Discussion with julian, id like to share a little bit about the history of the strand. The strand was founded in 1927 on book row. Stretching from union square, book row gradually dwindled from 48 bookstores until, after 93 years, the strand is the sole survivor. Now run by Third Generation owner nancy bass. We want to thank all for our support because without all of you, we wouldnt be where we are today. And also an update on the store in case youre curious, the physical store in union square is open, weve been open for about two weeks. So wear a mask and stop by if youre in the area. Tonight were excited to have Julian Zelizer who is celebrating the release of his book, burning down the house. Julian is a class of 1941 professor of history of Public Affairs at Princeton University and a cnn political analyst. His most recent book coauthored by our moderator, kevin kruse and the fierce urgency of now. Zelizer has been awarded fellowships with the New York Historical society, the russe
Challenges our society has had trouble with in recent years this is a time that makes us wonder how strong institutions will be how we rise to a challenge like this but because at the time of testing but also think of americas strength what we are good i had as a country and to address the enormous problems. Host how did we get here . Thats a complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and quality of the individual on one hand and some strength of community on the other our society in the past halfcentury has emphasized the individual, liberty, freedom, dy that has brought some enormous advantages and benefits but there is another side to the coin that can look like fragmentation and isolation and alienation and loneliness and we have seen all that and era marked by a crises to the financial crisis to a pandemic that forces us to look to the sources of our strength and ways to drive us to the history and politics is not always good at doin
That we can speak our only much and you will get translation our english, but that colleagues here do not get any translation, or do you . No. But you should get translation into ingush so signal if there is a problem. Im also going to ask colleagues and our guests to be as brief and concise as possible and to allow for maximum number of questions. We will have one question, one i will ask time, and everybody to be very, very concise. Listen toll, we will the men from the dsnd group. Greenwald formr. Being with us today. Can i begin with where you finish, the source, Edward Snowden . In my report, i am going to be talking about whistleblower protection. Yesterday we saw the Congressional Committee that by mike rogers, and they rejected snowden asion of mr. A whistleblower. What is your view of that . By rejecting that definition, they are seeing him as a felon. Simple question, what is your view of that . Secondly, on the federal court gment, which he welcomed, which you welcomed, agai
Important to our distinction between ordinary exercises of discretion. Law and larger ones that the president has been engaged in. We will eventually weigh in on that issue. My view will become insignificant. Host cases moving through now. What your out about the new challenges to the Affordable Care act which wouldve been talking about a lot this morning . What are going to be the things to watch in the coming year . Guest the Supreme Court had already granted review with a contraceptive mandate. The issue there is whether private forprofit operations whose owners have religious objection to providing access to contraceptives for insurance tons can be required purchase those plans for their employees. That issue is going to turn not on the constitution but on a federal statute called the religious freedom act that said congress cannot impose substantial burdens on a religious exercise of individuals unless theres a substantial justification for it. Whetherhe issues is these private co
Who arent graduating high school, going on to college or getting attached to careers the way i was able to . The president and ceo of marthas table on leading the nonprofit, sunday night at 8 p. M. On q a. Now, conversation about the u. S. Supreme courts role in badery with justice ruth ginsburg. Mr. Olson most recently argued before the Supreme Court on samesex marriage. Northern Virginia Technology council, this is 45 minutes. [applause]. Good morning. Good morning. [inaudible] audio. Someone will also have to control the microphone. [laughter] it is a great privilege for me to have the opportunity to ask questions of Justice Ginsberg instead of the other way around. [laughter] i want to thank all of you out there who planted questions with me in the hopes that i would ask those questions, but i probably will not ask any of those questions. [laughter] lets start with the Supreme Court of the u. S. You and your court handled the most difficult and most controversial questions of our d