Stanford Roundtable available online
That was fast — YouTube and iTunesU have video of the 2008 Stanford Roundtable online now. I encourage you to watch it.
Check out the actual YouTube link for a higher quality version. I know it’s long, but check out some segments I thought was nice:
- Kavita Ramdas on collective leadership, 10:50
- Justice Kennedy on leadership in the Supreme Court and how a decision is made, 14:04
- Professor David Kennedy, opening remarks, 20:30
- Kavita Ramdas on ‘sharing’ democracy with other nations, 31:50
- President Hennessy on current students and Tom Brokaw’s humorous condition of his ‘house divided’ between Berkeley and Stanford, 33:32
Brokaw gave a speech at Berkeley once where he said “I know what it’s like having one daughter at Berkeley and one at Stanford, it’s like having one member of the Grateful Dead and one member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.”
- Jeff Raikes on Brokaw’s divided house and then creative capitalism for the development, 41:22
- Kavita Ramdas on ‘what is democracy?’ (ie ,not just holding elections), 45:00
Ramdas highlights that real democracy comes when people are able to hold both government and the private sector accountable and to a higher standard. Specifically mentions the outrage after Hindu exremists killed Muslims in the state of Gujarat.
- Justice Kennedy on ‘rule of law’ and real meaning of ‘pursuit of happiness’ (47:25), on lack of safe drinking water (49:05)
- Justice Kennedy: “Lookit, the temptation of the rule law is that you have a Magna Carta, then you wait 600 years, then you have a revolution, then you have a civil war…we have to realize the fierce urgency of now, these people cannot and will not wait, and should not.”
- President Hennessy on the problems of the press, 59:35
- Tom Brokaw on people making an effort to be informed, 1:03:15
- Kavita Ramdas on ‘the personal is political’, 1:07:42
- Congressman Becerra on Eleanor Roosevelt, 1:19:04
Enjoy!