i'm sorry the voice of rachel carson is still today.l and this moment. >> there were all of these things that were beginning to affect human health. we had cities in america increasingly having to call smog alerts. we had rivers catching on fire. in the santa barbara oil spill, it became clear that even the very richest cities were going to be exposed to massive environmental threats. >> the drilling continues and so do the leaks. and the question here is not whether it will happen again but when and how bad will it be. >> issue after issue kept piling up. >> there is a building sense that we are stakeholders in the environment, that it is something that we humans can rule in. this is a real shift in our thinking. >> people were really worried. and the political establishment started to respond. >> without the environmental movement coming out of the '60s, we would not have a clean air act, clean water act. i mean, there was a wave of legislation that emerged in the immediate aftermath. >> we have not been inactive these last four years

people like rachel carson, james jacobs. it was the golden age. these were big bestsellers. idea was you would take intellectual risks, you were not confined within an academic discipline with rigour and intellectual language. they were big and ambitious and sidney hook was a part of that. he wrote a book about the leader in history. they attracted big readerships if you look at the bestseller lists in those days. we do not have that as much today. i think in part because we are not audacious enough, not willing to take risk, worried about getting it wrong. sidney hook went to -- i do not know if he went to city college or not. brian lamb: he did. david brooks: it is rare to find people that have done that. brian lamb: talk about when you do your thinking. david brooks: one advantage is i went to the university of chicago. the joke is that it is a baptist school where atheist professors teach jewish students. reading people that you disagree with, as a columnist i do not think it is my job to tell people what to think, it is to give them a context in which to think. so they

and another region mlk and rachel carson mlk destroying the kpet ipgs. -- competition. and j.k.hen losing to mlk and then marie winning over speelielberg and he beats oprah and so who the ultimate genius? voting is live now at msnbc.com/genius. you can vote lennon and mccartney versus jobs and next week the voting for the ultimate genius will take place. >> a lot of men voting there. i'm noticing a lot of men. that is very interesting and we look forward to the results of that. thank you, steve, and watch up with steve kornacki every weekend at 8:00 a.m. >>> and who are the greatest minds in modern history and you can tell us or creating a bracket and joining the debate and there are the four rounds and cast your vote at msnbc.com/genius showdown. and next week we'll show more on the genius. >>> and house of cards, genius and everybody can find out whether everything is good under the president and glimpse a look at the band pussy riot. and what is going on between him and his house chair. >> what do you want? >> i want to be on the ticket as v.p.? >> what you are asking is disp

. >> martin luther king and rachel carson, it's a landslide. j.k.owling, and phillip roth rowling makes that. i want to see where you match up. i'm sure you would be at the top somewhere. >> i should say quickly, there is one more marie curie, the final one in the final four. those are the final four we're asking people to vote on right now to go to msnbc.com genius showdown and cast votes for that. >> that's fantastic. go online to vote and you can watch "up with steve kornacki" weekends at 8:00 a.m. on msnbc. stay with us over next week for the 7 days of genius. we'll be right back, everyone. you can call me shallow... but, i have a wandering eye. i mean, come on. national gives me the control to choose any car in the aisle i want. i could choose you... or i could choose her if i like her more. and i do. oh, the silent treatment. real mature. so you wanna get out of here? go national. go like a pro. ♪ ♪ ♪ tigers, both of you. tigers? don't be modest. i see how you've been investing. setting long term goals. diversifying. dip! you got our attention

look on the other side martin luther king, rachel carson. martin luther king easily wins.lip roth and martin luther king still going in the tournament in the final spot in the final four. tell you about that in a second. marie curry, dominant in the bracket. knocks off stephen hawking. and steven spielberg beats oprah winfrey, no match for marie curry. this gives you the final four in ultimate genius. this is the part where everybody can play a role. steve jobs versus lennon and mccartney martin luther king and marie curry on the other side. we are asking you to vote msnbc.com/geniusshowdown. who is a bigger genius. voting for the final four wraps up sunday. next week, we crown a champion. >> have you noticed that steve jobs creator of apple, is up against lennon mccartney? think about that apple records. >> interesting. jose. >> and lennon mccartney beats marx. >> any genius out there that can do that maybe steve jobs. >> weird. steve jobs apple, lennon mccartney. this is a conspiracy of sorts. thank you. watch steve tomorrow and sunday morning on "up" starting 8:00 a.m.

rachel, of those hard it scientist with the theory so that as of the is the scientific method so with white privilege and racial relations are so incredibly proud -- have lost their mind? >> with ben carsonrosurgeon when you open someone's bring it is all the same. >> except mine. is garbage. [laughter] >> it is patronizing. >> clearly had his own agenda for co duet on your own time. and frankly he only focused on black physicist purpose of teaching racism he was teaching racism is like learning to be a doctor. >> or a female first generation romanian american maybe they got degrees in philosophy. thanks for being here. >> el lot b&l mob i will be in baltimore this week then eglantine canada and -- edmonton canada the first week of march. kennedy: please come back with yours and francisco liberalism. today is fat tuesday in a confession is coming up in moments. stay here. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cance