today s panel is entitled provocatively, will america ban hate speech. we only one of a few countries that does not regulate speech on the basis of content. , in nearly all developed countries, some ideas are judged to harmful, vulgar or hateful to be spoken in public. a ride to maine free speech remains an abridged for voicing opinions outside the mainstream is man been up is ramping up. just asked james damore, brandon eich or alex jones, from twitter for speech crimes. fortunately, for those entering the workforce, colleges are taking it upon themselves to teach students that controversial speech has serious consequences. today, visiting speakers are often met by mobs or disinvited from campuses altogether. companies that legal rights to fire employees and been speech as they choose. the extent to which assess this men are not free men, the new necessities this should concern us to the extent that the public square has been replaced by social media platforms, we should
, vamps and tramps, new essays which came out in 1994, the birds: a study of alfred hitchcock published by the british film institute. great road burns, camille paglia reads 43 of the worlds best poems and glaring images of the books she was here last year with five years ago including a journey through art from egypt to star wars. she is here this evening with her seventh book, free women free men. sex, gender feminism. a cycle selection of her most notable lectures on the subject. her third essay collection will be out by year from this fall from pantheon, a publisher expense publishing her work since sexual persona. she was contributor for salon.com, beginning with its debut issue in 1995, written numerous articles on art, literature, feminism, religion, education and politics or publication around the world. it s a pleasure to thank you all for being here and now please join me in welcoming back to seattle camille paglia. [applause] hello. i don t know which microphone
how would you respond to that? . have been there. in 2009, i get the anger. i think some people aren t different stages than i am because everyone starts at some point. i mean, we are setting up a political battle that our kids and grandkids will be fighting, so that s a privilege of living in a free society is that you must constantly attended to this. we are just getting to the next level. this won t be decided in our lifetime. it s just not how it works. it s a generational battle. evers as a result i think some people are at a different point in this marathon than others. when i first got involved in politics it was before 2001, and i was not for george bush. i was raised in a family of hard-core democrats. i was pro-life and i ve always been unequivocally pro-life because i come from a i ve been protected. second amendment for the non- biography to a? exactly. so, i guess the more educated i got in the more mature i became in the eyes opened a bit more and i rea
all the way in the back. okay, all right. be seated. we have a few stragglers coming in. that is all right. i am icao, my job is to welcome you to left for him 2016. thank you all for coming. i am sure this will be a wonderful for him. i attended my first forum in 2010. i saw doctor cornell west go below the podium when he was so animated. i knew it was something i wanted to be part of in that moment. when i started my doctorate i joined up with the forum. we were talking about occupy wall street, in 2016, talking about a democratic socialist gaining millions of votes throughout the country. times are definitely changing. one thing that has definitely changed, not for the better, the prices in new york city ravage the working and middle classes and the left for him as well. when i was an intern we were upset when people asked what my compensation was, i said an infinite supply of pretzels, was letters, that unfortunately is still the condition we are in today so all of you ar
ok, awesome. all right, we are looking this week at the origins of the growth of the women liberation s movement in this primary freshman course. something about the identification they made with the problem s of society and their solutions for them. just to recap we began this of the 1950 s. we had to know where we were starting so we could know where we were going. we spent some time investigating the african-american civil rights movement. the 1960 election of president kennedy and president johnson, a fairer amount about vietnam from the ,iew of the soldiers, protest other groups. we included the conclusion of the vietnam conflict. an emphasis on participatory democracy that is, people had to be involved in decisions that shape their lives, in this involve the rejection of hierarchy and top-down decision-making. we paid attention to the development of the new left, dedicated to ending documenteast the from wednesday from 1965. we discussed how that documents grew ou