as we continue our juneteenth special, we turn now to look at harvard university's legacy of slavery.ersity recently pledged to spend $100 million to redress the school's deep ties to slavery. the move came after the school issued a 130-page report that revealed at least 41 prominent people connected to the school owned enslaved people. the report states -- "enslaved men and women served harvard presidents and professors and fed and cared for harvard students. moreover, throughout this period and well into the 19th century, the university and its donors benefited from extensive financial ties to slavery." this is an excerpt of a video accompanying the report released by harvard. >> the evidence of the legacy of slavery at harvard is in the landscape. you can go to the old burial ground and you can see the headstones for two enslaved people. one of them, a girl named cicely, was enslaved to william brattle, who was a tutor, a treasurer, and a fellow at harvard university. >> we also know that several of harvard's presidents who lived in wadsworth house, which is still standing on campu

guest: what is so interesting about what you just said, harvard university released a report, their relationship with slavery. it's a report that shows them trying to do some repair. it talks about the university being implicated in only black people. some of their biggest funders were people who were slave traders and made their money not only in the domestic slave trade, the brutal caribbean slave trade in jamaica and cuba and haiti and other places. it is so interesting. we think about this idea of reparations and you have political economy. we haven't wanted to face dass i think -- i think this is a global problem. france has their problem england has their own version of this. but we haven't wented to say is slavery is what provides us with the iphone. it provides us with zoom. it provides us with a 401k. the way in which the world was able to build wealth so quickly during modernity is one hunter percent connected to slavery. it's connected to slavery not just the exploitation of 4 million african-americans in the united states. it's connected to the way in which different financial intere

he's a research associate at harvard university and senior fellow for democratic resilience at the center for european policy analysis, and he's a friend of the show. welcome back to the day sir. can i start by getting your take on the 40 percent cut in supply by gas prom? it's blaming. it's on a lack of parts held up by sanctions. does that sound possible? look, it's very convenient. there's been a litany of excuses. the gas from a given over the years for its sudden and unexplained cuts in natural gas supplies to europe. this is the latest in an aggregated energy crisis that spanned all the way back to the middle of last year. in 2021, the chrome, an intentionally limited. natural gas volumes export in european storage is many of which were owned by cremmit controlled gas from itself. this create an u. i. gas scarcity that limited the latitude of foreign policy responses to put an invasion of ukraine and how it began during the height of the european heating season over the year in february 2022. so when we're hearing that there is suddenly this, that the gas reductions are north dream

ah, one such ongoing revolution within the field of microscopy is taking place at harvard university in boston. professor jeff leachman had discovered that the key to understanding the brain lies in its architecture that is in the spatial structure of the organ. but how can one look inside the brain? because a suitable microscope didn't exist. least men set about helping size to develop one . the brain, as you probably know, is made up of many nerve cells that are interconnected in this vast network of connections that are poorly understood, largely because it's so complicated. and until recently, there haven't been technologies that would allow one to image the brain at that high resolution. one is you have to look at something that's very large and brain is very big. and you have to look at it at very high resolution. and usually the imaging techniques that allow you to look at high resolution look at very small areas. and the imaging techniques that give you a field of view of a large area have low resolution. but in order to see the brain's wiring diagram when needs both a large

dr. benjamin nash mit from cambridge, massachusetts research associate at harvard university as senior fellow for democratic resilience at the center of european policy analysis. thank you for your time. thank you so much. aah! britain has published legislation that will unilaterally rewrite part of the treaty, it's signed as part of its briggs at divorce deal with the european union. the northern ireland protocol deals with the promised as unique role as the only part of the united kingdom with a direct, a border with the republic of ireland. the protocol keeps northern ireland in the e u. single market by effectively placing a customs border in the irish sea between northern the island and mainland britain . a liter say the new legislation is a breach of international law. british foreign minister les tress defended the move . were completely serious about this legislation. it does fix the problems in the northern allan protocol. it also protects the a you single market said the, you, a, ne, worse off as a result of this legislation. no surprise that you doesn't see things like that.

storage and gas pipeline networks throughout europe. benjamin smith is a research associate at harvard university. he says the criminal claim sit, be viewed with skepticism. it's very convenient. there's been a litany of excuses. the gas from is given over the years for it's a sudden and unexplained cuts in natural gas supplies to europe. this is the latest in aggregated our energy crisis. it expands all the way back to the middle of last year in 2021. the chrome, an intentionally limited. natural gas volumes export in european storage is many of which were owned by cramming controlled gas from itself. this created an you wide gas scarcity that limited the latitude of foreign policy responses to putin's invasion of ukraine. as hostilities began during the height of the european heating season earlier this year in february 2022. so when we're hearing that there is suddenly this, this gas reduction through nord stream one are, you know, we have to be skeptical. let's take a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world. supporters of jailed russian opposition. leda, alexey, novelle.

my name is benjamin quinn and on behalf of harvard bookstore the harvard university division of science and the harvard library. i'm honored to introduce this virtual event with michael dine presenting his book this way to the universe a theoretical physicist journey to the edge of reality in conversation with lisa randle. i hope you're all well and safe. thank you for joining us virtually tonight's event is the latest installment in our harvard science book talk series, which works to bring the authors of recently published science that literature to our cambridge community and beyond coming up on the series on tuesday, march 15, we'll host celebrated neuroscientists and neil set for his new book being you a new science of consciousness to learn about more about this and our other upcoming virtual events. you can visit harvard.com and sign up for our email newsletter or check out the page harvard.com/science for more info. also be posting a link to our science research public lectures channel in the chat where you can view previous talks you might have missed. this evening's discussion

this is 25 minutes. , president of harvard university, and, also a contributing columnists for the washington post. welcome to washington post live. >> good to be with you, david. >> let's start with today's news, president biden is meeting today with fed chairman jay powell. you had some significant criticisms of both regarding inflation. i just want to ask, what you would like to see come out of this? specifically, what do you hope fed chairman powell say to the president about what he's doing? >> i think the president calling today in the wall street journal articulated the right principles that inflation is now our preeminent short run economic problem, that you have to take priorities over other problems. that's the first part for any strategy and it has to be monetary policy that the president has to respect the independence of the federal reserve as the federal reserve does what's necessary to contain inflation. frankly, it has been my view that the fed was way slow to recognize the gravity of the gathering of inflation, even though there was substantial evidence of it. but in recent w

brown, jackson has gone to harvard university and harvard law school. all of the other justices went to elite ivy league institutions. but this will change or look at the court. what it won't change is the ideological mix. there are 6 conservative justices and because she replaces a conservative justice, it is $6.00 to $3.00 still. and those 6 to 3 decisions are what has gotten the court a good deal of criticism across the country, particularly the reversal of the right to abortion. that was removed last week. that means all 50 states and the territories get to decide for themselves whether abortion is legal or not. half of the states are said to reverse that, right? so there's been a lot of criticism about that president biden, just to day called the decision by the court outrageous. he says it needs to be reversed in the sense that congress needs to pass a bill, a law making abortion a right across the nation. how to do that, he says they might have to remove the filibuster. that's this rule that requires a super majority of 60 vote. so the court is b

because if we look at the polls, whatever pulls, whether this is provided by n, b, c, or harvard university. by them has the lowest possible appreciation from, from the citizens among the presidents who are really the country. so he's not very popular, but what he's doing is, i mean he's, he's capable to do this because he's an old man. i mean, he will not be prosecuted for what he's doing. so whatever he's doing, he's doing this in mind that he will not get any consequences for what he's doing and he knows what he's doing. so i would not say that the administration is mad. no, they're, you know, playing according to the plan. i mean, the impoverishment of the american citizens or 1st of all now they will be back to. busy guns because they will be the militarized. so the average citizens will not have the same access to the guns. i used to apparently, and also because of the fact that they are because of the inflation and gas prices . they will not be able to live to the american standard as they used to a. 2 2 festival at present binder and his ministration is acting against his own people

is the hidden strength of ukraine and what will help it survive in this war , professor of harvard universitystorian serhii plohiy discussed these and other issues with my colleague myroslava gongadze he told that the victory of russia in this war meant the victory of authoritarianism in the whole world from china to the usa, then the victory of ukraine in marks the victory of world democracy, which is the reason why russia became what it is now in history there was a time when the world had many hopes that russia can actually become a democracy in russia in the lake ited if you look at what happened in russia at the end of the 80s, it was definitely one of the beacons of democracy and democratic development in the post-soviet space, president yeltsin was elected president russia, contrary to gorbachev's wishes, to support a huge democratic mobilization in russia , while nothing of the sort happened in ukraine in the 1989-90s, as well as in a significant part of the 1991s , it was almost natural to expect that russia would take the lead in terms of democratic transformations in this did not h

storage and gas pipeline networks throughout europe and been schmidt is a research associate at harvard university. he says, we should be skeptical about the kremlin claims that delayed repairs of the north stream pipeline, or to blame for the cut in gas supply. i'm, you know, we have to be skeptical. you know, there's, there's a few things that play here. first of all, it's trying to make it, you know, it being, you know, the russian federation trying to make a statement that, you know, we should try to somehow limit our technology, credit calibrated sanctions on dual use and energy technologies. we shouldn't take the bait on that now with this, this notion about the siemens compressor are parts that better supposedly needed. because remember, they can rectify this right now. they being gas from the can send war gas through the existing a spare capacity in the mall, europe pipeline rember. they caught off poland from a gas supplies just several weeks ago. on not to mention, it least one 3rd of gas applies through the ukranian territory, could be turned back on if the russians de occupied the area

in 1970, representatives of harvard university submitted his desired work for the nobel prize, he refusedly fearing further harassment in the union, he began his desire as mr. futurist, and his works were a sensation in the literature of the 20s and 30s . hard on a cruel stone, cool lines of hard roads, however, the soviet penal authorities opened a case against him as a bourgeois nationalist in the 36th year, the writer was recruited by the kdb, people who cooperated with the service they submitted so-called intelligence information, he was often caught saying banal things that were already known to the special services, or he said some things that he simply repeated and repeated with the document, the document also almost disappeared, the streets of the outstanding lyricist pavlo tychyna and the poet of the front-line soldier leonid pervomaiskyi the romance of adventures and the north pole mykola trublaini, the author of historical novels, the seeds of sklyarenko and others, there are no public documents about their cooperation with the soviet authorities, but what they are with them th

i'm still scribble on the walls. applying to harvard university. ukraine has never met the criteria of democracy and simply saying that it does now reduce any incentive to work on becoming one if that's what they choose to do. and surely, merkel can't be suggesting that a country that has now been flooded with western weapons who central government previously spent 8 years attacking, harassing and distributed. yes, it's all rest of people. is natal ready? asked for american sanctions against russia. merkel suggested that she's in favor of that be used as an economic weapon, except when a project in boston already like the north stream to pipeline, to transport russia to europe via germany. mama, they do that with iran. ok, with russia now? absolutely right. but that they did that with us, i did not think it was okay with the elephant in the room here being that sanctioning russia in this case is effectively sanctioning germany and europe. it's unfortunate that merkel didn't seize the opportunity to unambiguously defend the interests of german and european citizens, which would have als

because if we look at the polls, whatever pulls, whether this is provided by n, b, c, or harvard university. by, by them has the lowest possible appreciation from, from the citizens of, among the presidents who are really a country. so he's not very popular, but what he's doing is, i mean, he's, he's capable to do this because he's an old man. i mean, he will not be prosecuted for what he's doing. so whatever he's doing he's doing this is mine, that he will not get any consequences for what he's doing and he knows what he's doing. so i would not say that the bible ministration is mad. no, there you know, the playing according to the plan. i mean, the impoverishment of the american citizens or 1st of all now they will be back to. busy home guns because they will be the militarized. so the average citizens will not have the same access to the guns. i used to apparently, and also because of the fact that they are because of the inflation and gas prices . they will not be able to live to the american standard as they used to a. 2 2 festival at present binder and his mom administration is acting

he received his phd from harvard university and his ba from brown university and today he will be speaking on his newest book the rise and fall of the neoliberal order america and the world in the free market era published by oxford university press i believe just over a week or so ago and with that gary welcome to the washington history seminar again. the zoom screen is yours. thank you very much, eric. everyone can hear me. loud and clear i want to thank the washington history center and the and the wilson center for this opportunity. i want to thank eric and christian in particular and the behind the scenes logistics people for handling this and so effective a manner. and i also want to thank liz and christina for taking time to read the book and and offer. me and you their comments the book is new. it was only published last tuesday. so just a week out my assumption is that most of you have not read this book and that informs the comments. i'm going to give today because i need to give you a sense of what the book is about. i'm not going to do much with the narrative or particular even

at the time, military veteran sean mc fate was studying at harvard university. i was running across campus late for us like a statistics and economics midterm study group. and i got a phone call and i literally went like this. you don't know who we are, but we know who you are. we have a job in africa that we think you can help us with. would you consider dropping out of harvard? i to do it will pay a flight ticket down to texas. we're headquartered. we'll talk about it in the 19 ninety's mac vate was a paratrooper in the u. s. army. he then studied political science at the renowned university. and i was like, you know, mid term exam here, going to africa to some really strange up here. so i left harvard and i, and 3 years later i, i'd spent, i was, i spent in africa basically building small armies for us interest for a private military company. that did work on that, the c i a and that the department defense didn't want to touch as part of its global war on terror. the u. s. entered into shifting alliances with other armed forces. like here in burgundy, sean re

the head chaplain at harvard today's an atheist. this was a universityly, why are we holding it up as the vanguard of what makes someone credible, or something we should seek? that the idea at least for me and it doesn't down play, i went there for four years for masters degree that takes two. you know why? rachel: that doesn't sound good. pete: i have a legitimate reason. i did work hard and had some good professors at all of that is true, but when i was going through it i knew what it was. it is left-wing, climate change, the government's. i was in the same rat race. i wanted to go to the elite place and check the box. i went to harvard, i must have credibility as a result. if we go at our educational establishment we need new institutions. i've got a quote from battle for the american mind. for educational insurgency to succeed, and entire alternate framework for the educational pipeline needs to be established, new teachers colleges, more classical colleges and universities need to be founded based on the new demand, and entire parallel structure whi

you probably know, has a long history as a legal educator and a continuing affiliation with harvard university. in fact the book that he will discuss tonight the authority of the courts and the peril of politics had its beginning in august 2021 at a presentation for the harvard law school lectured series. an educator's voice is present throughout the book as he talks about the importance of judicial power, the role of law and the role of the judiciary plays in the american body politics. for example he talks about the landmark case of the 1954 brown versus board of education decision and amplifies that through cooper v aaron which came three years later which reiterated that decision. we are happy to see he takes on this discussion about how the expansion of the courts authority and these events become key catalysts for a white wider civil rights movement that was defined in the 1960s. he really helps us think about the essential role of public confidence in the supreme court decisions and how those judicial decisions shape our democracy. we are excited to have him here tonight to talk about t