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Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former member of Parliament in the Netherlands and a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, talks about why the Muslim Brotherhood should be rejected. Plus: New Yorker writer Lawrence Wright talks about his new piece on Scientology; Joseph Nye discusses 21st Century power; and your stories about your family’s connection to the civil rights movement.
Rejecting the Muslim Brotherhood
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, former member of Parliament in the Netherlands, fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, founder of the AHA Foundation, and author of Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, discusses her experience as a former member of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Dutch parliament as she warns against religious extremism in Egypt.
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The Future of Football
Ben McGrath, staff writer at the New Yorker, talks about what the new science on the severity and regularity of concussions means for the future of football.
21st Century Power
Joseph Nye, University Distinguished Service Professor and former dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the author of The Future of Power, explains why he believes that technology and information flows shape today's balance of global power.
Strange Bedfellows Block Patriot Act
Julian Sanchez, research fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses the failure of the Patriot Act extension yesterday and the right-left coalition that successfully blocked it.
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Wright on Scientology
Lawrence Wright, staff writer for the New Yorker, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, and fellow at the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law, discusses his latest article about the Church of Scientology.
Black History Month: Local Hero
Sarah Keys Evans, a Brooklyn resident and Civil Rights figure, is the subject of the book Take a Seat -- Make a Stand: A Hero in the Family. She joins Amy Nathan, the book's author, to talk about her arrest in 1952 that resulted in the end to race-based seating rules in interstate transportation.
Listeners: Call in or post your own family's Civil Rights hero story.
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A Letter from Mississippi 1964
On today's Brian Lehrer Show we are taking calls and collecting stories from those with connections to the civil rights movement. Here is Brian Lehrer Show producer Jody Avirgan's contribution.
In August of 1964 my mother, Martha Honey, then a Freshman at Oberlin College in Ohio, travelled to Mississippi as a member of SNCC for the "Freedom Summer" campaign to register Black voters. She attended the funeral of James Chaney, one of three civil rights workers - Cheney was a black Southerner; Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner were white Northerners - murded by the Klu Klux Klan near Philadelphia, Mississippi. That evening she wrote a letter to a classmate. It appears in Howard Zinn's Voices of a People's History of the United States. Here is an excerpt: