burden of responsible entity to deal with this alienation and try to make it smaller and i think harvard university needs to see its obligation very much in of strengthening the fabric of society making a contribution to the holding. you know, if harvard doing that, you know, then if harvard university doesn'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 firs

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

groundwork for this kind of human machine interaction is pioneering scientists, barbara groszs of harvard university. for seminal work in what's called natural language processing directly led to the development of voice activated artificial intelligence, like alexa or siri. - natural language processing actually predates artificial intelligence and started with machine translation efforts. - [shivani] the ability for a computer system to carry on a spoken dialogue with a person has been a longstanding goal of artificial intelligence research from its inception. - and it turns out this is a challenge because when you speak, what you say, really depends othe context in which you say it. - [shivani] another challenge is the meaning of words can change depending on how they're delivered. - so one example is the contrast between saying "that's fabulous" and "that's fabulous." also when we have a conversation, we mark paragraphs at the beginning with a rise in intonation and a fall at the end. so there's a whole way the speech signal tells you sothing about the coext and something about the intended mean

ebright completed his undergraduate degree from harvard university in biology where he earned some a cum laude honors. he later received a phd in microbiology and molecular genetics also from harvard. dr. ebright research has led to over 175 publications as well as over 40 issuedpa and pending patents. he has received numerous awards for research at his curly member of the american academy of arts and sciences as well as the institutional biosafety committee at rutgers. he is a fellow of the infectious disease society of america, the american academy of microbiology, american association for advancement of science. he was editor of molecular biology for 16 years. dr. ebright currently serves as a project leader of three current nih research grants provided, has provided testimony to the house committee on energy and commerce on the 2014 anthrax incident, was a founding member of the cambridge working group whose cautionary statement on gain of function research involving potential pandemic pathogens remains as relevant as the day it was released in july 2014. dr. ebright. >> thank yo

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

, president volodymyr zelenskyy said during a conversation with by students and teachers of harvard university if any part of the territory is under compromise, then russia will still return to the occupation of ukrainian land , zelenskyi noted and drew attention to the need to restart international institutions, organizations must respond to challenges faster and preferably preventively, zelenskyi emphasized, devastating consequences must already befall russia for the very fact of such a turn is the very fact of such rhetoric, only preventive actions can show that the world will not swallow anything and that the aggressor you will have to pay for all this, it is painful to do it now, act preventively, it means not to allow catastrophic damage, personal guarantee is still a preventive measure, the elected mayor of bila tserkva, the official is accused of fraud with real estate. to the prosecutor's detective and the court, upon each request , also to notify about departure from the kyiv region, change of place of residence and work, the validity period of the obligation is until november 23, 20

the vice president is a proud alumni of harvard university. one of our flag shape -- howard university, one of our flagship hbcu. she will clear the debt of 184 black borrowers -- one in four lack borrowers. she knows their stories. because our vice president cares, kids of all backgrounds with all different types of american stories know how big they can dream. the impact of that cannot be measured. if the matters. -- it matters. she has given hope to a grateful nation and able to find her leadership. kamala harris is for the people. she is making the calls, she knows what is at stake and she is fighting hard. we have to fight hard for her. it is my immense honor to introduce our special guest, please join me in welcoming the vice president of these united states, the honorable kamala harris. [applause] vice pres. harris: good morning, everybody. have a seat. you give me hope. it is so good to see these leaders under one roof at one time. i see so many friends. i want to thank you. jamie, i want to thank you. you have been such an incredible

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

and one of the principal investigators with harvard university's black hole initiative in the us state of rhode island. kimberly are canned a day to visualize or in science communicator. for nasa's chandra, x ray observatory. and in new york state j. hon cartel to pay an astrophysicist at the rochester institute of technology, where she studies the evolution and formation of galaxies. thank you so much for being with us beyond feeling very unaccomplished, after all those introductions. no, i'm joking. so many interesting burning questions here, really ok, but let's start with the most fundamental. kimberly, what is a black hole? well, i think a black hole is a really cool thing and it's a really interesting thing and a think of mystery. but in essence, i like to think of them as a dense compact object. his gravitational pull is so strong that within a certain distance of it, nothing, not even light can escape. and many of the black holes that we sort of now and love, i guess, or thought to be the result from the collapse of the very, very, very massive star as it sort of gets towards t

harvard law? >> , what like it's hard? >> jesse: hard is our nation's oldest college. also the most prestigious and often tops the ranking in u.s. news and world reports best universitiesht. 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. >> brian: stelter with an apple. i would think of other foods, you know, but tucker starts at 8:00 so we don't have time. i'm sorry i sound like gutfel

all working in the laboratory of david lu at harvard university, he invented continuous evolution , synthetic microbial ecosystem for rapidly evolving biomolecules. as a technology fellow, focused around the development of gene drive technology. many of his contributions related to the bioethics and biosafety of such gene drivers and first to describe how gene drives could be used to alter traits of wild populations in an evolutionary stable manner. in his recent work, he and his colleagues invented a new technology known as daisy drives, which led communities aiming to prevent disease alter wild organisms. through his career, he has been a champion of universal safeguards, transparency, raising scientific awareness of developing early warning systems to reliably detect any catastrophic biological threat and advising policymakers on how to best mitigate global catastrophic risk. >> ranking member paul, senators. inc. you for the kind invitation. i have no special invites regarding the origin of covid. -- evidence to be conclusive in one way or the other. our models suggest knowing where it ca

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

harvard university professor maya jasanoff, we will link to "mourn the queen, not her empire." university professor professor of cambridge author of , "insurgent empire: anticolonial resistance & british dissent." next up, no sacrifice zones. frontline communities rally in washington to protest centre manchin's mountain valley pipeline. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: to see lee bragg's performances, go to democracynow.org. as california faces a record breaking heatwave, climate activists joined indigenous and appalachian groups at a rally in washington, d.c., thursday to protest against the mountain valley pipeline. the protest came after president biden signed the $739 billion inflation reduction act which included major concessions to west virginia senator joe manchin, the biggest recipient of fossil fuel money in congress. one provision expedites fossil fuel permitting, including for controversial m.v.p., that's mountain valley pipeline. if built, the mvp will carry two billion cubic feet of fracked gas across more than 1000 streams and wetlands in appalachia, including

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. the

. >> you went to harvard university, most of these people are ivy league graduates.what are they doing here? >> all these guys are ivy league educated guys, when only went to the ivy league -- including me. but they're trying to do, is they're hiding their elitist credentials, because they think that's alienating and that's not going to get the maga crowd. so they're doing intentionally ignorant things. i mentioned the horse medicine thing, but ted cruz is mick making mr. potato head. the gender mister potato head is like the burning issue. it's really like he's trying to be kind of trump, light the way that trump used to take on was good on, and he's doing on mr. potato head. >> to me, you write a lot about steve bannon, he said on january 6th he was busy watching his hair, that's funny. but think about how smart and calculating steve bannon is, the fact that he is that smart, and presents himself the way he does, acts the way he does. is that not dangerous? >> you know, it can be. i think in a perfect world, or even in an imperfect world, the people we elect and th

while working at harvard university, dr. esvelt invented for age assisted continues evolution. or pa ac. a synthetic microbial system for a rapidly evolving by molecules. later, during his time as a wistful chronology fellow, esvelt focus centered around the development of gene drive technology. many of esvelt's contributions related to the bio ethics and biosafety of such gene drivers. he is credited with the first to describe how crisper gingrass can be used to alter the traits of wild populations in an evolutionary unstable manner. as we can work in the sculpting ablation group doctor esvelt and its technology created the new technology known as daisy drives. which black communities hoping to prevent or do these would enter wild organisms in local ecosystems. threat is career dr. asphalt has been a champion of universal safeguards, transparency, raising scientific awareness and about learning warning systems and reliably detect any catastrophic biological threats. advising policy makers on how to best mitigate global catastrophic viral risk. doctor esvelt? cher austin, ranki

we know the first book begun while he undergraduate at harvard university and published just a couple of years after the naval war of 1812. and that book was a highly technical and, very accurate recounting, not just of the battles themselves, but how the navy was structured and operated during that period of time that would go on to be required reading at the naval academy well into the century and. is today on the shelf of any self-respecting naval historian. we know that tr served as assistant secretary of the navy for president mckinley and that he resigned position to take a commission as lieutenant. second in command of the first volunteer cavalry regiment known as the roughriders. in that role, he was involved in the spanish-american war in cuba and leading the attack on kettle hill, part of the san juan heights. after the war, he was to the governor's office in, new york, and then to the vice president and c ascending to the presidency c when, as we all know, president mckinley was assassinated as president. tr the development of the navy supported reforms. the army that had b

to keep our nation secure in advance the study of national security is a senior fellow at harvard university's kennedy school of government west point center and madison policy form. still currently counselor global chairman of the geopolitical practice at beacon global strategy. we are so happy to have a pre-thank you so much for joining us. let's get right to it. the search and seizure at mar-a-lago has raised questions about what is at stake. or doubt why the search and seizure operation was even necessary if god help us better understand the questions surrounding the documents. i'm going to ask you first serious is that there are many very sensitive documents found in an unsecured location at the president's home and club? what are they? what do you think are the stakes here? books first, thanks for doing this. the short answer is it is both a very serious and unprecedented. a couple of overarching thoughts. one, very basic rule being a criminal defense lawyer is that you avoid getting dragged into the ongoing criminal conspiracy of the clients. which may have happened here. it's second, s

in history from harvard university. dr. nash is the author, the conservative intellectual movement in america since 1945, which is considered foundational work in its field. dr. nash is an authority on the life of president herbert hoover. between 1975 and 1995, he lived in iowa near the herbert hoover presidential library, where he prepared three volumes of the definitive scholar biography. under the general, the life of herbert hoover, he was commissioned for this project, the herbert hoover presidential library associate. when volumes one and two appeared in 1983 and 1988, he presented copies to president ronald reagan in oval office ceremonies in the white house. he is the editor. freedom betrayed. herbert hoover. secret history of the second world war and its aftermath and of the crusade. years 1933 to 1955. herbert lost memoir of the new deal and its aftermath and. independent scholar, historian and lecturer with specialties in 20th century american political and intellectual history. dr. speaks and writes frequently

manufacturing data out a few moments ago joining to break it down former chief economist at imf harvard universityain thanks very much for being here i want your take on what we're hearing this morning seems conflicting data retail up 3/10 of a percent manufacturing data negative new york fed manufacturing survey down 1 1/2, philly fed down 9.9, your thoughts what this tell us. >> definitely conflicting data on the whole if you look at output growth it is really slow, maybe even negative. on the other hand labor forces are red-hot i think only way to square circle we are in a productivity recession, product of growth just awful. >> productivity growth why do you think that is ken. >> well -- i mean some of it is coming out of the pandemic. there is more work from home, where people like it but probably produce less, makes effective wages higher than they seem. firms have to be more generous giving time off, et cetera, et cetera. not criticizing these things but they may grow -- some policies, about you know, fossil fuels such aren't doing a lot to contribute either. maria: i think you make such a

larry summers, the former treasury secretary and professor at harvard university. and tyler goodspeed, who is a fellow at the hoover institution. and it served at the cea in the trump administration. our panel today is on what have we learned and you can submit questions for the audience that we will get to later on on cato's webpage. you can send those on facebook, you can submit them on twitter, using the #cato and we will get to those questions after presentations from all of our panelists, which we will get to right now. and we will start with mervyn king, so lord king, over to you. mr. king: i am delighted to join you at the cato institute's 40th monetary conference. 40 years ago, we were coming out of the great inflation, when inflation reached double digits or higher. the lessons learned then would trigger macroeconomic policy issues, price stability and a sustainable fiscal position. microeconomic measures, such as tax and labor market reform should aim at improving the supply side. over the next 10 years or so after that, monetary policy was given the expl

allow families have the opportunity because the government -- look in 2020, you had a list from harvard university calling two homeschooling without school choice involvement. you might as well get a bigger coalition on our side to defend against those future calls for regulation by having more people to experience private education and homeschooling. when that happens society tends to have a more favorable view of things that a mormon stream. if you have more opportunities of private education, the likelihood of calls for regulation is lower. nine out-of-town kids are in government run schools today. the institutions are cranking out socialists that are going to vote for big government in the future. and you might as well allow for an escape hatch which is not perfect. it is better than what we have. we should join arms and fight together against any culture regulations going forward. [applause] >> there's no bigger skeptic of federal funding and the strings attached the me. as president of wyoming catholic college, we were told that the federal government cap that student loans and grants. we to

ufos ready to attack or are they protecting humans from nuclear apocalypse as trumpeter and harvard universityat do you think are seen in ukraine and why are they seeing these flurries of cosmic and phantom anomalies? >> i'm dubious about the protection because of the conflict zone it is a war zone and there's lots of things in the sky. in science we define the success of an experiment if there is very little noise if you can see the signal out of the noise, the worst place on earth to look at the sky for objects from outside of this earth is ukraine because there are a lot of drones from many different countries and i would be very hesitant to associate them with evidence of threats of russia. >> you like extraterrestrials. >> i do. >> you were publishing profound work about things you have seen and experienced, you got pushed back any pushback on the pushback, you are a skeptic but at the same time you know there are things that we cannot know. my friend mike baker is here and i think he has a question for you, he has also seen some things. >> i have and i know because your quotes before the

scientists from harvard university are now warning that a seismic threat is much greater than originallyught. the palace verdi's fault zone runs deep beneath the palace verdes peninsula and stretches nearly 70 miles along the coast of los angeles and orange counties mostly under water. experts believe that was a disjointed segmented network of smaller faults. but they have learned it is interconnected and that means it has the potential to produce of massive earthquake. 7.8, 45 times stronger than the devastating 1994 northridge quake. going to happen days. >> could be almost worse than it might get some 0.8 on the side of ball. it also runs close act. so covered the election alerts would stop. would be extensive damage to buildings in los >> we spoke with people in el segundo enjoying a night out for dinner. not far from a refinery. i don't really worry about it. but, you know, is a concern for sure. it will happen. it will happen sooner or later. there's no doubt about >> the way the earth moves, you know, i feel pretty safe in the building we live some of the older buildings i wouldn'