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We should start acting like we live here, Pope says.

You would’t last long without nature, says Pope.

The environmental movement has made a big mistake severing its ties to religious organizations, Pope says.

Pope says the Sierra Club has accomplished a lot, but has a long way to go.

Increasing access to information is a significant new development.

This is a period to watch closely, listen carefully, and learn very, very fast, says Pope.

Carl Pope sometimes has to remind people that, in the Old West, if you poisoned the well, you’d be strung up.

“Lobbying,” says Pope, is a word that describes two very different phenomena.

A lot of Americans share the Sierra Club’s beliefs, but don’t like the Club very much, says Pope.

The Sierra Club’s members share the core values of taking responsibility over the environment and making a difference.

Directing the Sierra Club is a bit like driving an elephant, says Carl Pope.

Carl Pope never bought the McCarthy era civics lessons. Instead, he organized a hospital union in Arkansas.

What are the things I need to have a good life?

Try seeing beyond your traditional affiliations.

Depressed people have a better grasp of reality, Yoshino says.

Circumscribing civil liberties is an irreversible process, Yoshino says.

In a match-up against someone powerful, will justice be served?

Its not an algorithm, says Yoshino.

What does Shakespeare have to do with civil rights?

Kenji Yoshino on group identity politics.

Covering, Yoshino says, is downplaying aspects of an identity you otherwise admit to.

The dichotomy between strict constructionists and those who advocate a living; Constitution is a false one, says Yoshino.

Yoshino talks through the malleability of the Constitution, notably how homosexuality has become an issue of liberty rather than equal protection.

Yoshino is a political intellectual.

Is gay an identity? Yoshino believes it is.

A Japanese Yankee.

What needs to change?

We can’t understand the world, Vest says, until our intelligence officers are more diverse.

It’s not the media, Vest says. It’s the education system.

Institutions teach by example, says Vest.