Episodes
Monday Aug 30, 2010
The Dream of a March on Washington
Monday Aug 30, 2010
Monday Aug 30, 2010
Even though Glen Beck and Sarah Palin tried to soil it, this past weekend marked the forty-seventh anniversary of the March on Washington. The original event marked the 100th anniversary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, as a quarter of a million people, black and white, gathered in Washington for what Martin Luther King called "the greatest demonstration of freedom in our nation's history." But the march was, even then, not without its detractors and took place in the context of an expanding Civil Rights movement and an escalating war in Vietnam. At the time many actually believed that such a march could change the course of race relations in America, and in many ways it did. Author and lecturer Charles Euchner, in his new book Nobody Turn Me Around: A People's History of the 1963 March on Washington, has given us a compelling history of that march and given us some contemporary context from which to judge it. My conversation with Charles Euchner:
Thursday Aug 26, 2010
The only thing we have to fear.....
Thursday Aug 26, 2010
Thursday Aug 26, 2010
Tuesday Aug 24, 2010
Washington Rules
Tuesday Aug 24, 2010
Tuesday Aug 24, 2010
Monday Aug 23, 2010
Ethical Collapse at Hewlett-Packard
Monday Aug 23, 2010
Monday Aug 23, 2010
Thursday Aug 19, 2010
California Crackup
Thursday Aug 19, 2010
Thursday Aug 19, 2010
Tuesday Aug 17, 2010
The real Pat Tillman story
Tuesday Aug 17, 2010
Tuesday Aug 17, 2010
Pat Tillman's life was never conventional. That unconventional nature led him to become an NFL star and then to be so moved by the events of 9/11 that he gave up his multi-million dollar NFL career to join the Army and go to Iraq and Afghanistan. At some point, as his diary's reveal, he began to detest the war in Iraq and question even the conduct of the war in Afghanistan. And then, on April 22, 2004, he was killed by "friendly fire." Without question the Army, under the direction of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, tried to cover it up and attempted to make Tillman's death something that it was not. What happened next gave rise to the real Pat Tillman story and to the investigative work of best selling author Jon Krakauer. His book Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman is just out in paperback. My conversation with Jon Krakauer:
Monday Aug 09, 2010
Why monogamy doesn't work
Monday Aug 09, 2010
Monday Aug 09, 2010
Suppose everything we've been told about sexual relationships and monogamy was wrong? What if the whole idea of the nuclear family narrative was inconsistent with science and with the origins and nature of human sexuality. These are just some of the bold arguments put forth by Christoper Ryan in his new book Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality. The book that has been call "the single most important book about human sexuality since Alfred Kinsey." My conversation with Christopher Ryan:
Friday Aug 06, 2010
Defeat and fantasies of betrayal
Friday Aug 06, 2010
Friday Aug 06, 2010
Thursday Aug 05, 2010
Marriage Equality does work
Thursday Aug 05, 2010
Thursday Aug 05, 2010
According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans favor marriage equality. Yesterdays decision by Judge Vaughn Walker, while far from the final word, is yet another step in a ladder climbing inexorably toward the acceptance of marriage equality. In light of Judge Walker's ruling, it seems an ideal time to look at the core institution of same sex marriage in those nations and places where it has been the law for sometime. In doing so, perhaps we can better understand it rationale, its benefits and assuage some of the legitimate fears surrounding this issue. Yale Law Professor William Eskridge, Jr. in his book Gay Marriage: for Better or for Worse?: What We've Learned from the Evidence looks at the empirical data from those places that have long since accepted these ideas. My conversation with Professor Eskridge: