i would read posner's compendium of holmes' writings. c-span: this is richard posner from chicago? >> guest: yes, richard posner. c-span: the judge? >> guest: the judge. i don't think i would read landis or hayek. they go on too long. havel is brilliant on this subject. vaclav havel understands how anti-human western democratic structures have become, and every year or so he'll write an op-ed article warning us against the effects of rationalism, the idea that we can figure everything out in advance and lay it out in a government structure and in a law. havel is wonderful on the subject. c-span: here's what the book looks like. its called "the death of common sense," and our guest is philip k. howard. we thank you very much for joining us. >> guest: thank you.

of vigil tonight for a good samaritans that was shot and killed earlier this week parris john paul posneretter known as brother john he was handing out food to the homeless when he and his wife and children were shot >> i open my eyes and saw all the blood on the window and i saw my husband there was the bullet in his head the three-year-old got shot in her arm and came on her back and did she was still asleep. i had pain in my arm and there was no hole in my sweater i reached in to my shirt and discovered i was shot in the arm the bullet is still there-i was praying and pray and then i heard the band go alway by as the children if they were all right there were all excited i told them to be quiet i was shaking my husband he was breathing i thought he was ok. he was my best friend he was the only friend i had >> no suspects have been arrested >> more than a thousand people are expected to pay their respects at to a marin county sheriff's deputy this service starts at 11 icam catamaran at a veterans auditorium. delays are expected because of it processional highway 11 may have severe backu

across other our countries in order to weaken israel in the worst posner civilization supremacy and volumes of the mind set on us that are very carefully signals west wants from especially you. and i must say that they do not wish us well. and you can see the full interview with syria's deputy foreign minister in about twenty minutes time. dialogue between nato and russia on european security is not moving as quickly as had been hoped that it was after the meeting with the alliance in the black sea resort of sochi be sure has become a stumbling block since the alliance turned down a russian proposal to unite in defending europe. nato plans to deploy missiles close to russian borders as a direct threat to its own security presence preventive also mentioned again his concern that the coalition is overstepping the security council's mandate and libya however both sides have praised joint efforts and battling the drug problem in afghanistan saying their cooperation is showing signs of success. that's ahead for you this hour monitoring the eurozone debt crisis that's at the top of the christine

chronological order, this is something that is not new, what is that office that it would also ask michael posneras the assistant secretary for democracy, labor and human right and will ask the secretary herself, although i doubt you'll make her wait up to capitol hill. she really does, to answer this question. and westminster response, if any, because to the best of my knowledge, this has been a nonissue. and that oversight has to in and asked in here today. chairman will? [inaudible] >> mr. wolf, thank you for that. as i noted earlier come in three senses of the typical, the use of the word allegation or alleged is used i believe five times. so there's less than a committed interest. >> what number do you believe we're talking about? how many individuals would we be talking about per year are made over the last 10 years? if it's one it's too many. can you give me what the numbers that you believe this may very well be? i'm at a disadvantage. i saw one monastery, 45. when i was there, some of the coptic christians raised this issue. that's what i said they should be one of the things when foreig

if you say that to judge posner, there will give you a stern talking to to explain that whether or not i wrote the opinion or defended from the case, it makes no difference whatsoever. anyone is capable as i am to understand what that decision means and that is the truth. i subscribe to that view. the judges within the fourth circuit can educate the lawyers as to the proper way of arguing to judges. the problem with pandering or ingratiating is not solved by releasing the identity of the judges on the day of the oral argument. as i wrote in one of my columns, if judges do know what the lawyers to pander or argue depending on who they are, they can sit behind a screen and have their voices distorted electronically as though they are mafia testifying before congress. the answer to this problem is not simply to identify the judges on the morning of the oral argument. if the judges do not want the lawyers to know who wrote opinions, the court could decide to issue opinions as a decision the way the u.s. supreme court supposedly once did way back when. in order to level the playing field, t

reveal their identity, that lawyers go in there and try to do that, and if you say that to judge posner they give you a stern talking to right away. anyone on the court is equally as capable as i am to understand what that decision means, and that's the truth, and i totally subscribe to that view, and i think that's the judges within the 4th circuit to educate the lawyers as to the proper way of arguing to judges, and that's the problem with pandering or ingratiate is not solved by releasing the identity of judges in the oral argument. as i wrote for the philadelphia legal newspaper, if judges don't want the lawyers to pander or argue, they can sit behind an opaque screen and have their voices distorted lek tropically as -- electronically as if they are mofia testifying in front of congress. the answer to the problem is not to identify the judges on only on the morning of the oral argument. in fact, if the judges don't want to lawyers to know who wrote opinion, the court can issue all decision z as a procuriam. in order to level the playing field to allow lawyers to prepare in the best