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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 Cold Warrior to his determination to break with the logic of the Cold War and lead the world in an entirely different direction. This sequence of steps led his adversaries in the military and in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 States have opposed the contination of the occupation, and reported to pollsters that they believe the invasion was a mistake. But how do the soldiers who carry out the occupation see the war? Fragme ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 years of eighty-hour workweeks, he covered the seedy side of Japan, where extortion, murder, human trafficking, and corruption are as familiar as ramen noodles and sake. But when his final scoop b ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 audience (not to mention the astonishing number of facts they just got plain wrong). How did people get here? Why did Europe win? Why Did the South Secede? In Teaching What Really Happened, Loewen goes ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Viktor Mayer-Schonberger Interview An interview with Viktor Mayer-Schonberger the author of Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age. Mayer-Schonberger looks at the surprising phenomenon of perfect remembering in the digital age, and reveals why we must reintroduce our capacity to forget. Digital technology empowers us as never before, yet it has unforeseen consequences as well. Potentially humiliating content on Facebook is enshrined in cyberspace for future employers to see. Google remembers everything we've se ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Les Leopold Interview An interview with Les Leopold the author of The Looting of America: How Wall Street's Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity — and What We Can Do About It. Leopold debunks the prevailing media myths that blame low-income home buyers who got in over their heads, people who ran up too much credit-card debt, and government interference with free markets. Instead, he reveals how Wall Street undermined itself and the rest of the economy by playing and losing at a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Maass Interview An interview with Peter Maass the author of Crude World: The Violent Twilight of Oil. Every unhappy oil-producing nation is unhappy in its own way, but all are touched by the “resource curse” — the power of oil to exacerbate existing problems and create new ones. Peter Maass presents a vivid portrait of the troubled world oil has created. He takes us to Saudi Arabia, where officials deflect inquiries about the amount of petroleum remaining in the country’s largest reservoir; to Equ ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 the future of the Democratic Party, changing the course of American politics for the next twenty-five years. At a critical moment in Jimmy Carter’s presidency, he gave a speech that should have ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 of Rights. Only through the active efforts of citizens, Swanson argues, can we restore our rights, and expand our conception of political rights to meet new challenges. Daybreak offers a shocking an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 Museum in Kentucky, where he observed a dinosaur. Wearing a saddle... But worse than this was when the proprietor exclaimed to a cheering crowd, “We are taking the dinosaurs back from the evoluti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 medicine, and reveals how it can unlock the door to a health care system that works for all Americans.Conventional medicine's obsession with profitably treating symptoms drives up the cost of health ca ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 dream. In the past half-century, California has been both model and anti-model for the nation and often the world, first for its high level of government and public services — schools, unive ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Further, nearly a quarter of the U.S. population lives in a state with some form of legal recognition for same-sex couples — with more than 40% of these states' couples having registered their re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 further their causes. While not behaviors common to hardened or self-seeking criminals, the staging of civil disobedience, non-violent resistance, and direct action can nevertheless trigger a harsh resp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 would have on our lives. Of course, everybody already knows how about gasoline has affected our driving habits. People can't wait to junk their gas-guzzling SUVs for a new Prius. But there are more, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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, Malcolm X, and personal superpower diplomacy; the beginnings of Motown, Happenings, and the Generation Gap-all bursting against the backdrop of the Cold War, the fallout-shelter craze, and the first Amer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 pervasive yet little examined obsession is arguably the most powerful and devastating market force of our time—the engine of globalization, outsourcing, planned obsolescence, and economic ins ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 organizer and “participatory labor journalist.” Steve Early tackles the most pressing issues facing unions today and describes how workers have organized successfully, on the job and in the commun ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 alternative approach to life to Rick Warren's and the dominant American Christian vision. This alternative, life of brave sinning, is rooted in the worldview of the Protestant Reformation (esp. of Mar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 Sorrows of Work is an exploration of the joys and perils of the modern workplace, beautifully evoking what other people wake up to do each day – and night – to make the frenzied contemporary worl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 of contemporary life. Indeed as Rushkoff shows, most Americans have so willingly adopted the values of corporations that they’re no longer even aware of it. This fascinating journey reveals the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 to fix it. As the “oracle” who predicted the housing crisis in his 2003 book, The Coming Housing Crisis, and called the election for Obama when the senator from Illinois was still the underdog ( ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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: hunger. This time, the battle is taking place well outside of the media spotlight, which has focused on obesity, another food-related epidemic affecting the poor. Breadline USA tells the stories of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 the ensuing conflict between independent thinking and group solidarity. In this concise and provocative book, she tells an inside story of dramatic ethical decline at the American Civil Liberties ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 organized the Australian Government's first "Coastcare" research voyage to document anthropogenic contamination of Australia's east coast. Upon his return to California, he became a coordinator of t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 imperial presidency, is a democracy in form only; U.S. involvement in endless wars, driven by a deep infatuation with military power, has been a catastrophe for the body politic. These pressing probl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 shocking behavior. Why did pirates fly flags of Skull & Bones? Why did they create a "pirate code"? And what made them so successful? Leeson uses economics to examine these and other infamous aspects ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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, may simply be another close vote. In this lucid and lively book, Heather Gerken diagnoses what is wrong with our elections and proposes a radically new and simple solution: a Democracy Index that wou ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. Here, in direct and conscious opposition to feminist calls for marital equity, women live within stringently enforced doctrines of wifely submission and male headship. Instead of raising independe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 expanded the Sahara Desert by more than sixty miles in forty years; how British colonial officials had artificially tribalized Darfur, dividing its population into “native” and “settler” trib ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 twentieth century, two extraordinary events took place. The first was the end of the Cold War, which left the world with a single empire that dominated global affairs with a ready fist. The second ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. After eight disastrous years, George W. Bush leaves office as one of the most unpopular presidents in American history. Baker asks the question that lingers even as this benighted administration winds down: Who really wanted this man at the helm of the country, and why did his backers promote him despite his obvious ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 itself. This upheaval is already afoot -- remote-controlled drones take out terrorists in Afghanistan, while the number of unmanned systems on the ground in Iraq has gone from zero to 12,000 over the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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. I. Lenin, the daddy of communism. This epic game at Zurich's Café de la Terrasse — a battle between radical visions of art and ideological revolution — lasted for a century and may still be ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 Freudian view that bodily disorders originate and progress in the mind, Orbach argues that we should look at self-mutilation, obesity, anorexia, and plastic surgery on their own terms, through a reading ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 nostalgic, extolling the Republican tradition he embodied, the optimism he espoused, and his abilities as a communicator. This carefully calibrated image is complete fiction, argues award-winning jo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 armed groups such as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC)-Colombia's largest guerilla force-and right-wing paramilitary groups. However, despite significant media coverage of the Colombi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 it. But we should — those of us who take care of our business in pristine, sanitary conditions. For it’s not only in developing countries that human waste is a major public health threat: popu ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded to the point where all the GOP candidates for president in 2008 scurried to claim his mantle, no matter how preposterous the fi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 bestselling memoir, Born On A Blue Day, and its vivid depiction of a life with autistic savant syndrome. In his fascinating new book, he writes with characteristic clarity and personal awareness as he she ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 good. He investigates an old mystery of human evolution: why have we evolved positive emotions like gratitude, amusement, awe, and compassion that promote ethical action and are the fabric of coopera ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 prosecuted as a war criminal when he leaves office for his overt and systematic violations of such international law as the Geneva and Hague Conventions and such US law as the War Crimes Act, the Anti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 the nausea caused by chemotherapy for cancer and AIDS, control over seizures or spasticity caused by epilepsy or MS, and relief from chronic and acute pain, to name a few), the drug remains illegal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 stories about major artists from every field — George Harrison, Ken Kesey, Johnny Cash, Allen Ginsberg, to name just a few. Gilmore reveals the truth about this idealized period in history, never shyi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 importance. Unlike most books on the topic, constructed as specialized academic studies, The (Last) War the United States Lost examines the lessons of the Vietnam era with Joe Allen's eye of both a ded ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 blond, Morrison successfully convinced white society that she was one of them. When she sued for her freedom, witnesses assured the jury that she was white, and that they would have known if she had ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 seem to be as many mummies in France as there are in Egypt? Why are so many Etruscan masterworks in America? For the past two centuries, the West has been plundering the treasures of the ancient wo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 bit, during his final mission in Iraq. After returning home, he discovered a turmoil developing in his mind, estranging him from his loved ones and the bill of goods he eagerly purchased as a marine o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 mysterious haze. Were Japanese saboteurs responsible? A reckless factory? The truth was much worse--it came from within, from Southern California's burgeoning car-addicted, suburban lifestyle. Smogtown is ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | 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 porn. Carmine Sarracino and Kevin Scott argue that porn has seeped into and been absorbed by every defining aspect of our culture: language, entertainment, fashion, advertising, sexual behavior, even p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Martin Garbus Interview 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 our republic. Drawing on extensive knowledge of Constitutional law and legal procedure, Garbus, one of our most astute legal historians, defrocks the executive branch's grip over the judiciary as an extension of its own executive powers. He warns of th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sue Katz Interview 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 McCain announced her selection as his running mate on August 29, 2008. Has any national political candidate ever emerged on the American political scene with less scrutiny than Alaska Governor Sarah Palin received prior to her selection? We think not. Mo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lew Daly Interview 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 tell you that �society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I�ve earned.� Unjust Deserts offers an entirely new approach to the wealth question. In a lively synthesis of modern economic, technological, and cultural research, Daly demon ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Art Spiegelman Interview 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 been reissued with an illustrated 20-page introduction, which � like the works that follow � pretty much redefines what might be considered as a typical comic book narrative. Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy clos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Glenn Greenwald Interview 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 hypocrisy is sickening. Obama was criticized for his alleged inexperience and yet McCain chose a first-term governor from a small town in Alaska as his running mate. John McCain claims to believe that the law should only recognize traditional marriages. Yet, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jeff Chester Interview 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 wide variety of independent sources of news, information, and culture, with control over content in the hands of the many rather than a few select media giants. But the country�s powerful communications companies have other plans. Assisted by a host o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John R. MacArthur Interview 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 counted anymore. Yet does the problem go even deeper than that? Is America really a democracy anymore? In a rollicking piece of reportage based on years of reporting, Harper's Magazine Publisher John R. MacArthur examines how the system really works-and doe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dexter Filkins Interview 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 the remarkable chain of events that began with the rise of the Taliban in the 1990s, continued with the attacks of 9/11, and moved on to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Filkins's narrative moves across a vast and various landscape of amazing charact ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Judy Polumbaum Interview 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. China's media are central to public life in the most populous nation on earth and have also become increasingly relevant to communication and understanding on a global scale. Through a series of engaging oral histories, Polumbaum puts a human face on vita ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tom Vanderbilt Interview 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 trick us into thinking the next lane is moving faster? Or that you can gauge a nation�s driving behavior by its levels of corruption? These are only a few of the remarkable dynamics that Tom Vanderbilt explores in this fascinating tour through the mys ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Karl E. Meyer Interview 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 famous (Lawrence of Arabia and Gertrude Bell); others infamous (Harry St. John Philby, father of Kim); some forgotten (Sir Mark Sykes, Israel's godfather, and A. T. Wilson, the territorial creator of Iraq); some controversial (the CIA's Miles Copeland a ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Steven T. Wax Interview 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 hear himself say. In his thirty-four years as a lawyer, Wax didn't have to warn a client that he or she might be taken away to a military brig, or worse, a "black site," one of our country's dreaded secret prisons. So how had we come to this? The disapp ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Thomas Frank Interview 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 - What's the Matter with Kansas? - Frank explained why working America votes for politicians who reserve their favors for the rich. Now, in The Wrecking Crew, Frank examines the blundering and corrupt Washington those politicians have given us. Casti ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Galbraith Interview 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 thirty years ago. Tax cuts and small government, monetarism, balanced budgets, deregulation, and free trade are the core elements of this dogma, a dogma so successful that even many liberals accept it. But a funny thing happened on the bridge to the twenty ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jane Mayer Interview 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-stricken. The radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of utter chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Dick Cheney and his powerful, secretive adviser David Addington, used the crisis ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Walter Nugent Interview 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 States to become a republic or an empire? Thomas Jefferson, after all, called the young nation an �empire for liberty.� Later words through two centuries all evoked empire: �manifest destiny� in the 1840s, �benevolent assimilation� in 1898, and �our responsib ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Barry Siegel Interview 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 Court case that forever changed the balance of power in America. On October 6, 1948, a trio of civilian engineers joined a U.S. Air Force crew on a B-29 Superfortress, whose mission was to test secret navigational equipment. Shortly after takeoff the p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chris Hedges Interview 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 patterns of the occupation in Iraq. The testimonies of these soldiers�many of who remain deeply traumatized by their experiences�uncover how the very conduct of the war and occupation have turned the American forces into agents of terror for most Iraqis. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bill Bishop Interview 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 people who live, think, and vote like we do. This social transformation didn't happen by accident. We've built a country where we can all choose the neighborhood and church and news show � most compatible with our lifestyle and beliefs. And we are living ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Terry K. Aladjem Interview 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 itself. From the return of the death penalty to the wars on terror and in Iraq, Americans demand retribution and moral certainty; they assert the �rights of victims� and make pronouncements against �evil�. Yet for Aladjem this dangerously authoritarian turn h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gabor Mat� Interview An interview with Gabor Mat�, author of In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction. Bestselling writer and physician Mat� looks at the epidemic of addictions in our society, tells us why we are so prone to them and what is needed to liberate ourselves from their hold on our emotions and behaviours. For over ten years Mat� has been the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, a residence and harm reduction facility in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. His patients are challe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Vincent Bugliosi Interview 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 thought-provoking book of his storied career. In The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Bugliosi presents a tight, meticulously researched legal case that puts George W. Bush on trial in an American courtroom for the murder of nearly 4,000 American ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Taras Grescoe Interview 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 ethics, Grescoe set out on a nine-month, worldwide search for a delicious � and humane � plate of seafood. What he discovered shocked him. From North American Red Lobsters to fish farms and research centers in China, Bottomfeeder takes readers on an i ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Suzanne Gordon Interview 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 believe that minimum staffing levels are essential for quality care, better working conditions, and higher rates of RN recruitment and retention that would alleviate the current global nursing shortage. Opponents claim that ratios will unfairly burden ho ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Matt Taibbi Interview 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 in the post-9/11 era and ended up vomiting demons in an evangelical church in Texas, riding the streets of Baghdad in an American convoy to nowhere, searching for phantom fighter jets in Congress, and falling into the rabbit hole of the 9/11 Truth Move ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nicholson Baker Interview 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. Incorporating meticulous research and well-documented sources � including newspaper and magazine articles, radio speeches, memoirs, and diaries � the book juxtaposes hundreds of interrelated moments of decision, brutality, suffering, and mercy. "'Burning a villag ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Glenn Greenwald Interview 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, the Republican Party has used a John Wayne mythology to build up its candidates and win elections. Their marketing scheme of evoking brave, courageous, heroic warriors has been so persuasive and strikes such a patriotic nerve, that many citizens have v ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Susan Jacoby Interview 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 now threatens the future of American democracy. Combining historical analysis with contemporary observation, she dissects a culture at odds with America's heritage of Enlightenment reason and with modern knowledge and science. Jacoby offers an unsparing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maude Barlow Interview 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 corporations are gaining ownership and control of the earth's dwindling water supply, depriving millions of people around the world of access to this most basic of resources and accelerating the onset of a global water crisis. Blue Covenant, the sequel to Bl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nick Davies Interview 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 manufactured by the PR industry, and the global news stories which prove to be fiction generated by a new machinery of international propaganda. He shows the impact of this on a world where consumers believe a mass of stories which, in truth, are as false as ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Marnia Lazreg Interview 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 tactics during the Algerian war from 1954 to 1962. By tracing the psychological, cultural, and political meanings of torture at the end of the French empire, she also sheds new light on the United States and its recourse to torture in Iraq and Afghani ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Fred Kaplan Interview 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 as unwinnable. What has happened these past eight years is well-known. Why it happened continues to puzzle. Slate columnist Fred Kaplan combines in-depth reporting and analysis to explain just how George W. Bush and his aides got so far off track � and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nicholas Maxwell Interview 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 science and the humanities. The outcome would be a kind of academic inquiry rationally devoted to helping humanity learn how to create a better world. The basic intellectual aim of inquiry would be to seek and promote wisdom � wisdom being the capacity t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Charles Barber Interview 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 the rampant overmedication of ordinary Americans. In 2006, 227 million antidepressant prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, more than any other class of medication; in that same year, the United States accounted for 66 percent of the global ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jeffrey C. Goldfarb Interview 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 kitchen tables that led to the dismantling of the Soviet bloc to the more recent emergence of Internet initiatives like MoveOn.org and Redeem the Vote that are revolutionizing the American political landscape, consequential political life develops in small ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Creamer Interview 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 values and splitting the difference between progressive and conservatives positions. History shows they are wrong. To win the next election and to win in the long term, progressives need to redefine the political center. Creamer, one of America s most expe ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jonathan Simon Interview 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 mandatory drug testing, and schools screen students with metal detectors. Social problems ranging from welfare dependency to educational inequality have been reconceptualized as crimes, with an attendant focus on assigning fault and imposing consequences. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sarah Posner Interview 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 "values voters" in the nation's largest megachurches. Posner exposes the activities of Kenneth Copeland, John Hagee, Rod Parsley, T.D. Jakes, and other politically connected, skillfully marketed, and increasingly influential religious leaders. Preachin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Matt Mason Interview 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 tracks their ripple effect throughout larger society. He shows how subversive ideas, fringe movements, street and youth culture have combined with technology to subvert old hierarchies and empower the individual. And it shows why the rest of us had better ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mark Winne Interview 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 people who are not financially able to make conscientious choices about where and how to get food? And in a time of rising rates of both diabetes and obesity, what can we do to make healthier foods available for everyone? To address these questions, Win ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Craig Unger Interview 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 has led to the worst foreign policy decision in the history of the United States � the bloody, unwinnable war in Iraq. How did this happen? Bush's fateful decision was rooted in events that began decades ago, and until now this story has never been full ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ismael Hossein-Zadeh Interview 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. militarism. While acknowledging the contributory role of some of the most widely-cited culprits (big oil, neoconservative ideology, the Zionist lobby, and President Bush's world outlook), this study explores the bigger, but largely submerged, picture ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Rose Interview 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 white women by strangling them in their beds. In 1986, eight years after the last murder, an African American, Carlton Gary, was convicted and sentenced to death. Though many in the city doubt his guilt, he remains on death row. Award-winning Vanity F ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Kuttner Interview 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 and outsourcing. Health care and retirement burdens are increasingly being shifted from employers to individuals. Two-income families find they are working longer hours for lower wages, with decreased social support. As wealth has become more concentr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Walter Russell Mead Interview 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 students of American foreign policy, contends that the key to the predominance of the two countries has been the individualistic ideology of the prevailing Anglo-American religion. Mead explains how this helped create a culture uniquely adapted to cap ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Christopher Ellinger Interview 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 available for people looking to connect their money and values, they decided to put this knowledge to use by helping other wealthy people maximize their positive impact. In 1991, they founded More than Money, a nonprofit peer education network with over 2,000 ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Greg Anrig Interview 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 evisceration of laws that protect public health, safety, and the environment � after six years of virtually absolute conservative rule, the results of nearly every right-wing policy, program, and initiative can be summed up in a single word: failure. How co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul V. Dutton Interview 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 than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Richard Goldstein Interview #2 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: The Rise of the Gay Right. Recorded November 6, 2007 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Lawrence Wright Interview 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 failures that culminated in the attacks on the World Trade Center. Wright re-creates firsthand the transformation of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri from incompetent and idealistic soldiers in Afghanistan to leaders of the most successful terror ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Norman Solomon Interview 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 calls "the warfare state." In his latest book Made Love, Got War Solomon recounts his controversial trips to Baghdad and Tehran with Sean Penn as well as televised showdowns with Judith Miller and other pro-war journalists before the invasion of Iraq. Ma ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert B. Reich Interview 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 and high-tech shoes, web movies and vegan frozen dinners. The quality of the goods we buy is, on average, up; the cost of these items is, on average down. But there is a downside to this progress. Capitalism has invaded democracy. The negative consequences of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Anderson Interview 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 way from Texas to DC. With its barbecues, new Cadillacs, and $4,000 snakeskin cowboy boots, Texas is all about power and money -- and the power that money buys. This detailed and wide-scope account shows how a group of wealthy Texas Republicans quietly ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nicholas Guyatt Interview 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 startling development � that fifty million Americans have come to believe the apocalypse will take place in their own lifetimes. They�re convinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his followers and spirit them to heaven. For the rest of us, things are goi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Richard Goldstein Interview 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. George W. Bush, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Eminem) just a few years ago. "Call it packaging, call it hype,� Goldstein says. But that saga of personal and political discovery is the most exciting narrative to emerge from the Democratic repertoire in many ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stuart Ewen Interview 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 creators � early social scientists � continues to shape how we see the world and to inform our most fundamental and unconscious judgments of beauty, humanity, and degeneracy. In this groundbreaking exploration of the growth of stereotyping amidst the rise of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | R. Jay Magill, Jr. Interview 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 and Borat to the The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, the ironic worldview measures out a certain cosmopolitan distance, keeping hypocrisy and threats to personal integrity at bay. Chic Ironic Bitterness is a defense of this detachment, an attitude th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Benjamin Barber 9/07 Interview 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 goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specializes today in the manufacture not of goods but of needs. Barber discusses �The McDonald�s Experi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bjorn Lomborg Interview 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 based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions that may have little impact on the world�s temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources o ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Elliot D. Cohen Interview 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 with giant telecoms like Comcast, Verizon, and AT&T have become administration pawns in a well-organized effort to hijack America. He details how incredible power, control, and wealth have been amassed in the hands of an elite few while the rest of us ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Dave Zirin Interview 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 sports primer for our time." Sports Illustrated wrote that Terrordome is "a provocative, sometimes chilling, look at sports and society right now." This much-anticipated sequel to What's My Name, Fool? breaks new ground in sports writing, looking at the co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peggy Levitt Interview 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 religion and immigration are based on assumptions that are out-of-sync with our national reality because they fail to grasp the strong connection between changes in immigration and changes in religious life. When we talk about how religion influences Ameri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Felicia Kornbluh Interview 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 the National Welfare Rights Organization, the largest membership organization of low-income people in U.S. history. Setting that story in the context of its turbulent times, the 1960s and early 1970s, historian Felicia Kornbluh shows how closely tied th ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Aviva Chomsky Interview 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 host of social ills by their very existence are openly discussed and debated at all levels of society. Chomsky dismantles twenty of the most common assumptions and beliefs underlying statements like "I'm not against immigration, only illegal immigrati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Daniel Brook Interview 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 the misguided conservative ascendance � is systematically dismantling the American dream, as debt-laden, well-educated young people are torn between their passions and the pressure to earn six-figure incomes. Rising education, housing, and health-care cos ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Eva Rutland Interview 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, of her life in the years before integration, before affirmative action � when segregation was the norm, discrimination was legally tolerated, and blacks were second-class citizens Rutland chronicles the lives of an ordinary yet extraordinary "colored" ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Steve Berkman Interview 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," Berkman explains how the World Bank has pushed a debt-based development strategy for Third World countries for decades. Hundreds of billions in loans were supposed to bring progress, yet the programs have never lived up to their promise. Instead, governing ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sasha Abramsky Interview 2007 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 age-old goal of rehabilitation, often for political reasons. The new "ideal," unknown to most Americans, is a punitive mandate marked by a drive toward vengeance. Surveying this state of affairs-life sentences for nonviolent crimes, appalling conditi ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Scott Gac Interview 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 popular musical act. Out of a Baptist revival upbringing, John, Asa, Judson, and Abby Hutchinson transformed themselves in the 1840s into national icons, taking up the reform issues of their age and singing out especially for temperance and antislavery ref ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Joseph Gerson Interview 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. president has threatened nuclear war. Gerson shows how the United States has used nuclear weapons to bolster its imperial ambitions. He explains why atomic weapons were first built and used � and how the United States uses them today to preserve its glo ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Laura Flanders Interview 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 progressive change. From Vermont to Salt Lake City to Las Vegas's famous Strip, she journeys through the heartland USA and discovers a simple truth: people don't vote for the GOP because Republicans represent their interests; they vote Republican because ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jonathan Cohn Interview 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 treatment for themselves and their families � unable to pay for prescription drugs and regular checkups, let alone hospital visits. Some of these people end up losing money. Others end up losing something even more valuable: their health or even their liv ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | George Monbiot Interview 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 unstoppable, and our world becomes largely uninhabitable. Monbiot explains how this cut could be achieved. Combining his knowledge of political campaigning and environmental science, he analyses the possibilities and pitfalls of energy efficiency, nuclear p ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ellen Bravo Interview 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 women and men-and even the bottom line. Bravo relates stories from business and government and women's testimonies from offices, assembly lines, hospitals, and schools and unmasks the patronizing, trivializing, and minimizing tactics employed by "the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Andrew Koppelmanm Interview 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, the issue has become increasingly urgent. Koppelman offers a sensible approach that will appeal to the best instincts of both sides. Drawing on historical precedents in which states held radically different moral views about marriage (for example, betw ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Eric Boehlert Interview 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 their duty as watchdog for the public.Boehlert reveals how, time after time, the press chose a soft approach to covering the government, and as a result reported and analyzed crucial events incompletely and even inaccurately. From WMDs to Valerie Plame t ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Albert Bates Interview 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 global culture addicted to cheap, abundant petroleum to a culture of compelled conservation, whether through government directive or market forces. Bates takes a positive, upbeat, and optimistic view of "the Great Change," promoting the idea that it can ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Ivker Interview 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 Burlington and the state of Vermont have sent more citizen-soldiers into active duty in Iraq and Afghanistan than most other states in the country. At the same time, Burlington has been at the forefront of a wide range of anti-war, pro-peace movements and ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Navarro Interview 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 breakneck industrialization is placing it on a collision course with the entire world. Tomorrow's China Wars will be fought over everything from decent jobs, livable wages, and leading-edge technologies to strategic resources such as oil, copper, and steel ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Benjamin Barber Interview 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 infantilized in a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers. Driven by a frantic imperative to sell, consumer capitalism specializes today in the manufacture not of goods but of n ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | George Galloway Interview 2007 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 leadership of Cuba over forty-seven years � including takes on the guerrilla struggle in the Sierra Maestra, life with the Soviet Union, involvement in Third World politics, and survival in the face of the hostility of the United States just ninety miles away. ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sara Miles Interview 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 the bread she ate at communion into tons of groceries, piled on the church�s altar to be given away. Mile�s new book Take This Bread: A Radical Conversion is the story of that transformation. A former editor at Mother Jones magazine she is also the auth ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chalmers Johnson Interview 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 ways in which the growth of American militarism and the garrisoning of the planet have jeopardized our stability. Now, in Nemesis, he shows how imperial overstretch is undermining the republic itself, both economically and politically.Johnson, the president ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | William Rivers Pitt Interview 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 scandal. Pitt guides us through a jaw-dropping series of presidential missteps from the missing weapons of mass destruction and the Halliburton contracting scandals, to the NSA�s warrantless wiretaps and the incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina. For ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Barry Lando Interview 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 investigative producer for 60 Minutes, argues compellingly that this ill-fated uprising represents one instance among many of Western complicity in Saddam Hussein�s crimes against humanity. The Shia were responding to the call for rebellion from President George H ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jeff Chester Interview 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 potential for a truly democratic media system offering a wide variety of independent sources of news, information, and culture, with control over content in the hands of the many rather than a few select media giants. But the country's powerful communicatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | William R. Clark Interview 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 war. Far from being a response to 9/11 terrorism or Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, Clark argues that the invasion was precipitated by two converging phenomena: the imminent peak in global oil production and the ascendance of the euro curren ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Stephen Duncombe Interview 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, celebrity culture, and Las Vegas? Duncombe proposes that such examples of popular fantasy can help us define and make possible a new political future. Although fantasy and spectacle have become the lingua franca of our time, Duncombe points out that liberals co ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Haynes Johnson Interview 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, terrified politicians, and destroyed the lives of thousands of U.S. citizens. Johnson tells this monumental story through the lens of its relevance to our own time, when the current administration has created a culture of fear that again affects America ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Elizabeth Laird Interview 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 adult authors, explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Laird talks about her research work in Ramallah, the children she met there and their lives under occupation. She will also talk about how ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Steve Hendricks Interview 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 FBI said. After a suspicious autopsy and a rushed burial, friends had Aquash exhumed and found a .32-caliber bullet in her skull. Using this scandal as a point of departure, Hendricks opens a tunnel into the dark side of the FBI and its subversion of Amer ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Edward Humes Interview 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 peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, the American Legion, William Randolph Hearst, and others began crafting the Servicemen�s Readjustment Act of 1944. It would be the single most transformative bill of the twentieth century. Spun as the G.I. Bil ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jackson Katz Interview 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 least 20% of adolescent girls have been physically or sexually abused by a date or a boyfriend. Katz provides women with original and creative ways of thinking about how to reverse this ongoing national tragedy. He also makes a case to men that the onl ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ralph Steadman Interview 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 just spent a year living, riding and writing about the Hells Angels. Steadman and Thompson's relationship resulted in the now-legendary Gonzo Journalism. Steadman discusses his remarkable collaboration that documented the turbulent years of the civil ri ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Callahan Interview 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 gay marriage but rather issues that neither party is addressing � the selfishness that is careening out of control, the effect of our violent and consumerist culture on children, and our lack of a greater purpose. As Republicans veer into zealotry, lib ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michele Wucker Interview 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 so would be catastrophic. The US economy depends more than ever on immigrants, not only for stereotypical low-skilled jobs, but much more so for maintaining our technological edge and promoting American products and services abroad. So far, America has re ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Rajiv Chandrasekaran Interview 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 reconstructing a devastated nation competed with the distractions of a Little America � a half-dozen bars stocked with cold beer, a disco where women showed up in hot pants, a movie theater that screened shoot-�em-up films, an all-you-could-eat buffet piled high ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Lamb Lash Interview 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 sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. Lash researched ancient Gnostic writings to reconstruct the st ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Andrew Newberg Interview 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 Go Away, Newberg explains how beliefs are formed, why we maintain them � even in the face of opposing evidence � and the myriad ways in which our beliefs affect our lives. Recorded October 31, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Karen Cerulo Interview 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 scenarios (I could win the lottery!) than worst-case scenarios (A hurricane could destroy my neighborhood!). This is true not just of their approach to imagining the future, but of their memories as well: people are better able to describe the best moments of their ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ronald Dworkin Interview 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, as ill equipped for the perennial challenge of achieving social justice as for the emerging threats of terrorism. Yet this need not be. Dworkin, one the world's leading legal and political philosophers, identifies and defends core principles of personal ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maxine Hong Kingston Interview 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 volume � combat veterans, medics, and others who served in war; gang members, drug users, and victims of domestic violence; draft resisters, deserters, and peace activists � are part of a community of writers working together to heal the trauma of war thr ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sidney Blumenthal Interview Sidney Blumenthal, former assistant and senior adviser to President Bill Clinton discusses his new book How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime. In a series of columns and essays that Blumenthal wrote in the three years following the 2003 invasion of Iraq, a unifying theme began to emerge: that George W. Bush, billed by himself and by many others as a conservative, is in fact a radical-more radical than any president in American history. Blumenthal argues that these radical actions ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nomi Prins Interview 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 typical wallet to shortsighted policies, blunders, and scandals, she demonstrates how skewed national priorities have diminished America � but not the American spirit. In Jacked, she recounts her travels across the country; people she met, stories they share ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mark Kurlansky Interview 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 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Moazzam Begg Interview Moazzam Begg discusses his book Enemy Combatant: My Imprisonment at Guant�namo, Bagram, and Kandahar. A highly educated British Muslim, Moazzam Begg spent three years in U.S. custody, nearly two of them in Guant�namo, before being released without charge in January of 2005. Secretly abducted at midnight from his home in Afghanistan, held incommunicado in Kandahar and Bagram Air Force base, Begg was eventually flown to Guant�namo, where, like more than 800 Muslim men and boys � 550 of whom ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Shermer Interview An interview with Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine, Executive Director of the Skeptics Society and author of Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design. Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and �Intelligent Design� campaigns are gaining ground. Shermer explains how the newest brand of creationism appeals to our predisposition to look for a designer behind life�s complexity. He decodes the scientific evidence to show that e ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Geoffrey Nunberg Interview As liberals wade through the semantics of "social security lockbox," and other wonky locutions, the right has become harder, meaner and better at getting out the message: the estate tax became the more menacing "death tax" and a contentious education initiative was wrapped in the comforting blanket of "No Child Left Behind." In his new book, Talking Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking, Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Pierc ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Frankfurter Interview David Frankfurter, Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of New Hampshire, discusses his latest book Evil Incarnate: Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, Evil Incarnate uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Penny Coleman Interview In the early 1970s, Penny Coleman married Daniel, a young Vietnam veteran and fellow photographer. Soon, Daniel became deeply troubled, falling victim to multiple addictions and becoming strangely insecure. He suffered from what we now call PTSD � posttraumatic stress disorder. After Coleman left him, he committed suicide. Struggling to understand Daniel's experience, Coleman began investigating the history of PTSD and found clear cases of the disorder as far back as the Civil War. In h ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Helen Thomas Interview Helen Thomas, the dean of the White House press corps discusses her new book Watchdogs of Democracy?: The Waning Washington Press Corps and How It Has Failed the Public. In the course of more than sixty years spent covering Washington politics, Thomas has witnessed a raft of fundamental changes in the way news is gathered and reported. Gone are the days of frequent firsthand contact with the president. Now, the press sees the president only at tightly controlled and orchestrated press conf ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Sasha Abramsky Interview Sasha Abramsky discusses his book Conned: How Millions Went to Prison, Lost the Vote, and Helped Send George W. Bush to the White House. Recorded July 25, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mary-Wynne Ashford Interview Mary-Wynne Ashford, a leader in the international peace and disarmament movement for over 20 years discusses her book Enough Blood Shed: 101 Solutions to Violence, Terror and War. She confronts the reality of a world awash in weapons and the belief that war is inevitable with solutions based on the power of ordinary people to make a difference. Recorded July 18, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Caroline Paul Interview When an unidentified plane crashes on the remote Hawiian Island of Niihau, the islanders have no idea that it�s a Japanese Zero, and that the pilot, who survived the landing, has just bombed Pearl Harbor. Only two people, realize the significance of the downed soldier. Convinced that Japan has successfully invaded the United States, and pressured by the desperate pilot, they face a growing dilemma. Are they loyal to America, their country, but one that has bruised them with prejudice? Or s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Spencer Overton Interview Spencer Overton, professor at The George Washington University Law School and a commissioner on the Jimmy Carter-James Baker Commission on Federal Election Reform discusses his new book Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression. Recorded July 4, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anthony Arnove Interview Anthony Arnove discusses his new book Iraq: The Logic of Withdrawal. Countering widespread arguments made in support of the occupation by conservatives and liberals alike, Arnove insists that the U.S. presence is the major source of instability and suffering for the Iraqi people. He challenges the idea that George W. Bush has ever been interested in bringing democracy to the country and explores the real reasons behind the invasion, which centrally involve control over strategic Middle Eas ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michelle Goldberg Interview Michelle Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com discusses her book Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism. Recorded June 20, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Greg Grandin Interview Historian Greg Grandin discusses his new book Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism.Recorded June 13, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Michael Parenti Interview Political analyst and critically acclaimed author Michael Parenti discusses his latest book, The Culture Struggle. Recorded June 6, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Sirota Interview David Sirota, senior editor at In These Times magazine discusses his new book Hostile Takeover: How Big Money and Corruption Have Taken Over Our Government and How We Can Take It Back. Recorded May 30, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Nancy MacLean Interview Nancy MacLean, Professor of History and African American Studies and Chair of the History Department at Northwestern University discusses her new book Freedom is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | B�rbara Robles Interview B�rbara Robles discusses her book The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the US Racial Wealth Divide. Recorded May 16, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Joe Klein Interview Joe Klein, political columnist for Time magazine and author of Primary Colors, and The Natural discusses his latest book Politics Lost: How American Democracy was Trivialized by People Who Think You're Stupid.Recorded May 9, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Elizabeth Kolbert Interview Elizabeth Kolbert, winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Science award, discusses her new book Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man Nature and Climate Change. Recorded April 24, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Karen Finley Interview In Karen Finley's new book George and Martha, George W. Bush and Martha Stewart meet in a seedy motel room on the night before the Republican National Convention. Their affair goes way back, before George stole the election, before Martha built an empire on fascist domesticity. As usual, George numbs his pain over waging perpetual war with cocaine and the promise of kinky sex. Martha is forced to take a long view of her life as she suffers the public humiliation of corporate scandal, on the ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Kevin Phillips Interview Kevin Phillips one of the Republican Party's top theoreticians and electoral analysts of 1970s and 1980s discusses his new book American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21st Century. Recorded April 11, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Blair Kaiser Interview An interview with Robert Blair Kaiser author of A Church in Search of Itself: Benedict XVI and the Battle for the Future. Kaiser spent ten years in the Jesuits before he left to pursue a career in journalism. He was a religion reporter for The New York Times, Time, and CBS, and is now a contributing editor in Rome for Newsweek. In A Church in Search of Itself, Kaiser examines the most important and divisive issues confronting the Catholic Church: the sex abuse scandal, a shortage of priest ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tamara Draut Interview Tamara Draut, director of the Economic Opportunity Program at Demos � a national think tank headquartered in New York � discusses her new book Strapped: Why America's 20- and 30- Somethings Can't Get Ahead. Recorded March 28, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Leonard Steinhorn Interview Leonard Steinhorn discusses his new book The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy. Recorded March 21, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jim Lardner Interview An interview with Jim Lardner co-editor and a co-author of Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and Its Poisonous Consequences. Recorded March 14, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Dean Interview John Dean, former counsel to President Nixon discusses his book Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush.Recorded February 28, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Bamford Interview James Bamford, author of the first book ever written about the NSA discusses his most recent book, A Pretext For War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies. Recorded February 21, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jeremy Leggett Interview Jeremy Leggett, an internationally renowned geologist and energy entrepreneur discusses his book The Empty Tank: Oil, Gas, Hot Air, and the Coming Global Financial Catastrophe. Recorded February 14, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Gordon Chang Interview Gordon Chang discusses his new book Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World. Recorded January 31, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Scott Ritter Interview Scott Ritter, former chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq, discusses his new book Iraq Confidential : The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein. Recorded January 24, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jennifer Harbury Interview Jennifer Harbury discusses her new book Truth, Torture, and the American Way: The History and Consequences of U.S. Involvement in Torture. Harbury�s investigation into torture began when her husband disappeared in Guatemala in 1992; she told the story of his torture and murder in Searching for Everardo. For over a decade since, Harbury has used her formidable legal, research, and organizing skills to press for the U.S. government�s disclosure of America�s involvement in harrowing abuses in ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Vise Interview David Vise, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter from The Washington Post discusses his new book The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media and Technology Success of Our Time. Recorded January 10, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Peter Phillips Interview Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored, runs down the highlights of the year�s twenty-five most important underreported news stories from Censored 2006. Recorded January 3, 2006 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Barbara Ehrenreich Interview Barbara Ehrenreich, author of the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed discusses her latest book, Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. Recorded December 27, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jesus Christ Interview Jesus Christ, the figurehead of hundreds of Christian organizations worldwide, talks about his mother, religious "pricks" and his upcoming birthday celebration. Recorded December 20, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Fisk Interview Robert Fisk, Middle East correspondent for London�s The Independent, and one of the few Western journalists who has interviewed Osama bin Laden discusses his book The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East.Recorded December 13, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Bruce Lawrence Interview Bruce Lawrence, Professor of Religion at Duke University, discusses his book Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden.Recorded December 12, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Robert Parry Interview Robert Parry, investigative journalist, discusses his latest book Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq.Recorded November 29, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | John Bainbridge, Jr. Interview Journalist and lawyer, John Bainbridge, Jr., discusses his new book American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-Out That Stopped It.Recorded November 22, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Joe Conason Interview Joe Conason, national correspondent for the New York Observer and columnist for Salon.com talks about his latest book The Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and the Legacy of the New Deal.Recorded November 15, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | California Special Election Special Mike Kaspar and Nathan Callahan chat up California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's special election taking place today � an election that is costing the taxpayers of California $52 million.Recorded November 8, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Paul Krassner Interview Paul Krassner, Zen Bastard, cultural critic and father of the underground press discusses his new book, One Hand Jerking: Reports from an Investigative Satirist.Recorded November 1, 2005 Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | David Engwicht Interview David Engwicht, International urban planner, discusses his new book, Mental Speed Bumps: The Smarter Way to Tame Traffic. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jay Feinman Interview Jay Feinman, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University discusses his book Unmaking Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Loewen Interview James W. Loewen author of the bestselling American Book Award winner Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong discusess his latest book, Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Jennifer Miller Interview Jennifer Miller discusses her new book, Inheriting the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anne Farrow Interview Anne Farrow, a veteran journalist for The Hartford Courant, the country�s oldest newspaper in continuous publication, discusses her new book Complicity: How the North Promoted, Prolonged and Profited from Slavery. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Anthony Shadid Interview Anthony Shadid, the only journalist to win a Pulitzer Prize for reporting from Iraq, discusses his book Night Draws Near. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | George Galloway Interview George Galloway, British member of Parliament, discusses his book Mr. Galloway Goes to Washington.Recorded September 15, 2005 My Odeo Channel Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |