March 17, 2005 Anatol Lieven, author of America Right or Wrong, on Wolfowitz, "democracy," and Bush II * Jennifer Gordon, author of Suburban Sweatshops, on organizing immigrant workers on Long Island
March 10, 2005 Artist and writer Sunny Taylor on art, disability, and being censored by NPR * Naila Kabeer, author of The Power to Choose, on women, development, and the unwisdom of labor standards in trade agreements [Musical note: about halfway into the show is an excerpt from "Democracy Suspends Relevance," by "Jed Whitaker," a piece that includes samples from the interview with Slavoj Zizek broadcast in April 2003.]
March 3, 2005 Tamara Draut of Demos on debt * Steve Fraser, author of Every Man a Speculator, on the cultural and political history of Wall Street in American life
February 24, 2005 Michael Perelman, author of The Perverse Economy, on how markets misvalue everything * Elizabeth Warren of Harvard Law School on bankruptcy (especially the medical contribution - paper here)
February 17, 2005 Jennifer Washburn, author of University Inc., on the corporatization of higher ed * Jon Wiener, author of Historians in Trouble, on academic scandals (and Ward Churchill)
February 10, 2005 MARATHON SPECIAL: E sther Kaplan, author of With God on Their Side, on the Christian right * Tariq Ali, author of Bush in Babylon, on the Iraq election and Bush's re-election * Noam Chomsky on the state of things --
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