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2001 Audio On-Demand & Program Descriptions
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October 2001

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October 31, 2001
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The Presidency and Society
Haynes Johnson - Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and the author of The Best of Times: America in the Clinton Years
Mark Crispin Millier - Professor of Media Ecology at New York University and the author of The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder

October 30, 2001
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Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
Janice Mueller - Associate Professor at the John Marshall Law School, in Chicago
Doug Lichtman - Assistant Professor of Law at the University of Chicago
Robert Weissman - Co-Director of Essential Action, a corporate accountability group

October 29, 2001
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The American City: Form and Function
Sarah Whiting - Assistant Professor in the Harvard School of Design and a principal at the architectual firm of WW in Cambridge, Massachusettes
Robert Fogelson - Professor of Urban Planning and History at M.I.T. and the author of Downtown: It's Rise and Fall, 1880 -1950
Roberta Feldman - Professor of Architecture and the Director of the City Design Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago

October 26, 2001
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Hollywood and the Military
Thomas Doherty – Professor in the American Studies Department and chair of the Film Studies program at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts.
Ray Pride – Film critic for New City Chicago
Jonathan Rosenbaum – Film critic for the Chicago Reader and the author of Movie Wars: How Hollywood and the Media Conspire to Limit What Films We Can See

October 25, 2001
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Black Holes
Mitch Begelman – Professor in the Department of Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Gregory Landsberg – Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island and a researcher at Fermi National Accelerator Lab in Batavia, Illinois.
Sean Carroll – Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Chicago.

October 24, 2001
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The Humanities in Public Life
Eileen Mackevich - President and Executive Producer of the 12th annual Chicago Humanities Festival, which runs from November 1st-11th in Chicago
Earl Shorris - Founder of the Clemente Course in the Humanities and author of In the Language of the Kings: An Anthology fo Meso-American Literature, Pre-Columbian to the Present. He is currently a Contributing Editor of Harper's magazine
Lawrence Rothfield - Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Faculty Director of the Cultural Policy Center at the University of Chicago

October 23, 2001
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Gay Rights
Eric Clarke – Associate Professor of English and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Judith Stacey - Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and one of the founders of the Council on Contemparary Families. She joins us from Los Angeles.
Andrew Koppelman – Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago

October 22, 2001
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The Uses of Cleopatra
Barbara Ciega – Exhibition Developer of Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth
Martin Mueller – Professor of English and Classics at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois

October 19, 2001
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Memory and History
Richard Shweder - A Cultural Anthropologist and Professor of Human Development at the University of Chicago. He is the author of the forthcoming book Emerging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies.
Alison Landsberg - Assistant Professor of History and Art History at George Mason University. She joins us from her home in Virginia.

October 18, 2001
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Public Opinion and Public Policy
John Brehm, professor and chair of the political science department at the University of Chicago. He is also author of the forthcoming book Hard Choices, Easy Answers: Values, Information and American Public Opinion
Susan Herbst, professor and chair of the political science department and director of the American Studies program at Northwestern University

October 17, 2001
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Clash of Civilizations?
Steven David – Professor of Political Science and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He joins us from Baltimore, Maryland
William Reno – Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois
Professor Zeqhal – Visiting Scholar at the Middle East Center of the University of Chicago.

October 16, 2001
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Anti-Terrorism Bill and the Constitution
Peter Swire – Visiting Professor of Law at George Washington University and former Chief Counsel for Privacy in the US Office of Management and Budget during the Clinton Administration. He joins us from Washington, DC
Barry Kellman – Professor of Law and Director of the International Criminal Justice and Weapons Control Center at DePaul University in Chicago

October 15, 2001
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American Empire
David Cannadine – Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and the author of Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire
John Kelly – Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and the co-author, with Martha Kaplan, of Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization

October 12, 2001
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The Short Story in American Literature
Ana Castillo – A Chicago based writer. Her latest novel is Peel My Love Like an Onion
Richard Stern – Professor of English language and literature at the University Of Chicago. His latest novel Pacific Tremors will be published this fall
Bill Buford – The fiction editor at the New Yorker Magazine
(rebroadcast)

October 11, 2001
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Fear
Cass Sunstein - Professor of Jurisprudence in the Law School and Political Science Department at the University of Chicago, and the author of the forthcoming Risk and Reason
Mark Reinecke – Associate Professor and Chief of the Division of Psychology at Northwestern Medical School in Chicago

October 10, 2001
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Balancing the Public's Right to Know with the Governments Need to Keep Military Operations Secret
Marvin Ott - Professor of National Security Policy at the National War College in Washington, a former Senior Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency, and a former Deputy Staff Director at the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Jim Warren - Deputy Managing Editor and former Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Tribune.

October 9, 2001
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Global Anti-Terrorism Coalition
John Mearsheimer - Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Chicago and author of the new book The Tragedy of Great Power Politics
Michael Loriaux - Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Northwestern University in Chicago

October 5, 2001
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New Technologies and Film
Jon Petrakis –Writes about film for the Chicago Tribune and teaches screenwriting at the School of the Art Institute in Chicago
Bruce Sheridan – Chairman of the Department of Film and Video at Columbia College here in Chicago

October 4, 2001
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Anti-trust in the Global Economy
Randal C. Picker – Professor in the law school at the University of Chicago
Cathy Fazio – Counsel at Kirkland & Ellis law firm in Chicago and formerly a trial attorney with the antitrust division of the Department of Justice in Washington, DC.

October 3, 2001
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U.S. Dependence on Foreign Oil
George Tolley – Professor Emeritus in the department of economics at the University of Chicago
Ken Leonard – Senior manager upstream at the American Petroleum Institute
Jennifer Ferenstein – President of the Sierra Club

October 2, 2001
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Federal Economic Policies
Benjamin Page – Professor of political science at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, and the co-author of What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality
Richard Kogan – Senior fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities in Washington, DC
Dana Johnson – Head of the Research Group at Banc One Capital Markets

October 1, 2001
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Pacifism
Michael McConnell – Great Lakes Regional Director of the American Friends Service Committee
Douglas Streusand – Islamic historian and professor at American Military University, where he teaches military history.
Robert Johansen, professor of government and international studies, and a senior fellow at the Joan Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame.


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