Should The U.S. Pay Ransom When Americans Are Kidnapped?; Food Mondays: Monica Eng Interviews Chinese-American Novelist Lisa See

By Worldview Staff
In this May 27, 2011 file photo, American journalist James Foley, of Rochester, N.H., poses for a photo in Boston. Jake Zelinski has been named Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, the first recipient of a scholarship named for journalist Foley, who was kidnapped in Syria and later beheaded by Islamic State militants.
In this May 27, 2011 file photo, American journalist James Foley, of Rochester, N.H., poses for a photo in Boston. Jake Zelinski has been named Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, the first recipient of a scholarship named for journalist Foley, who was kidnapped in Syria and later beheaded by Islamic State militants. Steven Senne / AP Photo, File
In this May 27, 2011 file photo, American journalist James Foley, of Rochester, N.H., poses for a photo in Boston. Jake Zelinski has been named Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, the first recipient of a scholarship named for journalist Foley, who was kidnapped in Syria and later beheaded by Islamic State militants.
In this May 27, 2011 file photo, American journalist James Foley, of Rochester, N.H., poses for a photo in Boston. Jake Zelinski has been named Wednesday, Aug. 19, 2015, the first recipient of a scholarship named for journalist Foley, who was kidnapped in Syria and later beheaded by Islamic State militants. Steven Senne / AP Photo, File

Should The U.S. Pay Ransom When Americans Are Kidnapped?; Food Mondays: Monica Eng Interviews Chinese-American Novelist Lisa See

By Worldview Staff
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On today’s show:

  • The Committee to Protect Journalists’ Joel Simon talks about his book on whether governments should pay ransom when their citizens are taken hostage.
  • WBEZ’s Monica Eng talks to Chinese-American novelist Lisa See, author of bestsellers Shanghai Girls and On Gold Mountain. See’s latest novel, The Island of Sea Women, immerses readers in the lives of a dwindling community on the Korean island of Jeju in which generations of women have supported their families by diving for seafood. Eng and See discuss the dangers of the work, Russian and Japanese influence on the island and the unusual foodways of this disappearing community of female divers.