i asked professor at harvard university. iasked him professor at harvard university. i asked him why this variant was such a concerned. the major reason it's a concern is that it's quite evidently causing a lot of infections in the south—east of england and other parts of the country. the thing which is really striking about it, which really leaps out is that it has not one but many mutations. i mean, mutations are something that happens all the time. most mutations don't really mean anything. if anything, they make the virus less fit but those which do make it more fit, make it more able to transmit or more able to invade cells will tend to become more common in the population and this one has a lot of them, including several which had previously been noticed and indicated as being those which we want to be keeping a very close eye on. so the interaction between the large number of cases caused by this, and the fact that it has a lot of mutations which we are already primed to be concerned about, is the reason why we are worried. one of the questions on many people

and with those on the developing child spray marketed at harvard university. i cannot not feel it. everything i think and feel is what many don't want to hear they have moons that will not heal. that is not a cry for help it's a scream for recognition. not just those on the road but still making their way up the website of the mountain. that is just a sampling of the beautifully written book for those of you who have not yet read it. that is what is in store. and this is some good flavor for that. talk about your childhood in the many difficulties he faced in your family. talk about that and how much that influenced your life and work now. >> like one of the open wounds like my voice or my stutter for instance is that one of the manifestations and if that was included in ashley from like when i was nine years old and also that this is happening and like jim crow with so many different kinds of weight. but one of the toughest things about it they tried to make you hate your skin and make you doubt your self-worth. and on top of that it when you make it out anyway and then they tried

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john stauffer is the professor english and african and african-american studies at harvard university. he is the author and editor of 20 books and over 100 articles including giants the perlow lives of federal douglas and abraham lincoln a national bestseller. and black hearts of men. sara lewis is an associate professor at harvard university and the department and history of art and architecture and the department of african. she is a founder of divisions injustice project and is the author of several books including upcoming projects, and a book on race, photography all from harvard university. ilisa barbash is a curator filmmaker of anthropology at peabody museum of archaeology per cheesy codirector the feature film in and out of africa as well as curator of the book cross-cultural filmmaking, handbook for making documentaries. tonight they'll be discussing their magnificent, their book to make their own way in the world : the powerful. [inaudible] ancient men and women of african descent who were captured in 15 of the cruelest images taken in american history. in a brilliant write

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against harvard university professor against conspiring with the chinese allegedly. any thought on the ongoing federal grants to the institution, where it's all out blitz. why are we allowing chinese researchers in the united states? >> well, i think we are trying to tighten up on the programs. a lot of universities working closely to understand what the nature of threat is. not just universities. a lot of the businesses for what they see as a short-term process. they know it's not long-term benefit to business but for a short-term gain they are perhaps not doing what isse necessary long-term interest of the united states. >> laura: coming up, more highlights of the big interviews of 2020 from vice president pence and secretary of state mike pompeo to don jr. and christie nome. stay there. ♪ re. xfinity customers, stream hbo and more with the new hbo max app on xfinity. watch the greatest collection of shows, movies and new max originals. enjoy hbo favorites you know and love like game of thrones and the undoing... with exclusive max originals like the flight atten

and cornel west of harvard university. i began by asking professor keeanga-yamahtta taylor to talk about the mass uprising and the police killing of grge floyd. prof. taylor: part of what we are seeing is years and years of pent-up rage. many people have referenced the 1960s, have referenced ferguson in 2014, but i think it's important to say that these are not just repeats of past events. these are the consequences of the failures of this government and the political establishment, the economic establishment of this country to resolve those crises, and they build and accumulate over time, and were wating the boiling over of that. imagine how angry, desperate, rage-filled you would have to be to come out and protest in the conditions of a historical pandemic that has already killed over 103,000 americans, that has had a disproportionately horrendous impact in black communities. i believe 23,000 or 24,000 black people have died. to put it more bluntly, one in every 2,000 african americans in the united states has died as th

ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health, and former director of harvard university's global health institute. welcome back to democracy now! all over this country, i mean all of the corporate media you see the celebrations of people getting the vaccine in the arm. the idea that the pandemic is over but at the same time in that split screen, the numbers are going back astronomically. not only for this country come the wealthiest country in the world -- we have the worst numbers in the world. can you talk about why it does matter that people still wear masks and will probably have to for a very long time? your sense asn you're going on television because you keep saying the same thing? >> thank you for having me on. i am a little boring on television because i have a certain set of messages based on public health of where we are. but let's talk about where we are as a country all, the vaccine news is very exciting. it is worth celebrating. it is terrific. but it does come at the same time we are seeing just astronomical numbers of infections and deaths. we crossed 300,0

he was a professor emeritus at harvard university and the author of "japan is number one." after obtaining a doctorate in sociology at harvard, vogel spent two years in japan to study the country's language and society. his 1979 best seller "japan is number one" analyzed factors behind japan's rapid economic growth in the 1950s, '60s, and '70s. vogel was also known as an expert on china. he spent nearly ten years to publish a book on the life of deng xiaoping who advocated a policy of reform and opening up. his linguistic abilities allowed him access to a vast network in japan and china. last year he published "china and japan" a book that addresses the history of exchanges between the countries. the u.s. embassy in tokyo has posted a comment on twitter saying vogel's scholarship brought americans and japanese closer together and "japan is number one" is still essential reading for understanding japan's economic might. >>> the 2004 indian ocean tsunami killed over 220,000 people making it one of the deadliest natural disasters in history, but 16 years on, memories of the tr

deputy secretary of state richard armitaj and former dean of harvard university's kennedy schools governme joseph nye issued the report on monday. it's part of a series from the centers oftrategic and international studies think tank. it refers to china as the ggest security challenge for the japan-u.s. alliance and sites north korea as a second regional concern. under the circumstances the report said trilateral policy coordination involving japan, the u.s. and south korea continues to be critical to regional security. but it warned of the continuing tension between japan and south korea, urging both sides to focus on the future not the past. the report recommends the challenging opportunity for deeper cooperation, inclusion of japan in the intelligence sharing network. the group is made up of english speaking countries, the u.s., u.k., australia, canada and new zealand. but the authors say the u.s. and japan should make serious efforts to move toward a six eyes network. the experts called on america to join the comprehensive and aggressive transpacific partnership. the u.s. under the tru

william hassletine is the founder of harvard university's cancer and hiv/aids research department. nhk world's catherine kobayashi spoke with him earlier. >> professor, thank you very much for joining us. as you know, u.s. regulators are considering whether to approve a vaccine. how should americans look upon these shots? >> well, it's very promising. the initial data looks very good, that it's highly effective at preventing mild disease. we have yet to know whether it prevents serious disease, but it's very likely it will do so. there's some unanswered questions about whether it's going to be long-term protection, whether it will prevent transmission that those are answers we'll get in the future. it's very, very good news. >> we heard joe biden promise to thrive e deliver 100 million shots in his first 100 days. what are the biggest shots in distributing the vaccine? >> this vaccine is difficult to store and handle. this vaccine has to be handled in very cold conditions. i think that part will be handled by the u.s. military. but then difficulties come in at the local level. the

well, here to discuss all this is a real expert, founding dean of harvard university's john f. kennedy school of government, professor john allison, his book was a national and international best seller. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. gerry: the last four years have represented a radical break with chinese policy do you see that as a lasting legacy of the trump administration? >> in a word, yes. but i would say this awakening, in effect, was inevitably going to happen because you can only stay awe sleep for so long -- asleep for so long, and i think because china's rise has been so meteoric and because it's so contrary to many truths or myths that we came to believe earlier, americans have found it quite hard to believe. your biden quote was very revealing in that respect. i mean, how in the world can china be an economy bigger than ours? no one believes that except for cia and the imf. and anybody who looks at the facts. gerry: right. >> china's now the number one economy. nobody understands that china is the number one trading partner of virtually every

university has a ph d. in just the studies and as a professor of criminal justice at california state university dr coyle says the prison not only increases criminal behavior it has a deleterious effect on society as a whole what happens to a family when the wage earner is removed from society and thrown into prison for 10 years. what happens to those hour of am proud to wear their chances of success in life start to go down what will how does that impact the community loss of resources in our community more demands in the community now to help to help this family maybe the other parent maybe the children it's so clearly a failure by every measure that you look at it but i think we just need to rethink the whole thing and not just keep trying to put lipstick on this bag because that's what i think it is difficult for people to imagine a world without prisons now we've become so accustomed to the idea of prisons that it's hard for people to imagine well what do you do with people if you don't put them in fra

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state department as a european energy security advisor he's now a research fellow at harvard university benjamin is good to have you back on the program before we talk about what's happening in washington and in congress tell me what you mean about russia trying to convince the world that there is no stopping of nord stream to. hi brant it's always a pleasure to be on deutsche of l a great to be back let's start with the situation at hand right now today i just wrote a piece for the center for european policy analysis in washington this morning and i have i'm looking at this situation as gas problem reprising it's december 2019 disinfo playbook in order to make nordstrom to look unstoppable with the intent of dissuading passage of these targeted congressional sanctions after all if the project can't be stopped why even bother passing them well that's not true we've seen gas prominent allies over the past few weeks in the media that the project is moving along a pace companies are fully committed in spite of sanctions but just 24 hours after some of those headlines came out the biggest c

state department as a european energy security advisor he's now a research fellow at harvard university benjamin is good to have you back on the program before we talk about what's happening in washington and in congress tell me what you mean about russia trying to convince the world that there is no stopping of nord stream to. hi brant it's always a pleasure to be on deutsche of l a great to be back let's start with the situation at hand right now today i just wrote a piece for the center for european policy analysis in washington this morning and i i'm i'm looking at this situation as gas problem reprising it's december 21000 disinfo playbook in order to make nordstrom to look unstoppable with the intent of dissuading passage of these targeted congressional sanctions after all if the project can't be stopped why even bother passing them well that's not true we've seen gas prominent allies over the past few weeks in the media that the project is moving along a pace companies are fully committed in spite of sanctions but just 24 hours after some of those headlines came out the biggest c

university, oxford university, the doctors of the great barrington declaration, you should read it. it's very educational and they basically tell us that the lockdowns are causing far more harm than the virus itself, there is immunity in the community, there is devastation in isolation. everyone came to this caroling event by choice, they did a risk/reward analysis and they said we are coming to an event, we aren't afraid of a virus that has over 99% survival rate. >> tucker: i'm doing this in my house tomorrow night because there is no church and the singing where i am but we are singing at my house, i believe in this, what kind of response did you get? >> we've had an amazing response, it's been underreported to. we haven't just had 75 or 100, we fed upwards of a thousand people come to sing carols because they are launching hope and community but i want to give you one big warning disclaimer. if you come caroling under a starry night sky and a candlelit lyric sheets and you have the u.s. constitution limited by those candles like we do, you might catch the hope virus and is very

university in the us you know with 1100 people in the audience throwing paper airplanes and winners coming from around the world and nobel prize winners from around the world we couldn't do that so we had 'd it over the internet we had to do it secretly and then to record the parts and put them together and the most secret parts were we have 10 new prizes every year 10 winners different parts of the world well normally the best part of it is the 10 times during the night when i announce the winner of the biology prizes of the whatever prize and then the winner steps out and nobel prize winner steps out and hands them a prize and shakes their hand we couldn't do that but we wanted to do it so how do you here's the here's the here's the problem we had and we solved it the problem is when you have a nobel prize winner on one continent and you have an egg nobel prize winner on a whole different continent how can you arrange it that the one person can physically hand a prize to the other humans to basically hand or or physically usually it looks like a sickly physically and here's how we

university pretty he is written for npr, huffington post, baltimore sun, the point, the nation, time and tv news and more. the broader academic interests include black intellectual and political thought 20th century continental philosophy, the philosophy of race and racism, questions of poverty and crime and hip-hop and black use culture. peniel and brandon thank you for joining us virtually and i will hand this screen over to you guys. thank you. >> thank you. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> all right. it is an honor and a privilege as always to be here with my dear brother and somebody i consider to be an enormous inspiration intellectually and personally, doctor peniel jose joseph. for those of you who do not know peniel joseph is arguably the founder of the fields of lack power studies and has done such pathbreaking work and black radicalism and overtime he has not become and i think this book really cements it one of the great historians of postwar united states and this was a powerful book, a book of fire that all of us will have to pass through, not just to understand blac

thank you also to our partners at harvard university and thank you to all of you for tuning in and showing up for authors, publishers, indy book selling and especially for science because it really matters. and finally, as you might have experienced in virtual gatherings these last few weeks, technical issues can arise and if they do, we'll do our best to resolve them quickly, thank you so much for your patience and your understanding. so now, i am very pleased to introduce tonight's speaker. a world renowned astrophysicist and best selling author, mario li li liveio has known for his books, accelerating universe, the equation that couldn't be solved, basis for an emmy nominated nova program. as a seller of the american association of advanced science, he's had contributions, topics, super nova exexplosions, black holes to extrasolar planets. living in this dual world of science research and popular renown, he has appeared on programs, daily show, 60 minutes, all things considered, on being, and many others. and tonight he's with us presenting his seventh book, galileo and the science deni

a rare distinction that is bestowed only about 25 out of the thousands of faculty at harvard university. she is joined by brits i frequent is a former student of mine, who after a 15 year career as head of social mission is now launched following up on her book and new enterprise called bryans on a mission. i want to get each of the authors a few minutes to talk a little bit about the book and hopefully whet your appetite to buy it, then we will join in a general discussion. so rebecca, let me start with you. you can take about ten minutes and give us the general ideas in the book. >> 288 pages, ten minutes. mark m thank you very much for the generous introduction. reimagining capitalism in a world on fire why do we need to reimagine capitalism? because it is not working for so many people. we see it accelerating in the quality, continued exclusion and the continued failure to address major environmental problems like climate change. why reimagine it and not simply throw it out the window? i am a capitalist. i believe that free markets genuinely free and fair markets are one of the grea

university. he has written for in br, huffington post, baltimore sun, the nation, time, mtv news and more. 's broader academic interests include black intellect and political thought, nineteenth and twentieth century continental philosophy, the philosophy of race and racism, poverty, crime and incarceration and sociology of hip-hop and black youth culture. peniel joseph and brandon terry, thank you for joining us and i will hand the screen over to you guys. >> thank you. it is an honor and a privilege to be here with my dear brother and somebody i consider an enormous inspiration intellectually and personally, peniel joseph. for those who don't know, peniel joseph is arguably the founder of the field of black power studies, he has done work on the studies of black radicalism and overtime has become and this book really cements it, one of the great historians of postwar united states. this is a powerful book, a book of fire all of us will have to pass through not just to understand black political

university. he has written for npr, wgbh, huffington post, baltimore sun, the.the nation, time, news, and more. his broader academic interests include black and political thoughts and the 19th and 20th century flocks the thoughts of race and racism, questions of pot and personally doctor pen neil joseph for those of you who don't know he i he's arguably te founder of the field of black power studies and has done work in the studies of black black radicalism and over time he has now become, and i think that this book really cements this one of the great historians of the postwar united states. this is a powerful book all of us will have to pass through not just to understand political lives and international questions but also our own moment and i think one of the things that excited me is that your history is always done with an eye towards the president and i am grateful to be here and was hoping maybe we could start with a broad question about the title. why do you describe malcolm x, martin lu

she began her teaching career at and visitingge professor at harvard university. helped build the city and government, when first took pride from the society of historians of the american republic. the popular culture association annual book award. her political biography, a perfect union, dolley madison and the creation of the american nation, was a finalist for the george washington book prize. in 2012 she published dolley madison. president obama appointed her to a presidential commission, a james madison memorial fellowship foundation. she also serves on the board of directors of the national women's history museum. thank you so much for joining us tonight. i will turn things over to you now. hello everyone, good evening. you can hear me and see me? good. it is such an honor to be here today, thank you for inviting me. begin, i just want to give a content warning. i mentioned the word rate -- rape twice. bit like i a little am on a crusade. let me tell you how it started. in 2012i was invited to an institute as. . mount vernon the, topic was what was going to

universities since the start of 2013 is now approachin $1 billion with a larger share going to harvard university, which pulled in $93.7 million, the majority of gift. now the chinese aren't just pumping money into these elite institutions, but colleges across the board. researchers that used to be accountable are hooked on chinese cash, and allowed to bring in roughly 370,000 chines students every year. staggering. it's a handy way of getting as the congressman learned. painful traded his campaign was enrolled at california state university. he and dianne feinstein show ho easy it is for china to get our elected officials to embrace their spies, literally, yes, an figuratively. just as shocking as the recent news that china's 140-acre landgrab in tempe, weird, is conveniently located near the air force base. chinese company that secretly gobbled up the land says it's going to build a wind farm. why should we trust them? especially since the parent company is owned by a former army officer and the richest process in the embattled province where they are shoving into concentration camps

university, which pulled in 93.7 million, the majority as gifts. the chinese aren't just pumping money into these elite institutions. colleges across the board. usc and an u penn, home of the biden center, have been showered with millions in chinese gifts. now universities and researchers that used to be accountable to americans are instead hooked on chinese cash. and allowed to bring in roughly 370,000 chinese students every year. staggering. it's a handy way of getting spies into the country as congress when eric swalwell earned. the chinese spy he infiltrated his campaign was and what it california state university. he and dianne feinstein sure how easy it is for china to get our elected officials to embrace their spies, literally. yes, and figuratively. just shocking news, recent newss that china is 140,000-acre land grab in texas. weird. it's conveniently located near locklin air force base. the chinese company that secretly gobbled up the land says it's going to build a wind farm. why should we trust them? especially since its parent company

university and has advised the united nations. this is the man writing the new history of water. water scarcity is really think so water scarcity is part of the future of the world the global predictions of that by 2050 more than half the world will be living with limited water resources an abundance is a thing of the past. water needs to be many still very precious why. and why is it drives innovation that make sure our water goes to the best use as it possibly can so we make money and feed ourselves well. and that lead to the interest in water markets and drive a revolution. the revolution started by mike young has turned climate change into a market force. it's fascinating to see how sophisticated our water markets of the count if this rainfall cost in a week's time the price of water will go down because farmers now they won't have to irrigate if it's going to be really hot for the next fortnight then the price of water goes out. in the future. nor. do. i but i think the reason why you really come to a university is to buy the

state department as a european energy security advisor he's now a research fellow at harvard university vigilant it's good to have you back on the program before we talk about what's happening in washington and in congress tell me what you mean about russia trying to convince the world that there is no stopping of nord stream to. hi brant it's always a pleasure to be on deutsche of l a great to be back let's start with the situation at hand right now today i just wrote a piece for the center for european policy analysis in washington this morning and i i'm i'm looking at this situation as gas problem reprising it's december 21000 disinfo playbook in order to make nordstrom to look unstoppable with the intent of dissuading passage of these targeted congressional sanctions after all if the project can't be stopped why even bother passing them well that's not true we've seen gas prominent allies over the past few weeks state in the media that the project is moving along a pace companies are fully committed in spite of sanctions but just 24 hours after some of those headlines came out the b

harvard university has delivered man of its own to scientists, artists, writers and musicians and scholars but many fewer people have made history of harvard, like barack obama when he became the first black president of the harvard law review, and noah harris will make president as the first black man elected by his fellow students as president of the student body, and joining us now is president-elect noah harris. the author of the children's book "successville." how do you like that name, president-elect? >> it sounds great. i'm honored to have it. thank you for having me. >> i want to -- i know for har individual historians, we need to put in footnotes here. the student body did have a black man serve as president before, but that is when they were elected by a student council, and a black woman was elected in 2001. with all the footnotes, you are the first elected by the student body to serve as president. how much of your desire to go in this direction was inspired by john lewis that day? >> i was inspired by congressman lewis to so much for a while now. and it was just so sad when h

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