Q&A: TINA ROSENBERG, Author – JOIN THE CLUB
Written on July 20th, 2011 |
Aired 07/17/11
TINA ROSENBERG, the winner of a MacArthur grant, is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, a former member of the Times editorial board, and writes the online column Fixes for nytimes.com. Her book The Haunted Land on how Eastern Europe faced the crimes of Communism, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Her latest book is JOIN THE CLUB: How Peer Pressure Can Transform The World
Q&A: ERIC GREITENS, Author – THE HEART AND THE FIST
Written on July 7th, 2011 |
Aired 07/03/11
ERIC GREITENS attended Duke University and was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to attend Oxford University, where he earned a Ph.D. and won a gold medal at BUSA National Boxing Championships. His research led to humanitarian work in Rwanda, Albania, Mexico, India, Croatia, Bolivia, and Cambodia. In 2001, he joined the Navy SEALs and deployed four times. His military awards include the Purple Heart and the Bronze Star. When Eric returned from Iraq, he founded The Mission Continues to help wounded and disabled warriors to serve their communities here at home.
His book THE HEART AND THE FIST: The Education of a Humanitarian, the Making of a Navy SEAL tells the story of these seemingly contradictory roles.
Q&A: GABOR MATE-MD, Author – IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
Written on July 3rd, 2011 |
Aired 06/26/11
GABOR MATE MD, for over ten years the staff physician at the Portland Hotel, North America's only supervised safe-injection site in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, home to one of the world's densest areas of drug users. He is the author of When the Body Says No: Understanding The Stress-Disease Connection; Scattered: How Attention Deficit Disorder Originates And What You Can Do About It, and his latest, IN THE REALM OF HUNGRY GHOSTS: Close Encounters With Addiction, which proposes new approaches to treating addiction through an understanding of its biological and socio-economic roots.
Q&A: GRETCHEN MORGENSON – 2002 Pulitzer Prize winner
Written on July 3rd, 2011 |
Aired 06/26/11
GRETCHEN MORGENSON was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for her "trenchant and incisive" coverage of Wall Street. She has been on that beat ever since and now has a book on the recent meltdown. Though we've had in depth conversations with Michael Lewis, Joseph Stiglitz, Simon Johnson, William Greider and others about the crisis, it's been a while since we covered it, and so this week we will have a chance to get an update on where things stand and look at some of the implications.
RECKLESS ENDANGERMENT lays out how the financial meltdown resulted from the toxic interplay of Washington, Wall Street, and corrupt mortgage lenders. It reveals how the watchdogs who were supposed to protect us from financial harm were actually complicit in creating the financial crisis, and focuses on the abuse of Fannie May and Freddie Mac.
http://www.nytimes.com/
Q&A: CHRIS MOONEY, Author – The Republican War on Science
Written on June 24th, 2011 |
Aired 06/19/11
Chris Mooney is senior correspondent for The American Prospect magazine, and author of The Republican War on Science; Storm World: Hurricanes, Politics, and the Battle Over Global Warming; and Unscientific America: How Scientific Illiteracy Threatens Our Future, co-authored with Sheril Kirshenbaum, with whom he also writes "The Intersection" blog. You can find the intersection blog at discovermagazine.com. In 2005 Chris was named one of Wired magazine's ten "sexiest geeks."
