Urban legends and conspiracy theories aren't just a bunch of bunk. Even the most outlandish tale can tell us something about our society.
Philharmonic Transitions?
Robin Pogrebin, cultural reporter for the New York Times, and Eric Latzky, director of public relations for the New York Philharmonic, on the fate of the merger between the New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall
Development Duel
Tom McGeveran, reporter for the New York Observer, on the WTC site developer and architect battle over plans
University Challenge
New Jersey state senator John Bennett (R-District 12) and Michael Meyers, executive director of the New York Civil Rights Coalition, on a planned pro-Palestinian forum at Rutgers University
From Oliver Stone to the Masons
Mark Fenster, assistant professor at the University of Florida Levin College of Law and author of Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (University of Minnesota Press, 2001), places conspiracy theories in American life
X and Y
Simon Baron-Cohen, author of The Essential Difference: The Truth about the Male and Female Brain (Perseus, 2003), on the link between maleness and autism