The Brian Lehrer Show

Old World, New World, Free World

Monday, November 15, 2004

In the fifteen years since the fall of the Berlin Wall Europe has become increasingly unified, and strains between the Old World and the New World have become more apparent. Author Timothy Garton Ash believes that to strengthen the ideal of the free world, Europe and the United States need to work together.

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Jay Street, Washington

Jay Carney, Deputy Washington Bureau Chief, Time Magazine, on politics inside and outside the beltway
» Time Magazine

Catching the New Wave

George Sarrinikolauou, Greek, author, Facing Athens: Encounters With the Modern City

Catching the New Wave

George Sarrinikolauou, Greek, author, Facing Athens: Encounters With the Modern City
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Staceyann Chin, Jamaican-Chinese slam poet, on being a new immigrant in New York

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Go West

Timothy Garton Ash, Professor of European Studies at Oxford university, Senior Fellow at the Hoover institution, and author, Free World: America, Europe, and the Surprising Future of the West (Random House, 2004), says Washington can never rule the world alone

MoMA's Moment in the Sun

Alexandra Lange contributing editor to New York magazine, wrote the October 18 cover story on the New Museum of Modern Art says changes inside the new MoMA are as big as the ones on the outside
» New York Magazine
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Dan Levenson creator of freemoma.org and an artist living in Brooklyn says MoMA got greedy and forgot its mission
» Free Moma