December 23, 2012
Paul Elie and Donal Fox: Reinventing Bach

June 20, 2007
The DIY Clinical Trial
[Thanks to duplicity for suggesting this show.] Chelsea noted in her post for Marcia Angell on Big Pharma last week that we were were thinking...| More

May 7, 2007
The Baghdad Wall
We got an irresistible pitch from tbrucia a few weeks ago: Today’s NYT website features an article: U.S. Erects Baghdad Wall to Keep Sects Apart...| More

April 13, 2007
Race, Class, and Language
[Since we ended up covering many of these issues on our Ralph Ellison’s America show, we sent this one to the graveyard.] Leave it to...| More

December 1, 2006
Coal: Mountaintop Removal in Appalachia
Turning this… [Radio Rover / Flickr] …to this [Vivian Stockman / OHVEC / Flyover courtesy SouthWings] Our latest global warming hour showed that burning coal...| More

November 16, 2006
My Uncle Napoleon
Update, 1/25 12:09 pm I was hoping to get someone’s opinion here. I reached page 300 in this book and can’t get motivated to continue....| More

October 24, 2006
Coltan in the Congo
Blaine Harden’s remarkable article The Dirt in the New Machine starts with this memorable line: Before you make another call on that cell phone, take...| More

September 6, 2006
Race, Class and Voting
This show has been sent to the graveyard. For an explanation, see our post on Experiments in Democracy. Yesterday’s redistricting show brought up many interesting...| More

August 3, 2006
Perpetual Refugees
The Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon are a tragic by-product of the decades-old conflict with Israel, and may be at the real and symbolic center...| More

July 13, 2006
Regional War in the Mideast: Our Role?
On yesterday’s news that Israel has entered Lebanon and has now bombed the airport in Beirut and laid out a naval blockade, we are wondering...| More