Amitai Etzioni makes the case that America should prioritize bringing security to developing nations over democratizing them. And: muzzle your dogs and muffle your jackhammers as we take a look at New York’s new noise code, as well as your calls on the city’s noisiest neighborhoods.
Slideshow: national design triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Slideshow: national design triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Guests:
Amitai EtzioniScooter gets Commuted
Margaret Colgate Love, the former pardon attorney at the Justice Department (1990-1997), offers legal analysis on President Bush's commutation of Scooter Libby's prison sentence.
Keep It Down!
Dr. Arline Bronzaft, chair of the noise committee of The Council on the Environment of New York City, explains NYC's new noise code.
China's African Safari
Donald H. Straszheim, vice chairman of Roth Capital Partners, a securities firm in Los Angeles, and Sebastian Junger, contributing writer to Vanity Fair and the author of The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea and more recently A Death in Belmont, on China's influence ...
Scooter Libby: The White House Responds - Live
Live excerpt of White House press secretary Tony Snow responding to President Bush's decision to commute Scooter Libby's prison sentence.
Democracy Later
Amitai Etzioni, professor of international relations at The George Washington University and the author of Security First: For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy (Yale University Press, 2007), says people deserve basic security before civil liberties.
Security First is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Security First is available for purchase at Amazon.com.
Scooter Libby: The White House Responds
Extended excerpt of the White House press conference about President Bush's decision to commute Scooter Libby's prison sentence, with Press Secretary Tony Snow.
Intelligent Designs
Two of the curators for "Design Life Now" the national design triennial at the Cooper-Hewitt Museum join us to talk about today’s design and what it says about today’s society. Barbara Bloemink is the deputy director for curatorial affairs at the Museum of ...
Barbara Bloemink
Barbara Bloemink, one of the curators for Design Life Now, the national design triennial at the Cooper Hewitt through July 29th, discusses the ...