Majority opinions, different aspects. You have been warned about your cell phones and apple watches so i will not repeat that but you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the time of our evening. I also want to thank our host Justice Stephen breyer who against all odds agreed to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice higher is one of the most Justice Breyer is one of the most faithful friends. When we have called on him, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. I want to thank him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. I dont want to be too much on his time, so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. He was born in San Francisco and received an ab from stanford, llb from harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 term. After Justice Breyer pursued a teacher teaching career, president jimmy carter appointed him to the court of ap
Us throughout the program tonight. His book is call, its been 85 since debs died. Why do we care about him . Debs is one of the labor leaders at a crucial time and a conflict between labor and capital, but more importantly, he was the central figure in the socialist movement at a time when it was a viable, growing and important part of the american political culture. So is he interesting as a snapshot in time or do you think he has a lasting legacy, do you think . Like many thirdparty candidates he and his fellow socialists managed to move the conversation in very important directions that have affected the development of american democracy ever since. So in that regard he is of his time, but he has also had a long impact on us, as well. We will have time to delve into some of the elections more deeply later on, but of the five bids he made for the white house, are any particularly significant . Two for very different reasons. The 1912 bid represents the high watermark of socialism whe
Class on the rise of socialism in america in the early 20th century. He includes the socialist Party Candidate eugene debs. This is a class at Columbia University called the american radical tradition, and we started with the American Revolution and have been going through the Abolitionist Movement, early feminism, the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement, and now were sort of entering into the 20th century. And in the next couple weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the Industrial Workers of the world, the Womens Suffrage Movement coming to the fore, municipal reform, many other things. But today our subject is the socialist party, the rise of socialism as a key element of american radicalism in the early 20th century. We told him we were in the Suffrage Movement and the various times of socialism at that time. From 1860 at least onward, there had been some kind of socialist presence in t
Reynolds. On the law professor at the university of tennessee. We are talking today about free speech and incitement and were going to get started on obscenity. We will be a last socratic than usual today because the cspan people asking to be. Heres the textbook we are using. Constitutional law. Its a good case book. Its the first time ive used this one actually, so we are still learning our way here. Today we are talking about free speech. We have been talking about equal protection. Weve been talking about race discrimination and gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights on a different section entirely, its all about free speech. We know they value free speech very highly, to the extent that they talked about it, its mostly political. More than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment. Almost all the case law comes from the 20th century, for the 21st, and there are a couple of reasons for that. One is that man
A Lasting Impact on American Society. This class is about an hour, 20 minutes. All right. So today were going to talk about america during the First World War. And ive called this lecture americans at war the myth busters edition. And i did that kind of intentionally. Because when we think about understanding the First World War in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions that are attached to the war that its really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then to unpam them a little bit and think more about the reality of the experience, right . I want to start first by talking about how this connects to the First World War overall. So its not just america that has these myths, but even this sense of how we understand the First World War to begin with. And we think of the kind of general narrative that we attach to it. One of the most common narratives is that world war i was a senseless slaughter. Right . Weve already talked about the uncertainty as