intellectual and doesn t have the depth to discuss these issue. this man is a mogul. who are you talking about lebron or kanye? i lost you. are you talking about kanye. now i m talking about kanye. both of them. let s be fair here. you re talking about anti-intellectualism. read and do a google search. kanye has said himself he does not read. when people say kanye should read, they re talking about anti-intellectualism. he admitted he doesn t like to read the same as the president admitted he doesn t read, as well. if he s not going to read and up on issue perhaps he should stand back before coming out and speaking with some authority. there s a lot of kind of smart out there. it s not all scholarly and academic. this president if we want to talk about him, i wish i was at cuff as this president to have an ivy league doog and be president of the united states. that s your aspiration. i wish i could lack the dep
dutifully apply them to the disputes that come before you. i expect we ll have a conversation or two about this book which you contributed to and the law of judicial precedent because i know that there s a number of questions by members of the senate about how you will regard previously decided cases in the supreme court and i trust you ll give us a scholarly and detailed explanation of that and demonstrate that many of the concerns expressed about the new justice coming on the court somehow wiping away previous decisions single handily not even with the help of other members of the court is just plain ridiculous and we look forward to asking those questions and getting your answer. thank you very much. senator durbin? thank you, mr. chairman. judge kavanaugh, its good to see you again. i thank the members of your family who are weathering this hearing. thank you very much for being
them to the disputes that come before you, finally, judge, i expect we will have a conversation or two about this book that you contributed to. the law of judicial precedent. i know there is a number of questions by members of the senate how will you regard previously decided cases in the supreme court. and i trust you will give us a scholarly and detailed explanation of that and demonstrate that many of the concerns that have been expressed about a new justice coming on the court somehow wiping away previous decisions, single handedly. not even with the help of other members of the court is just plain ridiculous. we look forward to asking those questions and getting your answer. thank you very much. senator durbin. thank you, mr. chairman. judge kavanaugh, it s good to see you again. thank you, members of your family, who are weathering this hearing. thank you very much for being here today.
away from fdr recognizing the soviet union, so in the living memory plus of most americans, russia has either been a soviet state or now an oligarchiccal one. i m wondering with your experience both lived and scholarly, can you talk to us about the russian character? that is, is there is it because of geography? is it because of, are there particular forces that tend to make it so difficult for the kinds of institutions that people in the west value so much to take root there? well, i don t think it will ever be just like the west. it s always going to be different. they have a very different history, as you said. they ve always had an authoritarian government, with maybe the exception of that short time after the soviet union fell apart, but then it became close to chaos. and the one thing russians hate
i at least count. charlemagne promoted the establishment of monasteries latin schools and libraries all across his empire and to this day there are many precious collections of manuscripts from the time. charlemagne all over europe such as in the benedictine melkor monastery overlooking the danube in austria they are outstanding witnesses to the scholarly knows of a time now known as the carolingian renee since. it was a development in almost all areas of knowledge and life one that is also reflected in the carolingian buildings in the gatehouse of the last monastery just north of hyderabad. the other face of his reign war and people oppression and violence were still