for harvard students. moreover, throughout this period and well into the 19th century, the university and its donors benefited from extensive financial ties to slavery." this is an excerpt of a video accompanying the report released by harvard. >> the evidence of the legacy of slavery at harvard is in the landscape. you can go to the old burial ground and you can see the headstones for two enslaved people. one of them, a girl named cicely, was enslaved to william brattle, who was a tutor, a treasurer, and a fellow at harvard university. >> we also know that several of harvard's presidents who lived in wadsworth house, which is still standing on campus today, owned enslaved people of african origins -- among them, venus, bilhah, and juba. amy: that's an excerpt from the video that accompanies the harvarreport. in this clip, harvard fellow christopher d.e. willoughby tells the story of an african teenage boy who was later dissected and studied by a harvard professor. >> sturmann is a particularly tragic figu

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. >> se lo dedicÓ a su madre. >> la graduaciÓn de harvard de una estudiante mexicana dio la vuelta en redes sociales si no dedicarlo a su madre >> yo siempre que gracias a mi madre nunca me ha faltado techo y comida >>> decidiÓ cruzar con mÓnica >> para mÍ fue muy difÍcil porque no tenÍa papeles no sabÍa inglÉs. >> desde entonces natalie prometiÓ ser la mejor estudiante >> ella trabaja en una industria pollo ra. >>. >> recientemente logrÓ obtener la membresÍa en harvard. >> informa informa (informaciÓn en pantalla) >> ese momento en que natalie se quita la toga y agradeciendo cÓmo se sintiÓ? >> orgullosa, contenta >> ver como se esfuerza siempre por salir adelante >> poder entrar a harvard >> enfrentaste dificultades econÓmicas >> las becas limitadas >> aÚn con becas y todo, le faltan 45.000 dÓlares. >> ahora busca reatribuir a su comunidad >> sin embargo, jamÁs tuve un profesor una consejera latina >> me encantarÍa llegar a ser presidenta de una universidad >> espera cumplir sus metas >> la felicita porque siempre ha sido muy buena hija >>> karma a >> noticias telem

i don't want to elevate the prestige of harvard considering what harvard has become. the head chaplain at harvard today's an atheist. this was a university founded by john harvard with the original motto of for the glory of christ. when you look at the ubiquitous this of critical theory, marxist thinking of racist thinking frankly, why are we holding it up as the vanguard of what makes someone credible, or something we should seek? that the idea at least for me and it doesn't down play, i went there for four years for masters degree that takes two. you know why? rachel: that doesn't sound good. pete: i have a legitimate reason. i did work hard and had some good professors at all of that is true, but when i was going through it i knew what it was. it is left-wing, climate change, the government's. i was in the same rat race. i wanted to go to the elite place and check the box. i went to harvard, i must have credibility as a result. if we go at our educational establishment we need new institutions. i've got a quote from battle for the american mind. for educational ins

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and he wrote to the president off harvard, saying, you can't do this! it was only the reputation of my dear alma mater. but the occasion went forward. there were dissenters on the faculty, and they decided, oh, okay, we can't stop this. but we will show jackson up. in those days, it was not unheard of, and it was still accepted practice on certain occasions, for academics to give their addresses, to deliver their papers, in latin. their traditional language of intellectuals and the academy. and so, without telling the president of the university, who was, you know, basically whose reputation was online here, what they were going to do, said, okay, i'll be happy to speak on this occasion. and it was a commencement, and so there were several speeches. and the speakers before jackson stood up and gave their speeches in latin. with the belief that this would really flummoxed jackson. he obviously would not know what was happening. and be so embarrassed that we he would be humming mandate and be shown up and that would be the end of it. now, as i say, with e

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harvard can keep their degree! i don't want it, they are not the gatekeepers -- >> sean: i agree with you on that part. you earned that degree. >> sure, i earned it, but i was doing it for the wrong reasons because i wanted to get the best degree out there. turns out it is a bunch of marxist teaching critical theory and once we awoke to the reality of what they are doing to our country -- >> sean: but guess what -- >> we should know from them by validating them that they are special. >> sean: i can's to go for you until you they did not indoctrinate you, you survived it. there is a book written years ago "harvard hates america," he was way ahead of the curve, right? >> he sure was and that is why i don't want to affirm it. i survived it but we can't have a nation of survivors. we need a republic full of freethinkers who have liberated mines, who have a real liberal arts education. harvard is doing the opposite, so let's stop affirming them and other ivy league wackos like that. to build our own ecosystem of univers

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host: you mentioned harvard university and what they are trying to do. in 2021, they had $53 billion in endowment. are they paying reparations? guest: they are setting aside money, they are trying to engage in repair. they have vowed to set aside $100 million to try and repair what was done, including making new coalitions and collaborations. they are not the only school that needs to do this. i teach at the university of texas, which has a history with racism. it was founded in 1883 and it was a segregated school. what do we do for the black test and's -- texans who for decades and decades were disallowed from becoming longhorns. what do we do with that? we need to repair that. it's not just a repair, we will all pray together. i will pray with you. we need to have economic resources. money and finances are huge part of this. so much wealth was stolen and taken away from african-americans. there was a narrative that gas lit the entire nation by saying black people who worked the hardest the longest for the least were lazy, were criminals, were bad peopl

harvard is doing the opposite. p so let's stop affirming them and other ivy league wackos liker that build our own eco system that we of universitiest and high schools as we talkor about in battle foram the american mind that pumperha patriots and free thinkers that we're going to need if we're going to save this country. ithi know you agree on that frt and harvard, you know, see youou later. i don't want it.ut i don't want to one bit. all right. but yousti still have it and so on your resume if you ever need it. but you're staying here for a long time . all right. inre's what i do want to ask though. you know, obviously when people go to the ballot box and i'm e hoping for a wave election year, i can't i don't have a crystal ball. i can't telll, for sure, but it looks like it's lining up that way and certainly w inflation record forty one year high, certainly high gas prices will be on the ballot. the failure in afghani's to end the war in europe, everything in between you can't pointu to c a single success but is

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he was a law professor at harvard. unfortunately, but now we know more with these robes look like in how they change overtime. of course that leads to the iconic supreme court photograph of the justices in their robe. you don't know a lot of this is open in the front. it's interesting to discuss the style with the marshall rogue. how he wore it, and how that plays out. of course that brings us to the present a court. this is our most -- just taken a few weeks ago. there are slight distance events meng the different justices. even here with just a plain black robe. chief justice rehnquist put gold stripes on his sleeve for a short period of time. there is no rule is that the justices have to wear robes. that changed in 1799, probably 1798, it led to this being the iconic where we all look at our judges. it has spread through all the courting that states and in some places, throughout the world. witness objects is a totally great way to think of the robe. the portrait of chester harding is amazing. it is a document of wh

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my name is sally and on behalf of harvard bookstore. i am so pleased to introduce this virtual event with andy tucker presenting her new book not exactly lying fake news and journal fake journalism in american history. she'll be joined in conversation tonight by kathy ford. thank you so much for joining us virtually this evening harvard book stores virtual event series continues this spring bringing authors and their work to our community and our digital community finder event schedule at harvard.com slash events where you can also sign up for email newsletter and shop our shelves from home. this evening's discussion will conclude with some time for your questions if you have a question for our speakers at any time during the talk tonight. click on the q&a button at the bottom of the screen and we'll get through as many as time allows. this event also has auto-generated closed captioning available depending on the version of zoom you're using you may need to enable captions yourself by clicking on the closed caption button on your scree

we just heard from megan greene of harvard. as we look at these bubbles in the housing market around the world based on the economics work bloomberg has done, whether it is new zealand or australia, or here in canada where, over the last couple of years, it has not been surprising to see prices increase by more than 50%. there was a trend that started going back to the financial crisis where more conservative canadians, who managed on the economic front and saw a record low interest rates for a decade, started to get in. could we be in a situation where the u.s. navigates relatively well but has to be keeping an eye on these global housing markets because of this uncertainty? >> you are right. canada is among those countries to potentially see the highest risks according to the analysis that was performed by my colleague at bloomberg economics. i think the u.s. is relatively safe in this environment and again, i think the u.s. consumer has delivered quite a bit relative to what we saw in the early 2000's. that is really importa

lawrence tribe is a leading constitutional scholar from harvard, and who has argued cases before the supreme court in his career. professor tribe, thank you for being with us. let me start with one of the more important questions. a lot of people who disagree with this decision say that it is not principled. is it unprincipled? professor tribe: it strikes me as profoundly unprincipled, because the supreme court has long said that decisions of great durability on the basis of which people have reshaped their lives, should not be overruled in the absence of some extraordinary change, other than the near personnel of the court. nothing has happened other than essentially the trump packing of the court, the addition of three justices select better donald trump. nothing has changed since roe v. wade to justify suddenly and for the first time in the court's history, taking away a fundamental, personal rights. i say it is unprincipled, and i think i would feel that way even if i were strongly pro-choice, because this decision does not simply overturn the right to abortion, it overturns peop

at the time military veteran shawn mc fate was studying at harvard university. i was running across campus late for us like a statistics and economics midterm study group. and i got a phone call and i literally went like this. you don't know who we are, but we know who you are. we have a job in africa that we think you can help us with. would you consider dropping out of harvard? i to do it will pay a flight ticket down to texas. we're headquartered. we'll talk about it in the 19 ninety's mac vate was a paratrooper in the u. s. army. he then studied political science at the renowned university. and i was like now, you know, mid term exam here, going to africa isn't really strange up here. so i left harvard and i, and 3 years later i, i'd spent, i was, i spent in africa basically building small armies for us interest for a private military company. that did work on that, the c i a and that the department defense didn't want to touch as part of its global war on terror. the u. s. entered into shifting alliances with other armed forces like here in burundi. sean re

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. >> and now coaches at harvard. >> and now coaches at harvard which is appropriate. and by the way, one of my favorite stories is tommy, they played mit every year in their opening game, usually the opening game because their schools are like a mile apart and the mit students come to harvard. when the harvard students chant. and we need to get that perception, the perception is reality, the old saying, unfortunately, yeah, people believe perception to be reality and it's like when idiots like what's her name on fox news, i'm blocking on her name right now, say shut up and dribble, there are people listening to her. and most of the time, lebron james makes sense, he's not always right. none of us are. but the notion that because you play ball or because you're black or both, you can't have opinions on things, you know, how many times have you candidates i know it happens to me all the time. people say stick to sports. well, politics have been a part of sports forever. go back to the 1936 olympics and adolf hitler or go back to the first greek olympics when the guy was

. >> the result is now, even harvard get a look at the states who like the kids out of school for a long time versus other states that had in person education and it's interesting that 2020, as per school year that just ended in 2021 - 2022, is a group that does the map of all of the school measures and so you have the whole united states any school closure when it happened they put a little dot on the map, so the eastern seaboard hello lot and some of these even some of these southern states at some, florida was not a daughter the whole state of florida and so now harvard is now look at this and said that that places who lock the kids out of school did not e a reliable in person education and they've seen a widening of the achievement gap between the rich and poor black and white and however you want to so i said, states like florida, that work hard to have the kids in school, even during the difficult times of covid-19, did not see any increase in the achievement gap and so that is worth its weight in gold in terms of future opportunities, the health of our society going forward is so

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all he did was win the game for you now coaches at harvard and now coaches at harvard which is sort of appropriate isn't it? but and by the way, one of my favorite stories is tommy they play mit every year in their opening game. usually they're opening game because their schools are like a mile apart and the amit students come to harvard and when the harvard players are introduced they can't safety school. yeah. which i think is great. but yes, we do need to get that perception it you know, the old saying perception is reality. unfortunately. yeah people believe perception to be reality and it's like when idiots like what's your name on fox news on blocking on her name right now say shut up and dribble. there are people listening to her. and and and most of the time lebron james makes sense. he's not always right. none of us are but you know the notion that because you play ball or because you're black or worse both you can't have opinions on things. you know, how many times have you i know it happens to me all the time. people say stick to sports. well you it's politics have been a pa

he's a research associate at harvard university and senior fellow for democratic resilience at the center for european policy analysis, and he's a friend of the show. welcome back to the day sir. can i start by getting your take on the 40 percent cut in supply by gas prom? it's blaming. it's on a lack of parts held up by sanctions. does that sound possible? look, it's very convenient. there's been a litany of excuses. the gas from a given over the years for its sudden and unexplained cuts in natural gas supply to europe. this is the latest in an aggregated energy crisis that spans all the way back to the middle of last year. in 2021, the chrome, an intentionally limited, natural gas volumes export in european storage as many of which were owned by cremmit control gas from itself. this create an you, i, gas scarcity that limited the latitude of foreign policy responses to put an invasion of ukraine and how began during the height of the european heating season over the year in february 2022. so when we're hearing that there is suddenly this gas reduction or north stream one, we have to be

and the harvard library. i'm honored to introduce this virtual event with michael dine presenting his book this way to the universe a theoretical physicist journey to the edge of reality in conversation with lisa randle. i hope you're all well and safe. thank you for joining us virtually tonight's event is the latest installment in our harvard science book talk series, which works to bring the authors of recently published science that literature to our cambridge community and beyond coming up on the series on tuesday, march 15, we'll host celebrated neuroscientists and neil set for his new book being you a new science of

mit, harvard laboratory. they all depend for both great students and massive research grants inside of their financial institutions but the chinese communist party stopped underwriting our schools today every giving official which they call on all of you for more donations instantaneously. that connectivity matters a lot . the chinese this party is not doing that because they love us . i was a cia director and we did espionage work around the world. maybe the most important counterintelligence work i did during my time in office was not as cia director but secretary ofstate . we closed the chinese consulate in texas which i believe and i can't prove this but i believe it was the largest espionage operation ever conducted against the united states of america on our own soil and we've known about it for years and no fbi director or secretary of state ever said we think this is worth the risk, worth the cost anybody know what the chinesedid in response ? they close the consulate where we were doing precisely not

doctor, doctor benjamin this schmidt, sir from cambridge, massachusetts, research associate at harvard university as senior fellow for democratic resilience at the center of european policy analysis. thank you for your time. thank you so much. ah, britain has published legislation that will unilaterally rewrite part of the treaty it's signed as part of its briggs at divorce deal with the european union. the northern ireland protocol deals with the promised as unique role as the only part of the united kingdom with a direct, a border with the republic of ireland. the protocol keeps northern ireland in the e u. single market by effectively placing a customs border in the irish sea between northern ireland and mainland britain. a leader say the new legislation is a breach of international law, british foreign minister les tress, defendant, the move were completely serious about this legislation. it doesn't fix the problems in the northern ireland protocol. it also protects the e u. single market said the e u a ne was off. as a result of this legislation. no surprise the you doesn't see th

and when the harvard players are introduced, i think it's great. but we do need to get that perception of the saying perception is reality. unfortunately, yeah. people believe perception to be reality and of course it's like what is your name on fox news, say shut up and dribble, there are people listening. and most of the time, lebron james makes sense. he's not always right. none of us are. but the notion that because you play ball or because you're black or both you can't have opinions on things, how many times, people say stick with sports. politics have been a part of sports forever. go back to the 1936 olympics were go back to the first greek olympics when the guy was running to athens and ran a quarter marathon to give news of a war victory. collapsed and died upon giving the news. that was the first olympics. >> another question. professional teams and subsections like the packers, both universities of state-funded. it's worth noting most college athletic departments are 5o1c3 5o1cthree's and tax-exempt. major league baseball is exempt from

ah, one such ongoing revolution within the field of microscopy is taking place at harvard university in boston. professor jeff leachman had discovered that the key to understanding the brain lies in its architecture that is in the spatial structure of the organ. but how can one look inside the brain? because a suitable microscope didn't exist. least men set about helping size to develop one . the brain, as you probably know, is made up of many nerve cells that are interconnected in this vast network of connections that are poorly understood, largely because it's so complicated. and until recently, there haven't been technologies that would allow one to image the brain at that high resolution. one is you have to look at something that's very large and brain is very big. and you have to look at it at very high resolution. and usually the imaging techniques that allow you to look at high resolution look at very small areas. and the imaging techniques that give you a field of view of a large area have low resolution. but in order to see the brain's wiring diagram when needs both a large

brian: that led you you to harvard. you looked around. not many middle class kids at harvard. >> i felt like i didn't belong. over the course of the two years i recognized that i had everything to contribute just like everybody else. it was all about hard work and effort and seeing good solutions. brian: i know there is talk about you running for president. in 2 1/2 years, you are going to be out. >> as i have said before, i'm incredibly humbled by all of the speculation. and we really are focused on delivering for virginians right now. i think that has my full attention. we'll see what comes next. but for now i have got day two to worry about for lower taxes, better schools and better jobs. brian: would it have anything to do whether you decide to run next? >> i hadn't thought about it, to be honest. i think there is a long time between now and then. brian: in virginia, one term and you are done. so he does have to think about what's next. i wouldn't be surprised if he does run. coming up next, kim strassel says the jig is up for democra