Episodes
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Winslow Myers Intervioew
An interview with Winslow Myers the author of Living Beyond War: A Citizen’s Guide. After thousands of years, the dream of a world without war may seem hopelessly unrealistic. But, as Winslow Myers shows in this concise, eloquent primer, what is truly unrealistic is the notion that war remains a...
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Steven Pinker Interview
An interview with Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading cognitive scientists and author of How the Mind Works. Pinker explains the mind by "reverse-engineering" it — figuring out what natural selection designed it to accomplish in the environment in which we evolved. The mind, he writes, is a...
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Russ Baker Interview
An interview with Russ Baker the author of Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, the Powerful Forces That Put It in the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America. We'll talk to Baker about his recently published article "What Obama Is Up Against" — on the pressures Obama faces from…
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Alexandra Natapoff Interview
An interview with Alexandra Natapoff the author of Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice. Albert Burrell spent thirteen years on death row for a murder he did not commit. Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston during a misguided raid on her home. After…
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James W. Douglass Interview
An interview with James W. Douglass the author of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters — an astonishing new examination of the Kennedy assassination and its meaning today. Douglass lays out the journey that led JFK in the course of three years from his position as a traditional...
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Dahr Jamail Interview
An interview with Dahr Jamail the author of The Will to Resist: Soldiers Who Refuse to Fight in Iraq and Afghanistan. The U.S. project in Iraq has been condemned by a vibrant and vocal antiwar movement as illegal and unjust since before the invasion began. Since 2006, a majority in the United...
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Jake Adelstein Interview
An interview with Jake Adelstein the author of Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. At nineteen, Jake Adelstein went to Japan in search of peace and tranquility. What he got was a life of crime . . . crime reporting, that is, at the prestigious Yomiuri Shinbun. For twelve...
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James W. Loewen Interview
An interview with James W. Loewen author of Teaching What Really Happened: How to Avoid the Tyranny of Textbooks and Get Students Excited About Doing History. Loewen takes history textbooks to task for their perpetuations of myth and their lack of awareness of today's multicultural student…
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Kevin Mattson Interview
An interview with Kevin Mattson the author of 'What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?': Jimmy Carter, America's 'Malaise,' and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country. In 1979, in an effort to right our national malaise, Jimmy Carter delivered a speech that risked his reputation and...
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Davud Swanson Interview
An interview with David Swanson author of Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union. Daybreak is an assessment of how Bush/Cheney fundamentally altered the way our government works, inflated the powers of the executive, and deteriorated the Constitution and Bill…
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Charles P. Pierce Interview
An interview with Charles P. Pierce the author of Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free. The Culture Wars are over and the idiots have won. In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation...
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Len Saputo Interview
An interview with Len Saputo, MD the author of A Return To Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine. For several decades, a rapidly emerging new medical paradigm has supported a renaissance in our understanding of lifelong wellness. Saputo presents the story of this new...
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Peter Schrag Interview
An interview with Peter Schrag the author of California: America's High-Stakes Experiment. Schrag takes on the big issues — immigration, globalization, and the impact of California's politics on its quality of life — in this dynamic account of the Golden State's struggle to recapture the American...
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Frederick Hertz Interview
An interview with Frederick Hertz co-author of Making it Legal: A Guide to Same-Sex Marriage, Domestic Partnership & Civil Unions. 11,000 couples have married in California since the Supreme Court legalized marriage in May of 2008, and nearly as many married in Massachusetts between May of 2004....
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Jarret Lovell Interview
An interview with Jarret S. Lovell the author of Crimes of Dissent Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience. From animal rights to anti-abortion, from tax resistance to anti-poverty, activists from across the political spectrum often deliberately break the law to…
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Christopher Steiner Interview
An interview with Christopher Steiner the author of $20 Per Gallon: How the Inevitable Rise in the Price of Gasoline Will Change Our Lives for the Better. Imagine an everyday world in which the price of gasoline (and oil) continues to go up, and up, and up. Think about the immediate impact that...
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Fred Kaplan Interview 2009
An interview with Fred Kaplan the author of 1959: The Year Everything Changed. It was the year of the microchip, the birth-control pill, the space race, and the computer revolution; the rise of Pop art, free jazz, "sick comics," the New Journalism, and indie films; the emergence of Castro…
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Ellen Ruppel Shell Interview
An interview with Ellen Ruppel Shell the author of Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture. From the shuttered factories of the rust belt to the look-alike strip malls of the sun belt — and almost everywhere in between — America has been transformed by its relentless fixation on low price. This...
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Steve Early Interview
An interview with Steve Early the author of Embedded with Organized Labor: Journalistic Reflections on the Class War at Home. Collected for the first time, the essays that comprise Embedded With Organized Labor present a unique and informed perspective on the class war at home from a longtime...
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Mark Ellingsen Interview
An interview with Mark Ellingsen author of Sin Bravely: A Joyful Alternative to the Purpose-Driven Life. Ellingsen demonstrates that awareness of sin is shown to lead to freedom and joy, as the pressure is removed to do and be good all the time. The book's other primary aim is to flesh out an...
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Alain de Botton Interview 2009
An interview with Alain de Botton the author of The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work. We spend most of our waking lives at work – in occupations often chosen by our unthinking younger selves. And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us. The Pleasures and…
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Douglas Rushkoff Interview 2009
An interview with Douglas Rushkoff the author of Life Incorporated: How the World Became a Corporation and How To Take It Back. In Life Inc., award-winning writer, documentary filmmaker, and scholar Douglas Rushkoff traces how corporations went from a convenient legal fiction to the dominant fact...
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John R. Talbott Interview / June 9, 2009
An interview with John R. Talbott the author of The 86 Biggest Lies on Wall Street. Talbott exposes the lies and then exposes us to the truth of what it will take to rebuild our economy. As a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he knows firsthand how the financial system operates and how…
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Sasha Abramsky Interview 2009
An interview with Sasha Abramsky author of Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger. Trapped in a triangle of the housing market collapse, rising energy costs, and an increasingly dysfunctional healthcare system, America's working poor are now battling an even more formidable enemy:...
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Wendy Kaminer Interview
An interview with Wendy Kaminer the author of Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU. What happens when an organization with the express goal of defending individual rights and liberties starts silencing its own board? Lawyer and social critic Wendy Kaminer has intimate knowledge of...
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Captain Charles Moore Interview
An interview with Captain Charles Moore the discoverer and prime researcher of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and founder of the Algalita Marine Research Foundation. Report. In 1995 Captain Moore launched his purpose designed, aluminum hulled research vessel, Alguita, in Hobart, Tasmania, and...
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Andrew J. Bacevich Interview
An interview with Andrew J. Bacevich the author of The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. Bacevich identifies a profound triple crisis facing America: the economy, in remarkable disarray, can no longer be fixed by relying on expansion abroad; the government, transformed by an...
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Peter T. Leeson Interview
An interview with Peter T. Leeson, the author of The Invisible Hook: The Hidden Economics of Pirates. Leeson takes us inside the wily world of late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century pirates uncovering the hidden economics behind pirates' notorious, entertaining, and sometimes downright...
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Heather K. Gerken Interview
An interview with Heather K. Gerken the author of The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It. Despite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004…
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Kathryn Joyce Interview
An interview with Kathryn Joyce the author of Quiverfull: Inside the Christian Patriarchy Movement. Fundamentalist Christianity may have lost some access to power in the last election, but it has long-term plans. Joyce introduces us to the world of the patriarchy movement and Quiverfull families....
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Mahmood Mamdani Interview
An interview with Mahmood Mamdani the author of Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror. Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had...
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Erna Paris Interview
An interview with Erna Paris author of The Sun Climbs Slow: Justice in the Age of Imperial America — an investigation of the story and individuals behind America’s refusal to acknowledge international law and an inquiry into the urgent role of international criminal justice. At the end of the...
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P.W. Singer Interview
An interview with P. W. Singer the author of Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century. An amazing revolution is taking place on the battlefield, starting to change not just how wars are fought, but also the politics, economics, laws, and ethics that surround war...
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Andrei Codrescu Interview
An interview with Andrei Codrescu author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess. The Posthuman Dada Guide is an impractical handbook for practical living in our posthuman world — all by way of examining the imagined 1916 chess game between Tristan Tzara, the daddy of Dada, and V....
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Susie Orbach Interview
An interview Susie Orbach the author of Bodies. Throughout the Western world, people have come to believe that general dissatisfaction can be relieved by some change in their bodies. Orbach explains the origins of this condition, and examines its implications for all of us. Challenging the…
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William Kleinknecht Interview
An interview with William Kleinknecht author of The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America. Since Ronald Reagan left office — and particularly after his death -his shadow has loomed large over American politics: Republicans and many Democrats have waxed...
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Garry Leech Interview
An interview with Garry Leech author of Beyond Bogotá: Diary of a Drug War Journalist in Colombia. The United States has sent more than $6 billion dollars to Bogotá in the past eight years as part of Plan Colombia, to help eradicate cocaine production and secure rural regions held by illegal…
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Rose George Interview
An interview with Rose George author of The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters. Produced behind closed doors, disposed of discreetly, and hidden by euphemism, bodily waste is something common to all and as natural as breathing, yet we prefer not to talk about...
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Will Bunch Interview
An interview with Will Bunch author of Tear Down This Myth: How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future. Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned…
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Daniel Tammet Interview
An interview with Daniel Tammet author of Embracing the Wide Sky: A Tour Across the Horizons of the Mind. Owner of "the most remarkable mind on the planet," (according to Entertainment Weekly) Daniel Tammet captivated readers and won worldwide critical acclaim with the 2007 New York Times...
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Dacher Keltner Interview
An interview with Dacher Keltner the author of Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life. In a new examination of the surprising origins of human goodness, Keltner demonstrates that humans are not hardwired to lead lives that are "nasty, brutish, and short"— we are in fact born to be…
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Michael Haas Interview
An interview with Michael Haas author of George W. Bush, War Criminal? The Bush Administration’s Liability for 269 War Crimes. Eminent jurists, professional legal organizations, and human rights monitors in this country and around the world have declared that President George W. Bush may be...
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Wendy Chapkis Interview
An interview with Wendy Chapkis co-author of Dying to Get High: Marijuana as Medicine. Marijuana as medicine has been a politically charged topic in this country for more than three decades. Despite overwhelming public support and growing scientific evidence of its therapeutic effects (relief of...
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Mikal Gilmore Interview
An interview with Mikal Gilmore author of Stories Done: Writings on the 1960s and Its Discontents. Gilmore weaves a narrative of the '60s and '70s as he examines the lives of the era's most important cultural icons. Keeping the power of rock & roll at the forefront, Gilmore gathers together…
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Joe Allen Interview
An interview with Joe Allen author of Vietnam: The (Last) War the U.S. Lost. As the United States now faces a major defeat in its occupation of Iraq, the history of the Vietnam War, as a historic blunder for US military forces abroad, and the true story of how it was stopped, take on a fresh...
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Ariela J. Gross Interview
An interview with Ariela J. Gross author of What Blood Won't Tell: A History of Race on Trial in America. Is race something we know when we see it? In 1857, Alexina Morrison, a slave in Louisiana, ran away from her master and surrendered herself to the parish jail for protection. Blue-eyed and...
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Sharon Waxman Interview
An interview with Sharon Waxman author of Loot: The Battle over the Stolen Treasures of the Ancient World — a journey across four continents to the heart of the conflict over who should own the great works of ancient art. Why are the Elgin Marbles in London and not on the Acropolis? Why do there...
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Tyler E. Boudreau Interview
An interview with Tyler E. Boudreau author of Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine. Boudreau is a twelve-year veteran of the Marine Corps infantry. He trained and committed himself physically and intellectually to the military life. Then his intense devotion began to disintegrate, bit by…
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Chip Jacobs & William Kelly Interview
An interview with Chip Jacobs and William Kelly co-authors of Smogtown: The Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles. The smog beast wafted into downtown Los Angeles on July 26, 1943. Nobody knew what it was. Secretaries rubbed their eyes. Traffic cops seemed to disappear in the…
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Kevin M. Scott Interview
An interview with Kevin M. Scott the co-author of The Porning of America: The Rise of Porn Culture, What It Means, and Where We Go from Here. From the popular Bratz dolls to the infamous photos from Abu Ghraib, Scott reveals that porn has become the mainstream - and the mainstream has become…
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