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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)
and Kelefa Sanneh Pop critic for The New York Times and contributing editor at Transition, an international review of race and culture
and Lisa Schiffren conservative commentator and Republican speechwriter, who penned the famed “Murphy Brown” speech on family values for Dan Quayle
and 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)