Youre watching booktv on cspan2, television for serious readers. Heres a look at whats on prime time tonight. We kick off the evening at 7 30 p. M. Eastern with the son of the late author and journalist hunter s. Thompson who remembers life with his father. Then at 8 30 former state Department Official talks about the growing influence of china and india. Michael peach, ceo of the publisher hachette book group, talks about his publishing career at 9 30 p. M. Eastern. And at 10 on boob tvs after words booktvs after words program, Mitch Mcconnell discusses his memoir, the long game, with senator lamar alexander. We finish up our prime time programming at 11 with neil bass couple who recalls the nazis race to build a nuclear bomb and the allies efforts plan to destroy their Nuclear Facility in norway. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. And youre watching booktv on cspan2. Whenever we get the opportunity, we like to go to College Campuses and talk with professors who are also auth
Watching booktv on cspan2. Whenever we get the opportunity, we go to College Campuses and talk to professors who are also authors. Today we are in the campus of Claremont Mckenna college in claremont, california and we are joined by professor ralph rossum, who is the author of this book, understanding Clarence Thomas the juisprudence of constitutional restoration. Professor, what in your view is the biggest misconception about Clarence Thomas . Just go the biggest misconception would be that he was somehow a shoe shine boy as he was disparagingly put shortly after his confirmation. Thomas is altogether his own man. I had a chance a few years ago to do a book on the jurisprudence of antonyms kalina and i admire him enormously. In fact, they have asked me to do and after words to come out in a new paperback edition. So i am going through all of his cases since the book was published. And enormously able man. Having done the book on him, it is deeper, more profound, more consistent, is a
You did it all with such grace, but also with that art of the tub, so do you want to talk about what that was life growing up in your stories with your family and how you ever decided to take this journey . Guest you said it was to interview me. Im so excited that you agreed to do this because it says a lot about our relationship and the warmth we share and i am so thrilled and as you know im going to get to your question seconds, but the fact is the warm relationships that have developed between the women senator and frankly a lot of the men means so much to me. You know im not running again and people say why, are you disgusted with the place, not at all. I just feel after 40 years there are people that are like you that can carry the banner. We have our colleague from new york who writes the forward and you interviewing me. I could not be more thrilled, but getting to the issue of how did i get tough, what was my life like when i was a child which in this memoir when i sat down to w
Committed to some sort of democracy. Its not like we are saying we dont mind if we produce a bunch of students that are marcus and we think that would somehow, we would have done something wrong along the way. Host professor thomas with the decline in liberal Arts Education overall in the country are we losing civics . Guest thats a great question and should be a serious concern to us. In fact at the end of the book i oppose the great challenge in our day really is the potential commercialization and the career turn in liberal Arts Education which threatened to eclipse the more robust liberal arts element and when you think of how in the founding generation the biggest threat in some sense might have been from religion in our day the biggest threat will was a commercial nature which in interesting ways its probably because of the success of american constitutionalism. The forwardlooking version of it really wanted to create a thriving commercial society and we have done that but now do
But there will be divergence as well. The way the differences tend to be around issues of social welfare policy and by this i mean writ large, education policy, healthcare policy, policies that have to do with children, the elderly, women are more willing to see the government as a positive force in terms of these particular issues more so than men. Women, some parents might it is more sophisticated than that. A more positive attitude towards state involvement providing for healthcare, supporting education, supporting childcare, supporting Maternal Health and other Health Issues as well. The other arena is around issues of Foreign Policy and peace. These are not stereotypical differences between men and women but women are much less, women are more reluctant to see the National Government involve the United States in military conflicts abroad. Women are less likely to support the use of force by the military by the us political system. Women are more likely to be supportive of issues t