When I talk about the relentless push of Big Business, the Right, and the GOP toward our current crisis of inequality, injustice, minority rule, and an inability to solve problems, I usually start around 1970. Today’s guests go back to the early 20th century. I talk with NAOMI ORESKES and ERIK CONWAY, authors together of the best-selling and Important MERCHANTS OF DOUBT: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming, about their new book, THE BIG MYTH: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market. Learn more at thebigmythbook.com
DISRUPTIVE: SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY Pamela Silver & George Church
Free Forum Q&A - SYSTEMS THINKING (1) FRITJOF CAPRA, author of several books including The Tao of Physics; The Turning Point & (2) NORA BATESON, director AN ECOLOGY OF MIND doc re her late father, Gregory Bateson
Free Forum Q&A - JOHN WARNER One of the founders of Green Chemistry Can we have progress without pollution?
Free Forum Q7A - (1) BEN SKINNER, A CRIME SO MONSTROUS: Face to Face with Modern Day Slavery & (2) GABOR MATE M.D. IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS: Close Encounters With Addiction
Free Forum Q&A - DAVE ZIRIN the Nation Magazine's first sports editor GAME OVER: How Politics Has Turned the Sports World Upside Down
Free Forum Q&A - (1) TEMPLE GRANDIN, one of the most accomplished adults with autism, designer of livestock handling facilities, author, ANIMALS MAKE US HUMAN (2) WALTER ISAACSON, head of the Aspen Institute, author, EINSTEIN: HIS LIFE AND UNIV
Free Forum Q&A - TIM RYAN Congressman, author, A MINDFUL NATION: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, Recapture American Spirit & WINIFRED GALLAGHER RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life
Free Forum Q&A - (1) GEORGE McGOVERN: A Politician of Principle Senator, 1972 Democratic Presidential Candidate (2) ANDREW BACEVICH, THE LIMITS OF POWER: The End of American Exceptionalism
ROBERT COLES Harvard professor, author of over 60 books winner, Pulitzer Prize, MacArthur Award, Presidential Medal of Freedom
Free Forum Q&A - DANIEL ELLSBERG, Author The Most Dangerous Man in America
Free Forum Q&A: DON BARLETT & JIM STEELE – The BETRAYAL of the AMERICAN DREAM
Q&A: BRUCE LIPTON, Ph.D., and STEVE BHAERMAN (comic), Co Author - SPONTANEOUS EVOLUTION
Q&A: AMY BACH, Author – ORDINARY INJUSTICE
Q&A w/ Author, GEORGE PACKER – THE UNWINDING: Inner History of New America
Free Forum Q&A - THOMAS GEOGHEGAN WERE YOU BORN ON THE WRONG CONTINENT? How the European Model Can Help You Get a Life
Free Forum Q&A: RALPH NADER THE SEVENTEEN SOLUTIONS Bold Ideas for Our American Future
Free Forum Q&A: ATUL GAWANDE – Surgeon / Teacher / Author – The Checklist Manifesto
Free Forum Q&A - ROBERT WRIGHT, author, THE MORAL ANIMAL and NON-ZERO We talk about THE EVOLUTION OF GOD.
Free Forum: MICHAEL LEWIS MONEYBALL; THE BLIND SIDE; THE BIG SHORT Defines financial terms that led to the Crash
Free Forum Q&A - DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST: Five Big Ideas For Transforming Children's Lives And America's Future
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