one thinks of will william jennings bryan, roosevelts, andrew jackson, ronald reagan more recently. not surprising in a regime of popular consent based on human equality. there's always been a tension between popular government and constitutional government. that sense of the potential of populist demagogues. hence, promises and peril. so, populism abounds from ancient rome to brexit england, from bernie sanders to donald trump elected president as a populist vote. the speakers will speak four or five minutes. and we'll have discussion. we'll be join by michael anton put will start and our first speaker is roger kimball. editor and publisher of the new cite tier -- cite tieron. and i would like to draw your attention to broad sites publishly on numerous topics, including one by our good friend, molly hemingway on trump and the media, roger, please state us out. >> there's been no term that populism. it's a word in search of a definition. for many people, populism is like the term fascism. the redder to cal weapon whose very lack of semantic presomethings -- precision is part of its

here are clarence darrow and william jennings bryan on the upper right. this is sort of a sample of the street scene. this is a table set up with anti-evolution tracks and books. both sides of this debate really seeing this as an opportunity. now, the aclu wanted to challenge the law on the grounds of academic freedom. that was the tact that they wanted to take. but clarence darrow veered in a very different direction. he decided to put traditional religion on trial. and he summoned to the stand for cross examination william jennings bryan himself, which was very unorthodox for one of the attorneys for the prosecution to be summoned for cross examination. darrow aimed to make a fool of this great statesman. he wanted to showcase the conflict between science and religion. he asked bryan questions like how could joshua possibly have compelled the sunshine to stand still? or can you tell us the exact date of the flood? and bryan did his best to remain firm in defending his views , although in many cases he did not really have a clear and sharp answer to rebu

i want to recount at this juncture the inspiring words of the american politician williams jenning bryan- "destiny is not a matter of choice. it is not a thing to be waited for. it is a thing to be achieved." [applause] there are many amongst us who cannot accept that it is only asians who can engineer a a generation, their transition from poverty to .rosperity to reac we are determined to do that in our generation in ghana and ensure that succeeding generations will not be victims or pawns of the global order. this will serve as the impetus of reshaping the continent and charting a new path of wealth and development and freedom which will lift of the long-suffering african masses out of poverty to the room suffers 30 and dignified existence -- poverty to the realm of prosperity and dignified existence. in conclusion, let me reaffirm the commitment of my government in ghana on standing shoulder to shoulder with the united states and the promotion of human rights on the african continent and across the globe. we stand shoulder to shoulder with the united states in their rejection of terro

he asked williams jenning -- he asked william jennings bryan questions like how could joshua possibly have compelled the sunshine to stand still? or, can you tell us the exact date of the flood? and bryant did his best to remain firm in defending his views although in many cases he did not really have a clear and sharp answer to rebut darrow. i will say that bryant refused to defend the young earth creationism. he would not defend the view that each day of creation described in genesis literally means 24 hours. he said it could mean a longer period of time. but, in general, he defended the conservative, traditional reading of scripture. and he kind of came off as an old man who has been out of his depth. the judge ended up throwing out the testimony and in fact most of the testimony for the defense as irrelevant to the question of whether or not this high school teacher had broken the law. it was pretty clear that he had. in the end, the jury found scopes guilty and he was ordered to pay a fine. although the conviction was later thrown out on a technicality. now, inside the courthouse

the 1900 democratic national convention that was held here and he flew up to the oratory of william jennings bryan, an orator from nebraska and he also enjoyed the nightlife in kansas city as well, a great polish pianist piotrowski came to kansas city along with the metropolitan opera, so kansas city wasn't the cosmopolitan place, unfortunately for kerry, his father's efforts at forming failed. and he with some of the back east to help out the family and hence that picture of him behind the mule. well, world war i was a turning point for truman. in that it got him out of the farm and he thought he never go back to the farm. which about the. and instead, he went into politics, county politics, jackson county politics and was quite successful and eventually he ran for the u.s. senate at the behest of the director of the brothers. truman's election, flabbergasted both the national press and his peers in the senate. the new york times referred to him as henry truman. new york times, all the news that fits. >> the times business the senator as quote, a room from pendergast. harry received a lukewarm re

on the prosecution's team was william jennings bryan, the great commoner, the populist democrat who had run for president three times. he had been woodrow wilson's secretary of state and was known as the great defender of traditional protestantism. and a great lawyer joined the defense team as well. probably the most famous left-wing lawyer of the time. and famously agnostic on the matter of religion. and that was clarence darrow. he was known for his bold politics. here he is in his characteristically flush making his opening arguments. here is darrow and bryant. here is a sample of the street scene, this is a table set up with anti-evolutionary tracts. both the sides saw this as an opportunity. the aclu wanted to challenge the law on the grounds of academic freedom. that was the tact that they wanted to take. but clarence darrow veered in a different direction. he decided to put traditional religion on trial. and he summoned to the stand for cross examination, william jennings bryant himself, which was very unorthodox. for one of the attorneys for the prosecution to be summoned for cr

was taking place, there were three positions in the country, natural law democrats led by william jennings bryan, the god-given rights in the declaration of independence should apply to all people, citizens and aliens alike which extends to the philippines, the progressive imperialists said that we have the right to impose our will in the philippines and not give them any right and taft, the modern republican said the philippine people should be entitled to those parts of the bill of rights they are ready to exercise based on their level of education which did not include the right to bear arms which was too dangerous. this debate about how much of the bill of rights to extend the broad helped shape american perception. >> one part of the story of the bill of rights is how things going on abroad made the bill of rights more important here at home. one example of that is what was going on in the philippines, what do you do with the philippines, how do you govern it. in part, had a feedback loop into what people thought about the bill of rights at home. that was the effect it had over time. it is

but he beat and then he became the nominee and then he had to go up against william jennings bryan. we know this story. 36 years old when he ran for president. he had two terms in the house and then he lost that we, ran for the senate and lost. he was one of the greatest and we all know that he got himself on this platform, a podium on the democratic convention and gave his famous speech. thou shalt not press that throwing of stones upon our hat. you shall not crucify -- [inaudible] and the reason was the country was in extremis. the panic of 1893 was still very much with the country in the rural areas were really suffering in their view and so what they needed and became the man who is going to read that charge and he did. he was all over the place with an amazing amount of time. yet days in which you would get up in his first speech at the 7:00 in the morning in his last speech of 10:00 at night. he had a wife who was confirmed and we can talk about that media and q&a. it's pretty interesting but i will try and keep this thing going. he didn't want to take her on the tour and he d