Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Will we be swallowed up by a black hole?

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It is the largest machine ever built by man. It is 16.5 miles long, housed in a circular tunnel 300 feet below the ground. It is the the c...
Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Waiting for SUPERMAN

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Most of you have seen or at least heard about the movie " Waiting for Superman ." The award winning documentary, has now spawned ...
Monday, October 11, 2010

The Founding Father

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We are currently in a season embroiled in partisan politics. As such, it's more important than ever to understand our Republic and its ...
Thursday, October 7, 2010

Dreaming in Chinese

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For most us when we think about China, it's in the context of 1.3 billion Chinese people as a kind of monolithic nation and culture. We...
Monday, October 4, 2010

Washington's Scandal Culture

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The history of muckraking journalism is very much the history of America. Our founders clearly understood the importance of a free press i...
Friday, October 1, 2010

Badasses

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Football today is big business. But back in the 1970's there were a group of guys that were a combination of castoffs, psychos and geniu...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

In Praise of Adoption

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The subject of adoption has, for too long, been something we've had trouble talking about. While the rate of adoption has been declinin...
Monday, September 27, 2010

The Christian Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy

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In his previous book The Family , Jeff Sharlet examined a powerful, secretive group in Washington, D.C spawning a new kind of unaccountable ...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Money and the Decline of American Leadership

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Clearly America's role in the world is changing. The American Century, declared by Henry Luce, seventy years ago, may have long since r...
Wednesday, September 22, 2010

America's Great Migration

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Every so often a books comes along that reminds us of why narrative history matters. Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson h...
Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Somebody Else's Century

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T.S. Eliot wrote that "we shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began...and know...
Monday, September 20, 2010

Share and Share Alike

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From our earliest days of pre-school and kindergarten, we learn the importance of sharing. Yet somehow, along the way, sharing is replac...
Saturday, September 18, 2010

Designer Genes

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Last week, on the program, we talked about the ability to sequence your own genome and what that might mean for the future understanding of ...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

Your Genome for a $1000

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Imagine the possibility of having a complete picture of your genes. You would know any predisposition for disease, drugs could be created f...
Friday, September 10, 2010

Why is there something?

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It's one of the most fundamental, yet controversial questions of our time, or of any time. How did the universe begin? Where did the uni...
Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Why Margaret Thatcher matters

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The US has long shared a very special and sometimes symbiotic relationship with Great Britain. Tony Blair, in his new memoir, talks of his ...
Thursday, September 2, 2010

Truth, the whole truth and nothing but....

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The brilliance of language is that it both enables us to communicate effortlessness, transport ideas and create poetry. Yet at the same tim...
Monday, August 30, 2010

August 28, 1963: A dream awakened

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Even though Glen Beck and Sarah Palin tried to soil it, this past weekend marked the forty-seventh anniversary of the March on Washington. ...