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Give Me Liberty
Last month Brian moderated a Harper’s Magazine Forum to debate ideas in the new book by Village Voice Columnist Nat Hentoff, The War on the Bill of Rights. We’ll play excerpts featuring Hentoff, plus authors Kurt Vonnegut and Steven Brill, Harper’s Editor Lewis Lapham, ACLU Executive Director Nadine Strossen and New York Sun Editor Ira Stoll.
Whither the Bill of Rights
Taped excerpts from a September 15th panel Brian moderated at The New School University called, "Is the Bill of Rights in Peril?" with Ira Stoll, Vice President and Managing Editor of the New York Sun, Nadine Strossen, Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union, Lewis Lapham, Editor of Harper's, Stephen Brill, author, After: The Rebuilding And Defending Of America In The September 12 Era (Simon and Schuster, 2003), Kurt Vonnegut, writer, and Nat Hentoff, Village Voice columnist, and author, The War on the Bill of Rights and the Gathering Resistance (Seven Stories, 2003)
Shirin Joy
Geneive Abdo, religion correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and co-author, Answering Only to God: The Struggle Between Religion and Democracy in Post-Revolutionary Iran (Henry Holt & Co., 2003), introduces Shirin Ebadi, this year's Nobel Peace Prize winner. And Louise Sherby, Associate Dean and Chief Librarian at Hunter College Library, and author, The Who's Who of Nobel Prize Winners 1901-2000 (Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001), explains Shirin Ebadi's place in Nobel history.
How Great Was The Debate?
George Watson, Political Science professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University, reveals what Arizonans really think of the dems. And Rick Stengel, managing editor at Time magazine, tries to detect a winner in last night's nine-way frenzy. Lastly, we open the phones with your thoughts on the debate.
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What's your take on Twitter? How do you use it? Comment below!- Comments [15]
Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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