Jameel Jaffer, former deputy legal director of the ACLU, discusses the legal and policy documents that govern the U.S.'s drone program. He is interviewed by Hoover Institution senior fellow and former assistant attorney general, Jack Goldsmith. This event was held at the Hoover Institution's Washington, DC, offices.
Randall Fuller, English professor at the University of Tulsa, examines the impact of the publication of Charles Darwin's "On the Origin of Species," on America's religious and intellectual communities upon its release in 1860. Randall Fuller speaks at Harvard Book Store in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
BookTV interviews the co-owners of Washington D.C.'s Politics & Prose Bookstore, Brad Graham and Lissa Muscatine, about their bookstore's events and reading lists created in reaction to the election of President Trump.
Elected governor in 1989, L . Douglas Wilder was the first African American elected governor in Virginia and the first since Reconstruction. He sat down with us to discuss his book, "Son of Virginia" and his thoughts on the current political climate.
Mary Aiken examines the impact of cyberspace on the behavior and development of children, teens, and adults. She appears on C-SPAN's weekly program, "Communicators."
Fox News radio host Todd Starnes gives his take on what citizens can do to bring America back to traditional values in his book, "The Deplorables' Guide to Making America Great Again."
Coverage of the 2017 National Book Critics Circle Awards, presented each year to honor the best books published in the United States, according to the organization, which is composed of nearly 600 critics. The awards are presented at the New School in New York City.
Rod Dreher, senior editor at The American Conservative magazine, argues that American Christians should look to St. Benedict, a sixth-century monk, for ideas on how to reverse the spiritual crisis in the country today. He spoke at an event hosted by First Things and Plough Magazine in New York City.
Professor Lisa Servon reports on alternatives to traditional banking in her book, "The Unbanking of America." Professor Servon worked as a pay day lender and a teller at a check cashing company and explores how these methods of banking serves consumers. She is interviewed by Rohit Chopra of the Consumer Federation of America and former assistant director with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
Scott Miller, former correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, recalls Allen Dulles' efforts to embolden the German resistance against the Third Reich. Dulles, who would later lead the CIA, assumed the code-name Agent 110, and surreptitiously entered Switzerland in November 1942, when in the hopes of learning more about the Nazi operations, discovered a group of Germans set on the overthrow of Hitler. Scott Miller speaks at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
