Archive for the ‘Nonfiction’ Category

Melody Petersen, OUR DAILY MEDS

June 23rd, 2008

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with reporter and author Melody Petersen about OUR DAILY MEDS: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs. (…)

Podcast 74: Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment

June 3rd, 2008

Host Francesca Rheannon talks with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Lewis about his pithy and thought-provoking “biography” of the First Amendment, FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT WE HATE.

 
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Anthony Lewis on the First Amendment

May 29th, 2008

We talk with two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Lewis about his pithy and thought-provoking “biography” of the First Amendment, FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT WE HATE.

Anthony Lewis, FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT WE HATE

May 23rd, 2008

Anthony Lewis, FREEDOM FOR THE THOUGHT WE HATE: A Biography of the First Amendment

Podcast 72: THE HAKAWATI and SO WRONG FOR SO LONG

May 20th, 2008

We talk with Lebanese writer Rabih Alameddine about his new novel, THE HAKAWATI. (…)

 
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SO WRONG FOR SO LONG and THE HAKAWATI

May 8th, 2008

We talk with Rabih Alameddine about his wonderful novel, THE HAKAWATI. (…)

Podcast 70: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet. Bush’s Law.

May 6th, 2008

The news today about a possible war impending between Georgia and Russia is prefigured in our first interview: host Francesca Rheannon talks with energy security expert Michael Klare about the dangerous new global order of energy politics — winners and losers, flashpoints of conflict, and what it means for democracy and the environment. (…)

 
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