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View the full archive of WGBH Forum Network | WGBH Free to Choose / Who Owns Me? Lecture Five: "Free to Choose" Libertarians believe the ideal state is a society with minimal governmental interference. Sandel introduces Robert Nozick, a libertarian philosopher, who argues that individuals have the fundamental right to choose how they want to live their own lives. Government shouldn't have the power to enact laws that protect people from themselves (seat belt laws), to enact laws that force a moral value on society, or enact laws that redistribute income from the rich ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Putting a Price Tag on Life / How to Measure Pleasure Lecture Three: "Putting a Price Tag on Life" Jeremy Bentham's late 18th century Utilitarian theory — summed up as "the greatest good for the greatest number" — is often used today under the name of "cost-benefit analysis." Sandel presents some contemporary examples where corporations used this theory — which required assigning a dollar value on human lives — to make important business decisions. This leads to a discussion about the objections to Utilitarianism: i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Putting a Price Tag on Life / How to Measure Pleasure Lecture Three: "Putting a Price Tag on Life" Jeremy Bentham's late 18th century Utilitarian theory — summed up as "the greatest good for the greatest number" — is often used today under the name of "cost-benefit analysis." Sandel presents some contemporary examples where corporations used this theory — which required assigning a dollar value on human lives — to make important business decisions. This leads to a discussion about the objections to Utilitarianism: i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Irani and Sidhwa on the Song of Kahunsha Bapsi Sidhwa and Anosh Irani, two of the most highly praised contemporary Indian authors, discuss their new work.Two of the most highly praised contemporary Indian authors discuss their work. Irani's new novel, The Song of Kahunsha, follows his acclaimed book, The Cripple and His Talisman. Sidwa is the author of several notable books that have been turned into movies, including Water: A Novel, which was adapted for screen and nominated for the 2007 Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, and C ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Poetry at Noon: Susan Bullock Susan Bullock reads from her poetry, which explores faith, hope, love, despair, and the lifeline of language, plunging into the depths of being and the complexities of life. Susan Bullock was born in Somerville, New Jersey, and attended Wellesley College. In 1981 she went to Europe on a Thomas Watson Fellowship, and then returned to the United States where she studied with Joseph Brodsky. Her poems have appeared in Persephone, Harvard Review, Princeton Theological Review, English, Ars Inter ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Centennial of Martha Gellhorn Caroline Moorehead and war correspondent turned novelist Ward Just (2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist) pay tribute to the groundbreaking career of journalist and writer, Martha Gellhorn, with NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg. Gellhorn was the third wife of Ernest Hemingway, whose papers are archived at the Kennedy Library. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Centennial of Martha Gellhorn Caroline Moorehead and war correspondent turned novelist Ward Just (2005 Pulitzer Prize finalist) pay tribute to the groundbreaking career of journalist and writer, Martha Gellhorn, with NPR special correspondent Susan Stamberg. Gellhorn was the third wife of Ernest Hemingway, whose papers are archived at the Kennedy Library. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Montaigne and the Struggle for Writing Identity Thomas Newkirk discusses Michel de Montaigne's creation of the essay form, a writing style that encourages self-discovery. Thomas Newkirk is a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire, the former director of its freshman English program, and the director and founder of its New Hampshire Literacy Institutes. The author of the award winning Performance of Self in Student Writing and the editor of Nuts & Bolts: A Practical Guide to Teaching College Composition, he has also writt ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Jill McDonough: Habeas Corpus Jill McDonough reads from her first book, Habeas Corpus, which includes fifty sonnets, each about a historical execution, including those of Mary Dyer, Mary Surratt, and Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. Jill McDonough has taught incarcerated college students through Boston University's Prison Education Program since 1999. Her poems have appeared in The Threepenny Review, The New Republic, and Slate. The recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fine Arts Wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Antonio Lobo Antunes: What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? Antonio Lobo Antunes discusses the razor-thin line between reality and madness that is transgressed in his first novel to appear in English in five years. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire?, is set in the steamy world of Lisbon's demimonde where Antune ventriloquizes the voices of the damned in a work that recalls Joyce's with a dizzying farrago of urban images few readers will forget. What Can I Do When Everything's On Fire? was translated into English by Gregory Rabassa, who moderat ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Frank McCourt: Act Two Frank McCourt discusses his long-awaited book about how his 30-year teaching career shaped his second act as a writer. In bold and spirited prose featuring his irreverent wit and heartbreaking honesty, McCourt records the trials, triumphs and surprises he faces in public high schools around New York City. Frank McCourt is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the beloved memoirs Angela's Ashes and 'Tis. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Julie & Julia Judith Jones, Julia Child's longtime publisher and editor, discusses the new film Julie & Julia with Russ Morash, producer of Child's television show The French Chef, and chef Jasper White. Food writer Corby Kummer moderates this discussion of the film, which was written and directed by Nora Ephron and stars Meryl Streep and Amy Adams. Ephron's screenplay is adapted from two books: My Life in France, Child's autobiography, written with Alex Prud'homme, and a memoir by Julie Powell. In Augus ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Tycoon T.J. Stiles, author of The First Tycoon, discusses the life of 19th century railroad magnate, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Born humbly on Staten Island, an un-schooled fist fighter, he lived to earn the respect of New York's social elite and amassed one of the nation's first impossibly vast fortunes. Stiles contends that Vanderbilt did more than any other individual to shape the economic world today. What business innovations, including the modern corporation, did Vanderbilt successfully create? H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Barnaby Evans - WaterFire and the Public Art of Barnaby Evans Combining science and art, natural elements and soundscapes, Barnaby Evans is renowned for his category-defying multimedia public art installations. He created WaterFire, a sculpture/performance/social phenomenon that comprises one hundred bonfires burning from sunset to midnight in the rivers of downtown Providence, RI. Hear Evans talk about the power of public art and its complex interaction with our inner selves and our broader community. Visit us at www.wgbh.org/forum to explore our en ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Marian Wright Edelman - JFK, MLK and RFK: 1960-1968 Part II This forum focuses on civil rights though the eyes of those on the front lines of the movement. The second session features Marian Wright Edelman, founder and chairman of the Children's Defense Fund and an organizer of Dr. King's Poor People's March; Peter Edelman, aide to Robert F. Kennedy; and Elaine Jones, former President of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund. This session examines the period between 1963-1968 and the continuing relationship between Martin Luther King Jr. an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Amy Dockser Marcus - Arab-Israeli Conflict: Peace Process or War Process The Arab-Israeli conflict is a century old and still not resolved. The dispute between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs over the same land is bitter and deep, despite the fact that the disputed territory contains holy sites for the three major monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. What is the nature of current tensions? What are their implications for US policy? Pulitzer Prize-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Amy Dockser Marcus and Dr. Daniel Pipes, director of the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yaron Brook -'Apollo and Dionysus' Revisted In 1969, Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum talk, 'Apollo and Dionysus,' addressed the near simultaneous events of Woodstock and the first lunar landing. Employing Greek mythology's god of the sun and god of wine, she compared the awe-inspiring accomplishments of NASA's Apollo space program to the famous three-day concert that has come to exemplify the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era." Almost four decades later, Dr. Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Insti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopian Contributions to World Music Instruments Mulatu is one of Ethiopia's major musicians. A multi-instrumentalist, mastering vibraphone, keyboards, organ, and percussion, Mulatu is credited with adding instruments associated with Latin styles such as bongos and congas to Ethiopian music. In New York City he founded the Ethiopian Quintet (comprised mostly of Puerto Ricans), recorded his first album in 1966 before returning to Addis Adaba at the end of the decade, where he blended Ethiopian traditional music with Latin jazz to create a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Mulatu Astatke - Ethiopian Contributions to World Music Instruments Mulatu is one of Ethiopia's major musicians. A multi-instrumentalist, mastering vibraphone, keyboards, organ, and percussion, Mulatu is credited with adding instruments associated with Latin styles such as bongos and congas to Ethiopian music. In New York City he founded the Ethiopian Quintet (comprised mostly of Puerto Ricans), recorded his first album in 1966 before returning to Addis Adaba at the end of the decade, where he blended Ethiopian traditional music with Latin jazz to create a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Yaron Brook -'Apollo and Dionysus' Revisted In 1969, Ayn Rand's Ford Hall Forum talk, 'Apollo and Dionysus,' addressed the near simultaneous events of Woodstock and the first lunar landing. Employing Greek mythology's god of the sun and god of wine, she compared the awe-inspiring accomplishments of NASA's Apollo space program to the famous three-day concert that has come to exemplify the counterculture of the 1960s and the "hippie era." Almost four decades later, Dr. Yaron Brook, President and Executive Director of the Ayn Rand Insti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website