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Understanding Evil
Today starts out with open phones - Leonard asks listeners to share their thoughts on whether or not "evil" is a useful word, particularly in today's current political climate. Then scholars David Kang and Victor Cha evaluate the U.S. approach to dealing with nuclear North Korea. Chess enthusiast J.C. Hallman investigates the international chess subculture. And Anne Rice shares Blood Chronicles, the latest in the Vampire Lestat saga.
Evil Talk
It's open phones. Leonard talks with listeners about the
nature of evil.
Victor Cha and David Kang
Professors Victor Cha and David Kang, top experts on Korean
politics, assess the magnitude of the nuclear threat from
North Korea and the U.S.’s approach to dealing with the
threat. Their new book is Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement
Strategies.
Thursday Oct 30th at 4 pm
Weatherhead East Asia Institute
Columbia University
420 West 118th St
J.C. Hallman
Chess: more than just a game?? J.C. Hallman says
it “represent[s] intimacy, economics, politics, theories
bleeding from rhetoric to outrageous science." His book is
The Chess Artist: Genius, Obsession, and the World's
Oldest Game.
Anne Rice
Anne Rice continues her Vampire Chronicles with Blood Canticles. This latest has Vampire Lestat struggling with his vampirism and yearning
for goodness, purity, and love.
Saturday November 1st, 4 Book Review, Huntington, 4pm
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