08/27/10 – John Hughes on Islamic Extremism: Yemen, the New Israel-Palestine Talks, and the New York Mosque (First 30min.)

John Hughes is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former editor of the Christian Science Monitor. He is currently a professor of international communications at Brigham Young University and writes a nationally syndicated column for the Monitor.

08/27/10 – Dr. Dale Archer on Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Chilean Miners, Returning Vets, and Psychedelic Drugs (Second 30min.)

Dr. Dale Archer is a Medical Doctor, board-certified Psychiatrist and Distinguished Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Archer is a media veteran with over two decades of experience. 

08/20/10 – Jeff Krehely on Shifting Attitudes: The Silence around Prop 8, Gay and the Global Change (First 30min.)

Jeff Krehely is the Director of the LGBT Research and Communications Project at The American Progress Center.

08/20/10 – Dr. Zeyno Baran on Islamphobia (Second 30min.) 

Zeyno Baran is a senior fellow and director of the Center for Eurasian Policy at the Hudson Institute. Before joining Hudson , Baran directed the International Security and Energy Programs at the Nixon Center. 

08/13/10 – Dr. Terry Moore on Education, Illegal Immigration & School Violence (First 30min.)

Dr. Terry M. Moe is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a member of the Institution's Koret Task Force on K-12 education, and the William Bennett Munro Professor of political science at Stanford University.

08/13/10 – Tanya Gendelman on Drug legalization, Gay Marriage & the Fourteenth Amendment (Second 30min.)

Tanya Gendelman is a New York based Attorney. She focuses in personal injury, medical malpractice, immigration, and consumer legal issues. She has been seen on Fox News's Geraldo, Fox Strategy Room, and radio all over the USA.

8/06/10 – Russell A. Berman on Anti-Semitism and Jihad In Europe(First 30min.)

Dr. Russell Berman is a Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Professor of German Studies and of Comparative Literature, Chair of Comparative Literature Department, Director of the Introduction to the Humanities (IHUM) Program, Senior Fellow, by courtesy, at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and the Hoover Institution, Editor of TELOS at Stanford University.

8/06/10 – Jane LeMond-Alvarez on Child Cruelty (Second 30min.)

Jane LeMond-Alvarez is a Foster Parent, Author, and Child Advocate. She is a child abuse expert and former crime analyst from the Ventura California Police Department.  She is a published author of the true stories: Blinders and Where's Mario. She is also one of the founders of The Injustice Files an organization dedicated to protecting children from child abuse.

07/30/10 – Ethan Mordden on Arts and American Culture: The Extinction of Critics, New Yorkism, and Diversity (First 30min.)

Ethan Mordden's stories, novels, essays, and non- fiction books cover a wide range of topics. He has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times. Amongst his books are Buddies and Ziegfeld: The Man Who Invented Show Business. In all his work, Ethan Mordden has been a pioneer among writers who bring their personal experience and even their personalities into discussion.  Ethan's latest book will be released in September, The Guest List: How Manhattan Defined American Sophistication---from the Algonquin Round Table to Truman Capote's Ball

07/30/10 – Dr. Robert Stolorow on Trauma and Human Existence: BP Disaster, Holocaust Survivors and Nuclear Threats (Second 30min.)

Dr. Stolorow is a Founding Faculty Member and Training Supervising Analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Los Angeles; a Founding Faculty Member at the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, New York City; and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine.  He is the author of many books and articles on Psychoanalysis including, Trauma and Human Existence: Autobiographical, Psychoanalytic, and Philosophical Reflections.

07/23/10 – Dr. Charles E. Phelps on What You Should Know About Our Health Care System: Even if the Answers Make You Sick (First 30min.)

Charles E. Phelps is a professor at the University of Rochester. Dr. Phelps is a nationally prominent health economist, author of the textbook, Health Economics, fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research, member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Working Group on Health Care Policy. Before his twenty-five years at the UR, he served for fourteen years as the senior staff economist at the RAND Corporation. His new book is, Eight Questions You Should Ask About Our Health Care System (Even if the Answers Make You Sick)

07/23/10 – Dr. Nadim Karim on Racism, Domestic Violence and Celebrity Incarceration: Shirley Sherrod, Mel Gibson & Lindsay Lohan (Second 30min.)

Dr. Nadim Karim is the Clinical Director of KPsyC. He completed his Ph.D. in Forensic Psychology from the University of Cambridge, England (2001). He also has a Masters Degree in Criminology from the University of Cambridge, England (1997), and Masters Degrees in Criminal Justice from the University of Reading, England (1994).

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07/16/10 – Stewart Baker on Homeland Security (First 30min.)

Stewart Abercrombie Baker was the First Assistant Secretary for Policy at the United States Department of Homeland Security under the Presidency of George W. Bush. Stewart Baker is the former General Counsel of the National Security Agency and author of the book, The Limits of Trust: Cryptography, Governments, and Electronic Commerce. Earlier in his career, Baker was Law Clerk to John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice.

07/16/10 – Paul Gregory on The Modern Russian Psyche and the Spy Exchange (Second 30min.)

Paul R. Gregory is a Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Cullen Professor of Economics at the University of Houston. He is also a research professor at the German Institute for Economic Research in Berlin.  Mr. Gregory is Chair of the International Advisory Board of the Kiev School of Economics.

07/09/10 – Sam Fulwood III on The Justice Department vs. Arizona: Immigration and the Federal Government

Sam Fulwood is a Senior Fellow at American Progress, where he analyzes the influence of national politics and domestic policies on communities of color across the United States.  Fulwood is the author of two books, Waking from the Dream: My Life in the Black Middle Class (Anchor, 1996) and Full of It: Strong Words and Fresh Thinking for Cleveland (Gray & Company, 2004).

07/02/10 – Dr. Joshua Cohen on Democracy & Personal Liberty: Immigration Reform and Elena Kagan (First 30min.)

Joshua Cohen is a professor of law, political science, and philosophy at Stanford University, and director of the Program on Global Justice at FSI.  

07/02/10 – Dr. Peter N. Maduro on Psychological Trauma and the BP Oil Disaster (Second 30min.)

Dr. Peter Maduro is a clinical and forensic psychologist with a private psychotherapy practice in Santa Monica, California. He has a special interest and expertise in understanding emotional trauma. 

06/25/10 – Dr. Randy Noblitt on Religion and Ritual Abuse (First 30min.)

Dr. Randy Noblitt is a clinical psychologist, author, and educator and has acted as consultant, expert witness, and fact witness in civil and criminal cases involving allegations of child abuse, ritual abuse, and cult affiliation. 
 

06/25/10 – Dr. Alex Yufik on Child Murder and Sex Offenders (Second 30min.)

Dr. Alex Yufik is a licensed clinical psychologist and a licensed attorney. His academic work has been published in the American Journal of Forensic Psychology, and his legal work has been written about in While Innocents Slept, a book by Adrian Havill.  In his private practice, Dr. Yufik conducts forensic evaluations in criminal and civil cases such as, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility, sex offender risk assessment, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and psychological injury.

Dr. Rush Rehm is an actor, director, and professor of drama and of classics. He publishes in the areas of Greek tragedy and contemporary politics. He is the Artistic Director of Stanford Summer Theater (SST), a professional theater that presents a dramatic festival, film series, and symposium based on a major playwright each summer. An activist in the peace and justice movements, Rush is involved in anti-war and anti-imperialist actions, and in solidarity campaigns with Palestine, Cuba, East Timor, and Central America.

06/18/10 – Dr. Stephen Diamond on Murder & Violence (Seconf 30min.)

Dr. Diamond is a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist practicing in Los Angeles, the author of Anger, Madness, and the Daimonic: The Psychological Genesis of Violence, Evil, and Creativity, and contributor to the bestselling anthology Meeting the Shadow: The Hidden Power of the Dark Side of Human Nature. He is an active member of the Approved Panel of Psychiatrists and Psychologists for the Los Angeles County Superior Court's Criminal Division, conducting forensic evaluations of criminal defendants charged with a broad range of offenses, including murder.

06/11/10 – Alida Brill on Women in the Media: Meg Whitman, Lady Gaga and Helen Thomas (First 30min.)

Alida Brill is an author, social critic and advocate for women and girls. Her work and expertise span diverse topics. She has written and spoken about the personal and public issues surrounding women and chronic illness, and questions of medical privacy. Her latest book is Dancing at the River's Edge: A Patient and Her Doctor Negotiate a Life With Chronic Illness.

06/11/10 – Robert Weiss, LCSW on Sexual Addiction: Celebrity, Pornography and the Internet (Second 30min.)

Robert Weiss (LCSW, CSAT) is Founding Director of The Sexual Recovery Institute in Los Angeles. An acknowledged writer of sexual addiction literature, he is co-author of Cybersex Exposed: Simple Fantasy to Obsession, Treating Sexual Addiction in The Handbook of Addictive Disorders, Cruise Control: Understanding Sex Addiction in Gay Men , and co-author of Untangling the Web: Sex, Porn and Fantasy Addiction in the Internet Age.

06/04/10 - Dr. Shoshana Bennett on The Mother's Act: Postpartum Depression (First 30min.)

Shoshana Bennett, Ph.D. ("Dr. Shosh") is the author of Postpartum Depression For Dummies and co- author of Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression. Her latest book Pregnant on Prozac was released on January 10, 2009.  She's also created guided imagery audios that are specifically focused on helping moms take care of themselves. National TV shows including "20/20¡å and "The Doctors" feature Dr. Shosh as the postpartum expert and news stations consult her.

06/04/10 - Dr. Priya Satia on The Middle East, Paranoia and Violence(Second 30min.)

Dr. Priya Satia is currently Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. Her recent book Spies in Arabia: The Great War and the Cultural Foundations of the Britain's Covert Empire in the Middle East, has won three major prizes, including the prestigious Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association (2009). Her work can also be found in the American Historical Review, Past and Present, the Financial Times, the Nation, and elsewhere.

05/28/10 - Dr. Andrew Sabl on - Political Ethics: DADT, BP Oil Spill & Immigration(First 30min.)

Dr. Andrew Sabl is an Associate Professor (tenured) of Public Policy and Political Science UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1997 and has taught at Williams College and Vanderbilt University. His research interests include democratic and constitutional theory, political ethics, toleration and pluralism, and the history of political thought.

05/28/10 - Paul Armentano on Marijuana Policy (Second 30min.)

Paul Armentano is the Deputy Director of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML) and the NORML Foundation in Washington, D.C. Armentano is an expert in the field of marijuana policy, health, and pharmacology, and has served as a consultant for Health Canada, the Canadian Public Health Association, and The Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts.

05/21/10 - Sue Kapitanoff, Ph.D. on Prejudice (First 30min.)

Dr. Kapitanoff is chair of the Department of Behavioral Sciences and former Dean of Student and Undergraduate Affairs at American Jewish University in Los Angeles. She teaches courses related to prejudice and prejudice reduction and has been Director of the University's annual Prejudice Awareness Summit for middle school students for the last 12 years.

05/21/10 - Phillip Margolin on The Psychology of the Supreme Court (Second 30min.)

Philip Margolin is an Attorney and Best Selling Author. He has written fourteen New York Times Best Sellers including his latest novel Supreme Justice.  He is the winner of the distinguished Northwest Writer Award. As a criminal defense attorney he has handled over thirty murder cases and has tried cases at the Supreme Court. 

05/14/10 - Daniel J. Weiss on National Security, Oil Dependence and Environmental Damage (First 30 min)

Daniel J. Weiss is a Senior Fellow and the Director of Climate Strategy at American Progress. He was a senior vice president with M+R Strategic Services, where he oversaw collaborative campaign efforts by 15 major national environmental organizations working to oppose anti-environmental legislation.  Mr. Weiss served for 16 years at the Sierra Club, first as a Washington representative, then as director of the Environmental Quality Program, and for the final eight years as political director.

05/14/10 - Nina Hachigian Has America Lost its Mojo? (Second 30min.)

Nina Hachigian is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise and is also the author of a foreign policy Blog called Pivotal Power on the PBS World Focus website.  Ms. Hachigian was a senior political scientist at RAND Corporation and served as the director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy for four years. From 1998 to 1999, Hachigian was on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House.

5/07/10 ¨C Dr. Tomás Jiménez on Civil Rights: Identity, Immigration and Arizona (First 30min.)

Dr. Tomás Jiménez is an assistant professor of sociology at Stanford University. He is also an Irvine Fellow at the New America Foundation. His new book is Replenished Ethnicity: Mexican Americans, Immigration and Identity . Dr. Jiménez was the American Sociological Association Congressional Fellow in the office of Rep. Michael Honda (CA-15), where he served as a legislative aide for immigration, veteran's affairs, housing, and election reform.  His writing on policy has appeared in reports for the Immigration Policy Center, and he has written opinion- editorials on the topic of immigrant assimilation in several major newspapers

5/07/10 ¨C Dan Woods on Civil Rights: Don't Ask, Don't Tell (Second 30min.)

Mr. Woods practices complex business litigation throughout the United States.  He Represents the Log Cabin Republicans, a nonprofit organization, in challenge to the government's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which prevents gays and lesbians from openly revealing their sexuality or risk discharge. The lawsuit seeks a ruling that the policy violates constitutional protections of due process, equal protection, and freedom of speech.

4/30/10 ¨C Dr. Geoffrey Robinson on Mass Violence & Genocide (First 30min.)

Dr. Geoffrey Robinson is professor of history. His books include The Dark Side of Paradise: Political Violence in Bali and If You Leave Us Here, We Will Die: How Genocide Was Stopped in East Timor .  He had worked for six years at Amnesty International's headquarters in London and he served as a political affairs officer with the United Nations in Dili, East Timor.

4/30/10 Dr. Joyce Appleby on Capitalism, Psychology and the Recession (Second 30min.)

Dr. Joyce Appleby is one of Americas most distinguished Historians. She taught for many years at UCLA and is Past President of The American Historical Association and the Organization for American Historians.  She is winner of the 2009 Arthur P. Schlesinger Jr. Award for writings in American History from the society of American Historians. Her new book is The Relentless Revolution: A History of Capitalism.

4/23/10 ¨C John Otis on Trauma & Violence in Latin America (First 30min.)

Born in Minnesota, John Otis has worked as a reporter in Latin America for more than two decades, and served for eight years as South America Bureau Chief for the Houston Chronicle.  His 2001 investigation of Colombia's FARC guerrillas was honored by the Overseas Press Club as the best reporting out of Latin America for that year. He now reports from Colombia for Time magazine, GlobalPost, and the BBC/PRI radio program The World, and lives in Bogotá.

4/23/10 ¨C Dr. Roger E.A. Farmer on Economic Psychology(Second 30min.)

Roger E. A. Farmer is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Economics department at UCLA. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Reserve Bank of Australia, the European Central Bank and the Bank of England. In 2000, he was awarded the University of Helsinki medal. He is a member of the Financial Times Economists Forum, a specialist on macroeconomic theory and the author of six books and numerous scholarly articles in leading economic journals. His two new books on the current economic crisis, How the Economy Works: Confidence, Crashes and Self-Fulfilling Prophecies (March 2010), written for the general reader and specialist alike, and Expectations, Employment and Prices (March 2010), written for academics and practicing economists, are published by Oxford University Press. 

04/09/10 ¨C David Balto on The Psychology of Competition (First 30min.)

David Balto is a Senior Fellow at American Progress focusing on competition policy, intellectual property law, and health care. He has over 20 years of experience as an antitrust attorney in the private sector, the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice, and the Federal Trade Commission.  From 1995 to 2001 he was the policy director of the Bureau of Competition of the Federal Trade Commission and attorney advisor to Chairman Robert Pitofsky. Mr. Balto regularly testifies before Congress, state legislatures, the FTC, and DOJ.

04/09/10 ¨C Dr. Shanto Iyengar on Media & Political Psychology (Second 30min.)

Dr. Shanto Iyengar holds a joint appointment as the Harry and Norman Chandler Chair in Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Dr. Iyengar is also a senior fellow (by courtesy) at the Hoover Institution. He is the author of several books including Media Politics: A Citizen's Guide, Going Negative: How Political Advertisements Shrink and Polarize the Electorate, Explorations in Political Psychology , and News That Matters: Television and American Opinion.  

04/02/10 ¨C Kathleen Norris on Acedia, Depression and Modern Society (First 30min.)

Kathleen Norris is an award-winning poet, writer, and author of the New York Times bestsellers The Cloister Walk and Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith and her new book is ACEDIA & ME: A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer's Life.  A popular speaker, she is an editor at large at The Christian Century. She is a recipient of grants from the Bush and Guggenheim foundations; she has been in residence twice at the Collegeville Institute at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, and is an oblate of Assumption Abbey in North Dakota.

04/02/10 ¨C Malcolm Potts on Sex and War (Second 30min.)

Malcolm Potts is the Bixby Professor at the University of California, Berkeley. A Graduate of Cambridge University and trained as an obstetrician and research biologist, his profession has taken him all over the world. Potts led a medical team into Bangladesh immediately after the War of Liberation in 1972, and has worked in many other war-torn places including Vietnam and Cambodia, Afghanistan, Egypt, the Gaza Strip, Liberia and Angola. His most recent books are Queen Victoria's Gene and Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality and Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World.

03/26/10 ¨C Joe Navarro on Terrorism, Counterintelligence & Behavioral Assessment (First 30min.)

Joe Navarro had worked as an FBI special agent in the areas of counterintelligence and behavioral assessment for 25 years. A founding member of the National Security Division's Behavioral Analysis Program, he is on the adjunct faculty at Saint Leo University, the Institute for Intergovernmental Research and remains a consultant to the intelligence community.  He is the author of several books including Louder Than Words: Take Your Career from Average to Exceptional with the Hidden Power of Nonverbal Intelligence.

03/26/10 ¨C Dr. Mark Peterson on Health Care Reform (Second 30 min.)

A specialist on American national institutions and a political scientist, Dr. Peterson was the editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. As an American Political Science Association Congressional Fellow, he served as a Legislative Assistant for Health Policy in the Office of U.S. Senator Tom Daschle.

03/19/10 ¨C Dr. Ted Glasser on The State of Investigative Reporting (First 30min.)

Dr. Ted Glasser's is a Professor, Author and Journalist. He had served as a vice president and chair of the Mass Communication Division of the International Communication Association and has held visiting appointments as a Senior Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel; as the Wee Kim Wee Professor of Communication Studies at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; and at the University of Tampere, Finland.

03/19/10 ¨C Glenn Frankel on South Africa and the Middle East (Second 30min.)

Pulitzer Prize winner Glenn Frankel worked for 27 years at the Washington Post as a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent. Some of his reporting assignments have included being a foreign correspondent in Southern Africa covering famine, development issues and the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, the aftermath of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the political demise of Margaret Thatcher and the Gulf War, the O.J. Simpson trial, the Oklahoma City bombing, invasion of Iraq War and the Arab-Israeli conflict and the London transit system bombings in July 2005. In 1986 he became Jerusalem bureau chief, winning the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for "balanced and sensitive reporting" of the first Palestinian intifada.

03/12/10 ¨C Dr. Daniel Walker Howe on Transforming America (First 30min.)

Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Dan Howe is a University of California and a Oxford University Professor Emeritus. He won the Pulitzer Prize for What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815- 1848 (2007). He is also author of Making the American Self: Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (1997), and he intends his next book to be about the U.S.-Mexican War.

03/12/10 ¨C Dr. John Gross on Plastic Surgery Abuse (Second 30min.)

John E. Gross, M.D., FACS practices the full spectrum of plastic and reconstructive surgery. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in Los Angeles. He was formerly Chief of the section of Plastic Surgery at the Los Angeles + USC Medical Center from 1994-2006. Dr. Gross is certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery. He also volunteers with the non-profit organization Operation Smile. He has performed surgery on children with congenital deformities in Africa and South America.

03/05/10 ¨C James Grippando on Psychological Thrillers (First 30min.)

James Grippando is a New York Times Bestselling Author of sixteen previous Novels, including When Darkness Falls (2007); Lying with Strangers (2007); Last Call (2008); Born to Run (2008); and Intent to Kill (2009) and his new book, Money to Burn ( 2010).  His books have been translated into over twenty six languages. He is also a trial lawyer in living in Florida.

03/05/10 ¨C Dr. Fred Turner on Computers, Information Ideology and American Culture(Second 30min.)

Dr. Fred Turner is the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Communication at Stanford University. He is the author of From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism and Echoes of Combat: The Vietnam War in American Memory. Dr. Turner has also worked for ten years as a journalist and written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Phoenix and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Nature.

02/26/10 ¨C Joel Brinkley on Political Psychology (First 30min.)

02/05/10 ¨C Maggie Jackson on Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age (First 30min.)

Maggie Jackson is an award-winning author and journalist known for her penetrating coverage of U.S. social issues. Her latest book, Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age, details the steep costs of our current epidemic deficits of attention, while revealing the astonishing scientific discoveries that can help us rekindle our powers of focus in a world of speed and overload.

02/05/10 ¨C Barbara Oakley, Ph.D. on Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend (Second 30min.)

Barbara Oakley, PhD, has been dubbed a female Indiana Jones, her writing combines worldwide adventure with solid research expertise. Among other adventures, she has worked as a Russian translator on Soviet trawlers in the Bering Sea, served as radio operator at the South Pole Station in Antarctica, and risen from private to regular army captain in the U.S. Army.

01/29/10 ¨C Peggy Rajski on Sexuality, Adolescence, Spirituality & The Movies (First 30min.)

Academy Award winner Peggy Rajski is a film and television director and producer. She won an academy award for Best Live Action Short for her directorial debut, the comedy/drama TREVOR. As a producer part of her credits include LITTLE MAN TATE, HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS, THE GRIFTERS, EIGHT MEN OUT, BEE SEASON and TOWELHEAD. 

01/29/10 ¨C Katie Callaway Hall on Before Jaycee Lee Dugard: Abduction, Assault and Rape - A Victim Survivor of Phillip Garrido (Second 30min.)

Katie Callaway Hall is an international speaker and rape victim advocate. She is a rape victim survivor of Phillip Garrido, the man who is charged with kidnapping and raping 11 year old Jaycee Lee Dugard from South Lake Tahoe and holding her captive for l8 years.  Katie has appeared on dozens of national TV shows including Larry King Live, Good Morning America, Geraldo, Diane Sawyer (now ABC-TV News Anchor), and CNN Headline News. Katie is working with John Walsh's National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

1/22/10 ¨C Howard Bloom on A Radical Re-Vision of Capitalism (First 30min.)

Howard Bloom is a Visiting Scholar at New York University and the critically acclaimed author of The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, Global Brain: The Evolution of Mass Mind from the Big Bang to the 21st Century and The Genius of the Beast: A Radical Re- vision of Capitalism. He is a member of the New York Academy of Sciences, the National Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Psychological Society, the Academy of Political Science, and the Human Behavior and Evolution Society, as well as the founder of the International Paleopsychology Project and The Space Development Steering Committee (2007), an organization that includes astronauts Buzz Aldrin, Edgar Mitchell and members from NASA and the National Science Foundation.

1/22/10 ¨C Dr. Carol Wise on Political & Psychological Economics (Second 30min.)

Dr. Carol Wise specializes in international political economy and development, with an emphasis on Latin America. She has written widely on trade integration, exchange rate crises, institutional reform, and the political economy of market restructuring in the region. Prof. Wise has worked and written most extensively on Argentina, Mexico, and Peru. She is the author of several books including Requiem or Revival? The Promise of North American Integration and Reinventing the State: Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru.

2/24/09 - Gordon S. Wood: The Purpose of the Past

Pulitzer Prize winner, Dr. Gordon S. Wood is Professor of History at Brown University and the recipient of the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Radicalism of the American Revolution. He received his PhD form Harvard University and is a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books and The New Republic. His new book, The Purpose of the Past: Reflections on the Uses of History was recently released to critical acclaim.

2/20/09 - Nick Morgan: President Obama and the Success of Communication

Betty Jo Tucker is a Film Critic, Author, Radio Show Host, Entertainment Journalist and retired Dean of Humanities from San Diego Mesa College. During her career as an entertainment journalist, Betty Jo has interviewed such stars as Susan Sarandon, Ian McKellen, Angelina Jolie, Aaron Eckhart, Brendan Fraser, and Annette Bening. She is also a published author with two movie related books, CONFESSIONS OF A MOVIE ADDICT and SUSAN SARANDON: A TRUE MAVERICK.