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Free Forum with Terrence McNally

Terrence McNally

Features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Michael Lewis, Ken Burns, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Temple Grandin, Bill Maher, Cornel West, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Norman Lear. [http://terrencemcnally.net]

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ROBERT COLES Harvard professor, author of over 60...

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2015/03/13

Originally aired 11-25-2008 "Who and what is ROBERT COLES? Social scientist, humanist, political activist, psychiatrist, minstrel, wandering storyteller, mystic, wise man, poet, dissenter, and yes, I'll use the word, secular saint." -- Andrew Greeley, Chicago Tribune I invite anyone to google the books of ROBERT COLES. He has written on a broad range of topics, but consistently on subjects that matter.Much of his work is about story, much about children, some is about poverty, about art,

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Free Forum Q&A - DANIEL ELLSBERG, Author The Most...

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2015/03/13

Aired 09/08/09Daniel Ellsberg is an American hero. September 23rd is the 40th anniversary of the first night of copying the Pentagon Papers, which he took from his safe at the Rand Corporation in Santa Monica.America was embroiled in a dirty war based on lies. A president was abusing the power of his office, ignoring the will of the people, Congress and the courts. He promised peace while planning war without end. Daniel Ellsberg, a military analyst, leaded the truth about the Vietnam war

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Free Forum Q&A: DON BARLETT & JIM STEELE – The...

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2015/02/27

Originally Aired 09/09/12Let’s suppose, for a moment, there was a country where the people in charge charted a course that eliminated millions of good-paying jobs. Suppose they gave away several million more jobs to other nations. Finally, imagine that the people running this country implemented economic policies that enabled those at the very top to grow ever richer while most others grew poorer. You wouldn’t want to live in such a place, would you? Too bad. You already do.Those are the

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Q&A: BRUCE LIPTON, Ph.D., and STEVE BHAERMAN (comic),...

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2015/02/17

Aired 01/17/10BRUCE LIPTON, Ph.D., a leading voice in new biology, bridges science and spirit. A cell biologist by training, he taught at the University of Wisconsin's School of Medicine, and later performed pioneering studies at Stanford University. He's the author of The Biology of Belief, and his latest with Steve Bhaerman, SPONTANEOUS EVOLUTIONSTEVE BHAERMAN is an author, humorist, and political and cultural commentator who's been writing and performing enlightening comedy as Swami

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Q&A: AMY BACH, Author – ORDINARY INJUSTICE

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2015/02/17

Aired 12/12/09 Attorney AMY BACH spent eight years investigating the chronic lapses in courts across America. Lawyers sleep through trials. False confessions and mistaken eye-witness identifications convict the innocent. The rich walk, the poor go to prison. ORDINARY INJUSTICE goes beyond one particular injustice, one specific court, or one aspect of the legal system. Bach rejects the easy explanations of bad apples and meager funding to show how in the name of expedience legal

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Q&A w/ Author, GEORGE PACKER – THE UNWINDING: Inner...

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2015/02/17

NYTimes review: “This book hums – with sorrow, outrage and compassion.”- #8 Best-sellerGEORGE PACKER has written a remarkable book, THE UNWINDING: An Inner History of the New America. In it, he argues that seismic economic shifts during a single generation have created a country of winners and losers, leaving the social contract in pieces and setting citizens adrift to find new paths forward. Packer sees America as a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer

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Free Forum Q&A - THOMAS GEOGHEGAN WERE YOU BORN ON...

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2015/01/29

(Originally aired 10-03-2010) We hear about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece and other countries, the mistaken austerity moves that have slowed recovery from recession. But while the bad news of the Euro crisis makes headlines in the US, what does not made headlines is the good news of a quiet revolution that has been taking place in Europe.The European Union, 27 member nations with a half billion people, has become the largest, wealthiest trading bloc in the world,

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Free Forum Q&A: RALPH NADER THE SEVENTEEN SOLUTIONS...

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2015/01/23

(Originally aired 11-25-2012) To rescue our country from corruption, complacency, and corporate domination, we need fresh ideas and bold solutions. RALPH NADER offers THE SEVENTEEN SOLUTIONS: Bold Ideas for Our American Future. Confronting economic, social, political, and environmental challenges, his ambitious, common-sense proposals address our most pressing concerns, from corporate crime to tax reform, and health care to housing. I sometimes build an interview around three big

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Free Forum Q&A: ATUL GAWANDE – Surgeon / Teacher /...

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2015/01/23

Aired 03/14/10 Though Atul Gawande is a best-selling author, a Harvard professor, and an innovator in best practices for the W.H.O., he still performs 250-plus surgeries a year. A framed copy of Sylvia Plath's poem "The Surgeon at 2 a.m." stands on the desk in his office." Her surgeon's words: "I worm and hack in a purple wilderness." Gawande likes the Plath poem because it casts the surgeon in an ambiguous light. "Most writing about people in medicine casts them as either heroes or

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Free Forum Q&A - ROBERT WRIGHT, author, THE MORAL...

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2014/12/31

Originally aired 08-04-2009As we celebrate the holidays - religious, cultural, and annual - we're paying more attention than usual to our relationship to God at the same time that winter and the new year call us to reflect and look forward. I want to share with you this interview I recorded June 5, 2009, with ROBERT WRIGHT. That week THE EVOLUTION OF GOD, no light read, was the #8 New York Times bestseller and he was all over the media, including a feature on Bill Moyers Journal. Robert

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Free Forum: MICHAEL LEWIS MONEYBALL; THE BLIND SIDE;...

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2014/12/20

Originally aired 4-4-2010After a fight within the Democratic party, the House passed a spending bill this week that rolls back one of the most important provisions of Dodd-Frank. When it passesthe Senate, taxpayers will be back on the hook for the big banks' gambles on derivatives and other exotic financial instruments. I thought it was time to play this interview with MICHAL LEWIS about how Wall Street's corrupt casino culture led to the Crash of 07-08 - because we've just given them

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Free Forum Q&A - DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST: ...

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2014/10/09

originally aired 7-24-2011What's good enough for a child you love? What's good enough parenting? Good enough early education? Good enough healthcare? Good enough schools?DAVID KIRP, envisions a national effort to support and develop our children based on a simple "Golden Rule:" Every child deserves what's good enough for a child you love. David Kirp, Kids FirstIn KIDS FIRST, he offers on-the-ground accounts of initiatives that work - and that could affordably be implemented in communities

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Free Forum Q&A - FRANCES MOORE LAPPE ECO-MIND:...

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2014/10/03

Originally aired 12-30-2012Where do you think the most important changes need to take place to turn things around in terms of big issues like the economy, the environment, and social justice?Some say climate change is the critical global issue so it must be clean energy. Others say nothing will make as much difference for the world's people as educating and empowering girls and women. Closer to home, a case can be made that public financing of political campaigns would have the most impact

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Free Forum Q&A- SHERRY TURKLE director, MIT...

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2014/08/12

originally aired 02-13-2011How much technology do you use? Email, texting, facebook, twitter, second life, etc. Has it freed you up, given you more time, or has it added new demands to your life that actually make you feel you have less time? If you're using social media regularly, do you feel more connected with your friends and family or less?Clinical psychologist SHERRY TURKLE has been studying our relationship with technology for most of her career, and has written several books about

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Free Forum Q&A: JEREMY SCAHILL DIRTY WARS The World...

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2014/08/12

originally aired 05-05-2013You're busy trying to make ends meet. The news is filled with celebrity gossip, natural and corporate disasters, the latest mass homicides, and dysfunctional politics. How much do you know about the covert wars the US is involved in around the globe?JEREMY SCAHILL'S best-selling book and Oscar-nominated documentary, DIRTY WARS, begins as an investigation into a US night raid gone terribly wrong in a remote corner of Afghanistan, and quickly transforms into a

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Free Forum Q&A: MARSHALL GANZ Organized with United...

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2014/07/23

originally aired 03-03-2012In the early 1960s, MARSHALL GANZ dropped out of Harvard to join the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi. He then spent 16 years working with César Chávez and the United Farm Workers. He returned to Harvard in the 1990's, graduated, earned his Ph.D., and now teaches the power of public narrative at the Kennedy School. Marshall GanzDuring Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign, he was lead organizer of the grassroots for the former community organizer. GANZ

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Free Forum Q&A: SARA DAVIDSON, author of THE DECEMBER...

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2014/07/18

Originally Aired: 03/16/14We all deal day to day with a lot of questions and a lot of fears – around work, money, health, politcs, relationships. And at some point, we will all deal with the final fears and the final questions – fear of death and questions about what it means and what if anything comes after.At his request, today’s guest, SARA DAVIDSON met every Friday for two years with 89-year-old RABBI ZALMAN SHACHTER-SHALOMI, the iconic founder of the Jewish Renewal movment, to discuss

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Free Forum Q&A with TOM SHADYAC Director of ACE...

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2014/07/04

Originally aired 07-28-2013I say that in a past life I worked in the entertainment industry, comedy in particular. I co-wrote and co-produced novelty records THE HOMECOMING QUEEN'S GOT A GUN, I LIKE EM BIG AND STUPID and EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY all performed by Julie Brown. I directed comic music videos for some of these songs, and ended up co-writing and co-producing the film EARTH GIRLS ARE EASY. I've produced and hosted this show since 1996 and I consult and speak primarily to non-profits

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Free Forum Q&A: ELAINE PAGELS MacArthur and...

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2014/06/25

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Free Forum Q&A: Don Ingber - Innovation Inspired by...

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2014/06/16

Originally Aired 5/6/12After 3.8 billion years of R&D on this planet, failures are fossils. What surrounds us in the natural world is what has succeeded. Nature, imaginative by necessity, has already solved many of the problems we are grappling with. Animals, plants, and microbes are the consummate engineers. They have found what works, what is appropriate, and most important, what lasts here on Earth.In January 2009, Harvard received the largest philanthropic gift in its history --

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