If you're using your credit card to buy Christmas presents, get ready for a holiday hangover. We look into how credit card companies may be exploiting the holidays to turn a higher profit. Plus, some music from the McGarrigles, and then 80 years' worth of New Yorker mgazines. Also: the role of liberalism in post-9/11 America.
It's Always Christmas for the Credit Card Companies
Consumers have few protections when it comes to credit cards. Many of us pull out the plastic a lot during the holidays. Leonard talks to Gail Hillebrand, a lawyer for the Consumers Union.
» www.CreditCardReform.org
» www.CreditCardReform.org
McGarrigle Hour
Canadian natives Kate and Anna McGarrigle have been performing their style folk, French Canadian ballads, waltzes, and ragtime music for over three decades. Their new album is The McGarrigle Christmas Hour, and they'll be performing at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 21. More info about that performance here.
80 Years, 4,109 Issues
Editor David Remnick shares The Complete New Yorker. It's a volume of 80 years' worth of issues of that magazine - every article, every cartoon, every illustration, every advertisement, exactly as it appeared on the printed page, in full color.
» Book information on newyorker.com
» Book information on newyorker.com
The Left Learns
Todd Gitlin's new book is The Intellectuals and the Flag. He writes that "the tragedy of the left is that, having achieved an unprecedented victory in helping stop an appalling war, it then proceeded to commit suicide."
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