounders, and you were there for how many years before you left? josh: 32 years. david: you are the head of private equity? josh: there was only 12 people. so, we all were just doing -- david: but at the end you are leading pr