| Sarah
Posner discusses her book God's
Profits: Faith, Fraud, and the Republican Crusade for Values Voters.
Recorded February
5, 2008
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to the Posner Interview here
Matt
Mason discusses his book The
Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism.
Recorded January
22, 2008
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to the Mason interview here
Mark
Winne discusses his new book Closing
the Food Gap: Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty.
Recorded January
15, 2008
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to the Winne interview
here
Craig
Unger discusses his book 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.
Recorded January
8, 2008
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to the Unger interview
here
Ismael
Hossein-zadeh discusses his bookThe
Political Economy of U.S. Militarism.
Recorded January
1, 2008
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to the Hossein-Zadeh
interview here
An
interview with David
Rose, author of The
Big Eddy Club: The Stocking Stranglings and Southern Justice.
Recorded December
25, 2007
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to the Rose interview
here
Robert
Kuttner discusses his book The
Squandering of America: How the Failure of Our Politics Undermines Our
Prosperity.
Recorded December
18, 2007
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to the Kuttner interview
here
Walter
Russell Mead discusses his book God
and Gold: Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World.
Recorded December
11, 2007
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to the Mead interview
here
Christopher
Ellinger of the philanthropic organization Bolder
Giving discusses how people can explore the impact of money in
their lives and to act on their highest values.
Listen
to the Ellinger interview
here
Greg
Anrig discusses his book The
Conservatives Have No Clothes: Why Right-Wing Ideas Keep Failing.
Recorded November
20, 2007
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to the Anrig interview
here
Paul
V. Dutton discusses his book Differential
Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions
in the United States and France.
Recorded November
13, 2007
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to the Dutton interview
here
Richard
Goldstein co-author of The
Contenders — a book about the Democratic
Presidential candidates — returns to Weekly Signals to discuss Hillary,
Edwards and the Republicans.
Listen
to the Goldstein interview
here
Lawrence
Wright discusses his Pulitzer prize-winning book The
Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
Recorded October
30, 2007
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to the Wright interview
here
Norman
Solomon discusses his book Made
Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State.
Recorded October
23, 2007
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to the Solomon interview
here
Former
US labor secretary Robert
B. Reich discusses his book Supercapitalism:
The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life.
Recorded October
16, 2007
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to the Reich interview
here
John
Anderson discusses his book Follow
the Money: How George W Bush and the Texas Republicans Hog-tied America.
Recorded October
9, 2007
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to the Anderson interview
here
Nicholas
Guyatt discusses his book Have
a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the
End of the World.
Recorded October
2, 2007
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to the Guyatt interview
here
An
interview with Richard
Goldstein about his chapter "The Redeemer: Barack Obama" from
the new book The
Contenders.
Recorded September
25, 2007
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to the Goldstein interview
here
An
interview with Stuart
Ewen co- author of Typecasting:
On the Arts & Sciences of Human Inequality.
Listen
to the Ewen interview
here
R.
Jay Magill, Jr. discusses his book Chic
Ironic Bitterness — a
defense of this detachment, an attitude that helps us preserve values
such as authenticity, sincerity, and seriousness that might otherwise
be lost in a world filled with spin, marketing, and jargon.
Recorded September
11, 2007
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to the Magill interview
here
Benjamin
Barber author of Consumed:
How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens
Whole discusses “The McDonald’s Experiment” and
how it relates to the upcoming US presidential campaign.
Listen
to the Barber interview
here
Bjorn
Lomborg, discusses his book Cool
It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming.
Recorded August
28, 2007
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to the Lomborg interview
here
An
interview with Elliot D.
Cohen author of Last
Days of Democracy: How Big Media and Power-hungry Government Are Turning
America into a Dictatorship.
Recorded August
21, 2007
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to the Cohen interview
here
Dave
Zirin, columnist for SLAM Magazine, a regular contributor
to the Nation and Los Angeles Times discusses his book Welcome
to the Terrordome: The Pain, Politics, and Promise of Sports (with
a foreword by the immortal Chuck D.)
Recorded
August 14, 2007
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to the Zirin interview
here
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.
Recorded
August 7, 2007
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to the Levitt interview
here
Felicia
Kornbluh discusses her book The
Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America.
Recorded
July 31, 2007
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to the Kornbluh interview
here
Aviva
Chomsky discusses her book"They
Take Our Jobs!": and 20 Other Myths about Immigration.
Recorded
July 24, 2007
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to the Chomsky interview
here
Daniel
Brook discusses his book The
Trap: Selling Out to Stay Afloat in Winner-Take-All America.
Recorded
July 17, 2007
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to the Brook interview
here
Eva
Rutland discusses her book When
We Were Colored: A Mother's Story.
Recorded
July 10, 2007
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to the Rutland interview
here
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 discusses his
essay, The
World Bank and the $100 Billion Question,
Recorded
July 3, 2007
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to the Berkman interview
here
Sasha
Abramsky discusses his book American
Furies: Crime, Punishment, and Vengeance in the Age of Mass Imprisonment.
Recorded
June 26, 2007
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to the Abramsky interview
here
Scott
Gac discusses his book Singing
for Freedom: The Hutchinson Family Singers and the Nineteenth-Century
Culture of Reform.
Recorded
June 12, 2007
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to the Gac interview
here
Joseph
Gerson, Director of Programs of the American
Friends Service Committee in New England, discusses his book Empire
and the Bomb: How the U.S. Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World.
Recorded
June 5, 2007
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to the Gerson interview
here
Air
America Radio host Laura
Flanders, discusses her book Blue
Grit: True Democrats Take Back Politics from the Politicians.
Listen
to the Flanders interview
here
Recorded May 29,
2007
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.
Listen
to the Cohn interview
here
Recorded May 22,
2007
George
Monbiot discusses his book Heat:
How to Stop the Planet from Burning.
Recorded
May 15, 2007
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to the Monbiot interview
here
Ellen
Bravo discusses her book Taking
On the Big Boys: Or Why Feminism Is Good for Families, Business, and the
Nation.
Recorded
May 8, 2007
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to the Bravo interview
here
Andrew
Koppelman discusses his book Same
Sex, Different States: When Same-Sex Marriages Cross State Lines.
Recorded
May 1, 2007
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to the Koppelman interview
here
Eric
Boehlert, a Senior Fellow at Media
Matters for America discusses his book Lapdogs:
How the Press Rolled Over for Bush.
Recorded
April 24, 2007
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to the Boehlert interview
here
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.
Recorded April 17,
2007
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to the Bates interview
here
Recorded
April 10, 2007
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to the Ivker interview
here
Recorded
April 3, 2007
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to
the
Navarro
interview
here
Recorded
March 27, 2007
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to the Barber interview
here
Recorded
March 20, 2007
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to the Galloway interview
here
Recorded
March 13, 2007
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to the Miles interview
here
An
interview with The Nation magazine journalist Max
Blumenthal about his recent visit to the
34th annual Conservative Political Action Conference.
Recorded
March 6, 2007
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to the Blumenthal interview
here
Chalmers
Johnson discusses his new book Nemesis:
The Last Days of the American Republic.
Recorded February
27, 2007
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to the Johnson interview
here
William
Rivers Pitt discusses his book House
of Ill Repute: Reflections on War, Lies, and America's Ravaged Reputation.
Recorded
February 20, 2007
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to the Pitt interview
here
Barry
Lando,
award-winning investigative producer with 60
Minutes discusses
his book Web
of Deceit: The History of Western Complicity in Iraq, from Churchill
to Kennedy to George W. Bush.
Recorded
February 13, 2007
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to the Lando interview
here
Jeff
Chester executive
director of the Center for
Digital Democracy discusses his book Digital
Destiny: New Media and the Future of Democracy.
Recorded
February 6, 2007
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to the Chester interview
here
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."
Recorded
January 30, 2007
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to the Clark interview
here
Stephen
Duncombe discusses his book Dream:
Re-imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy.
Recorded
January 23, 2007
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to the Duncombe interview
here
Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Haynes
Johnson discusses his book The
Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism to Terrorism.
Recorded
January 9, 2007
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to the Johnson interview
here
Elizabeth
Laird discusses her new book A
Little Piece of Ground.
Recorded
January 2, 2007
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to the Laird interview
here
Steve
Hendricks discusses his book The
Unquiet Grave: The FBI and the Struggle for the Soul of Indian Country.
Recorded
December 26, 2006
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to the Hendricks interview
here
Edward
Humes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist discusses his bookf Over
Here: How the G.I. Bill Transformed the American Dream.
Recorded
December 19, 2006
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to the Humes interview
here
Jackson
Katz discusses his book The
Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help.
Recorded
Decmber 12, 2006
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to the Katz interview
here
Ralph
Steadman discusses his book The
Joke's Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson and Me.
Recorded
December 5, 2006
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to the Steadman interview
here
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.
Recorded
November 28, 2006
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to the Callahan interview
here
Michele
Wucker discusses her book Lockout:
Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends
on Getting It Right.
Recorded
November 21, 2006
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to the Wucker interview
here
Rajiv
Chandrasekaran, the Washington Post’s Baghdad
bureau chief from 2003-2005, discusses his new book Imperial
Life in the Emerald City.
Recorded
November 14, 2006
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to the Chandrasekaran
interview here
John
Lamb Lash discusses his book Not
in His Image: Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief.
Recorded
November 7, 2006
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to the Lash interview
here
Andrew
Newberg discusses his new book Why
We Believe What We Believe: Uncovering Our Biological Need for Meaning,
Spirituality, and Truth.
Recorded
October 31, 2006
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to the Newberg interview
here
Karen
Cerulo, discusses his book Never
Saw it Coming: Cultural Challenges to Envisioning the Worst.
Recorded
October 24, 2006
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to the Cerulo interview
here
Ronald
Dworkin discusses his new book Is
Democracy Possible Here? Principles for a New Political Debate.
Recorded
October 17, 2006
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to the Dworkin interview
here
National
Book Award Winner Maxine
Hong Kingston discusses her book Veterans
of War, Veterans of Peace.
Recorded
October 10, 2006
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to the Kingston interview
here
Sidney
Blumenthal, former assistant and senior adviser to President
Bill Clinton discusses his new book How
Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime.
Recorded
October 3, 2006
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to the Blumenthal interview
here
Nomi
Prins discusses her new book Jacked:
How "Conservatives" Are Picking Your Pocket (Whether You Voted
for Them or Not).
Recorded
September 26, 2006
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to the Prins interview
here
Mark
Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author discusses his
latest book, Nonviolence:
Twenty-Five Lessons from the History of a Dangerous Idea.
Listen
to
the
Kurlansky
interview
here
Moazzam
Begg discusses his book Enemy
Combatant My Imprisonment at Guantánamo, Bagram, and Kandahar.
Recorded
September 12, 2006
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to the Begg interview
here
Michael
Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and Executive
Director of the Skeptics Society discusses his new book Why
Darwin Matters: The Case Aagainst Intelligent Design.
Recorded
September 5, 2006
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to the Shermer interview
here
Geoff
Nunberg discusses his new book of Talking
Right: How Conservatives Turned Liberalism into a Tax-Raising, Latte-Drinking,
Sushi-Eating, Volvo-Driving, New York Times-Reading, Body-Piercing, Hollywood-Loving,
Left-Wing Freak Show.
Recorded
August 29, 2006
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to the Nunberg interview
here
Dr.
Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project discusses
his book The
Language of God: A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief.
Recorded
August 22, 2006
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to the Collins interview
here
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.
Recorder
August 15, 2006
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to
the
Frankfurter
interview
here
Penny
Coleman discusses her book Flashback:
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Suicide, and the Lessons of War.
Recorded
August 8, 2006
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to the Coleman interview
here
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.
Recorded
August 1, 2006.
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to the Thomas interview
here
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
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to the Abramsky interview
here
Recorded
July 18, 2006
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to the Ashford interview
here
Listen
to the Paul interview
here
Recorded
July 4, 2006
Anthony
Arnove discusses his new book Iraq:
The Logic of Withdrawal.
Recorded
June 27, 2006
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to the Arnove interview
here
Michelle
Goldberg, a senior political reporter for Salon.com discusses
her book Kingdom Coming: The
Rise of Christian Nationalism.
Recorded
June 20, 2006
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to the Goldberg interview
here
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
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to the Grandin interview
here
Recorded
April 25, 2006
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to the Kolbert interview
here
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to the Bamford interview
here
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
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to the Leggett interview
here
Recorded
February 7, 2006
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to the Hersh interview
here
Recorded
January 31, 2006
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to the Chang interview
here
John
Bainbridge, Jr., journalist and lawyer talks about his book American
Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman and the Shoot-Out That Stopped
It.
Recorded
November 22, 2005
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to the Bainbridge interview here
Joe
Conason, national correspondent for the New York Observer and
columnist for Salon.com talks
about his new book The
Raw Deal: How the Bush Republicans Plan to Destroy Social Security and
the Legacy of the New Deal.
Recorded
November 15, 2005
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to the Conason interview here
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
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to the Krassner interview here
Jay
Feinman, Distinguished Professor of Law at Rutgers University
discusses his book Unmaking
Law: The Conservative Campaign to Roll Back the Common Law.
Recorded
October 25, 2005
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to the Feinman interview here
David
Engwicht, International urban planner, discusses his new
book, Mental Speed Bumps:
The Smarter Way to Tame Traffic.
Recorded
October 25, 2005
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to the Engwicht interview here
James
W. Loewen author of the bestselling American Book Award winner Lies
My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong discusses
his latest book, Sundown
Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism.
Recorded October
18, 2005
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to the Loewen interview here
Jennifer
Miller discusses her new book, Inheriting
the Holy Land: An American's Search for Hope in the Middle East.
Recorded October
11, 2005
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to the Miller interview here
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.
Recorded
October 4, 2005
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to the Farrow interview here
Anthony
Shadid, the only journalist to win a Pulitzer
Prize for reporting from Iraq, discusses his book Night
Draws Near.
Recorded
September 27, 2005
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to the Shadid interview here
George
Galloway, British Member of Parliament, discusses his book Mr.
Galloway Goes to Washington.
Recorded
September 15, 2005
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to the Galloway interview here
Stephen
J. Ducat, author of The
Wimp Factor
Gender Gaps, Holy Wars, and the Politics of Anxious Masculinity,
discusses the direct association between the magnitude of a man’s femiphobia
and his tendency to embrace right-wing political opinions.
Recorded
September 13, 2005
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to the Ducat interview here
Tim
Pritchard, a London-based journalist and film-maker, discusses
his book Ambush
Alley: The Most Extraordinary Battle of the Iraq War.
Recorded
September 13, 2005
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to the Pritchard interview here
Victor
Navasky,editor, writer, and teacher who has been at the helm
of The Nation magazine
for almost thirty years talks about his new book, A
Matter of Opinion.
Recorded
September 6, 2005
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to the Navasky interview here
Andrew
Gumbel, a U.S. correspondent for the British newspaper The
Independent discusses his book Steal
This Vote.
Recorded
September 6, 2005
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to the Gumbel interview here
Greg
LeRoy founder and director of Good
Jobs First, a national resource center promoting corporate and government
accountability in economic development talks about his book,The
Great American Jobs Scam: Corporate Tax Dodging and the Myth of Job Creation.
Recorded
August 30, 2005
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to the LeRoy interview here
Joel
Garreau, repoprter and editor at The Washington Post and
author of Radical
Evolution: The Promise and Peril of Enhancing Our Minds, Our Bodies — and
What It Means to Be Human takes a look at the hinge in history at which
we have arrived.
Recorded August 23,
2005
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to the Garreau interview here
Douglas
Rushkoff, author of Cyberia, Media
Virus, Playing
the Future, Nothing
Sacred: The Truth about Judaism, and Coercion (winner
of the Marshall Mcluhan Award for best media book) talks about his upcoming book Get
Back in the Box: Innovation from the Inside Out.
Recorded
August 16, 2005
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to the Rushkoff interview here
Ronald
Wright, author of A
Short History of Progress,dissects
the cyclical nature of humanity’s development and demise,
the 10,000-year old experiment that we’ve unleashed but
have yet to control.
Recorded
August 9, 2005
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to the Wright interview here
Joshua
Frank discusses his book Left
Out!: How Liberals Helped Reelect George W. Bush and
his latest article in CounterPunch "Passing
CAFTA."
Recorded
August 2, 2005
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to the Frank interview here
Larry
Diamond, Stanford University professor, senior
fellow at the Hoover Institution and an adviser to the American
occupation authorities in Iraq talks about his book Squandered
Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to
Bring Democracy to Iraq.
Recorded
July 26, 2005
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to the Diamond interview here
Harold
Schechter, a professor of American Literature
and culture at Queens College, pop culture expert and true
crime author talks about his latest book Savage
Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment.
Recorded
July 19, 2005
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to the Schechter interview here
Ian
Williams, The
Nation's UN correspondent discusses Srebrenica, the
London Bombings, and his new book Rum:
A Social and Sociable History of the Real Spirit of 1776.
Recorded
July 12, 2005
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to the Williams interview here
Joseph
Wilson, a political centrist and career United
States diplomat from 1976 to 1998 talks about his book The
Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Put the White House
on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity.
Recorded
July 5, 2005
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to the Wilson interview here
Recorded
June 28, 2005
Recorded
June 21, 2005
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to the Perkins interview here
John
Sayles, one of America's preeminent independent
filmmakers, whose films include Silver
City, The Secret of Roan Inish, Eight Men Out, Matewan, The
Brother from Another Planet, and Return
of the Secaucus 7 talks about his book The
Anarchist's Convention, his time with Roger Corman and
greedy developers.
Recorded
June 14, 2005
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to the Sayles interview here
John
Markoff, senior writer for The New York Times discusses
his latest book What
the Dormouse Said: How the 60s Counterculture Shaped the Personal
Computer.
Recorded
June 7, 2005
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to the Markoff interview here
Clyde
Prestowitz, counselor to the Secretary of Commerce
during the Reagan Administration, President of the Economic
Strategy Institute and author of Trading Places and Rogue
Nation discusses his latest book Three
Billion New Capitalists: The Great Shift of Wealth and Power
to the East.
Recorded
May 31, 2005
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to the Prestowitz interview here
Pratap
Chatterjee, an award-winning journalist and program
director of Corpwatch talks
about his book Iraq,
Inc.: A Profitable Occupation
Recorded
May 24, 2005
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to the Chatterjee interview here
Daniel
Ellsberg and Sibel
Edmonds talk about whistleblowing, the Pentagon
Papers, 9/11, the Bush administration, Iraq and Iran.
Recorded
May 20, 2005
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to the Ellsberg/Edmonds interview here
Anne
Lamott, the author of five critically praised novels
including the national bestseller Crooked
Little Heart talks about her latest book Plan
B: Further Thoughts on Faith.
Recorded
May 17, 2005
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to the Lamott interview here
Charles
Stone, head of the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Anti-Terrorist Unit and co-author of Hunting
Eric Rudolph looks
at life inside the Rudolph family.
Recorded
May 10, 2005
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to the Stone interview here
George
Pendle, author of Strange
Angel : The Otherworldly Life of Rocket Scientist John Whiteside
Parsons recovers
a fascinating life and explores the unruly consequences of
genius.
Recorded
May 3, 2005
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to the Pendle interview here
Douglas
Mulhall, author of Our
Molecular Future and The
Calcium Bomb discusses the greed of the pharmaceutical industry and
why the medical profession in the US is more concerned with treating disease
than preventing it.
Recorded
April 26, 2005
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to the Mulhall interview here
Mike and Nathan review Sin
City, discuss gay marriage and propose a constitutional
amendment to require an intelligence test for voters.
Recorded
April 19, 2005
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to the Mike and Nathan here
Jim
Wallis, a Christian leader for social change,
a founder of Sojourners — Christians
for justice and peace — and author of God's
Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't
Get It discusses the consequence of a false choice
between ideological religion and soulless politics.
Recorded
April 12, 2005
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to the Wallis interview here
Thom
Hartmann, the award-winning, bestselling
author of Unequal
Protection: The rise of corporate dominance and theft
of human rights discusses how a mistaken interpretation
of a Supreme Court reporter's notes in an 1886 railroad
tax case, has led to the situation where corporations
are now legally considered "persons," equal
to humans and entitled to many of the same protections
guaranteed only to humans by the Bill of Rights — a
clear contradiction of the intent of the Founders of
the United States.
Recorded
March 22,2005
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to the Hartmann interview here
Recorded
March 15,2005
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to the Arkin interview here
Harvey
Weinstein, Associate Director of the Human
Rights Center discuuses his book My
Neighbor, My Enemy which tackles a crucial and
highly topical issue — how do countries rebuild after
ethnic cleansing and genocide? And what role do trials and
tribunals play in social reconstruction and reconciliation. Recorded
March 8, 2005
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to the Weinstein interview here
Recorded
March 1, 2005
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to the Weisbrot interview here
Recorded
February 1, 2005
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to the Jones interview here
Theresa
Hitchens, Vice-President of The
Center for Defense Information discusses
the militarization of outer space.
Recorded
January 25, 2005
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to the Hitchens interview here
Dr.
Sidney Wolfe director of Public
Citizen's Health Research Group discusses the payola
scandal at the NIH reported in a Los Angeles Times article “The
National Institutes of Health: Public Servant or Private
Marketer?”
Recorded
January 18, 2005
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to the Wolfe interview here
Michael
T. Klare, defense correspondent for The
Nation will discuss his latest book Blood
and Oil: the Dangers and Consequences of America's Growing
Dependency on Imported Petroleum.
Recorded
December 28, 2004
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to the Klare interview here
Derrick
Jensen, co-author of Welcome
to the Machine — looks at our modern
culture, where corporate might makes technology right,
government money feeds the greed for mad science, and
absolute surveillance leads to absolute control and
corruption.
Recorded
November 16, 2004
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to the Jensen interview here
Benjamin
R. Barber, a frequent contributor to Harper's
magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The
Nation and author of Jihad
vs McWorld discusses the impact of the naïve “idealists” in
the Bush administration who believe that terrorism can
be fought through hegemonic wars on rogue states.
Recorded
December 21, 2004
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to the Barber interview here
Ronnie
Dugger, founding editor of The Texas
Observer and co-founder of the Alliance
for Democracy discusses the dangers
of computerized voting.
Recorded
October 19, 2004
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to the Dugger interview here
Mark
Crispin Miller, author of the Bush
Dyslexicon and a professor of media studies at
New York University, where he also directs the Project
on Media Ownership argues that under the Bush administration
we are living in a state that would appall the Founding
Fathers: a state that is neither democratic nor republican,
and no more "conservative" than it is liberal.
Recorded
September 21, 2004
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to the Miller interview here
Graham
Allison, founding dean of Harvard’s John
F. Kennedy School of Government, a former top Pentagon official,
one of America’s leading scholars of nuclear strategy
and national security and author of Nuclear
Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe, makes
the case that nuclear terrorism is inevitable — if
we continue on our present course — and sets out an
ambitious but achievable plan for preventing a catastrophic
attack before it’s too late.
Recorded
September 14, 2004
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to the Allison interview here
Garrison
Keillor author and host of A
Prairie Home Companion discusses his latest book, Homegrown
Democrat, and asserts the values of his boyhood — the
values of Lake Wobegon— that do not square with
the ugly narcissistic agenda at work in the country
today.
Recorded
October 12, 2004
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to the Keillor interview here
Arianna
Huffington, a nationally syndicated columnist
discusses her latest book, Fanatics
and Fools: The Game Plan for Winning Back America, offering
both a scathing portrait of our contemporary political
landscape and a bold, yet practical approach to restoring
America to the promise envisioned by our greatest leaders.
Recorded
August 17, 2004
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to the Huffington interview here
Alain
de Botton, the Swiss-born, London-based author
of the influential handbook How
Proust Can Change Your Life discusses his latest
book Status
Anxiety.
Recorded
June 29, 2004
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to the de Botton interview here
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