About both it and the constitution. The National Archives hosted this event to mark the 800th anniversary of the magna carta. It is about 90 minutes. Im the executive director of the constitutional project, we are an organization devoted to promote greater access to an understanding of u. S. Constitutional history. It is a pleasure to join the National Archives this evening to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the ceiling of the magna carta. Magna carta has left a profound legacy for law and culture around the world. To commemorate magna carta and its powerful ideas, like trial by jury and due process of law embodied in its text, weve assembled an Impressive Group of scholars to discuss magna cartas influence on american constitutionalism. Tonight will be joined by jennifer paxton, a medieval specialist from catholic universities in america the author of in the shadow of the great charter, who gave a wonderful lecture this afternoon. And bruce obriant, and magna carta expert from the
All right, all right, were back. The horrible past is the horrible past. What matters now is the possibility of a better future. So much will depend on how much the Catholic Church for lack of a better word atones. Catholic cardinals are rushing to Pope Benedicts defense. Their main target, the New York Times. Jon what . Youre upset about the whole people finding out thing . laughter the coverage of the. Excuse me chuck, im being visited by the demons again. Do we have any. Oh, now the otter is playing with the kit kitten. Oh, oh. And theyre both eating some other animal they killed. All right. All right. Lets just. Its easy to get caught up in recriminations. Lets not sight of who the real victim is. I received in these days a letter from a jewish friend, he wrote i am following with disgust the attack against the church, the use of stereotypes the transferring of the responsibility and personal fault to the collective one remind me of the most shameful aspects of antisemitism. Jon le
The same place anyway. After words airs every saturday at 10 p. M. And again sunday at 9 p. M. Eastern. And you can watch all previous after words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to barnes noble upper west side. Tonight i have the distinct pleasure of introducing author sean wilentz, a George Henry Davis 1886 professor of American History at Princeton University and author of the vancroft prize winning the rise of american democracy, bob dylan in america and many other works. He brings us today his new book, the politicians and the egalitarians the Hidden History of american politics, in which he reminds us of the commanding role Party Politics has played in our struggle against economic be inequality. At nations founding, americans believed that wealth extremes would destroy their revolutionary experiment in republican government. That idea has since shaped National Political conflict. Mr. Wilentz transfo
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Kurds in Northern Iraq and Northern Syria want independent nations. But both palestinian and kurdish political groups are often treated as extremists by those proximate to them, namely and respectively the israeli and turkish government. And while the gop and democratic frontrunners to replace president obama are saying theyll be more favorable to the palestinians, the kurds are increasingly ignored. Syria it seems is just too complicated. Are trump and hillary in sync . Pat . I think on the west bank, john, they probably agree. Frankly, i agree with donald trump on this. He said he is very strongly pro israel but if youre going to get into a negotiation between the israelis and the palestinians, palestinians are going to have to give up the right to return to what is now israel. Agree to an entity, a palestinian entity in jerusalem. Both sides have to make concessions to get any kind of deal. While you may be pro israel and back israel, if youre going to be an honest broker you have t