we run our politics economy and social relations well it just doesn't i'm now and joined by william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california at santa barbara professor romans and it's good to talk to you thank you for your time thank you for having me on i can see that you're also connecting with us you know a whole no no the only one you have in a whole order or almost a month. what it's been like for you. well we're on yeah we're on lockdown the university closed over a month ago in the 1st week of march and we move to online education i mean this is a completely different like we know won't last forever but i also think that we're never going to go back to normalcy it will be by normalcy is great pandemic and now you've been writing about the perils of have to receive globalization for many years and i think it's fair to say that you've been traditionally reticle about and by the standards of the wall street journal i wonder if these last weeks and months have changed your analysis in any way not at all i think it confirms my analysis i've been arguing for the last

the way we run our politics economy and social relations well it just doesn't amount joined by william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california at santa barbara professor romans and it's good to talk to you thank you for your time thank you for having me on i can see that you're also connecting with us you know a whole no no the only one you have. a whole order or almost a month. what it's been like for you. well we're on yeah we're on lockdown the university closed over a month ago in the 1st week of march and we moved to online education mean this is a completely different like we know it last forever but i also think that we're never going to go back to normalcy it will be by normalcy is great. now you've been writing about the parents all for capitalism globalization for many years and i think it's fair to say that you've been treated radical about it by the standards of the wall street journal i wonder if these last weeks and months have changed your analysis in any way not at all i think it's confirms my analysis i've been arguing for the last decade or so that what

lot of naturals a partner william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california santa barbara should i start speaking in balad the response to this pandemic i think it's a bit contrary to you even ironically that the countries with the most laissez faire economies like let's say the united states. impose chadli restrictions on businesses while a country like sweden and this became the old one and a socialist shows that we approach you're more sympathetic to you. absolutely the traumatic a lockdown is crucial and necessary in the united states and european countries of the and to make it but my biggest concern of we as we have to look at the whole world and the lock down which is imposed for instance in india in the central american countries and south africa where 6070 percent of the population is in the informal sector and besides if they lock it down if you're homeless if you don't spam always living in one single rooms also project tony left a message that we do need at least you know in france in the united states and russia is actually a death sentence for a 100 y

william robinson and i, and we have a very big passion for helping people with surgery.people with music that has meaning. so we'll usually just go to the hospital and usually after a long shift we'll sit down by the piano and william will learn a few songs and we'll sit down and go to the icu, pediatric floors and we'll sing and share music around the hospital. it's amazing because across the world it's amazing to know a little bit can go so far. >> tell us a little bit about your story. your family is originally from haiti. you're in minnesota. where did you get your inspiration to sing and to heal? >> yeah, you know, no one in my family sippings and i don't com from a musical background. my father raised me and my brother in miami florida alone, and one of the things, if we had a bad day or things weren't going well, he would always sing a song. he wasn't a good singer at all, but music for him had a meaning and it had a message by it. whenever i would hear him sing it would quiet things down. for me, when i went to medical school i started training working towards a

william shatner come from prepa's professor of infectious diseases and public health policy. join the conversation tonight at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> and now sharon robinson, the daughter of a baseball player jackie robinson, reflects on her life in the civil rights movement. she discussed a book i took a few phone calls at the 19th annual national book festival in washington, d.c. this is about 45 minutes. >> host: author sharon robinson here in the suburban -- to cover her book, "child of the dream: a memoir of 1963". ms. robertson, where we are living and what we shall lifelike in 1963? >> guest: we were living in stamford, connecticut. we had a house sat on six acres and a lake and surrounded by woods. we had the privacy that my parents were seeking. it was in a predominately white community in northern stanford.