Nov 18th, 2008 · During the presidential election campaign, the Republican ticket tried to make an issue out of Barack Obama's association with William Ayers. He's the 1960s-era radical that later served on a charitable board with Obama. Ayers wasn't heard from much during the campaign. Now the nationally known scholar on urban education is on a book tour.
Oct 23rd, 2008 · The host of MSNBC's nightly political roundup The Rachel Maddow Show offers a combination of perspectives not often seen on cable television — that of a former Rhodes scholar, an AIDS and prison reform activist, a left-leaning radio host and an openly gay woman.
Sep 13th, 2008 · A classical scholar with a voracious appetite for high and low culture alike, he's dauntingly smart — but far too interested in why we love what we love to be a snob. Jacki Lyden talks to Mendelsohn about his new essay collection.
Aug 6th, 2008 · Scholars say the likelihood of al-Qaida carrying out a nuclear attack involves two issues: whether the group has the technical capability and whether it would be beneficial to the group.
Aug 6th, 2008 · Stop Me If You've Heard This Before, Jim Holt's funny, scholarly history of humor, ranges high and (very) low to answer the question, "What are you laughing at?"
Aug 1st, 2008 · Business owners and shopkeepers are the vanguard of China's ever-expanding presence in Africa. One scholar says China is hungry for the continent's raw materials and warns that the relationship is unbalanced.
Jul 30th, 2008 · Even the bard wasn't as bawdy or silly as drug-addled scholar "Willie" Shakespeare Greenberg, the fumbling protagonist of Jess Winfield's lovingly naughty academic picaresque, My Name Is Will.
Jul 27th, 2008 · It's 14 weeks until November, but political types are already thinking about January — and the White House transition. Last week, Republican John McCain accused Democrat Barack Obama of jumping the gun by appointing a transition team. But presidential scholar Paul Light tells host Andrea Seabrook that historically, the best transitions start almost a year before Inauguration Day.