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Winslow Myers Intervioew Updated: 2009-12-16 04:18:56 Description: 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 t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steven Pinker Interview Updated: 2009-12-08 23:24:52 Description: 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 e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Russ Baker Interview Updated: 2009-12-01 23:50:38 Description: 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 Oba...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alexandra Natapoff Interview Updated: 2009-11-24 23:22:52 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James W. Douglass Interview Updated: 2009-11-18 17:13:32 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dahr Jamail Interview Updated: 2009-11-10 23:15:32 Description: 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 i...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jake Adelstein Interview Updated: 2009-11-03 22:41:28 Description: 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, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James W. Loewen Interview Updated: 2009-10-27 22:33:59 Description: 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 la...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kevin Mattson Interview Updated: 2009-09-29 23:22:04 Description: 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 Ca...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Davud Swanson Interview Updated: 2009-09-23 04:01:22 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Charles P. Pierce Interview Updated: 2009-09-15 23:44:28 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Len Saputo Interview Updated: 2009-09-08 22:55:52 Description: 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 lifelo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Schrag Interview Updated: 2009-09-01 23:00:48 Description: 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 accou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Frederick Hertz Interview Updated: 2009-08-25 22:31:30 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jarret Lovell Interview Updated: 2009-08-18 22:44:01 Description: 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 polit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christopher Steiner Interview Updated: 2009-08-04 23:38:49 Description: 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, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fred Kaplan Interview 2009 Updated: 2009-07-28 23:12:14 Description: 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 Journ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ellen Ruppel Shell Interview Updated: 2009-07-21 23:29:10 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Early Interview Updated: 2009-07-14 22:59:06 Description: 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 p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Ellingsen Interview Updated: 2009-06-30 22:18:13 Description: 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 ti...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Alain de Botton Interview 2009 Updated: 2009-06-23 22:16:31 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Douglas Rushkoff Interview 2009 Updated: 2009-06-16 22:37:46 Description: 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 we...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John R. Talbott Interview / June 9, 2009 Updated: 2009-06-09 21:26:24 Description: 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 know...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sasha Abramsky Interview 2009 Updated: 2009-06-02 21:51:01 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wendy Kaminer Interview Updated: 2009-05-26 22:13:53 Description: 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 an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Captain Charles Moore Interview Updated: 2009-05-19 22:52:42 Description: 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 hull...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrew J. Bacevich Interview Updated: 2009-05-12 22:30:03 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter T. Leeson Interview Updated: 2009-05-06 00:20:19 Description: 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 pirate...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Heather K. Gerken Interview Updated: 2009-04-28 23:08:31 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kathryn Joyce Interview Updated: 2009-04-21 23:11:19 Description: 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 wo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mahmood Mamdani Interview Updated: 2009-04-14 21:19:45 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Erna Paris Interview Updated: 2009-04-07 22:14:01 Description: 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 rol...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Russ Baker Interview Updated: 2009-03-31 21:47:50 Description: 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. After eight disastrous years, George W. Bush leaves office as one ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD P.W. Singer Interview Updated: 2009-03-24 23:09:57 Description: 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 poli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrei Codrescu Interview Updated: 2009-03-17 23:19:39 Description: 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 ch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Susie Orbach Interview Updated: 2009-03-11 17:57:35 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD William Kleinknecht Interview Updated: 2009-03-03 23:25:40 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Garry Leech Interview Updated: 2009-02-25 00:11:39 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rose George Interview Updated: 2009-02-18 00:29:28 Description: 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 a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Will Bunch Interview Updated: 2009-02-11 00:16:58 Description: 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 po...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Daniel Tammet Interview Updated: 2009-02-04 00:15:20 Description: 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 worldwid...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dacher Keltner Interview Updated: 2009-01-20 23:26:28 Description: 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 "nas...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michael Haas Interview Updated: 2009-01-13 23:46:36 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Wendy Chapkis Interview Updated: 2009-01-07 21:10:45 Description: 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 sci...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mikal Gilmore Interview Updated: 2008-12-30 22:32:09 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joe Allen Interview Updated: 2008-12-24 00:07:54 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ariela J. Gross Interview Updated: 2008-12-09 23:25:04 Description: 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 hers...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sharon Waxman Interview Updated: 2008-12-03 00:08:33 Description: 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 ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tyler E. Boudreau Interview Updated: 2008-11-25 23:17:45 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chip Jacobs & William Kelly Interview Updated: 2008-11-18 23:26:05 Description: 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...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Kevin M. Scott Interview Updated: 2008-11-12 04:34:05 Description: 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 bec...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Martin Garbus Interview Updated: 2008-11-04 23:19:30 Description: An interview with Martin Garbus the author of The Next 25 Years: The New Supreme Court and What It Means for Americans. Renowned First Amendment lawyer Martin Garbus examines what will be the impact of the new Supreme Court on the future of o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sue Katz Interview Updated: 2008-10-28 23:04:16 Description: An interview with Sue Katz the author of Thanks But No Thanks: The Voter's Guide to Sarah Palin. Who is Sarah Palin and what does she believe in? People around the country — and indeed the world — had more questions than answers when John...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lew Daly Interview Updated: 2008-10-21 22:16:16 Description: An interview with Lew Daly the co-author of Unjust Deserts: How the Rich Are Taking Our Common Inheritance and Why We Should Take It Back. Warren Buffett is worth nearly $50 billion. Does he “deserve” all this money? Buffett himself will ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Art Spiegelman Interview Updated: 2008-10-14 22:51:02 Description: An interview with legendary cartoonist Art Spiegelman author of Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@*!’. Breakdowns was the first collected book of comic art Spiegelman had published. Created between 1972 and 1977, the volume has...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Glenn Greenwald Interview Updated: 2008-10-11 19:30:29 Description: An interview with Glenn Greenwald author of Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. With less than a month left until the election, the Republican Propaganda machine is running at maximum speed and the hypocr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jeff Chester Interview Updated: 2008-10-01 04:36:42 Description: An interview with Jeff Chester author of Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy. With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications, we now have the potential for a truly democratic media system offering a ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John R. MacArthur Interview Updated: 2008-09-23 22:53:03 Description: An interview with John R. MacArthur, the author of You Can't Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in America. After the debacle of the 2000 presidential election, many Americans were asking themselves if their vote really counte...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dexter Filkins Interview Updated: 2008-09-16 22:34:12 Description: An interview with Dexter Filkins the author of The Forever War. Through the eyes of Filkins, the prizewinning New York Times correspondent whose work was hailed by David Halberstam as "reporting of the highest quality imaginable," we witness ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Judy Polumbaum Interview Updated: 2008-09-09 22:51:31 Description: An interview with Judy Polumbaum author of China Ink: The Changing Face of Chinese Journalism. Polumbaum explores individual and societal changes in contemporary China through the compelling personal accounts of young Chinese journalists. Chi...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Tom Vanderbilt Interview Updated: 2008-09-02 22:29:08 Description: An interview with Tom Vanderbilt, the author of Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us). Would you be surprised that road rage can be good for society? Or that most crashes happen on sunny, dry days? That our minds can...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Karl E. Meyer Interview Updated: 2008-08-26 22:04:37 Description: An interview with Karl E. Meyer the author of Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East. Kingmakers is the story of how the modern Middle East came to be, told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. Some are f...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steven T. Wax Interview Updated: 2008-08-19 22:10:02 Description: An interview with Steven T. Wax author of Kafka Comes to America: Fighting for Justice in the War on Terror: A Public Defender's Inside Account. "Our government can make you disappear." Those were words Steven T. Wax never imagined he would h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Thomas Frank Interview Updated: 2008-08-12 22:22:34 Description: An interview with Thomas Frank author of The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. From the author of the landmark bestseller, a jaw-dropping investigation of the decades of deliberate-and lucrative-conservative misrule In his previous book...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD James Galbraith Interview Updated: 2008-08-05 23:05:33 Description: An interview with James Galbraith author of The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. The cult of the free market has dominated economic policy-talk since the Reagan revolution of nearly thir...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jane Mayer Interview Updated: 2008-07-29 21:15:32 Description: An interview with Jane Mayer author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricke...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Walter Nugent Interview Updated: 2008-07-22 21:06:51 Description: An interview with Walter Nugent author of Habits of Empire: A History of American Expansion. Discussions abound today about the state of the union, its place in the world, and the founding fathers’ intentions. Did they want the United State...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Barry Siegel Interview Updated: 2008-07-15 21:16:15 Description: An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barry Siegel author of Claim of Privilege: A Mysterious Plane Crash, a Landmark Supreme Court Case, and the Rise of State Secrets. Siegel unfolds the shocking true story behind the Supreme C...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chris Hedges Interview Updated: 2008-07-08 21:38:10 Description: An interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges co-author of Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians. Hedges and journalist Laila Al-Arian spent the past year interviewing over fifty veterans to expose the pa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bill Bishop Interview Updated: 2008-07-01 22:07:16 Description: An Interview with Bill Bishop author of The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart. America may be more diverse than ever coast to coast, but the places where we live are becoming increasingly crowded with peo...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Terry K. Aladjem Interview Updated: 2008-06-24 22:13:11 Description: An interview with Terry J. Aladjem, author of The Culture of Vengeance and the Fate of American Justice. America is driven by vengeance in Aladjem’s provocative account — a reactive, public anger that is a threat to democratic justice its...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Gabor Maté Interview Updated: 2008-06-17 20:57:58 Description: An interview with Gabor Maté, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction. Bestselling writer and physician Maté looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Vincent Bugliosi Interview Updated: 2008-06-10 21:08:43 Description: An interview with Vincent Bugliosi author of The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Famed Charles Manson prosecutor and three time #1 New York Times bestselling author Vincent Bugliosi has written the most powerful, explosive, and thou...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Taras Grescoe Interview Updated: 2008-06-04 18:19:33 Description: An interview with Taras Grescoe author of Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood. A look at aquaculture that does for seafood what Fast Food Nation did for beef. Dividing his sensibilities between Epicureanism and...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Suzanne Gordon Interview Updated: 2008-05-27 21:05:44 Description: An interview with Suzanne Gordon co-author of Safety in Numbers: Nurse-to-Patient Ratios and the Future of Health Care. Legally mandated nurse-to-patient ratios are one of the most controversial topics in health care today. Ratio advocates be...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Matt Taibbi Interview Updated: 2008-05-20 21:19:23 Description: An interview with Matt Taibbi author of The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire. Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi set out to describe the nature of George Bush's America ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nicholson Baker Interview Updated: 2008-05-13 20:58:49 Description: An interview with Nicholson Baker author of Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization. Baker delivers a deeply moving indictment of the treasured myths that have romanticized much of the 1930s and '40s. Incorporatin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Glenn Greenwald Interview Updated: 2008-05-06 19:50:18 Description: An interview with Glenn Greenwald author of Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics. Long since Americans were wooed by images of Ronald Reagan astride a horse, complete with cowboy hat and rugged good looks, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Susan Jacoby Interview Updated: 2008-04-22 21:49:12 Description: An interview with Susan Jacoby author of The Age of American Unreason. Jacoby paints a disturbing portrait of a mutant strain of public ignorance, anti-rationalism, and anti-intellectualism that has developed over the past four decades and no...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Maude Barlow Interview Updated: 2008-04-15 23:31:40 Description: An interview with Maude Barlow author of Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water. In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corpora...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nick Davies Interview Updated: 2008-04-08 22:47:59 Description: An interview with Nick Davies author of Flat Earth News: An Award-winning Reporter Exposes Falsehood, Distortion and Propaganda in the Global Media. Davies names names and exposes the national stories which turn out to be pseudo events manufa...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Marnia Lazreg Interview Updated: 2008-03-26 01:03:26 Description: An interview with Marnia Lazreg author of Torture and the Twilight of Empire: From Algiers to Baghdad. Lazreg looks at the intimate relationship between torture and colonial domination through a close examination of the French army's coercive...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Fred Kaplan Interview Updated: 2008-03-18 22:15:56 Description: An interview with Fred Kaplan author of Daydream Believers: How a Few Grand Ideas Wrecked American Power. America's power is in decline, its foreign policy adrift, its allies alienated, its soldiers trapped in a war that even generals regard ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nicholas Maxwell Interview Updated: 2008-03-12 01:20:10 Description: An interview with Nicholas Maxwell author of From Knowledge to Wisdom: A Revolution for Science and the Humanities. Maxwell argues that there is an urgent need, for both intellectual and humanitarian reasons, to bring about a revolution in sc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Charles Barber Interview Updated: 2008-03-05 00:29:16 Description: An interview with Charles Barber, author of Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation. Public perceptions of mental health issues have changed dramatically over the last fifteen years, and nowhere is this more apparent than in t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Interview Updated: 2008-02-26 23:36:36 Description: An interview with Jeffrey C. Goldfarb, author of The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times. Political change doesn't always begin with a bang; it often starts with just a whisper. From the discussions around kitch...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert Creamer Interview Updated: 2008-02-19 23:16:05 Description: An interview with Robert Creamer, author of Listen to Your Mother: Stand Up Straight: How Progressives Can Win. Some people think that in order to win this November, Democrats need to move to the political center by adopting conservative valu...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jonathan Simon Interview Updated: 2008-02-12 22:22:30 Description: An interview with Jonathan Simon author of Governing through Crime: How the War on Crime Transformed American Democracy and Created a Culture of Fear. Across America today gated communities sprawl out from urban centers, employers enforce man...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sarah Posner Interview Updated: 2008-02-05 21:07:53 Description: Sarah Posner discusses her book God's Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters. Posner examines the unholy alliance between a new breed of corrupt televangelists and the Republican Party, which is eagerly courting "...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Matt Mason Interview Updated: 2008-01-22 23:04:08 Description: Our guest is Matt Mason author of The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism. Mason charts the rise of various youth movements - from pirate radio to remix culture, from punk and hip-hop to graffiti and gaming - and t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Winne Interview Updated: 2008-01-15 22:03:19 Description: An interview with Mark Winne author of Closing the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty. Food activist and journalist Mark Winne poses questions too often overlooked in our current conversations around food: What about those pe...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Craig Unger Interview Updated: 2008-01-08 22:13:12 Description: An interview with Craig Unger author of The Fall of the House of Bush: The Untold Story of How a Band of True Believers Seized the Executive Branch, Started the Iraq War, and Still Imperils America's Future. The presidency of George W. Bush h...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Interview Updated: 2008-01-02 01:23:18 Description: Ismael Hossein-zadeh discusses his book The Political Economy of U.S. Militarism. Hossein-zadeh's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary analysis blends history, economics, and politics to challenge most of the prevailing accounts of the rise of U.S...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David Rose Interview Updated: 2007-12-26 18:06:09 Description: An interview with David Rose, author of The Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice. Over the course of eight bloody months in the 1970s, a serial rapist and murderer terrorized Columbus, Georgia, killing seven elderly wh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert Kuttner Interview Updated: 2007-12-18 22:51:24 Description: Robert Kuttner discusses his book, The Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our Prosperity. The incomes of most Americans today are static or declining. Tens of millions of workers are newly vulnerable to layoffs...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Walter Russell Mead Interview Updated: 2007-12-11 21:31:06 Description: Walter Russell Mead discusses his book God and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World. Mead, the Henry A. Kissinger senior fellow for U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations and one of the country's leading...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Christopher Ellinger Interview Updated: 2007-11-27 22:11:40 Description: An interview with Christopher Ellinger of Bolder Giving. Christopher and Anne Ellinger were plunged into the philanthropy world when Christopher received an unexpected inheritance at age 21. After ten years of exploring the resources availabl...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Greg Anrig Interview Updated: 2007-11-20 22:23:58 Description: Greg Anrig discusses his book The Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing. Tax cuts that produce gargantuan budget deficits, an ill-conceived war that has diminished America's ability to defend itself, the quiet evisc...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Paul V. Dutton Interview Updated: 2007-11-13 22:02:49 Description: Paul V. Dutton discusses his book Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France. Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Goldstein Interview #2 Updated: 2007-11-06 22:17:46 Description: Richard Goldstein co-author of The Contenders — a book about the Democratic Presidential candidates — returns to talk about Hillary, Edwards and the Republicans. Goldstein, who writes regularly for The Nation, is the author of Homocons: T...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Lawrence Wright Interview Updated: 2007-10-30 21:59:05 Description: Pulitzer prize winner Lawrence Wright discusses his book of The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. The Looming Tower explains in unprecedented detail the growth of Islamic fundamentalism, the rise of al-Qaeda, and the intelligence ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Norman Solomon Interview Updated: 2007-10-23 22:17:24 Description: An interview with Norman Solomon author of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State. Since he was first under FBI surveillance at age 14 in the mid-1960s, Norman Solomon has been on a collision course with what he cal...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert B. Reich Interview Updated: 2007-10-16 21:50:08 Description: Robert B. Reich discusses his book Supercapitalism: The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life. The United States economy has soared since the 1970s. We have access to new products (computers and iPods, hybrid cars an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Anderson Interview Updated: 2007-10-09 20:59:41 Description: An interview with John Anderson author of Follow the Money: How George W Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-tied America — a jaw-dropping and damning picture of the money laundering, underhanded deal-making and dirty politics that made their...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nicholas Guyatt Interview Updated: 2007-10-02 23:14:16 Description: Nicholas Guyatt discusses his book Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World. Journeying to the dusty heartlands of America’s Bible Belt, Guyatt goes in search of the truth behind a startlin...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Richard Goldstein Interview Updated: 2007-09-25 22:37:09 Description: An interview with Richard Goldstein co-author of The Contenders. Goldstein offers an unusual perspective on Obama, contrasting his “soft” brand of masculinity with a machismo that dominated contemporary politics and popular culture (i.e...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stuart Ewen Interview Updated: 2007-09-18 22:42:31 Description: An interview with Stuart Ewen co- author of Typecasting: On the Arts & Sciences of Human Inequality. Written with Elizabeth Ewen, Typecasting chronicles the emergence of the “science of first impression” and reveals how the work of its cr...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD R. Jay Magill, Jr. Interview Updated: 2007-09-11 22:16:59 Description: An interview with R. Jay Magill, Jr. author of Chic Ironic Bitterness. The events of 9/11 had many pundits on the left and right scrambling to declare an end to the Age of Irony. But six years on, we're as ironic as ever. From the Simpsons an...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Benjamin Barber 9/07 Interview Updated: 2007-09-04 22:20:56 Description: An interview with Benjamin Barber author of Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. Consumed offers a portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that overproduces good...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Bjorn Lomborg Interview Updated: 2007-08-28 21:02:09 Description: Bjorn Lomborg discusses his book Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming. Lomborg argues that many of the actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, and are often b...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Elliot D. Cohen Interview Updated: 2007-08-21 22:22:47 Description: Elliot D. Cohen discusses his book The Last Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning America into a Dictatorship. Cohen shows how mainstream media corporations like CNN, Fox, and NBC (General Electric) together...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Dave Zirin Interview Updated: 2007-08-14 21:45:49 Description: Dave Zirin, columnist for SLAM Magazine, a regular contributor to the Nation Magazine, and Los Angeles Times discusses his book Welcome to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports. Terrordome has already been called "the spor...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peggy Levitt Interview Updated: 2007-08-07 23:10:05 Description: Peggy Levitt, Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Wellesley College, discusses her book God Needs No Passport: Immigrants and the Changing American Religious Landscape. Levitt argues that current debates about reli...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Felicia Kornbluh Interview Updated: 2007-07-31 21:12:07 Description: Felicia Kornbluh discusses her book The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America. Kornbluh chronicles an American war on poverty fought first and foremost by poor people themselves — telling the fascinating story of...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Aviva Chomsky Interview Updated: 2007-07-24 21:17:22 Description: An interview with Aviva Chomsky author of "They Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration. Claims that immigrants take Americans' jobs, are a drain on the American economy, contribute to poverty and inequality, and contribute to a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Daniel Brook Interview Updated: 2007-07-17 21:59:34 Description: Daniel Brook discusses his book The Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America. What is lost when the best and the brightest are corralled into corporate America? Brook argues that the exploding income gap — a product of th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eva Rutland Interview Updated: 2007-07-10 23:18:14 Description: Eva Rutland discusses her book When We Were Colored: A Mother's Story. Rutland, author of more than 20 novels and winner of the 2000 Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement, presents the timely and relevant story, first published in 1964, o...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Berkman Interview Updated: 2007-07-03 22:33:15 Description: An interview with Steve Berkman a former World Bank staffer and contributor to A Game As Old As Empire: The Secret World of Economic Hit Men and the Web of Global Corruption. In his essay, "The World Bank and the $100 Billion Question," Berkm...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sasha Abramsky Interview 2007 Updated: 2007-06-26 23:00:03 Description: An interview with Sasha Abramsky author of American Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment. In this expose of U.S. penitentiaries and the communities around them, Abramsky finds that prisons have dumped their...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Scott Gac Interview Updated: 2007-06-13 21:02:41 Description: Scott Gac discusses his book Singing for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century Culture of Reform. In the two decades prior to the Civil War, the Hutchinson Family Singers of New Hampshire became America’s most po...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Joseph Gerson Interview Updated: 2007-06-05 22:34:19 Description: Joseph Gerson discusses his book Empire and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World. The United States is the only country to have dropped the atomic bomb. Since the A-bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, every U.S. p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Laura Flanders Interview Updated: 2007-05-29 22:00:51 Description: Air America host Laura Flanders discusses her book Blue Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians. Flanders believes there are no such things as "red" and "blue" states. Even in the most surprising places, she's finding pro...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jonathan Cohn Interview Updated: 2007-05-22 22:49:05 Description: Jonathan Cohn, senior editor at The New Republic, discusses his book Sick: The Untold Story of America’s Health Care Crises – and the People who Pay the Price. Every day, millions of hard-working people struggle to find affordable medical...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD George Monbiot Interview Updated: 2007-05-15 21:30:18 Description: George Monbiot discusses his book Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. It now seems certain that we need a 90% cut in our emissions within 25 years if we are to stop ourselves reaching the point where the "climate feedback" becomes unst...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ellen Bravo Interview Updated: 2007-05-08 21:50:43 Description: Ellen Bravo discusses her book Taking On the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the Nation. Enough about "breaking the glass ceiling." Here are blueprints for a redesign of the entire building, ground up, to benefit...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrew Koppelmanm Interview Updated: 2007-05-01 21:26:52 Description: An interview with Andrew Koppelman author of Same Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines. Americans are profoundly divided over same-sex marriage, and now that gay civil unions and marriages are legal in some states,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Eric Boehlert Interview Updated: 2007-04-24 21:03:29 Description: Eric Boehlert, a Senior Fellow at Media Matters for America discusses his book Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush — the first book to demonstrate that, for the entire George W. Bush presidency, the news media have utterly failed in ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Albert Bates Interview Updated: 2007-04-17 21:26:44 Description: Albert Bates, an influential figure in the intentional community and ecovillage movements discusses his new book The Post-Petroleum Survival Guide and Cookbook: Recipes for Changing Times. Over the coming years we will need to move from a g...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Robert Ivker Interview Updated: 2007-04-10 20:20:30 Description: Robert Ivker discusses his book One Town's Terror: 9/11, Iraq and Burlington Vermont. Perhaps few US locales have been turned upside since 9/11 as much as Burlington, Vermont and its surrounding villages. According to Ivker, the city of Bur...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Peter Navarro Interview Updated: 2007-04-03 21:34:59 Description: Peter Navarro Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy at the Paul Merage School of Business, University of California, Irvine discusses his book The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought and How They Can Be Won. China's brea...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Benjamin Barber Interview Updated: 2007-03-27 21:13:52 Description: Benjamin Barber discusses his new book Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole. A sequel to Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a portrait of how adult consumers are infantil...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD George Galloway Interview 2007 Updated: 2007-03-20 21:30:55 Description: British Member of Parliament George Galloway discusses his new Fidel Castro Handbook. As Fidel Castro turned eighty, Galloway published a look at the Cuban leader's life from childhood, through his dramatic conquest of power, and his leadersh...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Sara Miles Interview Updated: 2007-03-13 21:49:00 Description: Raised as an atheist, Sara Miles lived a happy secular life as a restaurant cook and a writer. Then early one morning, for no earthly reason, she wandered into an Episcopal church, took communion and was transformed. Before long, she turned th...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Max Blumenthal Interview Updated: 2007-03-06 21:23:02 Description: An interview with Max Blumenthal who attended the the 34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference and documented his experience for The Nation — a clip widely viewed on YouTube. The lowlight of the CPAC event was a speech by Ann Co...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Chalmers Johnson Interview Updated: 2007-02-27 23:23:05 Description: Chalmers Johnson discusses his new book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic. In his prophetic book Blowback, Johnson linked the CIA’s clandestine activities abroad to disaster at home. In The Sorrows of Empire, he explored the w...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD William Rivers Pitt Interview Updated: 2007-02-20 22:58:10 Description: William Rivers Pitt discusses his new book House of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation. The presidency of George W. Bush promised to restore integrity to the White House, but instead it has been plagued by ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Barry Lando Interview Updated: 2007-02-13 22:00:48 Description: An interview with Barry Lando author of Web of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill to Kennedy to George W. Bush. In February 1991, the Shia of southern Iraq rose against Saddam Hussein. Lando, a former investigat...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jeff Chester Interview Updated: 2007-02-06 22:32:48 Description: Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy, discusses his new book Digital Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy. With the explosive growth of the Internet and broadband communications, we now have the poten...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD William R. Clark Interview Updated: 2007-01-31 00:03:05 Description: William R. Clark, discusses his book Petrodollar Warfare: Oil, Iraq and the Future of the Dollar and his groundbreaking essay "It’s the Energy and the Economy, Stupid." The invasion of Iraq may well be remembered as the first oil currency...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Stephen Duncombe Interview Updated: 2007-01-24 00:18:46 Description: Stephen Duncombe discusses his book, Dream: Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy. What practical progressive political lessons can we learn from corporate theme parks, ad campaigns, video games like Grand Theft Auto, celebri...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Haynes Johnson Interview Updated: 2007-01-09 23:42:19 Description: An interview with Haynes Johnson, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism. For five long years in the 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade dominated the American scene,...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Elizabeth Laird Interview Updated: 2007-01-03 00:34:41 Description: Elizabeth Laird discusses her new book A Little Piece of Ground. While A Little Piece Of Ground is written for young readers, it addresses one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Laird, one of Great Britain's best-known young...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Steve Hendricks Interview Updated: 2006-12-26 21:19:13 Description: Steve Hendricks discusses his book The Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country. In 1976 the body of Anna Mae Aquash, an American Indian luminary, was found frozen in the Badlands of South Dakota — or so the FB...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Edward Humes Interview Updated: 2006-12-19 21:31:43 Description: Edward Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discusses his book Over Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream. In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers as much as it looked forward to p...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Jackson Katz Interview Updated: 2006-12-12 22:51:50 Description: Jackson Katz discusses his book The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help. Today in America between 1 in 5 women will be the victim of rape or attempted rape in their lifetime, and one prominent study found that at l...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ralph Steadman Interview Updated: 2006-12-05 23:38:19 Description: Ralph Steadman discusses his book The Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson and Me. In the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work. At the Kentucky Derby he met Hunter S. Thompson who had ju...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD David Callahan Interview Updated: 2006-11-28 23:07:27 Description: David Callahan discusses his book The Moral Center: How We Can Reclaim Our Country from Die-Hard Extremists, Rogue Corporations, Hollywood Hacks, and Pretend Patriots. Callahan argues that the problems for most Americans are not abortion and ...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Michele Wucker Interview Updated: 2006-11-21 23:19:15 Description: Michele Wucker discusses her book Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right. As globalization and terrorism intensify the pressure to close America's doors, Wucker argues that to do s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Rajiv Chandrasekaran Interview Updated: 2006-11-14 23:09:29 Description: Rajiv Chandrasekaran discusses his book Imperial Life in the Emerald City. Chandrasekaran, the Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief looks at the Green Zone: into a bubble, cut off from wartime realities, where the task of reconstru...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD John Lamb Lash Interview Updated: 2006-11-07 23:58:48 Description: An interview with John Lamb Lash author of Not in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief. Basing much of Not in His Image on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, Lash explains how a little-known messianic s...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Andrew Newberg Interview Updated: 2006-11-01 01:08:06 Description: Andrew Newberg discusses his new book of Why We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning, Spirituality, and Truth. One of the founders of the field of neurotheology and author of the bestselling book Why God Won’t...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Karen Cerulo Interview Updated: 2006-10-24 22:15:39 Description: Karen Cerulo discusses her book Never Saw it Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst. People — especially Americans — are by and large optimists – almost blind optimists. They are much better at imagining best-case scenario...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Ronald Dworkin Interview Updated: 2006-10-17 21:38:58 Description: Ronald Dworkin, author of Is Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate. Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. The result, Dworkin believes, is a deeply depressing political culture, a...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Maxine Hong Kingston Interview Updated: 2006-10-10 21:01:08 Description: National Book Award Winner Maxine Hong Kingston discusses her book Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace. For more than twelve years, Kingston has led writing-and-meditation workshops for veterans and their families. The contributors to this vol...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Nomi Prins Interview Updated: 2006-09-26 23:06:02 Description: Nomi Prins discusses her book Jacked : How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted for Them or Not)." Prins shows how the “conservative” agenda affects your wallet — and not just your money. Linking each card in a ty...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD Mark Kurlansky Interview Updated: 2006-09-19 23:30:14 Description: Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author, discusses his latest book, Nonviolence: Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea. Recorded September 19, 2006...more... LISTEN NOW | VIEW CACHE | DOWNLOAD |
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