thompson s literary formation was largely a san francisco story and indeed those of us at city lights across paths within whilst. he passed through the bay area kenneth test to this thompson was a regular atasca cafe just across the street from city lights. so we d see him on a pretty regular basis. his life was intertwined with north beach culture and awesome. see him walking down the street either warren hinkle from editor of ramparts or jeanette etheridge former owner of tosca. so peter richardson is not a stellar job. he seem together the trace elements of thompson s literary influences and a really compelling. it so we re thrilled. he can grace our halls peter richardson has written critically acclaimed books about the iconic rock band the grateful dead also ramparts magazine legendary muckraking magazine and carrie mcwilliams the radical author journalist and editor of the nation magazine. he s going to be joined tonight by none other than david talbot. i actually can t
Will have to get back to you. Hasrter general kelly become a political conversation. We believe the last few minutes of todays White House Briefing to go to the Heritage Foundation for a panel on freedom of speech, what does it mean . Oflysts will debate if vincent van names should be allowed to receive the federal trademark as one example. Introduction are being made. You are watching live coverage on cspan. Hosting our discussion this afternoon is tiffany bates, legal policy analyst. She researches and writes about records, judicial nominations, and other constitutional issues. She is also cohost of heritages 101 podcast. She was a regular contributor to the daily signal, heritages multimedia organization, and she also coordinates a pellet advocacy program. Please join me in welcoming tiffani bates. Tiffani. [applause] thank you, and welcome to the Heritage Foundation, and thanks for joining us to celebrate free speech week by highlighting recent First Amendment victories. I look at
Its merely an Administrative Task they lost track of. That doesnt sound like a very credible explanation either, does it . I fear theyre trying to come wake up some way to remand it and give an opening for the pto or give time for the government to renarrow the law and rejustify the results. That would be all i would have to say about the redskins case. It is literally impossible to distinguish from the tam case other than the quality of Workplace Environment and quality accommodation. Theres much to be encouraged about the tam case applying to things like redskins and campus speech and a good marker for hate speech. Just because youre offended doesnt mean you cant ban it. I worry about the hostile environment competing line of cases and where that would go. I guess ill stop there and let you guys have a chance for questions. Theres a lot more i can say about government speech but if anyone cares we will talk about it in the questions. Questions . Two questions although i dont want to
This afternoon. We ask you silence your devices as we begin. Everyone online is welcome to send a question at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion is Tiffany Bates for judicial and legal studies. She researchers and writes about the courts, judicial nominations and other constitutional issues. She was cohost of heritages potus one one podcast, a contributor to the daily signal, the Multimedia Organization and coordinator the media advocacy programs. Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Bates. Tiffany. Thank you and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Thanks for joining us to celebrate free speech week by highlighting recent First Amendment victories for beer, fans and sports as we will discuss later on. I will keep my introductions short so we can get to what were all here for, the beer. This summer the Supreme Court reiterated the proudest boast of our jurisprudence is protect the freedom to express the speech we hate. While it has long been the core o
Independent publishing and bookstores. Before we begin just a bit about matt. Matt taibbi is the author of New York Times bestsellers the divide and the great derangement. Derangement. Hes an editor for Rolling Stone and the wind of it 2007 National Magazine book magazine book columns and commentary. Please join me in welcoming matt. [applause] hello . Thats better. Here we go. Thank you very much. Thank you, everybody for coming. Before you start tonight, im speaking tonight with a bit of a heavy heart. I just got the news on the way here that the great Investigative Reporter Wayne Barrett has died this afternoon. Wayne was my first boss in this business. He was a mentor to me and hundreds of other reporters and other media people in this city. He dedicated his life to rooting out corruption in new york and i think new york is a better place because of him. Its a very sad day. I think its also, no journalist in america knew more about donald trump than wayne. He was his first biograph