Freedom's Roots

Hour 1:           How do kinship-based and tribally-organized societies compare to current and more typically Western ideas about governance? We’ll talk this hour with Mark Weiner, professor of law at Rutgers University and author of the new book “The Rule of the Clan: What an Ancient Form of Social Organization Reveals About the Future of Individual Freedom” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013).