EPISODE · Jul 29, 2003

Elaine Scarry

from Christopher Lydon Interviews (with Enclosures)

Elaine Scarry is the author of the startling little essay, Who Defended the Country? I have admired Elaine Scarry from a distance as a completely original literary critic. Here's a little light summer conversation on a gap in American defenses that the 9.11 attack revealed. It's the matter of homeland security, seriously, without the capital letters.

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