The Brian Lehrer Show

George Orwell (Branch of the National Union of Journalists)

What Would George Orwell Do?

Monday, November 05, 2007

Financier George Soros and an all-star cast of contributors to a new book about George Orwell’s theories of political doublespeak talk about the particular relevance of Orwell’s theories today. Also, a preview of the New Jersey election – will Gov. Corzine lose the Senate to the GOP?

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We take listener comments from people who went to watch the New York City Marathon about what inspired them to do so.

NJ Elections Preview

WNYC reporter Bob Hennelly talks about what's at stake in the New Jersey statewide, county, and municipal elections on Tuesday.

Seeing Eye to Eye

Avoub Tutunji, an 18 year old Israeli Arab who identifies as Palestinian, and Avital Djemal, an 18 year old Israeli Orthodox Jew, are participants in the Face to Face/Faith to Faith program, a year-long program for interfaith exchange and conflict resolution. They are joined by Rabbi Justus Baird, the Director of the Center for Multifaith Education at the Auburn Theological Seminary, which operates the Face to Face program.

Face to Face program at the Auburn Theological Seminary

What Would Orwell Think ?

Global financier and philanthropist George Soros joins Patricia Williams, professor of law at Columbia University, and Farnaz Fassihi, senior Middle East correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, to discuss what George Orwell would think about the state of political discourse in 2007.

What Orwell Didn't Know: Propaganda and the New Face of American Politics is available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Thanks to Atlantic.com for finding this 1996 Rudy Giuliani and George Soros link.

New York Public Library Event on George Orwell

State of Emergency in Pakistan

Kiran Khalid, Pakistani-American freelance TV reporter who is currently working on a documentary about electronic media censorship in Pakistan, and Sabahat Ashraf, a writer/blogger, on President Musharraf's enforcement of a state of emergency in Pakistan.