Welcome our guest tonight to the stage. Id like to take a minute to share some information about our upcoming programs. This season, we will host a number of exciting speakers and engage in conversations including february 5th a sweeping historical discussion how the right to bear arms from americas founding until today. On february 7th, a retrospective commemorating the constitutional legacy of the late Justice Antonin Scalia two years after his death. On february 21st, a special Members Program on the role of dissent throughout american history. On march 20th, an exclusive book launch with National Constitution Center President and ceo Jeffrey Rosen on William Howard taft and of course, much more. To purchase tickets or for more details about these and other upcoming events, please visit constitution center. Org debate. If youre interested in becoming a member, visit the membership table directly outside the auditorium lobby on information how to join today. Members receive free tick
Before we get started id like too thank our sponsors. We will leave about 10 minutes at the end of the program for a q a session, so if you have questions please sign up at the microphone to your right and ask questions at the microphone so the home viewing audience can hear the question and before we begin, please silence your phones and turn off camera flashes. With that i like to welcome my professor of Digital Media strategy at the Mcdill University in todays interview her, owen youngman. Thank you, tom and welcome here to Jones College prep. Great to have you here. Im sure you dont mind being in this airconditioned venue on this hot chicago day. We are delighted to welcome son of the north shore, justin peters, formally wrote a lot of things i read in the clumpy journalism review as well whos recently published book is the idealist. The idealist aaron swartz and the rise of free culture on the internet. Is a book that is both biography and exploration of history and musings on the
So, just like the jehovahs witnesses in 1943, the consequences are stark. Barnett held that people, including young students, could not be forced to say what was not in their minds. A concept we today called the rule against compelled speech. The court emphasized the constitutional limits on the states coercive power, which exercised by, quote, village tyrants or by the federal government. And it underscored that the First Amendment was designed to protect noncon officialists of all stripes them court particularly focused on schools because the case involved two Elementary School girls. It said because schools are educating the young for citizenship they must scrupulously protect individual rights. If wire not to strangle the free mind at its source and to teach youth to discount important principles of government as mere platitudes. You can watch this and other programs online at book of the doering booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] book tv is back live
Ebook and 5 off lit fest merchandise. Todays program will be broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. T if theres time at the end for a q a session with the author, we ask you to use the microphone locateed to your right. Before we begin todays program, we ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off yourdi cameras flashes. Please welcome associate professor at the university of chicago and todays interviewer, jean daley. [applause] hi, thank you. I am here with david daley, no relationing, who is the no relation, who is the editorinchief of salon and has published this new book. Theres been some controversy on how to say the title, but i think im just going to say rat fd. So thats quite a story. You tell us a bit about how you came to write the story. Absolutely, thank you. What really interested me was my own confusion over what happened in 2012. You have a president who was reelected with 332 electoral votes by 206, wins the popular vote by some 3. 5 million, the democrats take 25 of
You can keep the spirit of litfest going all year by downtown loading the printers row app where you can fine all of the Chicago Tribune premium books content, free did downed ebooks and the complete litfest scud all. Download today and get five dollars off merchandize. Todays program will be broadcastlift on cspan2s booktv. We ask you to use the microphone to your right to ask questions. We ask that you silence your cell phones and turn off your camera flashes. Please welcome reporter from the Chicago Tribune and todays sir interviewer. Talk to us. His public,ty defender, hoyt have chicago iconic newspaper. Thank you both for being here for this conversation. Lets get started by talking about your personal connections to the stories you are tellingful both of you have given birth to stories you have personal connections to, so what led to these topics . Start out, natalie. Sure. So, im a chicago native. I went away to school, work other places, moved back here about ten years ago, and