A silence. I dont care if. We met the irish writer colum told being while he was in berlin the world renowned author is extremely versatile she writes novels short stories essays place and poetry we spoke with him about his books in his life as well as about ireland and how its changing. Tobin is particularly known for his skill at writing compelling female characters. His bestselling novel brooklyn was adapted for the screen it tells the story of ellis a young woman who cannot find work in ireland and so makes the difficult decision to emigrate. Like so many before and. After her illness bored to shit in the hope of finding a better future. She heads to new jersey. There she settles in the borough of brooklyn which is home to a Large Community of irish immigrants. At 1st and shes torn between the 2 cultures and then between to meet tony in new york. And jim who she meets in ireland on a trip back. Compassionate depiction of her heartache for torment and her agonizing decision consolid
Of murder after a 19 year old woman was shot dead on her way and fog through the irish sea, the to a supermarket in lancashire. English channel, and the north sea. The western parts of the uk as the effect of the we will also have hill fog across crisis on ourjobs. Barely an industry has some western areas. With this going been unscathed as many closed for business. In the next hour well find out on it will not be a cold night. You see how the rain advances towards what some of that impact has been. The Northern Isles. High pressure is firmly in charge of the weather at the premier league takes another step forward as players return the moment. If anything it drifts a to training in small groups. Little bit further east through the but in scotland theyve called course of tomorrow, allowing some off the title chase as celtic are awarded warm continental airfrom spain and headlines are coming up next. France to move across our shores, their ninth in a row. Across the whole of the uk. Its
Prof. Reynolds hello and welcome to a second episode of lot 2020, Global Pandemic edition. The first class went pretty well. Law 2020. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our introductory law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and we will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than today because the cspan people asked me to be. Is textbook we are using constitutional law. Its a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. Today we talk about free speech and we havent talked about it we have talked about equal protection, race discrimination, gender, and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech highly. To the extent they talk about it, they saw as mostly saw it as mostly poli
For their presentations. They will speak for 10 to 12 minutes at the most, i will enforce that with an iron hand about their Current Research on president ial commissions and then the three of us will talk in conversation about the role of president ial commissions and political history. And i will reserve the last half hour at least for questions and comments from you and for us to continue talking. As you can tell todays session is being filmed by cspan so do with that information as you will. All right. Frank is going to go first and introduce yourself. Yeah, my name is frank popper. I teach city planning rather than history, although increasingly i take a historical approach to city planning. I do that at rutgers and at princeton. The reason im here is that nearly half a century ago i wrote a small book for the 20th century fund, now the Century Foundation in new york city on president ial commissions and its one of the very few sources, i think, on them and a couple of months ago
Here we are viewed here we are. The first class went pretty well. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our standard law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than usual because the cspan people asked me to be. Here is the textbook we are using, constitutional law, a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. We have been talking about free speech, equal protection, race discrimination, gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech very highly. To the extent they talked about it, they saw it as mostly political, more than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment is the courts did little with it