The original
radio show was broadcast in all 50 states from 1972
through 1988. It featured Marshall Shulman on U.S.-Soviet
relations, Henry Steel Commager on the study of history,
Coretta Scott King and William Julius Wilson on race,
plus much more.
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the original radio show (1972-1988).
We relaunched the show, hosted by Mara Tapp, in November
1998, and it ran through April 2000. The most recent
shows are available here in audio format. You may
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Conversations are in 7 categories:
Race and Ethnicity
Civility
Authors
The Future of the Book
The Future of Cities
Teach Our Children Well
The Arts and Today's Society
RACE
AND ETHNICITY
November 12-14, 1998
Five-part program on Race and Ethnicity
Part 1: Defining
the Problem
Michael Eric Dyson, senior research scholar and professor,
Institute for Research in African-American Studies,
Columbia University, author of many books, including
Race Rules: Navigating the Color Line; Gary
Orfield, Harvard professor and co-director of the
Harvard Civil Rights Project and author of Dismantling
Desegregation and Chilling Admissions; and Arturo
Vargas, executive director of the National Association
of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational
Fund.
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Part 2: Black-White
Relations
Kimberl`e Crenshaw, Columbia University and UCLA law
professor, co-editor of Critical Race Theory: The
Key Writings that Formed the Movement; Alex Kotlowitz,
journalist and author of The Other Side of the
River and There are No Children Here.
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Part 3: Race and
Class
Michael Eric Dyson; and Angelo Falc`on, senior policy
executive, Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education
Fund, co-author of Latino Voices: Mexican, Puerto
Rican and Cuban Perspectives on American Politics,
and co-editor of Latinos and Politics: A Select
Research Bibliography.
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Part 4: Race and
Ethnicity on Stage
Frank Galati, associate director, Goodman Theatre,
member, Steppenwolf Ensemble; Martha Lavey, artistic
director, Steppenwolf Theatre Company; Actors Ernest
Perry Jr. and Lisa Tejero and E. Milton Wheeler; and
Jonathan Wilson, director, associate professor and
theatre department chairman at Loyola University.
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Part 5: Translating
Talk into Action
Kimberlie Crenshaw; Angelo Falc`on; and Angela E.
Oh, commissioner, Los Angeles City Human Relations
Commission, and president, Korean-American Bar Association
of Southern California.
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CIVILITY
March 3-4, 1999
Four-part program on Civility: A Contemporary American
Dilemma
Part 1: The Social and
Intellectual Context
William Brown, Chicago actor and director; Paul Fussell,
professor emeritus of English Literature at the University
of Pennsylvania and author of Class and The Great
War and Modern Memory; and Sun-Times theater
and dance critic Hedy Weiss.
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Broadcast
Part 2: Law, Politics,
and the Fourth Estate
The Honorable William J. Bauer, senior judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; Carol
Marin, contributor to 60 Minutes II and reporter
for WBBM News 2, Chicago; and The Honorable
Abner J. Mikva, former White House counsel to President
Clinton and former U.S. Congressman (D-IL).
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Broadcast
Part 3: Crime, Education,
and Society
The Honorable William J. Bauer, senior judge of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit; and
Norval Morris, professor emeritus from the University
of Chicago Law School, author of The Future of
Imprisonment and co-editor of The Oxford
History of the Prison.
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Broadcast
Part 4: Final Thoughts
from Steve Allen
Steve Allen, comedian and composer, creator of “The
Tonight Show” and “Meeting of Minds”
and author of over 50 books, including Dumbth:
The Lost Art of Thinking.
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Broadcast
AUTHORS
Seven-part program on Authors
April 23, 1999
Grace
Paley
An award-winning author, Paley’s short stories
and essays have appreared in The New Yorker,
Esquire, and
The Atlantic Monthly. She has written two
books on poetry.
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Broadcast
June 3, 1999
The Honorable Paul Simon
Former U.S. Senator and U.S. Congressmann (D-IL),
Paul Simon is currently a professor at Southern Illinois
University and director of the SIU Public Policy Institute.
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Broadcast
June 11, 1999
Thomas Geoghegan
Author of Which Side Are You On?: Trying to Be
For Labor When It’s Flat on Its Back, his
essays and commentary have appeared in The New
Republic, The New York Times, The
Washington Post, and The Chicago Tribune.
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Broadcast
October 2, 1999
Susan Faludi
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Stiffed
and Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American
Women, which won the 1992 National Book Critics
Circle Award for nonfiction.
Listen to the 1-hour
Broadcast
January 28, 2000
A. Manette Ansay
Award-winning author of many short stories and four
novels, including her most recent, Midnight Champagne.
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February 25, 2000
Jeffery Renard Allen
Author of Rails Under My Back, and numerous
essays, short stories, and poetry.
Listen to the 1-hour
Broadcast
April 24, 2000
Studs Terkel
A conversation with Chicago is pre-emiinant writer,
radio host and raconteur.
Listen to the 1-hour
Broadcast
THE
FUTURE OF THE BOOK
May 12-13, 1999
Three-part program on The Future of the Book
Part 1: The Battle Over
Bookselling
Nora Rawlinson, editor-in-chief of Publishers
Weekly; A. David Schwartz, president of Harry
W. Schwartz Bookshops in Milwaukee; and Robin Wagner,
vice president for international merchandising for
Borders Group, Inc.
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Part 2: Perspectives
from Publishers and Editors
Jonathan Galassi, senior vice president and editor-in-chief
at Farrar, Straus & Giroux; and Nicholas Weir-Williams,
director of Northwestern University Press.
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Part 3: What’s Ahead
Steve Wasserman, book editor at The Los Angeles
Times; and Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, project manager
of SiliconBase, an on-line archive of the history
of Silicon Valley, and MouseSite, a multimedia archive
on the history of human-computer interface technology.
Listen to the 1-hour Broadcast
THE
FUTURE OF CITIES
November 8-10, 1999
Five-part series on the Future of Cities
Part 1: The Rebirth of
the American City?
Milwaukee Mayor John O. Norquist; Temple University
Professor of Political Science Barbara Ferman; and
Michael Sorkin, principal of Michael Sorkin Studio.
Listen to the 1-hour Broadcast
Part 2: Cities, Suburbs,
and the New Regionalism
Washington, D.C. Mayor Anthony A. Williams; Mary Sue
Barrett, president of the Metropolitan Planning Council
for the Chicago region; Robert C. Bobb, city manager
of Oakland; and Manuel Pastor, Jr., co-author of Growing
Together: Linking Regional and Community Development.
Listen to the 1-hour Broadcast
Part 3: What’s the
Plan? - Designing and Developing Cities and Suburbs
Jonathan Barnett, urban design consultant and professor
of city and regional planning at the University of
Pennsylvania; Charles H. Shaw, chairman of The Shaw
Company; and Stanley Tigerman, principal
architect of Tigerman McCurry Architects in Chicago.
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Part 4: “The City
Speaks” - Selected Writings on Urban Life
Actors Michael Halberstam and Celeste Williams, and
Neil Harris, University of Chicago professor of history.
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Part 5: Plotting a Course
for Tomorrow
Mayor William A. Johnson, Jr. of Rochester, NY, and
Norman Krumholz, professor of urban planning at Cleveland
State University.
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TEACH
OUR CHILDREN WELL
December 13-15, 1999
Five-part series on Teach Our Children Well
Part 1: Issues in Public
Education
Barbara T. Bowman, president of the Erikson Institute;
Kelly Allin Butler, executive director of Parents
for Public Schools, Inc.; and Howard L. Fuller, Johnson
Foundation trustee, and distinguished professor of
education at Marquette University, where he directs
the Institute for the Transformation of Learning.
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Broadcast
Part 2: Standards, Assessment,
and Accountability
Robert M. Hauser, Vilas research professor of sociology
at the Center for Demography of Health and Aging,
University of Wisconsin-Madison; Michael Klonsky,
director of the Small Schools Workshop at the University
of Illinois at Chicago; and Robert B. Schwartz, president
of Achieve, Inc.
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Broadcast
Part 3: Educating All
Children
Nancy Ichinaga, the principal of Bennet-Kew Elementary
School in Inglewood, California, named a “No
Excuses” School by the Heritage Foundation; John
H. Stevens, executive director of the Texas Business
and Education Coalition; and Warren K. Chapman, program
officer of education at The Joyce Foundation.
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Broadcast
Part 4: School Governance,
Charters, and Choice
Jeanne Allen, president of The Center for Education
Reform; Anthony S. Bryk, professor of education and
sociology and director of the Center for School Improvement
at The University of Chicago; and Herbert J. Walberg,
research professor of education and psychology at
the University of Illinois at Chicago and distinguished
visiting fellow of Stanford University’s Hoover
Institution.
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Broadcast
Part 5: The Future of
Public Education
Eddie Davis, English teacher at Hillside High School
in Durham, North Carolina, and member of the North
Carolina Board of Education; and Patricia Albjerg
Graham, former vice chairman of The Johnson Foundation
Board of Trustees, Charles Warren professor of the
history of american education at Harvard University
Graduate School of Education and past president of
The Spencer Foundation.
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Broadcast
THE
ARTS AND TODAY'S SOCIETY
Three-part program on the Arts and
Society
March 14, 2000
Part 1: What
Is Art?
Carol Becker, dean of faculty and professor of liberal
arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago;
Murray Horwitz, vice president for cultural programming
with National Public Radio; and Joseph Parisi, editor
of Poetry magazine.
Listen to the 1-hour Broadcast
April 7, 2000
Part 2: Art and Community
Stanley Crouch, columnist for the New York Daily
News and author of Always in Pursuit;
and New York artist and lecturer Coco Fusco, editor
of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas.
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April 29, 2000
Part 3: Art and Democracy
Anthony Davis, pianist and composer of the operas
Amistad and X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X;
Joseph Epstein, author of The Goldin Boys and
Narcissus Leaves the Pool; and Michael Moore,
program director with the Lila Wallace Reader’s
Digest Fund.
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