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Believes would better protect and empower citizens. The program is about an hour. Host welcome, justice stevens. On behalf of the National Constitution center, its so great to see you. You honored the National Constitution center a few weeks ago by visiting us. The Constitution Center, as you know, is the only institution in america that has a congressional charter to disseminate information about the constitution on a nonpartisan basis, and i cant think of a better book to discuss in connection with that mission than your wonderful new book, six amendments how and why we should change the con...

The forces of obstruction, intimidation and harassment and obama is washington. Ive been thinking for a long time about the state of journalism and things happening in the industry. Some of it because of my experience at cbs and the summit is not at all specific. I attended investigative reporting conferences and other Investigative Reporters on the friends, local News Reporters and it seems as though there were common themes that signal of trouble as far as i was concerned into but be interesting if not insightful or people to read. What is the trouble you talk about the journalists and soldi...

Being mortal. Guest thank you. Host the front cover i love it. Its got a piece of grass on the cover and its got so much potential symbolism. I immediately thought of walt whitman and his book leaves of grass. He is a famous quote i bequeath myself to the dirt to grow in the graph that i love. What does a leaf of grass mean to you and why did you decide to put on the cover . Guest cover . Guest its a biblical reference actually and it refers to the idea that on the one hand we all come from something fertile but also the idea that grass is temperate. In the process of writing this book being m...

Who invented the birthcontrol pill or how we got it and i became curious. It struck me as odd that anybody would have on their agenda in the 1950s a pill for the sexual liberation of women something that would free women to control their fertility. Who did that so thats where the idea came from. When i looked into it i found this incredible story of these outsiders these underdogs who had no enfranchisement no Government Support no university support in setting out to do something that everyone told them was impossible. Host can you sketch out what life was like before the pill . I think peopl...

The one that got me most was the search for meaning. Guest we are meaningseek creatures, as part of our human conditions. Dogs as far as we know dont agonize about the canine condition or the plight of dogs in other parts of the world, but we do, and we fall very easily into despair if we cant find some kind of ultimate significance in our lives, and our warfare has actually been for men particularly, one of the triggers for a certain ecstasy that chris hedges, New York Times correspondent has written a very good book called war is a force that gives us meaning. Everything was Crystal Clear fo...