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‘Ecstatic Nation’ 26 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
“Ecstatic Nation.” A new book looks at the passions and polarization that drove America to civil war. Guest Brenda Wineapple, author of “Ecstatic Nation: Confidence, Crisis, and Compromise, 1848-18...
Chemical Weapons And The Moral Stakes In Syria 26 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
The moral stakes in Syria and military options after another massacre and chemical weapons charges. Guests Jonathan Tepperman, managing editor at Foreign Affairs Magazine. Guest columnist at the Int...
The Choice To Be Childfree 23 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Childless by choice. We look at the trend of couples saying “no thanks” to having kids. In 1970, just one in ten American women never bore a child. Today, it’s one in five. More and more American ...
Week In The News: Syria Horror, Manning Sentence, NSA 23 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Nerve gas charges and scenes of horror in Syria. Bradley Manning gets 35 years. More trouble for the NSA. Our weekly news roundtable goes behind the headlines. Hideous images out of Syria this wee...
Tim Draper On Silicon Valley And Entrepreneurship 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
We check in on Silicon Valley and the way ahead with heavyweight venture capitalist and tech visionary Tim Draper. It’s been a rough decade for venture capital. In the 1990s, venture capitalists – “...
Jeff Bezos, The Washington Post, And The Future Of Newspapers 22 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Amazon’s Jeff Bezos buys The Washington Post. We look at the future of newspapers as they merge with the digital world. It was a bolt from the blue this month when Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bez...
John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme’ 21 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
A deep, new look at the mythos of one of the greatest albums of all time – John Coltrane’s “A Love Supreme.” We listen back. Jazz great John Coltrane did not mince words in the liner notes to his mas...
Congressman John Lewis And The 50th Anniversary Of The March On Washington 21 Aug 2013 | 07:21 pm
Civil rights icon and U.S. Rep. John Lewis joins us to talk about the 50 year anniversary of the March on Washington — and race in American today. Public events don’t get bigger in American history t...
The Humanities Studies Debate 20 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Plus, in the 21st century economy, does a humanities major still make sense for college students? We hear the arguments. Guests Ed Conard, author of the Washington Post essay “We Don’t Need More Hu...
Bloodshed And Crisis In Egypt 20 Aug 2013 | 07:00 pm
Egypt in crisis. We look at the latest news and the deep implications for the region and the United States. Guests Shadi Hamid, director of research for the Brookings Doha Center. (@shadihamid) Mo...
