Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Prize winner. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. First up, here is mit professor and author, noam chomsky. [inaudible conversations] [applause] [applause] [cheering] good evening, everyone. Thank you for coming. Thanks for joining us those here and online via the form network. I am name is ashley and on behalf of Harvard Bookstore i am honored to announce tonights event with noam chomsky presenting requiem for the American Dream joined in conversation by democracy now amy goodman. [applause] before we begin i want to take a moment to thank you all for being here. Your ticket and book purchase support Harvard Bookstore. We are an independent bookstore and you make this acclaimed author series possible. Visit used a harvard. Com to sign up for our newsletter. Tonights event is being filmed by booktv, democracy now and please know that during q a your questions may be recorded. Those asking questions at the end of the event should form a line at this center microphone. We will ge
Bruce klinger discussing north koreas missile test and nuclear threat. Be sure to watch washington journal live at 7 00 eastern this morning. Join the discussion. Now i look at freedom of speech on College Campuses with a group of professors and offers. This from a two Day Conference called finding meaning in america. Good afternoon and welcome back to our conference on a worthy life finding meaning in america. We have a very distinguished group of panelists to adjust the question. I want to begin with a personal testimony of my own and an expression of gratitude. We will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies, that exist in american Higher Education these days. Compromising of Academic Freedom violations of Core Principles of freedom of speech, the lack of viewpoint diversity, the phenomenon of trying to win debates by labeling other people as bigots or haters or what have you. Those pathologies are undeniable. They exist. They are very widespread. Many people in the academ
Gratitude. E will be discussing pathologies, undeniable pathologies that exist in american Higher Education these days. Ompromising of compromising of academic education. The lack of Viewpoint Diversity. The phenomenon of trying to win debates by labeling other people haters. T bigots or those pathologies are undeniable. They exist. They are very widespread. Many people in the academy across the political spectrum not only recognize them but recognize that they present an urgent problem and truly a stanford ovost of university recently in a public letter called that threat the threat from within the you university within the university. Saying no threat to Higher Education come interesting outside the universities is the equal of the threat inside the universities stemming from a certain kind of ill liberalism. A lack of Viewpoint Diversity among faculty and students. A tendency to group think and unwillingness to question established orthodoxies or permit discussions of key issues to