don't tell you why a person has scored high or low, but they are good predictors like the s.a.t., the grethe various iq tests and mechanical tests, et cetera, so i think you're trying to blame the messenger for the message. a more substantial comment is, the real problem with the public schools -- and i went to a public school -- until graduate school -- is the teachers. the teachers were lousy when i went there, and i got a pretty good education, and then when i got into college, i learned what real teaching is. and moynihan, senator dan all patrickman moynihan of number, spoke about the dysfunctional family during his tenure at the nixon administration, and he was roundly -- you economy, insulted for it, and it's gotten worse. it's gotten much worse since the late 60ss and i think that's the problem is the family, the difference funkal family. the -- the dysfunctional family the mother with no man around and five kids. >> host: david, leave it on those two points. thank you very much. bernadine dohrn, his second point was about the family, and your center at northwestern is called? >> g

so the kind of discussions we had at our dinner table greing up ranged from lenny bruces right to offend to the nazi's right to march in a suburb. so, really, this is something that's been with me for a long time. and i made it for h.b.o., and sheila, who is the head of documentaries said to me one day when my father was representing done eye muss for his wrongful representation lawsuit, why don't i look into making a film. and i think the time was now because during wartime and when the nation feels its national security is threatened, it's a time when there's a push toward conformity in speech. and this was a time, what we saw over the country in high schools, plays about the iraq war being banned, university professors coming under fire for their controversial views. so it seemed the right time to take stalk of the free speech in america. >> what have you learned from history and then moved it forward to present day. expand a little more on what you think the current state of free speech is. >> first, the history. the history is that when in wartime, you look at the world wars, the co