A personal affront or even violence does the old saying still holds true to discuss that im now joined by Bradley Campbell associate professor of sociology at California State University and coauthor of the rise of victimhood culture microaggression safe spaces and the new culture professor campbell its good to talk to you think you very much for your time thanks for having me now professor such an interesting topic but before we delve into it the phenomenon that you discussed in the book micro aggressions extreme sensitivity just slides save space is allegations of Cultural Appropriation others primarily american predicaments or is it something that you see in other parts of the world as well. We 1st started looking at cases and the United States Oberlin College at yale and other kind of elite universities thats where we were seeing the kind. Of the new moral claims a new moral language being used its certainly used. Elsewhere weve weve seen it and britain and australia certainly and
Publishing an excerpt from a forthcoming book about the alleged Sexual Misconduct at the u. S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh the being important details of this. One minute past 6 am in houston 9 pm in melbourne and 2 in the afternoon right here in moscow this wednesday september the 18th welcome to our international. With more than 60 percent of the vote counted the fate of israels Prime Minister in the balance this afternoon polls suggest hes neck and neck with his nearest rival after repeat parliamentary elections Binyamin Netanyahu even with allies included currently does not have enough seats to secure a majority government the same goes for his rival benny gantz 2 earlier kevin owen discussed all the developments with the dollar. This vote was largely viewed not as a general election but as a vote of confidence for netanyahu and mind that not for his party but for him personally and that is important because the whole the reason why these elections happened is because net
Announcer washington joirnl continues. Host we are joined by james zirin the author of supremely partisan, how raw politics tips the scales in the u. S. Supreme court. He is here to discuss his book which argues that the Supreme Court has become increasingly partisan in the cases he says were politicized and threatened to undermine Public Confidence in the court. Thanks for joining us this morning. Guest im delighted to be here. Host so what inspired you to write this book . Guest i was a practicing lawyer. I of course followed the Supreme Court for many years. And i became alarmed in recent years reading the cases at the 54 decisions and the 63 decisions, which seemed to be decided along partisan lines. So that you had the liberal wing of the court, all justices appointed by democratic president s, and the conservative wing all appointed by republican president s. And they were taking political positions, which could easily be identified with the ideas of the respective parties that a
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Trump as a practicing lawyer i followed the Supreme Court for many years and became alarmed in recent years reading the cases of the 54 decisions and the 63 decisions which seemed to be decided along partisan line so had the liberal wing of the court, all aopinioned by democratic president s and the conservative wing all appointed by republican president s, and they were taking political positions which could easily be identified with the ideas of the respective parties. Oducti about thing wed care bit. Excerp rights and preproductive rights. Lets look an an exert. You say the courts dramatic porlarization is a recipe for the undermining of our greatest institution and has not been fully appreciated by most otherwise well insured americans. What did you mean by that . Guest theres lessis confidence in the decision and to public at large doesntt accept their decisions and afte, all, the Supreme Court is alexander hamilton, doesnt have an army, doesnt have any money so its power comes fr