activists. ruby bridges beginning now on book tv portions of this hearing good morning. thank you to all of our witnesses for joining us today. thanks to all of the members participating. we re in the middle of votes. so there s going to be a little bit back and forth in classic congressional style in in a very happy to be here with the wonderful ranking member of this committee, ms. nancy mace. in 1943 in west virginia versus burnet the supreme court struck down compulsory flag salutes as a violation of the first amendment stating if there s any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it s that no official no matter how higher petty shall prescribe what shall be worthodox and matters of politics religion nationalism or other matters of opinion or for citizens to confess by word or act their faith. they re in then in 1969 in the case called tinker versus des moines school district, which struck down mary beth tinker suspension from middle school for remusing for refus
wonderful ranking member of this committee, ms. nancy mace. in 1943 in west virginia versus burnet the supreme court struck down compulsory flag salutes as a violation of the first amendment stating if there s any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it s that no official no matter how higher petty shall prescribe what shall be worthodox and matters of politics religion nationalism or other matters of opinion or for citizens to confess by word or act their faith. they re in then in 1969 in the case called tinker versus des moines school district, which struck down mary beth tinker suspension from middle school for remusing for refusing to remove her black armband in protest of the vietnam war the court-affirmed that neither teachers nor students shed their first amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate. in 1982 most relevant to our hearing today in board of education versus pico the supreme court rejected the effort by a town school board in new york state to strip
there s no barrier. a physician can do this but there s increasing work to make it happen. the natural path of least resistance is to prescribe the preferred drug. these are levers. this is what is been called enlightened paternalism or the structure of incentives make it such that do what the insurers would like to maximize, the rational course of achieving cost savings forever is the equivalent drug is the outcome. as a physician, however, and as a patient one needs needs to remember thethat can be at times and opposition between reason and rationality. one thinks of the movie dr. strangelove, for example, where dr. strangelove who at the end of the movie as you know led by peter sellers, as eloquently rational madman who is leading the world of destruction, arrived by set of incredibly rational steps through economic game theory. so this idea that one can create a rational system which at times can produce unreasonable results i think is a dilemma that exist at the hea
the authoritarian societies can be middle. in a democracy you don t have to burn books to kill a culture. that s what i see is happening here. wrote a book with a question my answer. your subtitle is america in three books. what are they? actually, it is more than three books. wizard of oz was the 1st book i heard about. i got to the imaginary map of america, kansas. it ends with james baldwin who i feel is that true progeny of mark twain but it begins with mark twain s huckleberry finn, goes into babbitt. how do you tie those books together? how do they make america? well, you know, rereading all those books i had i have read so many times before i realized how much american books become a reflection of america s moral compass. those orphaned restless euros, most of them outcasts, most of them not from materialism or money or suspense, but like-deciding it was better to go to hell and do the right thing. she it was based on idea. if you lose that dream you will n
you re watching booktv on c-span2 with top non-fiction books and authors every weekend. booktv television for serious readers. from my father i inherited my confidence my resilience, my passion, and my audacity, looking back although it was never explained to me in this way, he taught me the spirit of which is greek idea of honor and doing the right thing, even when one s own interests or even one s own life is in peril. growing up while i never fought anything but australian there were two stories about the second world war and greece that i always kept close to my heart. the first was in 1940 when benito mussolini italy s prime minister asked the greek prime minister for free passage through greece and on the spot at 3:00 in the morning without hesitation, without consultation he said oy he said no. it was spirited defiance and quite incredible when considering just how vastly outnumbered the greeks were by the italians. it prompted sir winston churchhill, the greatest