certainly, that is programatically, the thing driving the gap between spending and revenues. but if you keep doing that, as anyone who has tried to live off a credit card knows, that is going to be a problem for the federal budget. and so the low teaser rates we are experiencing now on federal debt that is allowing us to take on this new debt without interest going up substantially. that is kind of a one-shot deal. i do not think -- i appreciate the point that we got through the last 20 years without catastrophe. there are a lot of things that happened that are not going to happen again. we have kind of run out of time for us boomers. i wish i had that 20 years back. i felt better years ago. i would not say in 1994, i could do this, this, and this. i do not think we will be able to do the same stuff 20 years from now. we need to look at our country as an aging population. and look at the things we can do as a nation if we get our fiscal house in order. for the candidates, what we have to tell them is the debt is your running mate. you are stuck with it. it is going to be ther

certainly, that is problematically -- programatically, the thing driving the gap between spending and revenues. but if you keep doing that, as has tried to live off a gregoire knows, that is going to be a problem for the federal budget. so that is allowing us to take on this new debt without interest going up substantially. that is kind of a one-shot deal. i do not think i appreciate the point that we got through the last 20 years without catastrophe. there are a lot of things that happened that are not going to happen again. we have kind of run out of time for us boomers. i wish i had that 20 years back. i felt better years ago. i would not say in 1994, i could this, and this. i do not think we will be able to do the same stuff 20 years from now. we need to look at our country as and aging population. do look at the things we can as a nation if we get our fiscal house in order. for the candidates, what we have to tell them is the debt is your running mate. you are stuck with it. it is going to be there when you raise your hand and take the oat ofh office. it will be at your first cab

guest: there is attitude change that is associated with different programatic method.someone has been educated more about sexual violence in a way that is in con sonant with the research some attitudes are likely to change. but most of the public hasn't had good strong research-based education about sexual violence. now, did rape occur in the '20s and '30s? of course, it did. absolutely. my guess is that the raise weren't a whole lot different than they are now. it's just there was even more reticence to report what happened and less likelihood that a perpetrator would be held accountable. now, today, perpetrator accountability is still em embarrassingly low. we need to do a better job on that. we can only confidently discuss that which we have good data about and the better data started in the '80s. host: where is the u.s. congress on this matter, professor? guest: there are a couple of senators who i think have been helpful, kirstin jillibrand and claire mccaskill and senator blumenthal have begun to push colleges to address the issue of sexual violence to a much gre