Thank you you aim really excits event. This book feels a very, very big blank in the story of this country. And its a really important book for that reason. Its called speaking while female, 75 extraordinary speeches by american women and its surprise that donna rubin is the one who produced it. Ive known you for as we have friends in common. Weve known each other for many, many weve had some similar career paths. But its great to have you here in this. And you came and spoke to my group about new york city, about ten years ago. I remember that. Yes, i do that. And we have some other i just say we have some inhouse speechwriting celebrities here. Three of my former colleagues or a couple of my colleagues on white house, jeff shesol, tom bossert and paul orzulak are sitting in the back. Theyre three guys who came to this to hear about womens speeches. You guys are great. They also to be extraordinarily talented speechwriters. So they can give you a lot more tips than i could. Im sure so
Politics. How is religion influencing your politics . Morning. We will get to your calls in a minute. Phone lines are open. Joining us is robert jones who is the ceo of Public Religion Research institute to talk about a new report that Shows Americans are divided along religious lines. Explain how sharply divided they are. See hiss what we patterns that are consistent with historic patterns in the u. S. What is notable is nothing affects the religious voting theyrns more than how responded to the civil rights act. Overall, most elections since reagan you could say White Christian voters, whether you are protestant or catholic, if youre a and christian, you tend to vote for the republican president ial candidate and nine what christians, religiously unaffiliated americans and other nonchristians tend to vote democratic. That is the pattern that we see today. The most fundamentally religious groups strongly supporting donald trump is white evangelical protestants, about two thirds suppor
And in the case of dollree mapp, involve people with a lot of personal strength to really see a situation and to go to the courts for relief and to fight her way all the way to the Supreme Court. So really our case is about individuals that have Lasting Impact upon all americans and any one of us could be that individual. Although frankly nobody could be like dollree mapp. And what are your final thoughts about this case and its importance . That we all have a role to play in the protection of our constitutional rights. We all have to stand up and give voice every day to the constitution or it ends up becoming a dead letter. Dollree mapp did that for all of us. Thank for being our guest tonight and thanks as always to you for your questions and comments. It makes the program interesting. Thanks for being with us. Our series continues next week with the Supreme Courts 1962 decision in baker versus carr. In that case justices establish the right of federal courts to review redistricting
[indistinct chatter] announcer next, a look at the future of the Smithsonian Institution with the new secretary. He sat down with a conversation with the Aspen Institute president and ceo. This is one hour 15 minutes. [indistinct chatter] all right, i think we are ready. Good afternoon. Thank you all for being here. I am the director of the Aspen Institute, and it is my pleasure to curate four or five times a year, some of these washington roundtable series, sponsored by michelle smith. We want to thank you, michelle. The conversations i curate naturally deal with the arts, but not just with the arts, but art and society and how the arts intersect and how they can be productive and evermore interactive partners with all of the areas of society, which is very much of course in keeping with the mission of the Aspen Institute itself. Today, we are very happy to welcome dr. David score 10, the new secretary of the smithsonian, who comes to us building on a distinguished career in medicine.
Host i am here today with jonathan eig. This is such a wonderful book, the birth of the pill. I learned so much. It was exciting. You take this story, a lot of it is about medical merchandising and you make it incredibly exciting and im curious to know your previous books were about baseball. What made you the subject . Guest i didnt have it on my radar at all and ten or 12 years ago i heard a rabbi gives a sermon about the importance of thinking of yourself as a partner of god and being able to change the world but to the responsibility to think about how we can transform our existence. Think of how the Birth Control pill must have set out to create one of the most important inventions of all times but was completely fundamentally change human dynamics. I became really curious and it struck me as odd that anybody would have on their agenda the pill for the liberation of women, something i would control their fertility and when men were controlling the Drug Companies who did that so th