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The Brian Lehrer Show

Thursday, December 08, 2005
  • Falling Behind In Science?

    In recent weeks, a flurry of newspaper editorials have appeared, fretting that American Universities are not turning out enough graduates in science. Some even attribute our ignorance of quarks to an elitist intellectual preference for arts and literature.

Is Iraq More Like Somalia or Vietnam?

Michael Ledeen, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author,The War Against the Terror Masters: Why It Happened, Where We Are Now, How We'll Win(St. Martin's Press, 2002)
- on Rep. Murtha's comments on the Iraq war
and
Andrew Bacevich director of the Center for International Relations at Boston University, West Point graduate, Vietnam veteran, and author, The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War (Oxford University Press, 2005)
- agrees with John Murtha

» Michael Ledeen (The American Enterprise Institute)
» Andrew Bacevich (Boston University)

Borrow, Spend, Plunge

Chris Swann, US economics correspondent for the Financial Times
- on the plunge in consumer borrowing

» The Financial Times

All Arts and No Science Makes America a Dull Country?

Andrew Hacker, professor of political science at Queens College and contributor to the New York Review of Books
and
Lawrence Weschler, director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU
and
Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- on the "crisis" in math and science education in America

» "The Truth About the Colleges" by Andrew Hacker in the New York Review of Books
» The New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University
» Shirley Ann Jackson (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)

Choose Or Lose

Barry Schwartz professor of psychology at Swarthmore College and author, The Paradox Of Choice: Why More Is Less (Harper Perennial, 2005)

» Barry Schwartz (Swarthmore)

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Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

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Eavesdrop on Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer, two of the most political savvy minds around, as they eat lunch and break down the week’s political activities.

Slideluck Potshow

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Check out our contribution to the recent Slideluck Potshow, an event where folks share their love of food and photos!

ICANN, You Can…

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Paul Twomey, president and CEO of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), on their recent decision to offer more top-level domain names.

Mixed Up

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We discuss the implications of our mixed-race future and how Barack Obama's candidacy has changed the discussion about mixed-race identity.