GOOD EVENING: The show begins in 1968 on the Columbia campus for the violent and self-defeating protests by students against the Vietnam War and against university plans for a gym in Morningside Park. Then the police were sent in, April, 1968. Decades lat

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GOOD EVENING: The show begins in 1968 on the Columbia campus for the violent and self-defeating protests by students against the Vietnam War and against university plans for a gym in Morningside Park. Then the police were sent in, April, 1968. Decades later, same campus, same police, but no reports of violence. The Middle East reports violence -- and the Israeli airstrike. To Pittsburgh, to Tell City, Indiana, to Ingenuity, the lone sentry on Mars till mankind arrives. To New Zealand for immigration limits. To Isfahan "nuclear site." To Harvard under Derek Bok, 1971-1991. To high-speed rail from LA to Las Vegas, to Milan, to Genoa, to Rome and Tunisia. To the Giants vs. the Dodgers, 1965. To Musk's dreams of one million colonists on Mars in this century.

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.0	Tonight, the show starts in a flashback to 1968, the Columbia campus.
0:07.0	Every morning I was in New Jersey at Princeton, we'd read in the Daily Princetonian about
0:11.8	the protests, the riot in Colombia. the freshman year and again I think I went up to meet some people at the Gold Rail or the West End,
0:27.0	those were big bars in the 1960s. The Gold Rail was for jocks. the West End was for the intellectuals.
0:34.0	I was more a jock than the other.
0:37.0	However, I wandered around the campus happily.
0:40.0	Barnard was right across the street, Columbia was there.
0:43.0	It was 1968, and then in April of 68,
0:47.0	the protest about Vietnam, about civil rights,
0:50.0	everything changed and didn't change back. Here we are, 56 years later, and on the same
0:58.0	Columbia campus in the same spot the protests. This time they don't need to enter
1:02.0	Hamilton Hall or the Low Library
1:05.6	the administration offices. They have nice tents, Amazon tents. And in 1968 eventually the decision was made to send in the NYPD
1:17.7	the mayor vouchsafe to John Lindsay at the time and they went in. That was then. Now the president of Columbia or the
1:27.4	administration of Columbia invites him the police to clean up the
1:31.6	protesters camped out in these very attractive tents on the lawn.
1:36.7	I don't think there was any violence as there was in 68. However, that begins to show. And then we turn to the indifference and chaos around the
1:48.6	migrants who are in the city and need help. A move from 30-day temporary housing to 60-day temporary housing and
1:59.3	in the all-weather as lineup it's not it's not going well and that discussion
2:09.1	with Harry Seagull tonight of the city.
2:13.6	On to Israel and Richard Epstein's recommendation of how to de-escalate negotiations in a negotiation
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