Tagged: Radio

02/19/13 - Tuesday's Topical Currents is with Princeton University economics professor and Wall Street Journal columnist Alan Blinder.  How did the worst economic disaster in post-war American history occur?  The US financial system, he says, was far too complex and unregulated for the public good.  Blinder has written  AFTER THE MUSIC STOPPED:  The Financial Crisis, the Response and the Work Ahead.   Links http://www.princeton.edu/~blinder/

02/18/13- Monday’s Topical Currents features two leading figures in the God-versus-atheism debate.  We’ll speak with University of Virginia psychiatrist Dr. J. Anderson Thomson, author of WHY WE BELIEVE IN GOD(S):  A Concise Guide to the Science of Faith.  Also with us is prominent atheist and evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, author of THE SELFISH GENE.

02/11/13 - Monday’s Topical Currents is with journalist and editorial writer Sam Pizzigati.  He’s written THE RICH DON’T ALWAYS WIN:  The Forgotten Triumph Over Plutocracy That Created the American Middle Class, 1900 to 1970.  A century ago, the super rich were even more powerful than today’s.  Their reign eroded in favor of a vibrant middle class nation.