Advanced Directives
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about the value and importance of communicating one's wishes in advance concerning end-of-life issues and decisions.
Adversarial Collaboration
Nobel Prize winning psychology professor Daniel Kahneman recommends that researchers who disagree should collaborate and design an experiment together, rather than simply critique one another's work.
Advertising & the end of the world
In Advertising & the End of the World, Sut Jhally, Executive Director of MEF, exposes the inherent conflict between commercial culture - as aggressively sold by private, global media systems - and environmental stewardsh..
Advising Therapists
Experimental psychologist and author Elizabeth Loftus says that the problem with some therapists is that they have a sexual abuse agenda. Dr. Loftus advises therapists who have a hypothesis not to limit their inquiry to ..
Aesthetics: philosophy of the arts
What do modern art, a symphony, and a documentary film have in common? They all require aesthetic considerations. This program presents the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics--from Plato,..
Africa: war is business
The world is slowly awakening to a disturbing reality - that the diamond trade is a major source of financing for warfare and brutality in Africa. But diamonds are only one natural resource among many that feed bloody co..
African-American Slave Women
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about the plight of slave women during the time leading up to the Civil War and beyond. "Slave women in the South are in a horrendous position," Professor Kessler-Har..
African-Americans Move To The City
American history professor Alice Kessler-Harris talks about the lack of equal opportunity on the job front for African-Americans who began moving to cities in the 1920's. "I think it's sometimes painful to acknowledge ju..
After Stonewall
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Mo..
Against the Grain: Deviant Behavior: Its Many Forms
The notion of what exactly constitutes deviance is blurred at best, because any definition of such behavior is generally laced with moral and religious overtones. By their very nature, these are rarely black and white, a..