Popular podcast in america, Michael Knowles. Following the conversation between Mike Gonzalez and Michael Knowles we have conversations, if you think of something you would like to ask either or both of them please submit that question in the questions box. Join us with what you are tuning in for him. I want to introduce a special guest, Heritage Foundation president , mister kay coles james. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and our virtual book launch of the plot to change america how identity politics is dividing the land of the free. I want to thank you all but especially Michael Knowles for joining us today. We are honored to have you with us. We are so proud with Mike Gonzalez and the time and research he put into this tremendous book. Mike isnt afraid to talk about what is happening to our beloved country and call out those who buy into the destructive identity politics. Mike is often at the tip of the spear at heritage when it comes to these issues. It isnt because hes a true
I would like to thank our members in sponsors and supporters making this and all the other programs possible. We support the club during these uncertain times. Today i am excited to be talking with Tiffany Cross a longtime political analyst and author of a brandnew book said louder. Tiffany has spent years in politics in the media where she has witnessed the ways in which lack voters are minimized and suppressed through both policy and media coverage. It builds on the work and some explains the way in which they had been crucial in the same political system that we are often dismissed from. Although Voter Suppression is not new. If you would like me to ask. Please put it in the chat box. Or the comments on facebook. In and the question will get to me. I want to thank you for joining us today. Thank you for being in this conversation with me. Im especially excited to have it with you. And i just want to congratulate you also on your role in an aunt ms nbc. Very happy to have you there.
well, that s a loaded question peter. wonderful to be with you part of it is that i was born and raised in huntsville, alabama and surrounded by engineers who came to huntsville to in the race to put the man on the moon. so engineering was a very common degree that people pursued i needed money for college. my activist parents were broke and vanderbilt offered me a merit scholarship on forever grateful. i loved science and math and i use the logic of engineering in my writing you could particularly i think see it in my most recent book where i m a self-hot-taught historian, but i bring a systems analysis. to the structures that create racial inequality. so there s a connection there. it s helps me to think critically. well that path began in huntsville, alabama. it went through vanderbilt university and then to oxford university masters in english law jd from harvard. and then a clerkship with supreme court justice thurgood marshall the clinton white house and finally to auth
Tls and panamerica, and its a total delight to discuss the issue of free speech which never seems to go away. As i edit a literary magazine, i thought id begin things with a literary angle. In britain he wrote the polemic against [inaudible] and in it he said this which has continued to resound, give me the liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according to conscience above all liberties. But before we get mistyeyed though, he also said this those which otherwise come forth, if they be found mischievous and libelous, the executionist will become the remedy to follow. He was the godfather of i believe in Free Expression but, which has been active as a brigade ever since. As were going to discuss over the next 50 minutes, free speech is never in practice absolute. The question before us today is how much it should be championed over other rights, especially in universities. And those rights might include the right not to be offended, but also the right to live free from abuse and
Ready for the compliment. But one thing that is the case, and its one reason why were so proud for the 12th time, 12th anniversary of the brooklyn book festival to get an opportunity to demonstrate whats always been the case which is this Great Law School is in the forefront. This law school is a center for learning how to use the power of law for the benefit of our community, the nation and the world. So thats no small thing. Well, lets just yet right at it. You are in for a real treat, because weve got two fantastic authors and incredible books that i think youre going to find surprising in many ways as i did when i was able to read them. First is loving and the second is one nation after trump. And these books at first blush would seem to be very different having not much in common. After all, one book is about interracial sex, procreation and marriage and not necessarily in that order, but thats what its about. And the other book by my friend, norm ornstein, is about electile dysfu