AUDIO LIBRARY

The Film Flop
The recent film Gigli, trashed by critics and avoided by audiences, has officially joined the ranks of the film flop.
Guests:
Greg Taylor — State University of New York
Amy Taubin — School of the Visual Artsk
Jeffrey Sconce — Northwestern University
(rebroadcast — original air date 8/22/03)

The History of Equality
Equality can mean a lot of things, from the abolition of rank and status to the redistribution of wealth.
Guests:
Daniel Rodgers — Princeton University
Elizabeth Anderson — University of Michigan
(rebroadcast — original air date 8/18/03)

The Economy of the 1990s: Boom and Bust
Did our good fortunes then lay the foundation for economic problems later?
Guests:
Joseph Stiglitz — Economist at Columbia University, former chief economist at the World Bank, and author of The Roaring Nineties: A New History of the World's Most Prosperous Decade
Robert Barro — Economist at Harvard University and a senior fellow at Stanford University, and author of the book Nothing is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millinium.

Race Narratives
What kind of stories of race are acceptable to Americans?
Guests:
Kenneth Warren — On faculty at the University of Chicago and author of the book So Black and Blue: Ralph Ellison and the Occasion of Criticism
Michele Elam — On faculty at Stanford University author of the books Race, Work and Desire in American Fiction: 1860-1930 and the forthcoming Mixtries: Mixed Race Studies and American Literary History

The State of the Family
In the West, democracy is organized around the individual or citizen and requires a commitment to the state over and above family ties. Is family at odds with democracy?
Guests:
Suad Joseph — Anthropologist at the University of California, founder of the Arab Families Working Group, and editor of Intimate Selving in Arab Families: Gender, Self and Identity
Martha Fineman — Legal scholar at Cornell Universityand author of The Autonomy Myth: The Theory of Dependency and The Neutered Mother, the Sexual Family, and other Twentieth Century Tragedies

The Rise of the States Attorneys General
The fight over several national policy issues are being led by state attorneys general.
Guests:
Michael Greve — Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and author of the recent book Sell Globally Tax Locally: Sales Tax Reform for the New Economy
Deborah Hensler — Legal scholar at the Stanford Law School and author of Class Action Dilemmas: Pursuing Public Goals for Private Gain

German Identity
What does it mean to be German today?
Guests:
Stephen Brockman — Professor of German at Carnegie Mellon University and author of Literature and German Reunification
Peter Fritzsche — German historian at the University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign and author of forthcoming book Stranded in the Present: Modern Time and the Melancholy of History

The Underground Economy
What kind of impact does the underground economy have on the American economy as a whole?
Guests:
Sudhir Venkatesh — Sociologist at Colombia University and author of the forthcoming book Living Underground: A study of underground economies in Chicago and New York
Philippe Bourgois — Chairs the department of anthropology, history and social medicine at the University of California and is the author of In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
Susan Pozo — Economist at Western Michigan University and the author of Price Behavior in Illegal Markets

Shopping and Identity
People are shopping in different kinds of spaces and they're also shopping in new ways. But do changes in where and how we shop transform how we think about ourselves?
Guests:
Lizabeth Cohen — Historian at Harvard University and author of A Consumer's Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Gail MacDonald — Literary scholar at the University of North Carolina and author of the forthcoming book Collaborative Sin: American Naturalism and the Languages of Responsibility

Russia in Transition
What political and economic forces are shaping Russia's future?
Guests:
Thomas Nichols — Russia specialist and chairs the Department of Strategy and Policy at the US Naval War college and author of
The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic
Timothy Frye — Political scientist at Ohio State University

Film Forum: The Films of Jane Campion
Director Jane Campion's films are marked by her depictions of unconventional women. What do her films tells us about marriage, romance, and sexuality?
Guests:
Dana Polan — Film Scholar at the University of Southern California and author of Jane Campion, a volume in the British Film Institute's World Directors Series
Virginia Wright Wexman — Film scholar in the department of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago and editor of Jane Campion: Interviews and the forthcoming book, Compromised Positions: Hollywood Directors and the Cultural Construction of the Artist

The Contested Legacy of Ronald Reagan
Conservatives still feel an intense attachment towards Ronald Reagan and his presidency. But some argue that the dispute over Reagan represents an even larger struggle, one to define the values of American political culture.
Guests:
Michael Schaller — Historian at the University of Arizona and co-author of The Republican Ascendancy: American Politics, 1968-2001
John Sloan — Political scientist at the University of Houston and author of The Reagan Effect: Economics and Presidential Leadership

The Shifting Politics of Trade
What kind of politics are brewing around trade?
Guests:
John Odell — Political scientist at the University of Southern California and author of Negotiating the World Economy
Michael Hiscox — Political scientist at Harvard University and author of International Trade and Political Conflict: Commerce, Coalitions, and Mobility

Capital Punishment in Practice
What issues shape the application of the death penalty?
Guests:
Carol Steiker — Legal scholar at the Harvard Law School
David Baldus — On faculty at the University of Iowa College of Law

Iraq and the Shadow of Vietnam
Terms like "guerrilla warfare," "quagmire," and "Iraqification" suggest that our experience of Vietnam continues to shape American foreign policy and domestic politics. What does Vietnam have to say about Iraq?
Guests:
Brian Balogh — Historian at the University of Virginia, author of the article From Metaphor to Quagmire: The Domestic Legacy of the Vietnam War and author of the forthcoming book Selling Big Government: The Political Culture of State Building in Twentieth Century America
Michael Desch — Political scientist in the Patterson School of Diplomacy, author of America's Wounded Warriors and the Lessons of Vietnam, and author of the book, Civilian Control of the Military: The Changing Security Environment

The Politics of Hip-Hop
What kind of messages does hip-hop culture convey about race and black identity in America?
Guests:
Murray Forman — Media studies scholar at Northeastern University
in Boston, Massachusetts and author of The 'Hood Comes First: Race, Space, and Place in Rap and Hip-Hop
Mark Anthony Neal — American Studies scholar at the University of Texas, Austin, author most recently of Songs in the Key of Black Life: A Rhythm and Blues Nation, and co-editor of the forthcoming book with Murray Forman entitled, That's the Joint's: A Hip-Hop Studies Reader

The Right to Die
A recent legal and political battle has shown that many different parties have an interest in the right to die. What kind of questions surround these life and death decisions?
Guests:
John Dinan — Political scientist at Wake Forest University and author of Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights
Marybeth Herald — On Faculty at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law and writes about legal issues surrounding the right to die,
including the recent article Until Life Support Do Us Part:
A Spouse's Limited Ability to Terminate Life Support for an Incompetent Spouse With No Hope of Recovery

Space
How have national ambitions been advanced through development in space?
Guests:
William Martel — Security Studies scholar at The Naval War College and author of The Technological Arsenal: Emerging Defense Capabilities
Howard McCurdy — Historian at the school of public affairs at American University in Washington, DC and author of Space and the American Imagination

The Novel and Identity Formation
What kind of issues are raised by the genre of self-formation—or the so-called Bildungsroman?
Guests:
Marc Redfield — Professor of English at Claremont Graduate University and author of Phantom Formations: Aesthetic Ideology and the Bildungsroman
Thomas Pavel — Chairs the department of romance languages and literatures at the University of Chicago. He is also the author of the picaresque and bildungsroman novel, The Sixth Branch, and of A History of the Novel, which is forthcoming in an English translation.

The Democratic Primary Race
What does the Democratic primary race portend for the candidates, the party, and the election itself?
Guests:
David Karol — Political scientist at the University of California and co-author of the forthcoming book Beating Reform: The Resurgence of Parties in Presidential Nominations, 1980-2000
Barry Burden — Political scientist at Harvard University and co-author of Why Americans Split Their Tickets: Campaigns, Competition, and Divided Government