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
A lot of ways. Things have gotten both better and worse and there always getting both better and worse. Thats what makes it so frustrating to be in and around politics. There is no easy argument to make about the direction of change. Theres always a cost of progress and theres always a cost to resisting progress. To your more general question, it does seem to me that in a lot of ways we are having too many of the most important fights in our political life at the national level. Part of what i mean by saying our politics need to be decentralizes that some of these arguments need to be had by people who are looking at one another. That is surely one way to get around that divide. Its a lot easier to sustain in the abstract then when its you and your neighbor. I cannot for the life of me see who has to decide who gets to go to what bathroom in the white house. I just dont think its necessary to do that. It would be a lot easier to live with one another if we didnt have to have one answer
Highlights of our coverage. You are watching American History tv 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. On march 30, 1981, a wouldbe assassin fired six shots at president Ronald Reagan outside the Washington Hilton Hotel two miles from the white house. Washington post reporter, del quentin wilber, author of rawhide down the nearassassination of Ronald Reagan met us on the sidewalk where the shooting took place, to tell his story of that day. Ronald reagan was leaving this hotel after delivering a speech to the aflcio. Reagan, a Longtime Union man himself was kind of excited to , give this speech. He actually rewrote it by hand. [applause] at 2 25, 2 26, 2 27, he emerges from this entrance behind this area, this is new, they built this after the shooting. Its a bunker, and if you look inside over here, youll see the entrance, the door, a st
Donald trump has been taken to the walter reed medical hospital as a precaution less than 2a hours after testing positive for coronavirus. His physician said he was feeling fatigued but in good spirits and is expected to spend the next few days there. Heres our north america editorjon sopel. An extraordinary moment in an extraordinary day. The president leaves by marine one from the south lawn. Destination Walter Reed Hospital. I think i am doing very well, but were going to make sure that things work out. The first lady is doing very well. So thank you very much. I appreciate it, i will never forget it. Thank you. But if the symptoms are mild, why is he having to go to hospital, particularly when the white house has its own medical unit with a team of doctors and nurses, and a well equipped surgery . As you know, tonights al smith dinner. On thursday night, in what appears to now be grim irony, the president made a speech from the white house about the pandemic. The worst was behind u