Rape shield laws were enacted in the 1970s to prevent courts from examining the accuser’s sexual history in rape cases. The intention was to prevent a double standard for sexually promiscuous women, but New York Times guest columnist Dahlia Lithwick says it produces warped justice. Also, United for Peace & Justice makes a new push for a protest in the park, Philip Smucker on a key capture in the war on terror, Dahlia Lithwick on revising the jury system, and your calls on summer internships.
Protest Plans
Listeners call in to talk about the protests being held during the RNC
Naming Names
Philip Smucker journalist, has written for the Christian Science Monitor, the Daily Telegraph, and Time and author, Al Qaeda's Great Escape: The Military and The Media on Terror's Trail (Brassey's, 2004) says naming Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan may have endangered our intelligence-gathering capabilities
Sharks, Implants and the Village People
Bob Thompson Director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television and Professor of Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University on scary films of the summer of 2004
Heavy Shield
Dahlia Lithwick Senior editor for Slate.com, Supreme Court correspondent, and co-author, Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World (Workman,2003)
Be A Lamb and Get Me Some Coffee?
Listeners call in with their stories of internships
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