Heather Gerken, Skelley Wright professor of constitutional law at Yale University, and who has appeared on PBS, testified to congress, written numerous articles, etc., here discusses campaign finance reform and the recent Supreme Court decision that strikes down an Arizona...

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Craig Barnes: Heather Gerken

Former US Senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart explores the complexities of US withdrawal from Afghanistan, the consequences of our longest military engagements in history, the need to investigate how we got into these wars, and the desperate dysfunction in...

Craig Barnes: Gary Hart (3rd)

Andy Schmookler, author of The Parable of the Tribes and other examinations of American political thought, speculates on the nature of evil, or, to put it differently, the great force for lying, torture, and self interest that has taken possession...

Craig Barnes: Andy Schmookler

Terry O’Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, discusses the package of legislation that has passed the US House of Representatives during the first session of Congress this year.  From making abortions more expensive, or by slashing programs that...

Craig Barnes: Terry O'Neill

Ben Barber, the author of 17 books on democracy and sometime advisor to a Libyan foundation to establish democracy, evaluates the American military role in Libya, the violations of international law that occur when Moamar Kaddafi himself is targeted, and...

Craig Barnes: Ben Barber (3rd)

Former US Senator Gary Hart discusses the origins of the American republic that at its origins meant public responsibility for citizenship and civic virtue.  “We must earn our rights by the performance of our duties,” quotes Hart, lamenting the loss...

Craig Barnes: Gary Hart (2nd)

Jerome Bernstein, Jungian psychoanalyst, considers the Biblical and historical origins and the deep roots in story that produces the chaos we are in today.  The interplay between justice and equity or moral and ethics leads to a discussion of wisdom...

Craig Barnes: Jerome Bernstein (3rd)

The Santa Fe Girls School is a private school for girls in the 6th, 7th and 8th grades, that requires of its entering students only that they have a desire to learn.  In this program four eight graders describe their...

Craig Barnes: Santa Fe Girls School

Afghanistan is a country in cultural transition, caught in war still after 30 years, and is viewed in this conversation by Shoaib Rahim, an Afghan Fulbright scholar who has spent the last year at Duke University. Rahim addresses the contradictions...

Craig Barnes: Shoaib Rahim

William Hogeland gives us stories of the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence that few of us have heard, including the critical days of May 1776 when mechanics, small shop keepers and privates in the militia banded together with...

Craig Barnes: Bill Hogeland

Dana Freyer faces the ambiguities in America's presence in Afghanistan from the standpoint of one whose organization Global Partnership for Afghanistan has planted ten million trees, recreated irrigation systems, taught chicken inoculation and cold storage, and invovled more than 175,000...

Craig Barnes: Dana Freyer

Elaine Pagels has found in the Nag Hammadi gospels a message of personal transformation and clarity that would make a modern psychologist proud.  As the nation's most celebrated interpreter of these fourth century scrolls, Pagels discusses the contrast between the...

Craig Barnes: Elaine Pagels

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