we don't talk in our studio with maryana boujeren, she is a nuclear security researcher at harvard universityf russian nuclear weapons in crimea, to what extent is this a matter of principle in view of the future intentions of ukraine, but not the intentions but the longings of ukraine to liberate crimea, i.e. are there weapons there or not? for us, it is a question of principle whether or not nuclear weapons, please, this is of course an important question when conducting a planning operation. i personally think that on a permanent basis, on a permanent basis there there are no nuclear weapons, there really are carriers of nuclear weapons, well, they can be dual-purpose, and in the end, any aircraft court 24 is designed to deliver an atomic bomb to any eh, any eh iskander or caliber and theoretically can carry a nuclear begaloka although i have not heard that they have been reliably tested somewhere for carrying a conventional one, there are ammunition specifically ammunition for calibers and iskanders, but i am not sure that they have not been freely tested, so i think that well of course h

look at the next phase of the war with steven wall, professor of international relations at harvard university and author of the hell of good intentions, american foreign policy lead and the decline of us primacy. steve, it's so great to be with you. again, this is always a tough discussion. i want to tell people none of us take what's going on lightly. but i'm very happy to be talking to dr. walt today about what history tells us at moments like this. what, what should we be thinking about that maybe we're afraid to talk about about where the ukraine is. a war is going, steve. well, i think probably the scariest prospect for most of us is that you won't get the site kind of decisive hollywood ending. but many people would like to see here. i think most of us would like to see where you get sort of decisive humiliating defeat of russia. the united states and its allies can claim, you know, a great foreign policy victory, the ukrainians, get all of their territory back. and russia is a chassis and in the future by this that's, i think what many people would like to see. and the problem is that

harvard is the richest university in the world. ing we as a matter of principle will not accept contributions from donors who insist on violating academic freedom. they are not making that statement. right now they are lying low and leaving us to have to surmise it was the kind of donor pressure that led to this cancellation of my fellowship an undermine academic freedom. i hope harvard takes this as an opportunity to clarify that donor preferences never will be allowed to violet academic freedom. but their silence so far says the opposite. amy: there was an interesting op-ed in the new york times in august headlined of a good has the fight against anti-semitism lost its way?" he said -- talk about who these jewish organizations are. do you think they had anything to do with what happened to you? in your own background, your family in relation to the holocaust. >> first of all, me personally, am jewish. my father grew up in nazi germany and fled in july 1938 to the united states. i grew up hearing hitler stories. it is sort of what

the teamed up with harvard university to publish the study about exxon mobil. he told us what exxon knew about global warming, but failed to reveal. well, we examined some internal papers as well as technical journal publications by some scientists since the 1970s, which the internal papers have come to lives in 2015 through journalistic investigations. and we analyzed the computer simulations of future warming in response as a result of fossil fuels. learning that the excellent scientists presented and we compared these climate projections to observations and the projections were that there would be a warming by 0.2 degrees celsius per decade. which is pretty much exactly what happened and of course they predicted that before there was any observational evidence that there was even long. so you mentioned that the papers came to light in journalistic work. exactly. how did your you and your colleagues though, uncover these details when these papers are in the public domain and my colleagues from have a science historians and they have in the past, published abo

brant has taught at harvard university, boston architectural college and the university of maryland. he is a senior advisor and adjunct associate professor at the university of pennsylvania's center for the preservation of civil rights sites and an adjunct at columbia university's graduate program in historic preservation. and if that weren't enough, i've also had the pleasure of traveling the country with brant for the last five years where he's developed a board building preservation leadership training that empowers african-american historic sites and museum board of directors. he is one of the most humble and down to earth people you will ever meet who has first name basis with people like phylicia rashod and everybody i can think of in the preservation space. it was like just just a number, great contacts, but also down to earth, enough to do cha cha slide at triple-a conference with the and always just a delight to have. so please welcome brant legs. well, good afternoon to you guys. hear me? we all hear me. oh, now you do. let's just test this. is anyone a graduate? the real h

brian hochman is our guest, he's the author of the book, the listeners, from harvard university press. came out earlier this spring. with us and here to take your phone calls. phone lines, as we had last segment, regionally. if you're in the eastern or central time zones it is (202) 748-8000. if you're in the mountain or pacific time zones, (202) 748-8001. that's the number to join the conversation. we will take this until 10 am eastern. page five of your book, you write this. that wiretapping was once a dirty business, as supreme court justice all over wendell holmes jr. famously characterized it more than 90 years ago. now, it's a standard investigative tactic, indispensable in the detection of crime and essential to the protection of national security. how did we get from there to here? how do you answer that question? >> it takes a whole book to explain it. but this is the central story that the book tells, how it is that wiretapping goes from a tactic that's associated with criminals, conman, dirty unethical characters, too acceptable, legally acceptable if controversial tactic u

he's the author of the book the listeners from harvard university press came out earlier this spring with us and here to take your phone calls, phone lines, as we had last segment regionally. so if you're in eastern or central time zones, it's 202748 8000. if you're in the mountain pacific time zones,. 202748 8001 is the number to join the conversation. we'll take this till 10 a.m. eastern. page five, your you write this that wiretapping was once a dirty business as supreme court justice. oliver wendell holmes jr famously characterized it more than 90 years ago. now it's a standard investigative tactic in indispensable in the direction in the detection of crime and essential to the protection of national security. how did we get from there to here? how do you answer that question? well, it takes a whole book to explain it, but this is the central story that the book tells how it is that goes from a tactic that's associated with criminals and con men, dirty, unethical characters to an legally acceptable, if times controversial tactic used in the protection of crime, the protection of

brent is a harvard university fellow and author of preserving african-american historic places, which is considered the seminole publication of preserving african and american historic sites by the institution. brent is also a national leader in the u.s. preservation movement and in 2018 receive the robert g stanton national preservation award. his passion for elevating the significance of black culture in american history is visible through his work which elevates the remarkable stories and places that evoke centuries of black activism, achievement and community. and over the past decade he has developed the northeast african-american historic places outreach program and sing the business of preservation to build a regional movement, of preservation leader saving important landmarks in african-american history. brent has taught at harvard university, boston architectural college and the university of maryland.. he is a senior advisor and adjunct associate professor at the university of pennsylvania's center for the preservation of civil rights and adjunct professor at columbia univer

and from the world of historical literature, ty miles, a professor at harvard university, one mcgill university's condole history prize for her book, all that she carried, the journey of actually sap. a black families keepsake. that is about the seventh major award that all that she carried has one. and here are some other notable books of 2022. amazon's best nonfiction books list includes beth mead seeds raising lazarus, which continues her award-winning look at the opioid and drug crisis facing the u.s.. also on that list is scientist david -- breathless, which chronicles the fight to trace and create a vaccine for covid. and mark bergen's like, comment, subscribe, about the creation of, youtube it's also on amazon's list. here's a portion of a recent top mr. bergin gave for book tv. >> so, i have been covering kabul since 2015, then it became alphabet. really, it's an expanding business conglomerate empire. during that time, youtube, it's media division, became increasingly important for the company's bottom line. and also became increasingly important for the company's political

and from the world of the store go literature, a professor at harvard university one mcgill university's condoled history prize. for her book, all that she carried. the journey of ashley sap. a black families keepsake. it's about the seventh major award that all that she carried has one. and here's some other notable books, of 2022, amazon's best nonfiction book list, includes beth may seem raising lazarus. aren't winning what on the opioid enjoyed crisis facing the u.s.. . which chronicles the fight to trace and create a vaccine for covid. mark bergen's white comment subscribe about the creation of youtube is on amazon's laws. here's a portion of a recent talk he gave a book tv. >> so, i've been covering since 2015. it became an alphabet, and it's expanding business conglomerates, empire and during that time on youtube, it's media division. it came important for the company's bottom line. it also became an increasingly -- political hurdles. and some other major business problems in the past seven years, so during the time i was reporting on the crises and the issues and parent company i

he's hold jb and degrees from harvard university, several from oxford, and received u.s. presidential citizens a metal and princeton university president award for distinguished teaching. and what are my things about robby is the compassion with which he deals with people whom he's had very deep and profound disagreements. i've seen an action on more than one occasion. an hour beloved brother cornell west professor of philosophy in christian human theological seminary pretty also held the endowed chair class of 1943 professor of african-american studies at princeton university. practice of public philosophy in the divinity school on the department of african and african-american studies at harvard university. he graduated magna cum laude in eastern studies from harvard in three years, as mam phd in philosophy at princeton. he is the author of hundreds of books, chapters, essays and in 2021 he won a grammy award along for this year's best latin jazz album. he has a deep commitment to the legacy of trayvon martin luther king jr. i recently was invited to give the same known

>> ever since he was a little boy, about seven years old, matthew's goal has been to attend harvard universitye if that lifelong dream would come true. [screaming] >> complete shock, and celebration, as they would accept it flashed across the screen. >> i think it was one of the rest all >> matthew has cerebral palsy, so as he explains, he does not just work hard academically, but physically. >> i can do what i want to do. >> ever since he was a little boy, about seven years old, matthew's goal has been to attend harvard university. last month, he locked on to see if that lifelong dream would come true. [screaming] >> complete shock, and celebration, as they would accept it flashed across the screen. >> i think it was one of the best moments in my life. >> his twin, madeline, called it one of the best moments of her life as well. >> i get so excited every time we get to talk about it. >> she says proud is an understatement. >> because, obviously, matthew worked so hard for this. >> the video of the twins reacting has now been viewed millions of time. matthew, not a fan of the spotlight, was no

these five graduate four and the f degrees from harvard university, degrees for receipt us presidential medal and princeton university's presidential award for the teaching. what love my favorite things robbie is the compassion with which he deals with people with whom he has profound disagreements and i've seenit in action on more than one occasion . our beloved robert cornell west is the house professor of philosophy and theological seminary and also the chair class of 1943 professor of african-american studies at princeton university 's former professor of the practice of public philosophy divinity school studies at harvard university. he graduated magna cum laude from harvard in three years, obtained his phd in philosophy at princeton. he's the author of hundreds of books, essays and in 2021 he was grammy award along awith arturo fehr for the year's best laughing jazz album. we have a deep commitment to the legacy of martin luther king jr. and gave the same gifford lecture in scotland. robert cornell's love for jazz is legendary and it's only equaled by his d passion for justice and

dares to compare the iraq war with the russian and asian of ukraine is viciously denounced. harvard university even had a, a debate in which the debate was whether the iraq or can be considered a humanitarian intervention. a debate. suppose that moscow university had a debate on whether the russian invasion can be called a humanitarian intervention. can you imagine the reaction in the west? what's the reaction in the worst would happen at or a close look at the openness of american society. they're even willing to question whether this military intervention was a humanitarian intervention. oh, well, that manufacturer consent. let me give in explicit example. recently, there were couple articles in the mainstream press saying, there is no some skepticism arising about whither russia was really responsible for the sabotage of the nurturing pro pipe lunch. restaurants can stop you there more from one of the world's greatest and most cited public intellectuals after this break. ah, ah, ah, ah, with a ah, ah, a pussy housing, puerto organizing police calarino, starting with the perversity sisters t

and from the world of historical literature, tie a myles, a professor at harvard university, one mcgill university history prize for her book, all that she carried, the journey of actually sack, a black families keepsake. the seventh major award that all that she carried has one. and here are some other notable books of 2022. amazon's best nonfiction books list includes beth macy's raising lazarus with continues the award-winning look at the opioid and drug crisis facing the u.s.. also, scientist david romans breathless, chronicling the fight to create a vaccine of covid. what like, comment, subscribe by mark bergen. >> i have been covering google since 2016 and then it became alphabet, and really it's an expanding business conglomerate and empire. during that time, the youtube media division became increasingly important for the company's bottom line. and also became increasingly important for the company's political hurdles. in some of the major business problems in the past seven years. i was reporting on a lot of the major crisis that youtube and its parent company dealt with. fire

a harvard university even had a, a debate in which the debate was whether the iraq or can be considered a humanitarian intervention. a debate? suppose that moscow university had a debate on whether the russian invasion can be called a humanitarian intervention. can you imagine the reaction in the west? what's the reaction in the westwood up and at, or a close look at the openness of the american society. they're even willing to question whether this military intervention was a humanitarian intervention. oh, well, the manufacturer can shed, let me give in explicit example. recently, there were couple articles in the mainstream press chain. there is no some skepticism arising about whither russia was really responsible for the sabotage of the nord stream pride plate, lunch. professor trump's gal, stop you that more from one of the wells greatest and most cited public intellectuals after this break. ah ah, ah, a, it will not be forced to work on. it will not be on any kind of free legal power ever seen before that you not, you have to take that by force. a big for case of ah ah ah oh oh, w

erica chenowich which a harvard university she and many others are saying that the violence came mostly from the culture of violence from antifa from looters, from anarchists. and i've talked to those such people for 20 or 30 years up and down the west coast and the nonviolent struggle allows for a conversation that is authentic that gets to the heart of the matter, to the soul of the matter and allows us to make progress while it retains its humanity and its inclusive compassion for itself and for all others, for all the neighbors at, incintally, is the heart of good religion. given all the tension we see in the world and the divisiveness, why is the philosophy of nonviolence still important to talk about this moment? well, we continue to see racial injustice. you see unarmed black people being shot by the police. you see people in power using that power to find new ways to disenfranchize the poor. you see communities of color being targeted by those who hate. it's very easy to have that same emotional response to wanting to do something reactive that is violent. but we have to remembe

in fact, harvard university's hutchins center for african and african american research found evidenceexact opposite. american public education has a long history of teaching white supremacy. our special correspondent joie chen has more on textbook racism in the classroom. joie: ralph waldo emerson. walt whitman. elizabeth cady stanton. noah webster, the dictionary webster. all great writers we think of as "progressive." but a closer look at their writings, and those of many others, finds shocking ties to the ideals of white supremacy. donald: they're all using the same kind of language and describing and dismissing people of african descent. all of them. joie: but wait, i mean, ralph waldo emerson? walt whitman? donald: it's -- it's stunning. joie: that's donald yacovone, historian and author of a new book, "teaching white supremacy," who recognizes that what he's got to say sounds like heresy. donald: it wasn't intended that way. i didn't even know i was doing that until it happened, but it is an assault on the way we understand our culture and ourselves. joie: yacovone was deep into

congratulations friends with you vitaliy portnikov and our interlocutor today historian professor of harvard universityiy plakhi, we are having this conversation as part of our joint project with the international center of sovereign nations, reconstruction of the truth, etc. by the way, i want to start our conversation with this, mr. serhiy, because history, in fact, is always a question of the reconstruction of the truth, especially when it comes to history of a country like ukraine, because i always had the impression that ukrainian history was not written by those specialists who generally perceived ukraine as something separate and whole that hmm, you could say millions for 100 years, ukrainians have perceived their country and even their civilization as a part of other civilizations, first of all, of course , russian civilization, and what do you think of these 300 days, er, 300 days of war? they are changing the attitude of ukrainians to their history and the world to the history of ukraine - first of all, thank you for the invitation to this conversation, it is extremely nice to be in your stud

at teamed up with harvard university to publish the study about exxon mobil. he told us what exxon knew about global warming, but failed to reveal. well, we examine the some internal papers as well as technical journal publications by exxon scientists since the 1970s, which are the internal papers have come to lives in 2015 through journalistic investigations. and we analyzed the computer simulations of future warming in response as a result of fossil fuels. learning that the excellent scientists presented and we compared these climate projections to observations and the projections were that there would be a warming by 0.2 degrees celsius per decade. which is pretty well exactly what happened. and of course they predicted that before there was any clear observational evidence that there was even blown. let's have a look now at some other stories making headlines around the world today. so it is climate active as great. a tumor has appeared at protests and germany against the demolition of a village being clear to allow open cast coal mining. to criticize the

interesting and remarkable ukraine is fully justified as the gate of europe, a convinced professor of harvard universityii plohii, and the author of the book of the same name, sometimes when the gate was closed due to him or conflicts, ukraine helped to stop foreign novels from the east and west, when it was opened, as happened most often in ukrainian history, it ruled behind the bridge between europe and asia, promoting the exchange of people, goods and ideas, a surge of interest in books about the past of ukraine in our bookstores, because ukrainian history is full of instructive lessons that are worth to know like a multiplication table is the exploits and betrayals of maneuvering between allies and enemies and these we took away very quickly and even a year ago these shelves were not as intertwined as they are now mostly young people how interesting this history of ukraine is surprisingly and a lot of elderly people came to us a few old people who, well, can barely see, but they say, please, we need history books about the history of ukraine. we want to know everything from a to z in order to unders

climate scientist at the potsdam institute for climate impact research that teamed up with harvard university to publish the study about exxon mobil. he told us what x on knew about global warming, but fail to reveal well, we examined some internal papers as well as technical journal publications by some scientists since the 1970s, which are the internal papers have come to live in 2015 through journalistic investigations, and we analyzed the computer simulations of future warming in response as a result of fossil fuels. learning that the excellent scientists presented and we compared these climate projections to observations and the projections were that there would be a warming by 0.2 degrees celsius per decade, which is pretty well exactly what happened. and of course, they predicted that before there was any clear observational evidence that there was even blown. the german and french foreign ministers have called on the african union to condemn russian aggression in ukraine and elena bab, oak and catalina colonna are on a joined visit. teeth yoga, but their calls for solidarity against r

it's 2 per climate impact research that published the study about exxon mobil. together with harvard university stuff. i'm good to see you. tell us a little more about what the study and what the study says and what exactly exxon knew about global warming and didn't reveal well, we examine for some internal papers as well as technical journal publications by exxon scientists. since the 1970s, which are the internal papers have come to lives in 2015 through journalistic investigations. and we analyzed the computer simulations of future warming in response as a result of fossil fuels burning, that the excellent scientists presented the ad. and we compared these climate projections to observations and the projections were that there would be a warming by 0.2 degrees celsius per decade, which is pretty well exactly what happened. and of course, they predicted that before there was any clear observational evidence that there was even long. so you mentioned that the papers came to light in journalistic work. exactly. how did your you and your colleagues though, uncover these details? one of these pap

unite and survive all this for a certain time. bodzherin, a nuclear security researcher from harvard university us. thank you for your participation, and now we will watch a small article about diplomatic successes of ukraine in the 22nd year, about diplomacy, we have already started a little, let's develop this topic, then we will return to the studio since the beginning of russia's full-scale attack on ukraine, partners did not believe that we would put up and with the first victories of the armed forces of ukraine , the position of western leaders has changed, now ukraine is fighting against russia with nato -standard weapons, foreign countries provide billions of dollars of support, and president zelensky is called the leader of the free world, the anti-russian coalition has more than 50 of the countries of the world that support ukraine and condemn the russian aggression, that is how many countries took part in the defense of the rammstein meeting for the comparison of 1943 the anti-hitler coalition was supported by 51 countries rammstein 8 will be held in january according to the plan, se

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and the harvard university showed very clearly that a exxon was cheating. exxon was a lying and exxon was basically suppressing the science which i had funded starting in mind in seventy's to look as a kind of plat, pleasurable exercise or entertainment to look into what the climate would do if it keep on burning fossil fuels. and when, once it turn out that the scientists are very clear, very precise murray, science based, they set, oh, holy cow. and i dismissed the scientists. they closed the unit and tried to press all that knowledges and all the documentation. there was no publication apart from the staff which was then recovered later on as to partners to set before the 100 documents, which were then analyzed by scientists to show that the exxon scientists and which were working in acts on part of exxon had done exactly what other scientists had been doing in the intake government or pedal on climate change, not, not answer on themselves as on themselves. said that those who talk about x or knowing a wrong and that these papers, a 150 papers also have been made available to the p

and one of the principal investigators with harvard university's black hole initiative in the us state of rhode island. kimberly are canned a data visualization 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 accomplished after all those introductions. now i'm joking. so many interesting burning questions here, really, 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 thing 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 know 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 the end of

i'm joined by bill hanage, who's associate professor at harvard university from the chan school of publicrogramme, to sketch her thoughts on this, china heading back to the criticism in terms of hours managing covid—19 right now, how transparent do you think the authorities are being? i don't think they're being particularly transparent right now it all. there are many reasons why dents might be comparatively low right now and relatively at the beginning of the outbreak, it takes a her debts to filter through the of some of the strictest definitions of what a covid—19 death is in the world. and there are reasons why i might be lower than the actual number but this is really implausibly low given will be at in places, including hong kong. do you see any sense in the way that there managing covid—19, do you think you may change? there are many reasons why it will change, definitions of her time, for instance, you often need to be careful to distinguish between death from covid—19 and death of covid—19 we have a lot of disease around. and it's also true that the way they've been managing up