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Former US National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski (Getty Images)Zbig Picture
Former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski talks about our last three presidents and the post cold-war world. He critiques the foreign policy of the current president as well as former Presidents Bush and Clinton. He also looks at the challenge ahead for the current presidential hopefuls. Plus: muslims in America; Columbia President Lee Bollinger, NAACP's Ted Shaw, and civil rights scholar Lani Guinier on the future of affirmative action; the view from Baghdad; and post-1965 immigrants.
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Muslims in America
Dr. Zahid H. Bukhari, professor at the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, and director of Muslims in American Public Square Project (MAPS), and Lena Alhusseini, executive director of the Arab American Family Support Center and David Harris, executive director of the American Jewish Committee, respond to the recent Pew study regarding Muslims in America.
Pew Research Center Report "Muslim Americans."
In the Affirmative: Education and Affirmative Action
Ted Shaw, director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Lani Guinier, civil rights scholar, Bennet Boskey professor of law at Harvard
University Law School and author of the forthcoming,
Meritocracy Inc.: How Wealth Became Merit, Class Became Race, and College Education Became a
Gift from the Poor to the Rich
and
Lee Bollinger, president of Columbia University discuss the future of affirmative action in educaton.
Event:
Our guests will discuss The Future of Diversity tonight at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (515 Malcolm X Blvd.) at 7PM. For reservations, call 212 870 2549.
Zbig Picture with Zbigniew Brzezinski
Former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski assesses the last three American presidents in their role as global leader in his new book Second Chance: Three Presidents and the Crisis of American Superpower (Basic Books, 2007).
Second Chance is available for purchase at Amazon.com
Baghdad: View from the Ground
Bobby Ghosh, Baghdad bureau chief for Time magazine, fills us in on the latest from Iraq as part of a month-long series.
Open Phones: Post-1965 Immigrants
The proposed immigration reform plan would undo the 1965 reform that made it easier for immigrants to bring their families into the U.S. Listeners call in with how the 1965 law affected them personally.
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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")
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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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