The Brian Lehrer Show

Desperate For Housewives

Thursday, April 20, 2006

It may be hard for working women to focus on their families, but New Yorker writer Caitlin Flanagan says they should channel their “inner house wife.” Flanagan talks to guest host Sree Sreenavasan about her new book “To Hell With All That”. Also: the White House staff reshuffle continues. Who will take over Scott McLellan’s job as White House press secretary?

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They All Rolled Over And One Fell Out

Clarence Page, columnist for the Chicago Tribune
and
Scott Johnson, an attorney and senior vice president of TCF National Bank in Minneapolis, fellow at the conservative Claremont Institute, and co-writer of the blog Powerline.com
and
Sidney Blumenthal, former senior advisor to President Clinton, columnist for the Guardian and Salon.com, Senior Fellow at the NYU Center for Law and Security and author, The Clinton Wars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)

- how the White House is learning a new dance called the Staff Shuffle

» Powerline
» The Clinton Wars (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003)

You Got Compuserved

Dan Carnevale, the technology correspondent for The Chronicle of Higher Education
- on laptops in the classroom

» The Chronicle of Higher Education website

It's All Ova Now, Baby Blue

Caitlin Flanagan, staff writer for The New Yorker, contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly and author, To Hell with All That : Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife (Little, Brown 2006)
- on the state of motherhood and the politics of parenting

» Caitlin Flanagan's bio (The Atlantic Monthly)