There are things to be learnt but i know talking to other people it is important and also to be pleasant to. [laughter] [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] thanks for coming out to politics prose. Please silence your cellphone that this time. Please come up to the microphone this is not the last event now we would ask you to leave the chair is down for the next event. On behalf of our orders of politics prose and our staff will come in addition to events with a different menus across the city. Lamp pleased to welcome Public Policy to present his new book its history and the constitution soon dialogue. To study american was the goal history. With those decisions of lifetime of scholarship for the am standing read. So of that opinion of the majority over time with the ongoing debates of the constitution and shows that judicial dissent. Professor urofsky. [applause] it is so is the pleasure to be at politics prose. How shall i dissent . Let me count the ways. How they saw the
We do over 500 events a year. In addition to events in the space are busboy simplifications in different venues across the city pretty also hold out groups, classes and literary trips throughout the year. Id like to begin by saying im pleased to welcome Public Policy and law professor of history at average and a Commonwealth University Melvin Urofsky as he present his new book dissent and the Supreme Court its role in the courts history and the nations constitutional dialogue urofsky is written and edited 52 books and studied legal history. His previous books include biographies of Supreme Court Justice Louis d. Brandeis which was deemed monumental by the New York Times book review. In addition to division and discord in supreme decisions. Kirkus reviews comments that in sub dissent and the Supreme Court combine for an outstanding read. In this latest offering goreski reviews at 226 years of high Court Decisions. A major concept found in his work has been well and maybe the opinion of
Yes, on speech and on oral speech and written speech come both. I told you, libel laws were one thing. What about the press at the time . What were they thinking about at that time . I do not know that there were any special rules applicable to the press. The press did not have to get permission of a censor to do publish, but neither did anybody else. And the press inordinate and the press anointed some very important figures, like thomas jefferson. Yes, indeed, and it was interesting that jefferson spoke very highly of the press before he became president. But while he was president he spoke about it as a polluted area, and you cannot believe about anything in any newspaper. How it survived one thing that epitomizes to me the importance of freedom of speech is in the ballot for america, the right to speak my mind out. That is america to me. I think if you had to pick and you probably should not have to but if you had to pick one freedom that is the most essential to the functioning of
The federal for reserve to stabilize the economy. And matthew of the Wilson Center discusses resident putin and the unrest in ukraine. We will take your calls and conversations you can join the conversation on twitter. Washington journal live at cspan. I love doing and i am a loyal duke alumn. I did not do this to hurt duke. I did this to figure out what had happened in a dispassionate way. There is a tremendous amount of passion about the story, even to this day. All one has to do is going to haven and see, already, i amassed 20 51 star reviews. The work because not been out a week. Im guessing not many of those review writers have read the book. The last book was about goldman sachs. It will have a lot of stuff passion about goldman sachs. Author and duke alum wayne d cohan looks at the duke scandal. Scaliaeme Court Justices and ginsburg were guests. They talked about the freedoms that define the First Amendment. The conversations part of the kalb series. This is one hour and 15 minu
Policy innovation coming from conservative politicians right now is on criminal justice. And revisiting the idea that it is a good idea to massively incarcerate people, especially for nonviolent crime. I think there are a number of southern governors who have been doing good things on that, including mississippi and ouisiana and north carolina. I would say that the most influential writer or politician that we will have in this generation will be the one who makes conservatism accepting of modern society and modern social issues, again leaving abortion aside. Maybe thats a politician, maybe its a writer, well have to see. But that person has not yet emerged. Jim, a gentleman of the Manhattan Institute, is a guy who is always going to be a niche product. Hes not always going to capture the hearts of the massive but hes a guy who really gets the idea that markets are fundamentally about decentralized trial and error. Theyre actually really important. And that the right really ought to be