this is the fourth and final lecture of the society's 2015 lecture series. professor randy barnett will lecture this evening on the three narratives of slaughterhouse. before i proceed i'm asked to request of you you turn off all cellphones and all other electrical or electronic equipment because even in silent modes, they cause considerable interference with the sound system in the courtroom. and you can do that now. thank you. i would like to express the society's sincere gratitude to our hosts this evening, justice clarence thomas. justice thomas has been very generous and giving of his time to the society whenever we have called upon him. and i want to thank him for taking the time this evening to be with us. i remember a couple of years ago i heard a scholar describe the work of a supreme court justice as reading and reading and reading and then writing and then reading some more and then writing and then editing a little bit and then writing some more and then reading some more. and all of that takes time. when the society calls upon a justice to do so

after the class, the lecturers and students warm up with some hot soup.zgun feels encouraged by today's turnout. >> the government keeps trying to marginalize us, branding us as isolated cases. but here the people who have come to listen show me that i'm not alone, that i haven't committed a crime. >> after the lecture ozgun and her colleagues go to a cafe. they can't afford much more than tea since they lost their jobs. >> i get the equivalent of about 400 euros from the teacher's union. but that doesn't get me very far. i still have to pay off my mortgage. and how will i find a job? private schools aren't allowed to employ us either. i would be able to get a research grant from france or germany, but my passport has been confiscated. >> these academics may not be in jail like some others, but they do feel trapped. mehmet fatih tras couldn't deal with the situation anymore. the place where he used to sit in his local bar is empty. he would often come here with friends for a beer after work. the bartender knew him well. she says that toward the end he bec

so that's the theme of the lecture. and it really plays on what we've learned about since world war ii, right? america comes together during world war ii. what does fdr say that the world is about? anybody remember? the four freedoms, right? the two freedoms from something were the two freedoms for something. the society in the 1950s gets incredibly wealthy as we stop making bombs and start making frisbees and yet there are all of these rules, this conformity that people sense in the 1950s. remember we talk about that? and then starting in the 1960s, even early in the 1950s but comes to a head in the 1960s, all of the sudden people want to bust out of that box, right? they want to bust out of the contained society that has been successful in a lot of ways. 1950s with the richest society in the history of man kind. human kind, right? but a lot of people feel it's not quite spiritually satisfying. and the busting out of that, declaring their freedom from conformity or declaring their freedom from the onerous burden of bur

one man debate on the metal pot outside the lecture and eight big noise. the noise was audible inside the room distracting to speaker at times. while the protesters were forcing their opposition outside exercising the right to free speech inside we discussed some of the reasons why white america in the middle of the country voted for trump. murray broke up a few issues such as inequality among them that should've been of interest to his critics on the left. he invited his audience to take his famous bible quiz which also like to take a good you can google bobble quiz news hour and you can take it. to see how thick within your bobble is. i did take it and i have to shamefully confess that my number is very low, 12, so my bobble is a favorite talk about exclusive zip codes in which people live and how they contribute to the fragmentation of america. his 3 30 minute lectures followd by a 30 minute discussion moderated by every undergraduate at one of the two who had the courage to invite murray. each was given up in a paper and was invited to ask the question

tuesday night more lectures in history.this time we'll focus on religion and impact on american revolution. join us at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on c-span 3. c-span voices from the road. at the national conference of state legislature summit in boston. asking attendees what's the most important issue to your state. >> one of the biggest issue that's facing the great state of maryland is the issue a problem of juvenile justice. in the great state of maryland we have over 50 of our youth that are incarcerated for life without the possibility of parole. i'm going to be working very, very diligently with the legislature to put in place a bill that will allow for these juveniles to have a hearing. that is one of the biggest issues that we see facing us in the great state of maryland. the second has to do with opiates. the use of opiates in the state of maryland is killing our young people, our old people. it has no respect for age, creed, state -- i mean behavior, mental illness. all of these things are important, but opiate

we're honored to have as our lecturer, john sexton of nyu, whose topic tonig

not to give one measly lecture but 12 lectures, one night after the next. filled the hall every night. these lectures were later gathered together and published in his major book, elements of military art and science, which came out in 1846. now, keep in mind when that book came out, all these things that happened before, he is 31 years old. so he travels to -- he stayed in the army, travels. the mexican war comes, he travels to california. and sherman is one of his bunk mates on this terrible ride they have, waves, going up and down and et cetera. he didn't waste any time. everybody else is playing cards and all the rest. he's translating four novels. and he creates that four volume english version that you can still get if you like up here in 1864. and they were going to monterey, california. a very important area of the war. when he gets there, there's still fighting to be done. so he participates in some local level fighting. and he does very well. he's a very good, small unit commander. he also serves as secretary of state for the entire territory of c

thank you so much. ñ >> thank you, professor rosen, for an extraordinary lecture.how he could possibly get that much information into 50 minutes is astounding, and thank you for the reminder that our court remains a tool for bringing harmony out of dissonance. so we thank professor rosen for his extraordinary, careful scholarship and for terrific lecture this evening. about our great chief justice, john marshall. could i, we have a number of descendants of the great chief justice here this evening. could i ask all of the descendants to stand so that we can welcome them a special welcome? [ applause ] the society appreciates the contribution and participation of the john marshall foundation, and particularly its president, the reverend caroline smith-parkinson who will have a few comments at this time. >> we are so grateful to chief justice roberts and to the supreme court historical society for your generous and gracious hospitality as to we gather to celebrate this anniversary of chief justq8le john marshall. it's been a pleasure and an honor to partner with you i

you have to think back a few lectures, right? company towns were small towns that were more or less founded by companies and their workers, right? so button willow was a product of the miller luxe company. i actually mentioned the miller luxe to you in one of our earlier lectures. this was a company based on out of san francisco. in the 19th century, early 20th century, they owned much of the land and they raised cattle. my grandfather worked as an accountant for that company. that's the sum of the story of how my mother's family came to settle in the central valley. and again, they had a connection to agriculture. and i'll come back in a little bit, maybe say a little bit more about my grandfather. my father's side of the family, they were not displaced by the mexican revolution, but they migrated as railroad workers. so again, if you think back to some of our earlier lectures, when we talked about railroads, right, the growth of railroads during the industrial age, late 19th century, i mentioned that the railroads not only went

he started answering those questions at lectures. it kind of grew from there. of course it was not just a narrative of my experience of the subtitle life in the woods and so they had the publisher get rid of the subtitle eventually. it really wasn't just a narrative of what it's like to live out in the woods. it's obviously a more complicated book than that. there was walden the experience which was just two years, but walden the book was a much longer part trent project. it wasn't published until 1854 and went through several different drafts. in the interim they took up a new methodology of observation. he took up a new way observing the world, and a lot of that is reflected in the final draft of walden. it takes a little, it takes some intellectual exercise to pick apart those threads and figure out what it is hello he's up to while he's actually out here. walden was more successful than a week on the concorde in merrimack. the deal he made with his publisher for a week, which was the book he came to write was that if it didn't sell, he would pay for the pub

so i made the decision to skip the boring lectures and to spend that time lectures. so i made the school was a snap after that. when i went back to my medical school years later as the commencement speaker, i was looking for that advisor because i was going to tell him that he was not cut out to be an advisor. [laughter] [applause] sec. carson: but -- [applause] sec. carson: but both of those illustrations show you how important reading was to me. and you know, when i was confirmed in march, after being unanimously put through in january, i finally got to it in march, i am still the only senate confirmed a person at hud. even though we got to three yesterday, they do not start until next week. so i got five months by myself. but that is where the reading came in again. reading volumes and volumes of material, of all the things that the deputy secretary and assistant secretary are supposed to be telling you, and learning that stuff on your own. and more importantly, getting the corporation of the people who have been there -- and the cooperation of the people who've b

oh, jennifer, we're going to have to get this ready for our lecturer. he's had a variety of other important positions, including chair of the american council on education, president of the federal reserve bank of new york. be my guest. president of the american association of law schools. president of the new york academy of science. thank you. now it was 43 years ago that chief justice burger founded this society. and talk about warren burger, the man in the court and the society president, john sexton of nyu. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. it's a great honor for me to be here today. my first introduction to warren burger and to the society came at the same time. when i went just outside of this courtroom just downstairs to watch four films that the chief justice had created on four great john marshall cases. more on that later. let me begin. harold levinthal, david basilon. warren burger, three nobody including me would have predicted chief justice burger would have selected me. my references were an all-star li

but by speeches, and lectures. and blogs and books, by the power of ideas much more so than that of bullets. you guys know this you've been taught this. 1948, richard weaver told us ideas have consequences was the title of his book. you hardly even need to read the book read the title. ideas have consequences. ideas matter. few years after that, excuse me a few years earlier than 1948 hitler said let me control the text bock and i will control the state. and one said, we warn of where education can be used as a means of total power and control ideas clearly do have consequences. go ahead and evil people have recognized this. good ideas lead to good culture and good behavior and church and good corporations and good kids. bad ideas lead to the opposite. like your grandmother told you, garbage in garbage out. she was right. ideas hear the. matter and i would argue today that education is in a total mess colleges and universities are are in crisis. the contemporary university is no longer known for pursuing truth but

fortunate that he's giving us this lecture. he need those introduction and there is not an induction complete in the time allotted but let me touch on highlights if i may. he graduated with highest honor

they invited henry not to give one measly lecture, but to give 12 lectures one night after the next. filled the hall every night. these lectures were later gathered together and published in his major book elements of military art and science, which came out in 1846. keep in mind, he is 31 years old. 31 years old. so he travels to, he stayed and traveled to california and sherman is one of his bunk mates on this terrible ride they have, waives going up and down. they say he didn't west any time. everybody else is playing cards and all of the rest he is translating and napolian said he creates that volume you can still get if you would like. it i peered in 1964. so she not in the main part of the war, california, a very important area of the war. when he gets there there's still fight to be done. he participates in some local level fighting. he does very well. he is a very good small unit commander. >>> he also served as secretary of state after he becomes part of the united states he serves under several military governors. he is also collecting spanish man scripts, translating mexic

john r thompson delivered a lecture about his life and death.he helped popularize the theory that he was a victim of hooping. after his discovery he went to washington college hospital for four days. his dr. was john carter who wrote this account oppose final days. poe is delirious, in and out of consciousness not making any sense. he couldn't remember what had become of his luggage where was his change a close. why was he dressed in his other close. he seemed to lack any memory. then he started screaming the name riddle. we never figured out who reynolds was. and then you come down, his last words were lord help my poor soul. the dr. said it was a case of loss of nerve power. . . we know before he left richmond he'd been staying at the hotel on main street, but this trunk closed around in the tavern and people wondered for years why they have this trunk. it was a large piece so maybe he had a smaller piece to kerry with him to baltimore, so they had two trucks that they acquired it this and had a big legal battle that was his sister who was his

we established this lecture series in 2004 to spotlight legendary figures in aviation. and over the last 13 years, we have welcomed extraordinary individuals. but none of them has loomed larger in the history books then our program's namesake, john glenn. for many years, john glenn hosted these events. the last few years when they were unable to come in person, they were with us in spirit. senator glenn passed away in december after a lifetime of service to his country. he was a marine aviator and a veteran of two wars. the first american to orbit the year, a united states senator and a great friend. it is now up to us to carry on in his honor and celebrate his legacy of friendship and discovery. that is why we are here tonight. today would have been his 96 birthday. we had him for nearly a century and that still was not enough. fewughout history, americans have so perfectly era.ied the ideals of our and his example will continue to inspire for generations to come. wouldn'ting's program be possible without the generous sponsorship of boeing. --e to represent boeing is a

they delivered a lecture about his life, genius and death and he helped popularize it.he went to washington college hospital for four days. in the final days he was delirious in and out of consciousness talking to shadows on the wall not making any sen sense. where was his change of clothes. then he started screaming the name reynolds over and over again and we never figured out who he was. then he called down and his las words were bored help my poor soul. the doctor said it was a case of nerve power. newspapers at the time said everything from mania or a drug reaction to brain fever or congestion of the brain. the statistic at the time said per night s. which means inflammation of the brain and we don't really use any more symptombutthe symptoms are simio meningitis and encephalitis so that gives more theories about what could have happened but his doctor was emphatic saying he didn't appear to be drinking or suffering so then it raises the question what did kill him and at the time of his death but held most of the worldly possessions but he left it in richmond when

they invited henry halleck not to give one measly lecture and give 12 lectures one night after the next, filled the hall every night. these lectures were later gathered together and published in his major book elements of military art and science which came out in 1846. keep in mind, all these things that happened before, he is 31 years old. 31 years old. so he travels and the mexican war comes and he travels to california and sherman is one of his bunk mates on this terrible ride they have with waves going up and down, et cetera, say he didn't waste any time and everybody else is playing cards including sherman and reading novels and all of the rest and he's transforming volumes. napoleon from french to english and he creates that four-volume english version that you can still get if you'd like and that appeared in 1864. well, they were going to monterey, california so he's not in the main part of the war, but he's in california, a very important area of the war. when he gets there, they're still fighting to be done. so he participates in some local-level fighting, and he does very wel

going through the lecture title, and she reacted. and the reason was she knew the quote. she knew what it was from, and she had actually written about it before, and the conversation that we had and the essay she sent me, which was sort of a road map to everything she has been telling me i need to read, that caused me to sort of shift in this more biographical way in this talk instead of just using the essay that the quote comes from as a point of departure. and then i would like to thank david mccullen, if he's here. who has an article in the current diplomatic history that mark bradley -- ah, thank you. that mark bradley luckily told me about. and because of the article that i'll mention, i needed to go -- i had done a certain level of analysis, and i thought, okay, i need to go back and bump it up, build in the rest. you'll be able to manage it. and so it was really because of the article that i clarified and strengthened, sharpened the points that i'm going to be making today. so i really appreciate your work. they came just after dark, american war correspondent erni

i have the honor of watching his three massive dog when he is giving these lectures. in his 14 years as president of the university, dr. piper has become known for his passionates defense of intellectual freedom. he advocates tirelessly for cultural courage ground in the conservation of time, tested truths. commentary on religion, education and politics challenges the intolerance of today's academic community. at oklahoma wesleyan he type ofs students to follow four basic pillars. the otherwise op-eds are feed tour in the local and national news outlets and is regular guest on talk radio across the nation himself most well-known op-ed, this is not a daycare, it's a university, has since gone viral and is now the basis for his new book. a native of hillsdale, michigan, dr. piper and his wife and their two sons have served as oklahoma's west layn's first family since august of 2002. dr. piper participated in community some church and serves on a variety of councils and boards relating relate christian leadership, pock policy and community l. >>> nice to join you today.

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and i did not get anything out of the boring lectures. 6-8 hours a day i was listening to lectures. so i made the decision to skip the boring lectures and to spend that time reading and the rest of medical school was a snap after that. when i went back to my medical school years later as the commencement speaker, i was looking for that advisor because i was going to tell him that he was not cut out to be an advisor. [laughter] [applause] sec. carson: but -- [applause] sec. carson: but both of those illustrations show you how important reading was to me. and you know, when i was confirmed in march, after being unanimously put through in january, i finally got to it in march, i am still the only senate confirmed a person at hud. even though we got two through yesterday, they do not start until next week. so i got five months by myself. but that is where the reading came in again. reading volumes and volumes of material, of all the things that the deputy secretary and assistant secretary are supposed to be telling you, and learning that stuff on your own. and more importantly, getting

"lectures in history." tonight we'll take you to classes around the country lecturing on religion and its influence throughout history. >>> with the house and senate back in session on tuesday, september 5th, we're taking a look at the work the members of congress will be handling. the federal budget. tax reform. the debt ceiling. and health care. join us for a review of what's ahead for congress thursday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span and cspan.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> next on "lectures in history," jeffrey morrison, academic director of the james madison memorial fellowship foundation, teaches a class on the role of religion and the american revolution. he explores the meaning of words or phrases in the declaration of independence such as references to a creator, a supreme judge, and divine providence. he also highlights the importance of the great awak awakening, a protestant religious revival in the 1740s, that influenced many founding fathers. this class took place at georgetow

it was never a burner was always meant to be a rustic looking structure, but a lecture hall. when it comes to finances the all caps had a saying that they had the olcott thinking fun. it seems their finances got worse and worse. mr. olcott was not always paid well it wasn't that he wasn't working hard, says he was too innovative and sometimes people do not appreciate enough of what is doing. one time he said all promises were not always cap, i've opened up the way, i'll do better another time. he was always trying hard, not necessarily doing well financially. sometimes it meant that all the women in household were pitching in a way in that area was not considered ladylike. it was supposed to be the man doing all the earning and the woman just tidying up the housing cooking and cleaning and raising the children. they were a bit unusual financially that way. they were definitely struggling a lot of the time. here we are in the dining room. of course they took meals here. mrs. olcott's english china was sometimes a service use. this was their best china and the initial m was for

. >> american history tv is in prime time all week with our original series lectures in history. tonight we're focusing on latino history and the civil rights movement with lectures from colleges and university classrooms around the country. join us tonight in a little under an hour. next, u.s. air force academy instructor jeffrey copeland teaches a class on the american jazz musicians in after ka during the cold war. he argued that the foreign policy was to showcase america in a positive light and counter act the negative global press about u.s.-racial unequality. this class is about 55 minutes. >>> all right, jay. you're up. please get it started. all right. please have a seat.

every time you stand up and give a history lecture, you're giving lessons. they might be sophisticated, they might be qualified, they might be nuanced, but without history there wouldn't be the history professor telling the students what it all means. that when we crystallize things, we're pursuing a different vocation, right? this is not a history book in the sense that the reconstruction of nations or, you know, or -- [inaudible] secret war and the red prince or bloodlands or whatever are history books. it's not with a different vocation. but it's a little bit like, you know, the doctor who thinks he sees someone hit by a car. maybe he's not a surgeon. maybe he's not an emergency specialist. and maybe he was mistaken. maybe there wasn't actually an accident. but i think he should still run across the street, right? that's what i'm doing, i'm running across the street. it may turn out that i'm wrong, you know? it may turn out that the most interesting thing about this book is the forest of footnotes that his points -- historians will pin to it, but somehow

it was always meant to be a very rustic looking structure but a lecture hall. when it comes to finances, they alcott's as saying that they had the alcott sinking fund. it seems their finances got worse and worse and worse. mr. alcott was not always paid very well for what he was doing. it wasn't that he was working hard. it was that he was a little too unabated and sometimes people didn't appreciate what he was doing. one time very poignantly he said promises were not always kept. i had to buy a shawl but i able to better another time. he was always trying hard but not necessarily doing well financially. sometimes it meant that all the women in household were pitching in and away that in that era was not very lady like. was supposed to be the man who was doing out there earning and the women tidying up the house and cooking and cleaning and raising the children. they were a little bit unusual financially that way. here we are and that alcott dining room and of course they had meals here. mrs. alcott's china was sometimes the service use. this was their best chi

the lecture was not canceled as they asked them to do. we went on with the massive police protection offered by the police department. they worked very hard to make sure that the violence that have previously occurred it would not be repeated at indiana and it was not. the venue was carefully selected. it was limited to 150. they have the right to do that in the disagreement. they encourage students to get those and burn them afterwards so that the room would be close to empty. we felt about 80 seats. outside electoral hall they exercise their right to free speech. they shouted slogans like charles murray go away and there was an even better one. what we really need to do is to make him relevant again. he's always been a great student. another claimed that she was not interested in listening to someone who would normalize white supremacy. one them banked on that. outside the lecture room and made a big noise was audible inside the room distracting the speaker at times. they were voicing their opposition outside. exercising their right to

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we're not halfway through the lecture. we're halfway through the last part of the lecture. okay. good. so this is a tough one, because i don't really know how we could, this has vast ramifications. and they're hard to trace, hard to trap, because the progressive e era coincides with the nadir race relations. jim crow, installed after reconstruction ended. mexican-americans, many no-mexican signs around the southwest. the lowest population of indian people. complete federal authority over indian tribes. it's, chinese exclusion. alien land laws that keep japanese-american, japanese people, japanese immigrants, not japanese americans born in the unit, but japanese immigrant citizens not of the u.s. from owning land. anyway, you can go through quite a list of things that are not progressive. as we would use the word, but would be hard to count as progress. so that's the era of theodore roosevelt is not an impressive person, really. he did have booker t. washington come to the white house. he did make some efforts, but he clearly was a person who thought white women should be having m

and you sponsor these lectures like the leon silverman lecture. and leon used to give very long introductions to the introducer too, i remember that. leon was terrific. and i'm so glad they've named this lecture series after him. this is a series called -- that has four parts. this is part two of the four parts on the court and the progressive era. now, tonight's event is a panel discussion. the panelists are randy barnett and paul kens and victoria north. the three of you will discuss. who are these people, as you probably know, paul kens is a professor of political science at texas state university. he frequently writes on subjects involving legal history, constitutional history, the history of law in the american west. he's written many books including lochner versus new york. justi justice stephen field. he was from california, and he had a very colorful career shaping liberty from the gold rush to the gilded age. and chief justice from 1874 to 1888. now, randy barnett is the car mack waterhouse professor of legal theory at the georgetown univ

tonight we'll have more lectures in history and prime time. tonight we'll focus on the 1950s, with programming on the korean war, pop culture and the development of suburbs across the country, join us right here at 8:00 eastern right here on cspan 3. >> sometimes we agree on something on both sides of the aisle in this body because there's nothing to it. it's national peaches week or something, and everybody's for that. when it's something big, and when it's something consequential, that's where difficulties begin to emerge. >> congress returns from its summer break on tuesday. and among the list of issues on their plate, racing the debt ceiling, tax reform and federal spending, which includes funding the federal response to hurricane harvey. we'll have a detailed look at the congressional agenda for the fall tonight. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern on cspan. >> at 8:00 jonah goldberg. >> conservatives shouldn't place all of their hopes in any politician. they say this over and over and over again, that you should have a healthy distrust of any po