What is it like inside Guantanamo Bay’s U.S. detention center? We’ll spend this hour with Mahvish Rukhsana Khan who writes about the prison and the people inside in her new book “My Guantanamo Diary: The Detainees and the Stories They Told Me” (Public Affairs, 2008).
Where is the line between a government’s need for secrecy and the public’s right to know? Our guest this hour stood on that line for three years. Former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan will join us to discuss his book “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington’s Culture of Deception” (Public Affairs, […]
Is there a problem with America’s prisons? According to our guest this hour, Jennifer Gonnerman, U.S. prisons hold “1 in 100 American adults” and it’s a money-losing business. She’ll join us to discuss her feature story “SLAMMED: Inside America’s Broken – and Broke – Prison System” which appears in the July + August issue of […]
Does the stuff we buy really define who we are? We’ll talk this hour with New York Times Magazine “Consumed” columnist Rob Walker. His new book is “Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are” (Random House, 2008).
What will it take to re-cast human society in a more sustainable model? We’ll spend this hour with Peter Senge, MIT senior lecturer and co-author of the new book “The Necessary Revolution: How Individuals and Organizations Are Working Together to Create a Sustainable World” (Doubleday, 2008).
What is the most enduring photographic image of the conflict in Iraq? Is it an image of a wounded soldier or an orphaned child, or is it the photo of a hooded Abu Ghraib detainee, balanced on a box with wires connected to his body? We talked in May with Academy Award-winning documentarian Errol Morris. […]
Is the news getting you down? We’ll find out what TV news is all about this hour with former New York news anchor and media scholar, Steve Powers. Powers has recently revised his classic, written along with Neil Postman, “How to Watch TV News” (Penguin, 2008).
We’ll see lots of ultra-modern Beijing on TV next month. What we probably won’t see are the centuries-old hutong neighborhoods which are being destroyed at a record pace to make way for new development. We’ll explore them this hour with Michael Meyer, author of “The Last Days of Old Beijing: Life in the Vanishing Backstreets […]
221 years ago, a group of men gathered in Philadelphia to frame our nation’s government. What was the process like? We’ll look back this hour with David O. Stewart, author of “The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution” (Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 2008).
Regardless of the product it represents, it’s probably the brand that we’ll identify with and remember to look for next time. Our guest this hour, Lucas Conley, writes about the phenomenon in his new book “OBD – Obsessive Branding Disorder: The Illusion of Business and the Business of Illusion” (Public Affairs, 2008).
