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"Culture Storm: Life and Politics in the Election Year," a panel discussion on the culture wars currently dominating the national political discourse. Presidential election years call for nominees – and American citizens – to take a position on any number of complex, challenging issues. The war in Iraq and gay marriage continue to be key arenas of debate, but the battle lines are also being drawn within renewed contests around issues that have been relatively dormant for some time, including abortion, decency standards in broadcast media, and religion in public life. Brian Lehrer and his fellow panelists tackle censorship, reproductive rights, "The Passion of the Christ," and so-called "activist" judges, among many other cultural issues, and will forecast key trends to look for this election year. In a live taping at the Brooklyn Museum, our panel of experts tries to fix the score in the new culture wars.
Culture StormLife and Politics in the Election Year
Sarah Crichton former editor at Newsweek and co-author with Mariane Pearl, Daniel Pearl’s widow A Mighty Heart. (Scribner, 2004)debate the impact of culture on politics in an election year (taped live at the Brooklyn Museum of Art)
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Kelefa Sanneh Pop critic for The New York Times and contributing editor at Transition, an international review of race and culture
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Lisa Schiffren conservative commentator and Republican speechwriter, who
penned the famed “Murphy Brown” speech on family values for Dan Quayle
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John McWhorter Linguistics expert, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and author of Doing Our Own Thing: The Degradation of Language and Music and Why We Should, Like, Care (Gotham Books, 2003)
Joe Conason Columnist for New York Observer and Salon.com and author, Big Lies: The Right Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth (St. Martin's Press,
forthcoming next month)
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