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President George Bush and Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi ArabiaCulture Storm: Life and Politics in the Election Year
In the year of "The Passion of the Christ" and "Fahrenheit 911", where do Americans stand politically? Is it true that we’re so polarized—and is that really a bad thing? Former Quayle speechwriter Lisa Schiffren, liberal columnist Joe Conason, and others dissect the political-cultural climate at this live taping at the Brooklyn Museum.
Culture Storm
Sarah Crichton former editor at Newsweek and co-author with Mariane Pearl,
Daniel Pearl’s widow A Mighty Heart (Scribner, 2004)
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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
and
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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)
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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,
2004)
debate the impact of culture on politics in an election year (taped live at the Brooklyn Museum of Art)
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