Professor of international law, presenting this program, please join me in welcoming them. [applause] thank you. Without further ado i thought i would plunge into a question for the judge and the biographer. Richard posner, when you were the age of some of the people in this room you were fabulous yates scholar interested in literature. What made you decide to go to law school . Law school was always the default graduate choice. I give some thought to graduate school, decided, not for me. I dont think i can stay. Harvard law school has a formative impression on you, i suppose . It launched your trajectory in many ways. Tell us about the academic experience. It is mixed, but they did something clever. They stacked their best teachers the first year in law school. Very nice. Got a good start. Second and third year, like all the professors i realized thinking about this, i skipped my last year of high school, only 16 when i went to yale college and only 20 when i went to law school, young
Policy network at New York University Robert Wagner public service. One of the youngest scholar practitioners to lead Research Center or think tank. Commentary has been featured the politico, progressive, essence magazine and cnn, msnbc, nbc and among other outlets. She oversee it is content of magazine. Her influence extends expenses such as essence fest, black woman in hollywood and black woman in music. Before we start with the conversation we will have charlene read a passage. She currently serves as the National Director of the black Youth Project 100. Also byp100, an activist Member Organization of black 18 to 35 year olds. She has over ten years of experience in racial justice, feminist and Youth Leadership Development Movement work. Please welcome charlene carruthers. [applause] thank you. Thank you, first i would like to thank nicole for this amazing important to share this moment with her. Tonight i have the opportunity to read a number of passages, if you have not read it, y
And be sometimes several screens simultaneously. And were getting messages sometimes from the same person in different channels, and then tough figure out you have to figure out did this text message come first or did this email saying, no, im going to meet you at the movie theater, and then you have to look at the time stamps, and the past is mixed up with the future. Meanwhile, we have tremendous is access to the past. We know more about the lives of bach and beethoven and mozart and mahler and have zinn sky than any of them knew about their predecessors. We have instant access to all of their music. The music from our personal pasts, the music that we loved when we were kids, its as available to us as music from ancient times and music thats just being recorded yesterday. And it all gets mixed up together. So were in a kind of eternal present. You say that theres a philosophy in our society that we should live in the present. Thats exactly where we should be. But that doesnt really
Because its so dumb, so im going to ask it to you and see how you can answer it. Why do you think these people talked to you . Why do you think gabriel wrote you a thousand pages of letters . Thats a great question no, its a sucky question. [laughter] i hate it. My agent asked that a couple times. How are we getting duped here . Hes essentially in solitary confinement, and he will be there probably indefinitely. And hes been there since he was 19. And hes going to be in life hes going to be in prison for life. I came along, and he was used to seeing tv reporters and newspaper and magazine reporters who were swooping in sort of for the quick story, and he got to know the ways of that world pretty well. And i think that the more i stuck around and the more i sort of showed myself to not be interested in the quick hit, but something larger, the more comfortable he became with me. And it became more like a relationship than a sort of professional reporter subject thing. So that sort of the
Guy they put away [inaudible] [laughter] thank you. [inaudible] youre watching booktv on cspan2 television for serious readsers heres prime time tonight we kick off with hills dale College Professors discuss their long friendship with a former death row inmate. And at 8 suzanne quin reports on 30year relationship between first Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Associated Press reporter lour at 9 p. M. Eastern james rosen talks about a torch kept lit. Essays written by f. Buckley and at 10 on booktv afterwards program, tim wu provides history of advertising and its current use. We wrap up booktv in prime time at 11. Andrew scott cooper look into the history of iran and the role of the last shaw. That all happens tonight on cspan2 booktv and first up its burt anita if you fullson. What do you do here at Hills Dale College . I direct the Free Market Forum which is a college for professors all over north america not just hills dale and we work with economic and history an political science. Whats