2002-3 Shows ("Ideas and Issues")

“Ideas and Issues” 2002-3

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I am adopting a new format this year. I will identify thirteen important books and spend three shows discussing each—the first with the book's author, and other two with guests who will discuss and elaborate on important themes in that book. Where feasible, they will relate those themes to their own work.

The books chosen will be award winners, well-reviewed recent books, or, just (or soon-to-be) published books that I judge will be significant. PDF version.

Date	Guest	Book (authored by the first guest in each group)
Sept 1	Jared Diamond Physiology, UCLA	Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies Pulitzer Prize for Non-fiction 1998
Sept 8	William H. McNeill Prof. Emeritus of History; University of Chicago co-author of The Human Web, (W.W. Norton, 2003)
Sept 15	James Odom Professor Emeritus of History, ETSU
Sept 22	George Fletcher Cardozo Professor of Law, Columbia University	Our Secret Constitution: How Lincoln Redefined American Democracy Best Law Book of 2001, AAP
Sept 29	Bruce Ackerman Sterling Prof. of Law & Political Science Yale University; author of We the People
Oct 6	Eric Segall School of Law, Georgia State
Oct 13	Ariel Glucklich Theology, Georgetown University	Sacred Pain: Hurting the Body for the Sake of the Soul Best Religion Book of 2001, AAP
Oct 20	Jeff Gold Philosophy, ETSU
Oct 27	Armando Favazza, M.D. author of Bodies Under Siege Psychiatry, MO
Nov 3	Donald Worster History, University of Kansas	A River Running West: The Life of John Wesley Powell Best Book of 2001, LA Times
Nov 10	Christopher Knapp Philosophy, Binghamton
Nov 17	Daniel Kemmis Dir. Center for Rocky Mountain West U. of Montana; author, This Sovereign Land
Nov 24	Atul Gawande, M.D. surgical resident; staff writer, New Yorker	Complications: A Surgeon’s Notes on an Imperfect Science New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice
Dec 1	Karen Lasser, M.D. Harvard Medical School author, JAMA Report on Prescription Drugs
Dec 8	Paul E. Stanton, M.D. President, ETSU (former dean of medicine)
Dec 15	Richard Russo Knopf	Empire Falls 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Dec 22	Rebecca Hanrahan Philosophy, ETSU
Dec 29	Mark Shechner English, SUNY-Buffalo
Jan 5	Thomas Pogge Philosophy, Columbia	World Poverty and Human Rights
Jan 12	Cecile Fabre Government, London School of Economics
Jan 19	Gerald Gaus Center for Political Economy, Tulane
Jan 26	Louis Menand English, CUNY	The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History
Feb 2	John Deigh Philosophy, Northwestern University Executive Committee, American Phil Association
Feb 9
Feb 16	Bernard Lewis Prof. Emeritus, Near Eastern Studies; Princeton	What Went Wrong: Western Impact and Middle Eastern Response NY Times Bestseller
Feb 23	Frank Wu Law, Howard University, Visiting (2002-3), University of Michigan
Mar 2	Khaled Abou El Fadl Law, UCLA
Mar 9	Cass Sunstein Law, University of Chicago	Risk and Reason: Safety, Law, and the Environment
Mar 16	Douglas Crawford-Brown Dir. Carolina Environmental Program Chair, Environmental Science, U North Carolina
Mar 23 - Apr 7	Show pre-empted by NRP News Do not know when the shows will begin again.
Apr 14	Kristin Shrader-Frechette Philosophy & Biological Sciences University of Notre Dame
Apr 21	Morris Dickstein English, City University of New York	Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction
Apr 28	Bert Bach Provost & Professor of English East Tennessee State University
May 5	W.T. Lhamon English, Florida State University
May 12	John Doris Philosophy, U. of California, Santa Cruz	Lack of Character: Personality and Moral Behavior
May 19	George Graham Reid Chair in Philosophy Wake Forest University
May 26	Thomas Hurka Philosophy, U. of Toronto
June 1	Roberto Unger Law, Harvard	Democracy Realized: The Progressive Alternative
June 8	Vincent Geoghegan Politics, Queen’s University, Belfast
June 15	Archon Fung Kennedy School of Government Harvard University

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