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It was hardly a brief. If i used all the info he provided me, i would be speaking longer than the minutes assigned to bill himself. So i wont do that. I cut it down considerably. Bill has a 56page cv and its not packed with anything trivial. Ill come back to his scholarly contributions. Let me start with his titles, some, a few of his titles and honors. Sociologist William Julius wilson is the professor at Harvard University and at the time of his appointment in mean 95 National Media covered his addition to harvards dream team of africanamerican intellectuals including henry lewis gates jr. ,...

Radio and online audiences also our cspan audience today. Its my pleasure to introduce David Davenport hes the author of rugged individualism dead or alive. Hes also a Research Fellow at Hoover Institute at Stanford University and president at pepper dime one of our great Educational Institution just not in the bay area. David thank you for coming to share is this with us. [applause] thank you, george and ladies and gentlemen, its pleasure to be with you today. It occurred to me as we collected up yet one more spring rain and were competing with the warriors playoff game, and i assume that gia...

Individuals for showing up here tonight. Mi thank you for coming. Youre all so brave to come in here to an academic talk of good stories of scholars and academics. One i heard recently was a Scholarly Panel i was attending. The moderator of the panel was a federal judge and he said you know, we have some of us, referring to himself who are ase Teddy Roosevelt himself, a rugged individual once said we are in the arena. Our faces covered with dust and blood and sweat and then he said you have kind of an out of the way up in the ivory towers the academics who are carefully watching the battlefiel...

Sociologist is a professor at Harvard University and at the time of his appointment in 1995, National Media covered his addition to the dream team of africanamerican intellectuals, including henry lewis gates jr. When he was at the university of chicago. I was a slightly younger scholar than and he was incredibly supportive, as he is. He is a mentor of renowned. He started his career in 1965 at the university of massachusetts amherst. This was before completing his ph. D. At Washington State university, which was a Major Program at that time. He is the recipient of 46 honorary degrees. Past pr...

Then i will come back up here with david french and greg to have a conversation about this. Well bat around handful of ideas. You ly you probably know david who has lit gifted on these issues. He has been in the trenches. Hes. Fire which is probably the leading organization for working on campuses and freespeech issues and im a fan of his because he cowrote what i think was the best article of 2015 in the atlantic, the coddling of the American Mind. Its fascinating, one of the parts of johns book is that theres an increased emphasis among folks on campus thing the safe spaces, its good for Men...