things that you think beneficial for society will find people who are waiting more again. are large do you know if you teach him healthy lifestyle and didn't teach every school child to cook for example and in this lay you try to make us a science you tell. me what the line between the lines between christmas and democracy even make it into a distinction between the talkers and democracies and yet me know that democracy is on base from the most. paralyzed i mean the challenge of raising the united states from call bit by to these the highest in the world and it's the highs in this age mid to high straights of business and i heard you say recently that consumer is we just very directly related to the consumer business here just a comment 19 is gone is not going to kill it and and the center of consumerism is a sick mix of well likely and perhaps mentally. compromised individual that requires a lot of services when we talk about the value of human lives is that to really be conduct live that we have to cherish that me ask you aspire to protect you know that the united states

there was a time society would have been behind that called and when our society simply didn't have valuedhe lives of black americans in the way that now they do. so also progress has been made and i wouldn't say that that's been a failure but ultimately the progress that needs to be made as moral progress, which isn't the same thing as social progress. moral progress has to be made anew in every human heart. this is a reason why i am a conservative. i think ultimately the problems we have are rooted in the human heart and in the imperfection of the universe and that means we need to be informed and educated and shaped to be moral people. we require engagement with those ideas that can give the right kind of form to respect each other and that is work that hass to be done in every generation. there are certainly ways we can change the social institutions and structures to make it easier and to treat people equally under the law and we have made a lot of progress on that front, but there will always be the need for us to put before the rising generation the core principles and ideas. the ja

even liberal society made after their chav parents are really . course on the one hand a we to perceive the family as a castle as safe privacy at the same time we as a society cannot tolerate the full parental power over a child the power of other from merely a small aroma base as we do interfere our society and legislative systems interfere but it comes to face all development well this jail house now this is the logical say for to is perceived as a kind of probably good to be defended by the force the full force of the lawyers forcing states it's interesting how this things will develop but where we may be sure the thing will develop maybe we will see for example for moments a risk in public places as a customer a thing as we have now those safe it's a restriction of the measured service and now we're what we got years during the last 20 years that reading search area search oh yes we go straight. to airports at any public location maybe we'll see the same kind of frames that will measure our got a temperature or maybe you are an arab by the way

it was 43 years ago that chief justice burger founded the society. to talk about warren burger, the man in the court and society, president john sexton of nyu. thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. is a great honor for me to be here today. my first introduction to warren burger and the society came at the same time when i went just outside of the courtroom just downstairs to watch four films the chief justice had created on four great john marshall cases. more on that later. let me begin. leventhal, babylon, warren burger, very different judges. three different, but three special man. nearly 40 years ago, i was privileged to serve each as a law clerk. nobody, including me, would have predicted chief justice burger would have selected me. my references were an all-star list of his critics. [laughter] derek bell, alan dershowitz, arthur miller, alan morrison. ordinarily the chief did not interview his clerks before they came to him. he had a selection committee chaired by the legendary charlie hobbs, and the chief then chose his clerks from the

eviscerating the fabric of our society. denial of scientific consensus, to the propagation of fictions about immigrants, a corrosive rhetoric has entered our national discourse. some might argue that the chief justice would not be in high dugeon over these. in my view there would be wrong, but a reasonable person -- a reasonable person could make that assessment. that said, it is beyond dispute that he would have rushed to the ramparts had he lived to see the frontal attack on the rule of law and the courts that is now occurring. a generation ago. just two years after his death. that is when i first noticed it. when i received the writings of a political commentator who, at the time, was advising clients battle" ite coming would be "almost impossible to go too far in demonizing lawyers and judges." his polling had suggested that attacking lawyers and judges is a cheap applause line. so he urged his clients to "resort to such ridicule when making your points. " 20 years later even the president attacks so-called judges and c

by a policy or by of politics the way the state or society offer all the needy all the lords and. interferes so on direct your physical function what things are and what. doing. with your body what was a body off your loved ones with your children how far can a parent judge for example what don't look to vaccinate their child full well that always be in all of this. liberal drop offs are my body my decision and if i harm myself a way of making this decision if yes again it's right or wrong it's melting isn't the fear with me society even liberal society it may be as tall as their parents relations course on the one hand a we stand to perceive the family as past as safe have privacy at the same time we as a society cannot tolerate the full parental power over a child the power of other from merely a small aroma base as we do interfere our society and legislative systems interfere but it comes to you face all development well this jail house now this is the logical say for to is perceived as a kind of probably good to be defended by the force the full force of the lawyers forcing st

be to society and to be productive members of society but they need certain supports that are not happening in our prisons in the reason our prisoners are not getting the support they need for reentry is because no one is accountable despite the fact that we live in a democracy because of a job back and here i want to show the audience my computer we have some stats from the state and federal prison population because jeff you keep using example of a really cheap examples of violent crime in federal prison and it's all about 7.9 percent of the inmates there are there for violent crime what the 7.3 percent of them are there for drug offenses now in the state prisons pretty 5 percent are there per violent crimes 14 percent are there for drug reasons this is been part of the national discourse recently as well president obama talked about it at the funeral for representative john lewis here check this out. once we pass john lewis voting rights that we should keep marching to make it even better the in making sure every american is automatically registered to vote including former inmates who'v

politics and society on al-jazeera. their welcome to the stream home edition i'm josh rushing sitting in today for femi ok now if you're watching this live on the you tube see that box over there that's of live you tube chat jump in there share your comments your questions with us because we have a producer waiting to get those to me so i can get on to our experts on the panel today and in fact we've already got people in there look this is a cheat a man 42 this says prison is just another layer of voter suppression no surprise minorities are targeted and here's michael riley the says it's a big no you kind of give up your right to vote when you go to jail in my opinion there are so many people in jail that could sway the vote and people in jail with different things from those out of jail now this is become a bit of a celebrity issue and back check out this video that omar epps posted on twitter. if you're like me you know america's criminal justice system is broken whether it's affected you personally or not it's some

society needs to be listened to. it is a changed society. is to turn them into the roundabout. if we want transmission lines, what that all takes his highways to go through this land and enable us to develop. we need a consensus. second, the government is in the process of changing from being perceived as a master to being a servant. this is one of the youngest societies on earth. over 70% of our population is under 55. the image, people including me, the generation of 1960 is still very significant. we need to gracefully give way. there has always been these great divisions. same againsten the each other. we need to find common ground. one of the most significant things that the education will it will be the anniversaries. how do we regain back a tolerant sense of acceptance? is the height of the culture. >> we need to go back to that. children are thinking long term. i hope that our society will be and -- think median medium and long-term. >> we will take another question. >> we will take our next question. it is from janet. please except the unmute now prompt. >> it is an ho

the historical society and the abigail adams historical society cohosted this event. >> welcome. welcome to the hingham heritage museum. my name is deirdre anderson and i have the pleasure of serving as the executive director of the hingham historical society, whose home here is at the hingham historical museum, and what a treat to welcome you all here tonight in this sold-out program. i would like to thank on behalf of our board of directors and our small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us a part of your week. i would also like to thank jared hardesty for traveling across country to be with us tonight. i would like to thank c-span for filming us so that others who can't be with us tonight can see it at a later date. and thank you to the abigail adams historical society and their board of directors who offered us this wonderful opportunity to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker. abigail's rich history in this region inspires us every day. thank you. the hingham historical society is focused like never before on its history to understand all vo

not in that sense maybe for him but not for the society this aside to has already changed and he will never be that ligi to me anymore as he used to be a quiet for a long time. but we definitely see that the relations between state and society has to have changed in belarus and we also see that you know also on the level of local office or it is and also some cases within the elites people start consider a t. and it's really of the last days of him so it's very good question that you ask i think that everybody in belarus is asking out this question a lot really depends on what those people who are asking this question now will do it tomorrow because enoch is in the door blew do you say you are worried for the brave people of belarus why the next. i mean i have been last time to have been a rose in 2011 and then i witnessed already how people react how all moments on react on very small protests i saw in 2011 and i mean we saw the videos and photographs from from torture people in jail in their novels and i don't know if i would be so brave as a bit of those in to go on the streets tod

they -- hang on the historical society, and i'm society -- cohost of this event. welcome. >> welcome to the -- museum. my name is dana anderson, and i have the pleasure of serving as the executive director of the ham historical society, whose home here is abraham heritage museum. and what a treat to welcome you all tonight, at the sold out program. i'd like to thank on the behalf aboard a director and our small staff, i would like to thank you all for making us a part of your week. i'd also like to thank gerard -- excuse me, are dusty for traveling across the country to be with us tonight. i'd like to thank c-span, for filming us. so that others who cannot be with us, can see us on a later date. and thank you to the abigail adams historical society, and their board of directors, who offered us this wonderful opportunity and to partner with them as we did last year with their speaker edith gelles. abigail's rich history in this region inspires us every day. thank you. the hang in historical society is focused like never before on its history. to understand all voic

as we look around the world and around our societies right now, thatis around our societies right nowthat is all we can do is try. both personally and i think most importantly, protect norms that allow us to live by our deeper wisdom, even when we are personally liable to fail. right? we want laws and tax codes and modes of discourse that and caressed for a better possible selves and make it possible for even mediocre and conflicted people to behave better and better. what we have rather often are systems of incentives that are set up to make even the very ethical people, behave unethically. or even fairly honest people to behave dishonestly and adjust anchors back to this beginning of our conversation, but i am most worried about our style of discourse around these issues like race is that it is causing even fairly scrupulous and well—intentioned people to be dishonest and sloppy and practised a kind of, politics of personal destruction where, effectively, they behave like psychopaths on social media and in printand psychopaths on social media and in print and in various journalistic

haunts us ine that society. [indiscernible] in that regard, we have a very detailed list of issues that we are discussing with iran. state to state relationship. equally, it has been in the recent months, very strong advocate of continuation of the islamic republic of afghanistan, a democratic afghanistan, and hoping to see a political solution. it's a complex society with multiple regional agendas and relationships and one set of relationships affects others. our relationship with the united states is something that is a factor with other relationships. james: next question, please. >> we will take our next question from nicholas shifrin. nicholas: thank you very much for doing this. good to see you again even though you can't see me. i wanted to ask about the logistics for the next week and how you see this happening. one question on the prisoners' release, the taliban are concerned that some of them will be attacked by afghan forces or u.s. forces after their release. will that happen? if talks do end up star

but what we have now in american society are allegations of racism or the experience that people arehaving, millions of people having of watching a video of a police shooting, and the prototypical case it will bea the prototypical case it will be a white copper shooting... we don't have to imagine it. we see it and right now we are watching right now over and over, jacob blake being shot in wisconsin. we do not need to use our imagination. i would tell you that that video in and of itself is not evidence of racism. you can see videos of white people being shotin videos of white people being shot in precisely the same circumstances and, i mean, we have a massive problem of guns in our society, we have a massive problem of poorly trained cops stop that video in particular evinces several of these problems, one is that when someone rushes to their car in defiance of police commands and open the doors and ridges in, in american society, unlike in the uk, it is only rationalfor unlike in the uk, it is only rational for the cops to assume that present is retrieving a gun so they can turn a

it will displace that slaveholding belief that have dominated the southern society. they intend to list various allies into people from the slaveholding border states and southerners from the confederate states that were willing to support him if he tries to find them on in making the case that it will have benefits and giving freedom to the slaves. to recognize that lincoln is making this argument about the broad benefits to the american society, northerners and southerners, white and black of emancipation, is in a sense a little bit sobering and disappointing because one of the things that it signals is that the arguments for emancipation remains more centered on the benefits to whites than we would have liked and it should have been more on the suffering of slaves into their rights to freedom and citizenship. but the politics remain quite centered. in the context of what had come before, there would be broad benefits for all americans quite radical because it is a reputation of what has been centuries of zero-sum game thinking about race relations and the argument

back together again very hard to make an assessment of the crack society but i know for example and family values become all of us and more important we look out who is really close to me who is really important so we go for the essential snow who are the real friends and. in facilities and the increase in a context with family and i increase my income tax rates may very best friends all the rest becomes an important electoral votes and work on things that are essential is essential if we're if one is lucky to have them of course i mean

and coursed through the bloodstream of that society. it's true only with unin four white southern families owned slaves, but if we also count the number of white southerners to hoped to own slaves, to worked with or for slave owners who had slaves in their families and so on, we see that a broad majority of white southerners in the ceded states believed they had a profit and control. and the white successionist propaganda that led them to believe that the north was a threat to their well-being and control was tragically very, very effective. >> we have time for one more question, but you mentioned the south carolina succession and more about those and what they say. ours are quite large, but very interesting to look at. our final question today comes from kelly and kelly wants to know how many confederate soldiers affected or switched sides to fight for the north? >> so, that's a good question. i don't have a figure, you know, at the-- that i can quote right now. there are some books on so-called galvanized yankees, and people who fough

has been facing stiff resistance from members of the opposition and even some civil society members so he realized that going back to power would be a continuous cycle of protests more violence and more sort of destruction in mali and as a result he felt it's time for him to move back and return to school and look after us ok i think that they're following the situation in mali from a butcher as many as 500 refugees and migrants a stranded on a railway track of bosnia herzegovina one province decided to ban them and push them into another which has refused to accept that child balance reports. on a road to nowhere hundreds of migrants from bosnia a trapped my place and a changing political times the blare are those. we are not human here we are. they say they are being kicked between police into neighboring bosnian provinces in a sauna can't on announced last week would ban migrants in tring in movement the rulings in a galaxy has been questioned migrants were pushed back to the province of republika srpska which refused to accept them these were away tracks so the only place they find

want we want a society. who is able to deliver the most an able to meld. the minds of men to wards a direction which we believe can best society while i'm writing to migrate to cyberspace they are going to take a break when they come back why would be no so don't go away. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race. spanning dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very. time to sit down and talk. carmen's this. fall. in the early 1970 s. how much can a psychologist just proposed to the west but incentive to social experiment wanted to live paedophiles and neglected boys experiment was a. good model. on what your. girls to tend to believe that sex with older men would help with the boys' socialization over 30 years many children were handed paedophiles to raise. the logs in. courtrooms or she didn't just pull the pursuit. as i'm sure the. welcome back to kaiser report summer solutions

in a progress of way is possible as you all know i had to change societies from violence on occasion a progressive outcome but we don't have the luxury of not following the social science social science is clear if you want so much demise the probability of changing fundamentally changing society rockaway in a progressive way then you need to engage in civil disobedience like gnome filings the other thing about nonviolence is it's basically a numbers guy if you want to change your regime it's about how many people you get on the street and if you're engaged in nonviolence loads more people can engage you know as. barriers to entry as they cite in the literature in other words you know oh people young people disabled people people recall just by much money and background they are everyone can come to the straight i'm not the genius of civil resistant. it's basically about thousands of people breaking the law all at once and i have a coming you know our government sat resistance to change and i watched this in the revolutions in eastern europe crowds of half a 1000000 people invents a

segregated and any alienated from white society. in the process of studying this revolutionary era, it was a term selling out. this process began in the 17 sixties through the 17 nineties. both ex and sleeved and free black people were sold out of new england. many of them were -- every new england state had passed laws against this, but it continued. the work of abolitionist came to be really composed of trying to help people who had been kidnapped and recover them to petition the government to have them found and brought back. significant numbers of enslaved and free black new england people were sold out of the region. many ended up in atlantic canada. their long-standing ties between new england and nova scotia, for example. the maritime economies in nova scotia could use that sort of an sleeved labor. had worked hear new england. so for example, if you take a look at loyalists newspapers, they also published runaway sleeve ads. occasionally the ad was the -- it would say i believe they are trying to get home to massachusetts. t

russia would those the most friendly society in terms of russia because the most friendly. to another nations and that's a very important soft power instrument and russia is already present their most blower since because russian russian media are still very popular in belarus culture church family connections and so on mentality also big cut and so on so it's really you know it will not disappear even as long as president is not there i mean i met this dependence will not see this mechanisms of influence will not disappear also economic dependence from russia is huge so i don't really see the point why would she do that because he still can have influence on the. so there are potential presidential candidates very quick. this is very important yeah. i think it's also a chance for him because. the relationship between pushing is quite difficult and i'm not sure if really wants to keep. it isn't it better for him to get rid of him because he didn't. didn't recognize. how do you sleep at night. despairing about the situation i mean i began to practice perry at the very 1st ni

we have a society of states, in international societies that to exist when sovereign nations consider themselves bound by a common set of rules and share in the work of common institutions. so what is the state of today's international society? particularly in our shared indo pacific region? today the indo pacific is the epicenter of a strategic competition. tensions over territorial claims are growing. the growth of military modernization is unprecedented. democratic nations face new threats and foreign interference. cyber attacks are increasing. misinformation is used to manipulate free societies. the rules that allowed us to for newhave a vault challenges. it is fair to say that in 2020, international society is under strain. the action of some has been to fret about the weakening of rules based international order. fair enough. we want to see international framed by agreed rules and norms , not crude, economic or the configuration of powers is going to change. we have to deal with the world as it is, not as we are likely to be. we need to tend to the garden. there needs to be a st

we have a society of states, in international societies that to exist and consider themselves bound by common set of rules and share in the work of common institutions. so what is the state of today's international society? particularly in our shared indo pacific region? today the indo pacific is the epicenter of competition. tensions over territorial his ground. the growth of military modernization is unprecedented. democratic nations face new threats and foreign interference. cyber attacks are increasing. misinformation is used to manipulate societies. they have now evolved to make new challenges. an economic: version is a tool -- and economic coercion is a tool. our international society is under strain. been a weakening of rules base and international order. we want to see international engagement. not crude, economic or political. but we have been longing for the past of strategy. the configuration of power in global politics has changed. we have to deal with the world as it is, not as we'd like it to be. the rules which would be known as the american century. the jungle is growin

and that's the society we want we want the society to be what the code is who is able to deliver the most an able to meld. the minds of men to wards a direction which we believe can best society wow i'm ready to migrate to cyberspace they are going to take a break let me come back why would be no so l o y. o t no crowd. no shots. actually felt. no 1st. point should your thirst for action. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confront cation let it be an arms race in this on off and spearing dramatic developing the only i'm going to resist i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical time time to sit down and talk. 54 jets and more than 1300 military personnel are headed to heal some air force base in alaska where is that to say come on i'll show you what's the reason for any type of enhanced u.s. military presence in this area russia. what is it suddenly about the south china sea that makes it so that it is 11000000000 barrels of oil. take a look at this map who really owns what kind of says no it belongs to us india says no we cla

and the reason it's a problem for society is that. ultimately we want the society to reach its ultimate potential as quickly as possible and anything that stops you from doing that is some optimal so do logically the best people to work on any big given task should be the best people in the world now let's take an example of a space ship if i want to go to the nozzle like a musk he right now can only employ people in the us. he would like to employ the best people in the world and logically it's unlikely that the best people to build rocket ships are not all in the us i mean i could be wrong but it's probably the case and not all in the us so therefore the any rookie he makes to go to mars and get it will likely have more risk have more issues because he hasn't got the best people in the job so the entire world he and therefore by extension so i will loses out from any form of discrimination that isn't based on 3 things it isn't based on someone's work ethic the quality of their faults and the quality of the argumentation you should d

so society has turned upside down for him. he was in prison until -- not only until the end of the war, he was in prison until two months after the war. he wasn't let go. he would not sign the loyal toij loyalty oath that was required of prisoners to be demobbed. and as a result he moved back to richmond, married, became a candy maker again. died young of cancer. but i don't think his mind was expanded by the experience. >> certainly artistic impressions that -- his artistic impressions do endure and that is a wonderful thing. so we're ready for our q&a. our first question is -- and we do see a slide of all of the objects together again. did lincoln ever see the volk etching? and if so, what was his reaction? >> excellent question. we have no idea. i would suspect not. again, although much -- many claims have been made about the popularity and influence of admiral volk in his time, i never believed it. i think there was such strict censorship in union-occupied baltimore in 1863 for and until the end of the war that his works w

that shows that afghan society can assemble and express itself. thend is the agreement with international community, particularly with the united states on the end state of the talks. democratic, united, that would be at peace with itself in the world. there has been a lot of usher -- a lot of pressure from the afghan government and now the balance shifts because we have taken all there is at stake. we were not party to an agreement to release 5000 , but out of wanting peace, we did it. now we hope all of the actors will come together in the region and build this consensus. it will show whether the desire for a stable afghanistan that would be in everybody's interest prevails over a more shirt -- over a more short term view in whether the taliban would now show themselves capable of politics, imaginative, constructive politics or not. the question is open. james: it is a very important question, i agree. one of the key factors that needs to be examined is this process that moves forward for everybody, for the united states as well as your country

the societies.u very much indeed. now, let's go to east africa and uganda to bidi. bidi, to your question, please. yeah. some governments are using covid—19 to crackdown on dissenting voices in their country and therefore, this has emboldened the dictatorships of ruthless rulers. all right, so james graham, this has strengthened the hands then and emboldened the strongmen in government? has t? interesting considering the last question and the difference between the approach of certain governments. it can be no question that in a crisis the inclination of some governments towards using this as an opportunity to increase the powers or leaning towards more authoritarian response of government over their people has always been the case historically speaking. there is a spectrum of that, i'm not comparing the response of the uk to what we just heard but the passage of legislation through the british parliament in terms of increased powers for the government to be able to respond to the crisis and also wh

we are a society.omeone who might be your rival in one moment may very well be your ally in another moment and i think that that is really important to keep in mind, and i think that, you know, the policy work we are doing, you know, we are a nonpartisan research organization. we are certainly right, conservative, classical liberal in our gut instincts and orientation, but it is very important to us that we speak to everyone that there are elected officials who might have a range of different sensibilities, but we want to be sure that we are speaking to everyone, that we are serving as a resource for everyone. in some cases, that might reflect the fact that we are very aligned in our sensibilities. in other cases, it could mean we offer constructive witticism, a -- constructive criticism, we will offer a different perspective. the really important thing is that we all want to have a prosperous, flourishing society in which everyone, particularly those who are most disadvantaged, are able to climb the l

the hingham historical society and the abigel adams historic society co-hosted this event. >> welcome to the hingham heritage museum. my name is degreiedra harrison. what a treat to welcome you all here tonight in the solid out program. i'd like to thank on above of our board of directors and our small staff, i'd like to thank you all for making us a part of our week. and jarod hardesty for being with us and c-span for filming us to see it at a later date. and thank you to the abigel adams historic society and their wonderful board of directors who offered this opportunity to partner with them. abigel's rich history in this region excites us every day. to understand all voices, we currently are in the midst of a campaign for the benjamin lincoln house which is our effort to purchase the home of hingham's american revolutionary war hero at 181 north street. benjamin lincoln received the british sword of surrender at new yo yorktown, or as he like to tell our visiting school children, that's benjamin lincoln on the white boards, featured so prominently in the rotunda of the u.s. capitol

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so what is the state of today's international society? particularly in our shared indo-pacific region. today the indo-pacific is the epicenter of the strategic competition. tensions over territorial claims, unprecedented. democratic nations fight new threats. cyber attacks in are increasing in frequency and sophistication. and the trade rules that allowed us to prosper if now evolved to meet new challenges, and economic coercion is increasingly employed as a tool much state craft. it's fair to say that in 2020 our international society is under strike. the reaction of some is to fret by the rules of international order. fair enough. we want to see international engagement framed by great rules, and not crude economic or political coercion, but nor do we think long in the past to announce for a strategy. the configuration of power in global politics has changed and we have to deal with the world as it is, not as we'd like it to be. the liberal rules and norms of what has been known as the american century are under assault. the jungle is g

you on the amount as it was i think there are inequalities and tie society we can't live like this and why we should take a stand for ourselves for a generation and the next generation the students gathered here in my head on university of overall student led movement has some demands they are looking for a change in the constitution a rewriting of the constitution was drafted by the military government they want a new government they want new elections and also they are proposing an overhaul of the monarchy you know that's a very dangerous territory here in thailand the monarchy is something that is very revered by most of the population here this is a step that this movement has taken that hasn't been seen in a very long time so it's dangerous territory and warnings from the government but they say if there's not reform in the government and work on a new constitution again they're going to get a lot of people out of the streets by the end of september. let's meet in bangkok. a political reporter and columnist for the call so the english news website in congo. ne silent david strich