Guest host Sarah Crichton fills in today for Leonard. In this week’s Underreported feature, we’ll get an update on Guatemala’s post-civil war peace process. Then, Bret Easton Ellis, author of American Psycho, describes his latest novel, Lunar Park. Next, filmmaker Leslie Woodhead tells us about his documentary about last year’s terrorist attack on a school in Beslan, Russia. Finally, Wall Street Journal reporter Greg Jaffe and Major Peter Kilner, who teaches at West Point, discuss a new move to have the military develop ways to help soldiers deal with guilt and killing.
Underreported: Guatemala's Peace Process
Guatemala’s 35-year civil war officially ended in 1996, but the country has been grappling with major social, political, and economic problems ever since. Pat Davis of the Guatemala Human Rights Commission joins Susanne Jonas, professor of Latin American and Latino studies, to discuss Guatemala’s peace process and the recent deterioration ...
Lunar Park
Bret Easton Ellis, the author of American Psycho, tells us about combining details from his personal life with his fictional imaginings for his latest novel. The new book, Lunar Park, follows the story of a successful writer who battles substance abuse and self-indulgence, only to find a new set ...
Children of Beslan
On September 1st, 2004, rebel extremists took over a school in Beslan, Russia. Over 1,000 children and adults were held hostage. The siege ended three days later in gunfire and explosions. 350 people—half of them children—were killed in the violence. Leslie Woodhead looks at what happened in a new documentary, ...
Combat Morality
Major Peter Kilner is a professor of philosophy and ethics at West Point. He argues that officers should help prepare their troops for the complicated thoughts and emotions that come with killing in combat. He joins us now with Wall Street Journal reporter Greg Jaffe to talk about how soldiers ...
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