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test captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 what that does, to draw a line that for the purposes that michael i think just described betweenprofessor s private activities and their professional activities in order to protect the right of the freedom of professors to be politically engaged outside of the classroom. of course the rubber hits the road when the professor is teaching politics. and those are the places where we see the most challenge in these environments. for example professor of the middle east who has particular position on the middle east, that might cross the line between instruction and advocacy. that is not a simple line to navigate. and many of the controversies sweechb seen at berkeley are students who are concerned about or disapprove of the positions that professors may profess in those particular kinds of settings. and i think that is one of the arenas where we ve seen the most stress and it has come from bo ....
are you gonna run for president? think i just got an f from you, actually. (audience applauding) kurt andersen, welcome. - happy to be here. - good to be with you, congratulations on this book. we ll talk about it first, fantasyland, the timing of this book is exquisite. i m assuming it s not entirely accidental. - it is entirely accidental. - it is entirely accidental. - it is entirely accidental. i started thinking about this book many years ago. really decided that it was a book i was going to write as my next book in 2013, started writing in 2014, still no donald trump on the horizon. - no one had talked about fake news? - no one had talked about fake new or post truth or any of that. - alternative facts? - alternative facts was not yet a phrase. and then, really as i was finishing the draft, i put him in the book. i don t think he, donald trump that is, would have appeared in this book had he not run for president. - and this book would have appeared without donald ....
distinguishing characteristics famously that authors would take fantastic works known to new york publishers and publish them and they would become bestsellers, one of which, my favorite of that was leo damore s senatorial privilege about senator kennedy and the truth about leo damore. he was kicked off ticked off. could you say you are driving. so years later all on the record , no new york publisher would publish this, regnery publishes it. more recently there was a patriotic vote, flags of our fathers which is not flags of our mothers. 27 near publishers turned it down. 44 weeks on the new york times bestsellers list. so the way things are going in the trump era, i don t know if any of you are still reading the freedom times, but every day somehow on the facebook page they ain t russia was behind [inaudible] if you visited america in 2016 come he would notice outside of the major cities you couldn t drive a mile without seeing a six-foot 12 trump signed. in a ....
administration. representatives dave brat of virginia and jamie raskin of maryland spoke to students at the american university in washington, d.c. they outlined topics they see their parties working together on in the future. including education and infrastructure. due to technical difficulties, we re only able to bring you 45 minutes of the event. money aside well, present we re in that world. do you think, for example jamie, you ve suggested that more discussion is part of the lawmakers process. what what else could change that would allow you to serve your or represent your constituents better? well, i don t want to rush too quickly by the point that dave just made because i think it s very important, about the money. you know, the i ll make a bipartisan gesture by invoking our last great republican president, abraham lincoln, who talked about government of the people, by the people and for the people. that is the dream of american democracy that we re ....
your or represent your constituents better? well, i don t want to rush too quickly by the point that dave just made because i think it s very important, about the money. you know, the i ll make a bipartisan gesture by invoking our last great republican president, abraham lincoln, who talked about government of the people, by the people and for the people. that is the dream of american democracy that we re it s always slightly elusive, a little bit out of reach but we re always trying to move towards it, but today the big threat of government by the people is a money power, which dave correctly describes as bipartisan. in fact, sometimes people come to my office and say we ve got a bipartisan jaagenda and i m ver nervous because it means they want to buy both parties or buy one and get the other for free. so i m interested in a popular agenda. you know, george washington used to say, we ve got to remember that a party is comes from the french word, it just means ....