AUDIO LIBRARY

The Role of the Intellectual in Public Life
Homi Bhabha – Professor in the department of English and American literature and language and the Dubois Institute of African American Studies at Harvard University.
Stanley Fish - Dean of the college of liberal arts and sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His latest book is How Milton Works

The Supreme Court and Church/State Separation
Steffen Johnson – Member of the supreme court practice group at Mayer Brown & Platt law firm, and is a lecturing professor at the University of Chicago Law School.
Jane Whicher – Staff counsel at the American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois in Chicago

The Role of Evil in the World
Gilbert Irvin Bond - Associate professor of theology in the Divinity School at Yale University
David Krell – Professor of philosophy in the college of liberal arts and sciences at DePaul University

National Identification Cards
Lee Tien - Senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation in San Francisco
Richard Epstein - Professor of law at the University of Chicago and a fellow at the Hoover Institute
Oscar Chacon - Director of international programs at the Heartland Alliance in Chicago

Rhetoric and Crisis
Martin Medhurst – Professor in speech communication and coordinator of the program in presidential rhetoric at Texas A&M University.
Wayne Booth – Professor Emeritus of English and rhetoric at the University of Chicago
Gerald Graff – Associate dean of curriculum and instruction and professor in the department of English and education at the University of Illinois - Chicago

How Do Movies Respond to Social Trauma?
Adam Lowenstein - Assistant professor of English and film studies and the associate director of the film studies program at the University of Pittsburgh. Currently at work on a book called Shocking Representation: Historical Trauma, National Cinema and the Modern Horror Film
Hank Sartin – Lecturer in the humanities at the University of Chicago and a film writer for the Chicago Free Press

The Economic Impact of the Terrorist Attacks
Mike Miller - Associate professor of economics at DePaul University
Joseph Schwieterman – Director of the Chaddick Center for Metropolitan Development at DePaul University
Robert Aliber - Professor of economics at the University of Chicago

Legitimate Uses of Force
Jean Bethke Elshtain - Professor in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago.
John Kelsay - Professor of religion & department chair at Florida State University in Talahassee and the author of Islam and War: Study of Comparative Ethics
Bartram Brown - Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law

Security and Civil Liberties
Jim Ferguson - A partner at Sonnenschein, Nath, and Rosenthal, and a former federal prosecutor
Ronald Allen - Professor of law at Northwestern University
David Cole - Professor of law at Georgetown University and the author of Terrorism & the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security

Leadership
Rick Pearson - political reporter for the Chicago Tribune
Martin Anderson - A fellow at the Hoover Institute at Stanford University
Lynn Sweet - Washington bureau chief and a columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times

Patriotism
Charlie Moskos – Professor of sociology at Northwestern University
Lauren Berlant – Professor of English and the director of the gender studies program at the University of Chicago
John Podhoretz – Contributing editor for the Weekly Standard

Fighting Terrorism
Will Reno - Associate professor of political science at Northwestern University
Barry Kellman - Professor of law and director of the International Weapons Control Center at DePaul University
Anatol Lieven - A senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Reaction to the Terrorist Attack
David Strauss – Professor in the law school at the University of Chicago
Rashid Kahlidi – Director of the Center for International Studies and a professor of history at the University of Chicago
Robert Pape – Professor of political science at the University of Chicago

September 11, 2001

No Odyssey broadcast due to coverage of the attacks in New York and Washington D.C. Subsequent shows cover the issue in detail.

The Ethics of Valuation
William Schweiker – Professor of theological ethics in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago
Michael Shuck – Associate professor of theology at Loyola University - Chicago

Transnational Identity
Salman Rushdie - Novelist, whose latest book is Fury
Saskia Sassen - Professor of sociology at the University of Chicago and the author of The Global City

Slavery and the Constitution
Richard John - Associate professor of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago and the author of Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
Barack Obama - Illinois State Senator from 13th district and a senior lecturer in the law school at the University of Chicago
Jan Lewis - Professor of history at Rutgers University, in Newark, New Jersey. She is the author of the forthcoming book Women, Slaves, and the Creation of a Liberal Republic

Re-Mapping the Political Spectrum
Ken Janda – Professor of political science at Northwestern University and one of the creators of Idealog.org, a website devoted to analyzing political values.
David Boaz – Executive Vice President of the Cato Institute and the author of Libertarianism: A Primer

Defining Racism
Mary Pattillo – Associate professor of sociology and African American studies at Northwestern University and the author of Black Picket Fences: Privilege and Peril Among the Black Middle Class
Salim Muwakkil – The senior editor of the biweekly newsmagazine In These Times
Noel Ignatiev - The co-founder and co-editor of the journal Race Traitor and the author of How The Irish Became White