Before we get started id like too thank our sponsors. We will leave about 10 minutes at the end of the program for a q a session, so if you have questions please sign up at the microphone to your right and ask questions at the microphone so the home viewing audience can hear the question and before we begin, please silence your phones and turn off camera flashes. With that i like to welcome my professor of Digital Media strategy at the Mcdill University in todays interview her, owen youngman. Thank you, tom and welcome here to Jones College prep. Great to have you here. Im sure you dont mind being in this airconditioned venue on this hot chicago day. We are delighted to welcome son of the north shore, justin peters, formally wrote a lot of things i read in the clumpy journalism review as well whos recently published book is the idealist. The idealist aaron swartz and the rise of free culture on the internet. Is a book that is both biography and exploration of history and musings on the
So, just like the jehovahs witnesses in 1943, the consequences are stark. Barnett held that people, including young students, could not be forced to say what was not in their minds. A concept we today called the rule against compelled speech. The court emphasized the constitutional limits on the states coercive power, which exercised by, quote, village tyrants or by the federal government. And it underscored that the First Amendment was designed to protect noncon officialists of all stripes them court particularly focused on schools because the case involved two Elementary School girls. It said because schools are educating the young for citizenship they must scrupulously protect individual rights. If wire not to strangle the free mind at its source and to teach youth to discount important principles of government as mere platitudes. You can watch this and other programs online at book of the doering booktv. Org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] book tv is back live
Why its today that there are problems we can see, more clearly hand in Human History and we can do nothing about it. The can measure Climate Change more effectively and accurately. I remember watching the. The more you start to suspect that theres something really wrong in the system. So this is like an accelerant of the collapse of the stability of the institutions. The thing about networks is when you look at them not as a zero sum game, but as a possum game, you understand that everyone in the system by agreeing to the rules of the game is better off. So getting into that mindset and by developing the position where you can sort of say there are these problems that affect all of us, that turns out to be what real leadership in Foreign Policy is like. It used to be the goal would be how do i keep the country from getting invaded, or how do i keep this country from overrunning some neighboring country . Now the problem because were all connected is how do you manage and create incenti
[inaudible conversations] all right. Good afternoon and welcome to the 32nd annual Chicago Tribune printers row lit fest. Id like to thank all of our sponsors. The lit fest is big on social media. The theme of this years festival is whats your story, so we encourage everyone to share the stories you hear this weekend on twitter, instagram and facebook. Using the hashtag prlf16. Downloading the printers row app where you roll find all the Chicago Tribunes premium book content, and the complete litfest schedule. Todays program is being broadcast live on cspan2s booktv. There will be a q a session at the end of the presentation so anyone with questions, please line up at the microphone to your right, so that the home viewing audience can hear the questions. Lastly, before we begin, ask that you silence all of your cell phones and turn off any camera flashes. With that, id like you all to welcome the coauthor of holiday hamilton the revolution. Jeremy mccarter. [applause] hi, everybody. Th
A filmmaker gives a homeless man 100. Im starting to tear up. Its okay. Its, like, incredible. Then secretly records him just to see what he would do with it. Is what happened next a true sign of the meaning of christmas or too good to be true today, wednesday, december 24th, 2014. Announcer live from studio 1a in Rockefeller Plaza. Good morning on this Christmas Eve morning. We have tamron in for savannah. Dylan in for al. Natalie playing herself this morning and this video, i guess it depends on your perspective and how much of a cynic you are. Others think its heartwarming. Others not sure. I cant wait to hear the reaction on our today. Com what people think. And to hear his story of how he became homeless. It solidifieas. George h. W. Bush was sent to the hospital overnight for shortness of breath. Lets hear how hes doing. Reporter good morning. President obama was brought by ambulance here to Methodist Hospital from his home in houston overnight. Hes expected to stay at least unti