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thank you again. on the next washington journal, margot sanger-katz joins us, looking at health care insurance and costs. then sharon epperson on the 80th anniversary of social security and what the future holds for the program. later, a conversation on the u.s. foster care system, with the director of policy reform and advocacy. we ll also take your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. washington journal, live each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. with the senate in its august break, we ll feature brook tv programming week nights, starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern. for the weekends, here are a few special programs. saturday, august 22nd, live from jackson, mississippi, for the mississippi book festival, beginning at 11:30 a.m. with discussions on harper lee, civil rights and the civil war. september 5th, we re live from our nation s capital. followed on sunday with our live in depth program, with former second lady and senior fellow at the american enterprise ....
report from occupied territory where he laid out issues we re grappling today, stop and frisk, alienated communities, police brutality. these are back and it s incumbent upon the nation i think to have debates about where these different moments come together and diverge. i totally agree, and i would add, this is another example, because i go with katrina on the cruises fund-raising cruise, we had a panel and jesse jackson was on this, the beginning of this cruise, and he got off the ship after the first half, and on the panel, our columnist eric walterman, who is a very smart person, who goes out of his way, i keep telling him, to make unnecessary enemies. i love eric, and he s a really good writer, and i look forward to his column regularly. eric said after jesse was off the boat, just in passing on this panel, i m very glad that the first black president obama had been elected was not jesse jackson but was barack obama. at which point jeremy scahill brilliant inv ....
cared about words a lot, and so you stayed out of his way when you were editing him and basically in my experience was you said yes or no to what he wanted to do, and you could say no, and it s not for us, and but i like to say grow gore vidal. i was going to speak of someone else in the protradition of great writers and essayists contributing to the nation. tony cushner, who i brought on to the editorial board, he in 1994 was so incensed by andrew sullivan s piece on the case for gay marriage because it was in a very participatory aroundal capitalist, militaristic framework and we talked about it and he wanted to reply. i knew as victor has done brilliantly over the years he wanted to put tony cushner with any copkind, who had, who was really someone who came to the nation with a sensibility the nation had not had and did the first issue on gay rights called the gay moment when victor was editor, but in that piece, tony finally produced called the socialism of the ....
that was more important. when in the middle of that situation, the then-publisher didn t want to give us an option to buy it. he had it was for sale for $150,000. but we needed $1 million in order to go into business because it was losing a certain amount of money every year. i had told ham, it s useless if you don t have an option because who knows what will happen. so edgar came to a meeting with ralph nader, a man named ping ferry, who is a marvelous guy, and his wife, and ham and me, to get the option. they spoke eloquently, with edgar leading the way on why he ought to give the option and how, et cetera. so they had a funeral this morning for the family, and what i said there is i blame edgar for the next 20 years of my life, because he was as responsible as anyone else for my getting there. so i came to the nation when, finally, the funding was in place and we got the opportunity to go there. i, of course, had not finished naming names. i spent too much time ....
key to the supreme court s review. next, a look at the history of evangelicals in american politics from the early 19th century to present day. we ll hear about christian leader henry ward beecher, prohibition and the 18th amendment. and the u.s. supreme court abortion case roe v. wade. this is about an hour and a half. well, good evening. and welcome to bob jones university and our first of a series of three forums. evangelicals and politics. we really appreciate you being with us here this evening. if we could, let s begin our program tonight with a word of prayer. heavenly father we do thank you for the opportunity we have here to learn more about our civic responsibilities and the great nation that you have blessed us to be a part of. we do pray for our nation. we pray for our erected leaders. we pray for president obama particularly as he leads this nation, that you might grant him a wisdom and that your sovereign hand might be directing the decisions he makes. ....