Interesting is the one we are going to discuss tonight, james carville. For quite a number of reasons. First of all, garfield is one of the most intelligent president s that we have ever had. He is up there in the top half dozen. When we go through his life, by the end of it or the middle of it youre going to start laughing because you are just going to say, no, that cant be. He cant be that good in that field, it is just not possible and then we will find Something Else and you will say no. He is just incredibly bright and the hope for his presidency was enormous. And so we are going to discuss an absolutely brilliant human being. I was chatting with a friend before and he asked me if i thought garfield was the most intelligent. I dont know how you test Something Like that. Its not as if you give president s iq tests. It is a lot easier with things that can be measured. Tall and short. We all know that madison was our shortest president and lincoln or tallest, that is easy. I dont kno
Recently, you know, a month and a few days from now, the people of boston are going to take some boxes of perfectly fine tea and throw it into the water. It will be the 250th anniversary of the boston tea party. So thats one of the reasons we wanted to have these conversations on the eve of the beginning of the anniversaries of this great experiment, because once the tea party happens, you know, some mistakes get made, people start doing things, people react and the next thing you know youre at war and going to see that in our nation. Were going to see these anniversaries coming fast and furious. 2024 will be here in virginia. The of the fairfax results 2025 the 250th anniversary of George Washington becoming the commander in chief and of course, 2026 to 20 fifth anniversary of the declaration of independence. And so it is an apropos time to take the pulse of the nation which we did with our poll and to have a chance and an opportunity to be together to think together, to about ways in
Boxes of perfectly fine tea and throw it into the water. It will be the 250th anniversary of the boston tea party. So thats one of the reasons we wanted to have these conversations on the eve of the beginning of the anniversaries of this great experiment, because once the tea party happens, you know, some mistakes get made, people start doing things, people react and the next thing you know youre at war and going to see that in our nation. Were going to see these anniversaries coming fast and furious. 2024 will be here in virginia. The of the fairfax results 2025 the 250th anniversary of George Washington becoming the commander in chief and of course, 2026 to 20 fifth anniversary of the declaration of independence. And so it is an apropos time to take the pulse of the nation which we did with our poll and to have a chance and an opportunity to be together to think together, to about ways in which we collectively strengthen this experiment and move together. So we got a great panel this
brains behind this incredible play you ll see the historical advisorhi on this piece writteny marisa kennedy which you will see performed by nathan alford-tate there were excited to be doing a lot with james forten not just right now when you can visit this painting you will hear more about later but also in the future. with excited program and exhibitions about the fort andt family coming up but i don t want to steal any of anye thunder. i m going to let you ask questions of a kalela and mike later. drop your questions inn the chat when kalela will be moderating and selecting someer of his questions for these guys to answer. without further ado take your seats and meet james forten. wilw so this is the commerce ready to take us to england. it s almost time to set sail. a new voyage a new opportunity i know this kind of journey is familiar to you, but this is a new adventure for me. this this is my home. dark lord the noise of the wharfs the mingling of different accents and
Hello, friends please join me once more in welcoming justice back to the National Constitution center center. Thank you for. It is always an honor to welcome our honorary cochair here to the ncc and its extraordinarily meaningful to convene this evening to discuss his new book reading constitution why i chose fragments as im not textualism justice. It is clear from this powerful book which better than any other sums the central methodological debate on the Supreme Court today between the pragmatism of which you are the leading spokesperson and textualism which is embraced by a Supreme Court majority. So im going to begin with the obvious question why did you choose to write this book about why you chose pragmatism . Textualism its a good question because what many people say is the way ive been a judge for 40 years, 48 years on the Supreme Court and want to get across particularly to students and others, how do you go about deciding or how do i go about deciding these difficult questio