As the new freshmen take up residence, we’ll take your calls about the relevance of your college education. Did you get what you paid for? Did you study the right things? Also, the television channel Americans aren’t allowed to watch and Monday Morning Politics.
Monday Morning Politics
Herb Jackson, Washington correspondent for The Record of Bergen County,
and
Edward Luce, Washington commentator for the Financial Times and author of the forthcoming book, Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (Doubleday 2007)
- discuss politics here and in the Middle East
and
Edward Luce, Washington commentator for the Financial Times and author of the forthcoming book, Spite of the Gods: The Rise of Modern India (Doubleday 2007)
- discuss politics here and in the Middle East
Channeling Terror
Siva Vaidhyanathan, cultural historian and media scholar at NYU and author, The Anarchist in the Library: How the Clash between Freedom and Control is Hacking the Real World and Crashing the System (Basic Books, 2004)
-comments on the arrest of a Staten Island man for offering access to Al-Manar, ...
-comments on the arrest of a Staten Island man for offering access to Al-Manar, ...
Open Phones
- recent graduates and not so recent graduates tell us what they have accomplished in life and how much pressure they feel to "get a life."
Minor Major
We received numerous listener emails about today's segment proffering career advice for college students and recent graduates. Here's what a few listeners had to say:
Subject: Graduate
As a philosophy major, women studies minor I thought myself a pretty enlightened guy. However I made the mistake of looking ...
Required Reading: August 28, 2006
Hezbollah Leader says he wouldn't have captured soldiers if he thought it'd lead to war (Associated Press)
Poor Patients Who Are Healthy? (LA Times)
Latest food additive: Viruses (LA Times)
Plenty kids left in failing schools (NY Daily News)
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