A Climate for Change?

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Al Gore tells us why he feels today’s political climate is hostile to reason. But first, the executive director of the ACLU talks about protecting constitutional freedoms. And we hear about three restored films from the cult director Alejandro Jodorowsky. Plus, Lesley Dormen’s new novel imagines the life a middle-aged New York woman.

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