We dont stand for it. These are not acts of peaceful protests but domestic terror. None of it justifies looting, burning or anything else. Regardless how angry you are, if you loot or barn you should be held accountable as anybody else. This cannot be tolerated across the board. Paul lets bring in our panel. Dan henninger. Kim strassel and jason riley. Jason, who won the battle of the political battle of kenosha . [laughter] jason it might be a little early to tell to give an answer on that. We will have to see the polls. President trump seems to think its a winning issue for him, he can in blame on the protests that we are seeing going on around the country. The democrats, i think one of the challenges is he has this happening on his watch and what he can do to address this if he is reelected that he cant do right now while hes president. At the same time, i think biden feels he wont be blamed for this, he is seen as the more call me figure. Hes looking at polls like those who say we
We dont stand for it. These are not acts of peaceful protests but domestic terror. None of it justifies looting, burning or anything else. Regardless how angry you are, if you loot or barn you should be held accountable as anybody else. This cannot be tolerated across the board. Paul lets bring in our panel. Dan henninger. Kim strassel and jason riley. Jason, who won the battle of the political battle of kenosha . [laughter] jason it might be a little early to tell to give an answer on that. We will have to see the polls. President trump seems to think its a winning issue for him, he can in blame on the protests that we are seeing going on around the country. The democrats, i think one of the challenges is he has this happening on his watch and what he can do to address this if he is reelected that he cant do right now while hes president. At the same time, i think biden feels he wont be blamed for this, he is seen as the more call me figure. Hes looking at polls like those who say we
Midst to talk about the shop. But first i want to talk about richard bell, scholar, beautiful writer. This book really jumps in with his incredibly human picture of a young by, and from that moment i knew that i was in sure creative hands but he is a remarkable scholar. Educated at cambridge harvard, moved professor at the university of maryland, has won one of the major awards and if theres a round of applause it is for people who are educating the next generation of historical people to have a sense of history and what it means as human beings in the world but also particularly as americans, and somewhere from wells is dedicated to helping us mine that history. He is a 2017 public scholar after the National Endowment for the humanities. And has had fellowships from the Huntington Library in california to cambridge in england and everywhere in between, yale and the library of congress. So this is a mind we want sort of tilling the soil of americas past and helping us come to under and
Im david ferry archivist of the United States and its my pleasure to welcome you to todays virtual author lecture with zachary m schreg author of the fires of philadelphia which describes the events surrounding the antiimmigration riots in philadelphia in 1844. Before we begin id like to tell you about two upcoming programs. You can view on our youtube channel. On thursday, july 8th at noon amy stone will discuss the man who hated women her new book about antivice activists and us postal inspector Anthony Comstock and on thursday, july 15th at noon. Well hear from paul lettersky who in 1965 was assigned to assist the legendary fbi director jay edgar hoover. Letterskys new book the director describes his years in hoovers inner circle. We lived through periods of unrest people may be tempted to look nostalgically to the better days in the past a thoughtful closer. Look at those long gone days. However, may reveal that the conflicts of the present have deep roots in the past. Several time
Country. Up next, we visit the National Constitution center in philadelphia to learn about the creation of the u. S. Constitution and to see several rare early drafts. Welcome to the National Constitution center. Im jeffrey rosen, the president of this wonderful institution which as cspan viewers know, is the only institution in america chartered by congress to disseminate information about the u. S. Constitution on a non partizan basis. And today, i am so excited to show you a new gallery weve just opened american treasures, which contains the five rarest early drafts of the u. S. Constitution in american history, not even at the Constitutional Convention, where these five drafts displayed in the same place. And now, thanks to a Great Partnership with the Historical Society of pennsylvania and the wonderful full support of David Rubenstein, weve been able to open this gallery, display these drafts together, and tell the story of the evolution of the text of the constitution into the d