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colonial society engaged in oppression of palestinians because the students have been indoctrinated by left-wing professors who believe in wokeism. i want to suggest to you that that is simply a translation of an old argument. we have been dealing with this kind of characterization of universities and colleges since the 80s. even since the vietnam war, right? they are just changing the names, giving us a new vocabulary. this is much bigger than just claudine gay's presidency. this is much bigger than cornell. it's about a hole attack on colleges and universities across the country. >> jelani, what's your take? not only do you deal with this as -- by the way, columbia is a hotbed of this discussion about israel palestine and illiberalism. you are actually a journalism team. you have to think about not just what it is but how we actually portray it and tell the story. >> sure. i think there are a few things
term if you want to protect constitutional independence of the president, you need to be more specific. in a quick exchange, not just debated, basically reach back in english historian summed up the famous words, i cry the misdemeanors, two very nebulous freeze which is, a lot of confusion and uncertainty in the contemporary american vocabulary, the framers had to some extent wanted to limit the power. they wanted to protect the dependence of on the president. but they still wanted him to be responsible for his conduct in office. i think responsibility was their dominant concern. >> as you read the clause, do you believe that donald trump can be prosecuted for some of the same things that he was acquitted of in the senate trial? >> of course. these are two different procedures. it appears a procedure was
misdemeanors, two very nebulous freeze which is, a lot of confusion and uncertainty in the contemporary american vocabulary, the framers had to some extent wanted to limit the power. they wanted to protect the dependence of on the president. but they still wanted him to be responsible for his conduct in office. i think responsibility was their dominant concern. >> as you read the clause, do you believe that donald trump can be prosecuted for some of the same things that he was acquitted of in the senate trial? >> of course. these are two different procedures. it appears a procedure was essentially the political judgment. it deals with the question, is the individual in question competent or not? to be the sole holder of the executive power of the united states which is article two section one. so the executive powers shall be invested in the president
it turns out if you look at the data, that the best way to learn something is actually to use your knowledge as you're acquiring it. so you can see this, for example, on the research on languages. a lot of people if i want to learn a foreign language, i have to mez rise a lot of vocabulary and grammar. once i have gotten that together i can start speaking the language. guess what, if you never speak the language, you don't learn to understand it fluently. it's kids who start speaking from day one, taught to practice speaking outloud, who stumble and fumble, grow the most. we have to put kids in a situation where they're using their knowledge before they feel ready to put it into practice. and in turn that means i think we have to reinvent a lot of education, hey what a minute, a lot of people assume i can't come into class and speak up unless i achieved mastery. no. i want students teaching each other from day one. i want to engage them in the process of making mistakes. impeerically the more mistakes
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you know, they're not — they're 400 years old and there's vocabulary that we don't use any more and it's in verse. it doesn't immediately — you know, it takes a bit of taming. you have to wrestle with these words a little bit to get on the right side of them, so that you are in charge of them rather than them being in charge of you. it is the bloody business that informs thus to mine eyes. thou sure and firm—set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear thy very stones prate of my whereabout. i go and it is done. as i start rehearsals, i would hope i know what everything means. i know sort of — i could give you a kind of modern—day translation of it all, but then you have to allow yourself to be surprised by the echoes and by the things that you weren't expecting and by the connections that you'll make as you live with something. well, that's true of any play and any rehearsal process but it's particularly true of something that's written
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