we're at stanford university. hoover institution talking about his most recent book, "intellectuals and race." how many books have you written? i think it's about 25. >> guest: it may well be. >> host: as the milk and rose friedman fellow of public policy at the hoover institution, what is it that you do? >> guest: the opposing attorney says it says here you are a senior fellow. just what does a senior fellow do? said a senior fellow has no duty and the judge that i would mind having not. >> host: you suspended thinking? >> guest: i once wrote it's nothing but alien ideas. >> host: dr. sowell come when you about cost justice, what do you mean by that? >> guest: i guess with some people mean by social justice, which is injustice and a national opportunity to have the same life. but i call a cosmic justice because no society will do that or has ever done not. so which are asking for is for the life chances to be defamed. when you think of the different this, it's virtually impossible. some kids may be raised as fami

sowell here at the hoover institution stanford university. here is his most recent book , "intellectuals and race" this is the tv on c-span2. of. >> and was curious what you think several of the ceo in and talking about capitalism to defend capitalism is. do they have roll or a the role of government and how it works against business. the ceos have rolled to talk about and defend capitalism to explain it to people but is it something you do purely by example? >>guest: i think we do. one of the most disturbing statistics for me is for the longest period of time, understanding the history of the united states, we started out really pour. we were back water here in the united states. and really as we embrace capitalism in the united states, we had tens of millions of immigrants come over here to create a better life because they have freedom to enterprise and freedom to start businesses. for the law in this period of time well over 100 years the united states was the freest nation in the world in the most capitalistic nation in the world without

. >> host: on location at stanford university powell alto california talking with stanford professors adult their riding in joining us now is professor robert proctor from the history and science in stanford in this is his most recent book, "golden holocaust" origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition" professor proctor when were cigarettes invented? >> the party take it is essential. a kid be either nicotine delivery device which they go back to the small cigar, or tobacco wrapped in paper in which case it begins in spain in the 17th century with people in spain rolling tobacco scrap into old newspapers but then in an 18th-century with the middle east they've run out of pipe tobacco so they start rolling tobacco is an old ammunition pieces of paper to smoke that. it is me in the 19th century phenomenon. the has grown really big in the 1860's then explodes with the invention of mechanize rolling of tobacco wear instead of having a limited role cigarettes you could have 500 per day now all the sudden they have 100,000. as a result you have a program of basically ha

book tv at stanford university to talk about his book, golden holocaust on the history of the tobacco industry and the dangers associated with smoking cigarettes. this is part of the book tv college series and is a little under half an hour. .. >> in which case it begins ince stayed in the 17th century with people in state rolling tobacco scrap into old newspapers and it doesn't do much until the 19th century when in the middle east to run out of pipe tobacco they start rolling tobacco with old ammunition and start to smoke that but made the 19th century phenomenon is going really big in the 1850's and '60s and explodes with the mechanized rolling of tobacco instead of rolling cigarettes they could roll 500 per day suddenly they could roll 100,000 per day. and as a result of a get this program to dispose of the massive surplus of cigarettes in such an enormous quantity the price drops dramatically tobacco goes from a luxury to a common ordinary consumer goods. with the mass marketing finishing the job. >> how many people smoke today? >> 1.5 billion out of 7,000,001 negative billion. t

we are on location at stanford university in palo alto, california, where we are talking with some stanford professors about their writings. joining us now is professor robert proctor. he is a professor of the hit tree of science at stanford. this is his most recent book. "golden holocost." professor, when were cigarettes invented? >> it depends on how you look at this as essential. cigarette can be thought of as a nicotine delivery device we can think of it as a small cigar in which case they go even further back or you can talk about tobacco wrapped in paper, in which it begins really in spain in the 17th century with people in seville, spain, and then it doesn't really do much until the middle east runs out of pipe tobacco and they start rolling tobacco and ammunition pieces of paper. so it's mainly a 19th century phenomenon. this includes the rolling of tobacco. where instead of having these girls and women roll cigarettes, that they could roll 200 or 500 per day, suddenly these machines, they could roll 100 of them per day and you have to dispose of a massive amount of cigarette and su

he's the founding faculty member of stanford university of the arts. at this moment i would like to ask mark to make a couple of words. it's an honor to honor you as a district one resident and supervisor for the district. mark izu. >> thank you, i really appreciate your kind words. i have something for supervisor . kim. i go this is the most important jazz instrument and the kids look at me. but they always a sak's owner. i know for myself it's the most important jazz instrument. i think it's what this whole journey is for me. the asian american, it's always a labor of love. i just saw such an incredible potential in san francisco and i had to do this. who would have known it would turn into a jazz movement. there is a documentary based on that. also i think what was really important to me, not j tus &m, but the building of bridges. i was in the western addition before that and i realize before it started it came from many musician and many latin artist we said because of you, we are creating our music now. just recently i was inducted to the grove en

sowell at the hoover institution stanford university here is his most recent book, "intellectuals and race" this is a booker tv on c-span2. >> now on your screen is william gould, emeritus professor of law hear a stanford and also the author of this book "bargaining with baseball" labor relations in an age of prosperous turmoil" turmoil", mr. gold why are you writing about this topic? what is your involvement? >> at two different levels. one as someone as a young man as a child and follow throughout my life and i suppose passionately involved but principally as an observer and as well as someone who has written about it, a teaching sports law in talking a lot about baseball with labor law and sports law and finally i suppose the role that comes up in this book in particular is my involvement as both the arbitrator and most particularly the chairman of the nlrb during the clinton the administration when we were involved at that time with one of the greatest of strikes in terms of duration, the greatest drake to serve as a landmark for the development of baseball as a business in the en

. >> stanford university is the kind of place where big ideas are born and raised. there's not a tech giant in silicon valley that doesn't have stanford dna in it somewhere. but one of the university's biggest successes you've likely never heard of. but as you'll see in tonight's bay area proud, they are every bit the world changer. stanford university's freeman foggy institute for rural studies education action program is a mouthful for sure h you should know of all the words you just heard, one is more important than the rest. action. >> that's what we do here. we take action to the field, find evidence-based research of what works and what doesn't and help to try to scale that out successfully. >> reporter: scott rosele is a stanford economics pro-with a lifetime of knowledge about the economy of rural china. still, knowing the region's problems, the poverty, the lack of quality education, wasn't enough for rozelle. he wanted to something about t in 2006, reap, as it's called, was founded. >> how do we take a project that affects 1,000 kids and turn it into one th

sanjay basu is a physician and epidemiologist and teaches at stanford university.ther they're written a new book called, "the body economic: why austerity kills. recessions, budget battles and the politics of life and death." we welcome you both to democracy now! i'm glad you could be here together in one place. david, let's begin with you. lay out the thesis of this book. >> we and severing houris = = -- we've been looking at the great depression right through to the present great recession. what we found is recessions hurt. unemployment, job loss, unpayable debt are risks to help. but what matters is how politicians respond. when you're making large cuts to social protections, dick intercessions into severe epidemics. >> explained. give us examples and countries. this horrific story of this triple suicide, the couple and then her brother, talk about what people -- what happens when policies go one way or the other. >> greece is in the middle of a public health disaster. s set bybudget deficit the troika, greece has cut its health sector by more than 40% read it i

completely innocent people being killed women children and these are recorded you can look up the stanford university board new york university united nations there are many many reports on this confirming this i have interviewed people in waziristan to i have that information in the book now what that is doing is that creates hundreds of more enemies if you take out one enemy and you end up by creating one hundred one. and in his speaking of the debate as drones moved into the mainstream and they received quite a bit of attention in the us media lately i felt like the main point of these discussions was still whether or not the drones should kill american citizens whether or not they should kill at all without due process in absolute secrecy that's seem to be you know it remained on the sidelines of the discussion seemed to be beside the point what was your sense my sense was you have to be right my sense was that americans tend to be very true centric when dealing with this issue it's all about americans we're keeping americans safe they're not really connecting this with the people across the worl

she has taught chinese dance in san francisco and is a stanford university dance teacher and was involvedn the production of fire and silk and the dance performance for her cure against tumors. today as we are honoring our apa contributors to the community and honoring achievements in the performing arts in my honor to present this certificate to ha yan jackson. >> thank you very much. good afternoon. i'm so surprised and so excited about this special gift. i'm just following my speech. thank you for the award. chinese dance was established in 2007 in san francisco to promote the development of devicement and appreciation of chinese dance and cult you ure in the san francisco bay area. we have been performing in many many communities in san francisco and in the bay area for the last six year. from four years old to 70 years old. i have been supported by many dancers, parents and the communities at sunset studios and i'm grateful of my dancers. and thing -- thankful for the asian community. thank you. i owe you support. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, supervisor tang. that concludes

author of "the beauty bias" professor rhode published by oxford, booktv is on location and stanford universityst: abraham sofaer "taking on iran" senior fellow at the hoover institution and abraham sofaer is the current strategy of sanctions working against iran? someone i can put pressure on is blown negative revolutionary war and the answer is no. >>host: you talk about the revolutionary guard corps. who are they? >> created under the new constitution in 79 with the assignment of defending the islamic character of the iranian revolution. they have an enormous amount of assets and respond line negative and with two be the defense industries that have their own army company for -- error force and navy and can control the missile program and under the ayatollah. they also have an item that does assassinations abroad and right now the scorer's out today is the group said is hoping to day. >>host: we will get to the exportation but what about the president of iran? >> and the president has his own area power but the i rgc asks about the ayatollah and he is under the present that could not order t

i'm going to open up with the fund around the stanford university about the quality education act. specifically what the pta has increased the district by over $500 per student is a two year measure. and the teacher element is in two components around teacher recruitment and retention and peer review. in the study had a very straightforward focus to document the p t and evaluate the effectiveness. opposing open around the recruitment we're drawing applicants who have only applied to once higher paying district and as a result there's been a increase to 20 to 25 percent of the number of applicants and 49 percent were is new hires from the district. particularly drawn to the initiative were folks drawn to the salary increase. now to the retention increase during the implementation of the pta was the economical challenges which corresponds to the initiative but as the result there was higher retention in the higher staff schools because of the bonus. secondly, for the par program it may be that par is one of the best aspects for the teacher quality. you'll see at the same time there a

he's the founding faculty member of stanford university of the arts. at this moment i would like to ask mark to make a couple of words. it's an honor to honor you as a district one resident and supervisor for the district. mark izu. >> thank you, i really appreciate your kind words. i have something for supervisor . kim. i go

have with us to moderate the program for the question period, mariono florentino professor at stanford university law school and co- director at stanford center for international security and cooperation. from early 2009 through the summer of 2010, he served as special assistant to the president for justice and regulatory policy at the white house. now, we are going to pause just for a moment while we begin -- before beginning our radio, tv, and internet programs for a much wider audience. good afternoon and welcome to today's meeting of the commonwealth club of california, the place where you are in the know. you can find us on the internet at commonwealthclub that board -- commonwealthclub.org. now it is my distinct honor and also a personal pleasure for me to introduce robert s. muller, the sixth director of the federal bureau of investigation. nominated by president george w. bush, he was sworn in to lead the fbi on september 4, 2001, just one week before the al qaeda attacks on 9/11. under his leadership, the fbi has since played the leading role in preventing further terrorist attacks insid

booktv is on location at stanford university. >> host: now from columbia we are friends have one over 475 years of recorded history. >> when i was asked to do this i had done a new history of south carolina from the 1930s. as i worked, a team came out was how you deal with community come either of have been for those left outside of the margin. that is all part of the story. the book starts depending on the archaeological site we go back one in 10,000 years to native americans i hear that some of the controversial were native americans or something else has not yet been decided. to native americans and south carolina were different than if we had some major tribes, the cherokee were the mountains of the catawba's on the border with south carolina. south carolina was mostly 50, 60 people in terms of european settlement intruding in two native american territory made things different from the confederacy in virginia. king philip's war in massachusetts have a large native american nations or tribes that settlement areas. most of the rivers of people asking the names of the native america

in 1884 it killed a teenager prompting his parents to found stanford university. modern anti-buy yot ticks have reduced the cases of typhoid fever. >> the parents of 12-year-old aaron hern who was critically injured in the boston marathon bombings. their message, hold on to your children and treasure your neighbors. nbc bay area joins us. it's difficult for his parents here. >> raj, it has been extremely difficult for his parents. tonight the herns are sharing details of all their family has gone through the past couple of weeks. they say aaron condition has improved by leeps and bound and they're so grateful. >> as bad auz the all was we were actually the fortunate ones. >> reporter: the past few weeks has been a world wind. their son returned home in time to celebrate his bit day after getting injured in the boston marathon bomb blost. >> we had 86 staples removed. every day it gets a little better. >> reporter: the parents spoke at lept for the first time. his father describing his son's wounds when he first reach his side. >> the one in his upper leg, that was

. >> host: booktv on c-span2 talking to professor robert proctor from stanford university from history and science professor his book "golden holocaust" origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition" >> host: "in excellent health" setting the record straight on america's health care" the author dr. scott atlas but also a senior fellow here at the hoover institution at stanford what works about the american health care system when you looked at in the larger sense? >> that could take up the entire interview but what works rarely is what the book is about which is the actual medical care and availability or access as well as implementation or introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of diseases. in fact,, a lot of the impetus was to clarify the background information that people don't really have despite what has been said about the u.s. health care system and the bottom line is with both access and quality of care. >> host: cost? >> it is an issue in well-documented and i concur with the documentation that the u.s. is the most expensive system for health ca

he is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at stanford university and serves as co-director of the nuclear risk reduction initiative and preventive defense project. please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. (applause) >> what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of america's millery power, the uss macon island. what a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the first responders of the san francisco bay area. fleet week for many years in san francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the first responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of san francisco. this amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and charlotte schultz and mike myers. i'd like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. (applause) >> and in april of 1996, my last year as secretary of de

the land the store currently sits on is owned by stanford university t. university has asked tenants to leave so it can drop the property. tesla says it's opening a new store in burlingame that will coincide with the closing of its menlo park shop. >> nearly 1800 movies are no longer available on netflix. the los gatos pulling the films because of expiring contracts. netflix says don't worry too much, most of the movies expiring are old features and new ones have been added to the site. a company spokesperson points out about 500 new titles will be added today. >> it is 4:45, yahoo! ceo making it in. we know how much marissa myers is getting paid for her short time with the sunnyvale company. paypal could soon be accepting non-existent money. kaila tao she with details on that. >> good morning. we'll start with the futures and leave you hanging for the rest of the stuff. futures are higher as the markets come off another positive month. the best start to the year since 1999. the best start in 15 years for the dow, s&p 50 0 and nasdaq. it's a busy day for

the land the store currently sits on is owned by stanford university. the university has asked tenants to leave so it can develop this property. tesla says it's opening a new store in burlingame that will come coincide with the closure in menlo park. >> nearly 1800 movies are no longer available on the website. the los gatos company pulling films because of expiring contracts with mgm, viacom, warner brothers and universal. netflix says most of those movies are expiring are older features and they do have new ones already being added to this site. the company spokesperson says 500 new titles will be added today. >>> in other news virgin american launching new service between san jose and los angeles. they will become the sixth airline to make this happen. >> scott mcgrew joins us of the airline faces a the lot of competition. >> five others. the this will keep prices low in the south bay. the first flight from l.a. landed just after 9:00 a.m. it was even early. but passengers were delayed from leaving the plane ironically, so that various officials coul

he is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at stanford university and serves as co-director of the nuclear risk reduction initiative and preventive defense project. please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. (applause) >> what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of america's millery power, the uss macon island. what a pleasure it is to be among the men

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. >> stanford university's institute for international studies rural education action program is a mouthful, for sure. what you should know, though, is of all the words you just heard, one is more important than the rest. action. >> that's what we do here. we take action to the field, find evidence-based research of what works and what doesn't and help to try to scale that out successfully. >> scott is a stanford economist professor with a lifetime of knowledge about the economy of rural china. still, knowing the region's problems, the poverty, the lack of quality education, wasn't enough for him. he wanted to do something about it. so in 2006, reap, as it's called, was founded. >> our sort of motto is how do we take a project that affects 1,000 kids and turn it into one that affects millions? >> with seed money from the global underdevelopment action fund, rozelle and this team focused their action on elementary school aged children in rural western china and found malnutrition was impeding their education. the reap team with the help of chinese partners and dedicated volunteers, then set

you would take the top doctor at johns hopkins or stanford university, and if you could convince him to talk up your drug and to appear at these wonderful conferences, other doctors who looked up to this gentleman would, of course, follow the protocol. so once you get those key opinion leaders in your pocket, so to speak, you can really multiply your sales tremendously. now, i think there's been a lot of heat on pharmaceuticals in the last four or five years. we've seen a lot of companies come forward and settle fraud cases. for several hundred million or in some cases $3 billion. so a lot of these companies are, you know, they're more careful about it. but i hear tales all the time of really fast and loose marketing to the extent that a lot of consumers have no idea what -- why they're taking this drug. >> host: did the fda talk to you for this book? >> guest: yes, the fda did. in fact, one of my sources actually died from cancer, and she had taken epo. it's just astonishing, almost every time i turned around, someone was passing away. i think all of us know someone who has beat can

completely innocent people being killed women children and these are recorded you can look up the stanford university board new york university united nations there are many many reports on this confirming this i have interviewed people in waziristan to have that information in the book now what that is doing is that creates hundreds of more enemies if you take out one enemy and you end up by creating one hundred one of these. the syrian crisis has taken a deadly new twist twenty car bombs are read through a turkish tom just across the border killing forty six and injuring more than one hundred others the slide has been an entry point for refugees and radical rebels but turkey has been quick to blame syrian intelligence for the attack while stopping short of saying to mask is directly responsible on middle east correspondent policy it has more. two car bombs have exploded one was in front of the city hall the other was in front of the local post office in the turkish town of rate which is not far from the syrian border now we still don't have anyone when your organization coming forward and claiming

professor at stanford university.l me what it does. >> it works with the best universities to offer the best classes from the best instructors to students all over the world. we have 3.3 million students taking some of the world's best for free. gerri: 300 plus online courses with teachers from 200 universities. how do you do this? my goodness, how do you convince these people to teach for free? >> for professor giving opportunity to take something they are passionate about and convey it to tens of thousands or even 100,000 people is a priceless opportunity for them to get the message out about something they care deeply about. at the same time for universities we are working with, this is a great opportunity for them to change the way on-campus instruction is done because a lot of times instructors to the insight and materials they have developed as part of the online education effort and use it to teach the students on their own college campuses moving more active learning into the classroom so they have a chance to

. >>> stanford university is lifting a ban on hard alcohol during the summer session. the unpopular pilot program went into effect last year during those summer quarter. it banned hard alcohol in dorms even for students who are over the age of 21. the school implemented the ban amid concerns about high school students with stanford students over the summer. school officials are looking at other ways to address alcohol use on campus. >>> 7:10. one week after those devastating tornadoes, one oklahoma city pays a special tribute to the victims. >>> it's like a time where friends and family come together. >> the memorial attended by thousands and how the area is starting to rebuild. >>> and a new place to stay and play. the northern california hotel and casino that could create hundreds of jobs near a popular concert venue. >>> cloudy to mostly cloudy skies. temperatures in the 50s. rain has started up in mendocino county. it will cloud up. 60 and 70. >>> it is 7:12. new this morning, nato says an insurgent attack has killed a service member in eastern afghanistan. nato ha

would be [indiscernible] the former defense secretary came to seoul earlier this year and the stanford university turning the symposium on northeast asia. they were involved in the korean [indiscernible] process. -- solve theerve north korean problem. people in biggest diplomatic history. it seems to me that we could take the horse to the river. north could not make korea drinking water. -- drink the water. is it really time for creative and more effective north korea policy. , i think south korea and the u.s. should conduct [indiscernible] review of north korean policy. certainly, the fundamental , theems in north korea unrelenting nuclear ambitions. south korea and the united states should concede that the directorea policy has continuity and consistency. [indiscernible] north korea unconditionally. we cannot let north korea keep strengthening the abominable nuclear weapons. [indiscernible] with a new come up concrete suggestions. make this will pave the way for a new [indiscernible] negotiations are resumed. the press and north korea should not be discontinued. it is important to seek various

. >> sat down with us on the campus of stanford university to discuss their book withs.