Foreign policy wonks Samantha Power, author of A Problem from Hell, and Robert Kagan, author of Of Paradise and Power, both favor the US taking an active role in foreign affairs, but disagree on nearly everything else. Power advocates for "enlightened self-interest" and consistent support for human rights. Kagan supports the establishment of an international order favorable to the US. Also on the show: On The Media's Arun Rath reviews political theater in Calcutta.
Pay More, Weigh Less?
Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D-51st District-Gowanus, Red Hook, and Sunset Park, Brooklyn) wants to tax junk food
Filibusted
Robert Bennett, professor of constitutional law at Northwestern University and author of Talking it Through: Puzzles of American Democracy (Cornell University Press, 2002), explains the filibuster
The Tapes of Rath
Arun Rath, senior producer for On The Media, reported on an opera about Osama Bin Laden for PBS' Frontline (airs this Thursday)
Benign Intervention
Robert Kagan, head of the US Leadership program and senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, project director at the Project for a New American Century and author of Of Paradise and Power: America and Europe in the New World Order (Knopf, ...