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NEW!
Milt
talks to critic Robert Hughes about his memoir, Things
I Didn’t Know, as well as his views as a culture
critic, and whether a painting is really worth 135
million dollars. (10/31/06) [ link
to book]
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NEW!
Milt
discuss Nikita Khrushchev’s visit to the United States
and what he took away from it with Art Cyr, professor
of political science at Carthage College and Timothy
Naftali, co-author of the new book, Khrushchev's
Cold War: The Inside Story of an American Adversary.
(10/27/06) [ link
to book]
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NEW!
Milt
talks to historian and biographer David Cannadine
about the state of the British royal family and aristocracy
in the 20th Century and how the growing intrusiveness
of the media has impacted it. (10/20/06)
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NEW!
Milt
welcomes three guests to the studio to discuss The
Chicago Marathon: Colleen De Reuck, one of the world’s
top marathon runners and a four-time Olympian; Carey
Pinkowski, executive race director for the LaSalle
Bank Chicago Marathon, and Andrew Suozzo, author of
the new book The Chicago Marathon. (10/19/06) [ link
to book]
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Milt
talks to Donald Senior, president of the Catholic
Theological Union, and Bart D. Eherman, author of
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look
at Betrayer and Betrayed, about a new theory
on the relationship between Jesus and Judas. (10/12/06)
[ link
to book]
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Milt
talks to Jeffery Goldberg, author of Prisoners:
A Muslim and a Jew across the Middle East Divide,
about his story as a guard at an Israeli prison and
the unlikely friendship it spawned. (10/10/06) [ link
to book]
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Milt
talks to Jeffrey Harvey, professor of physics at the
University of Chicago, and Lee Smolin, author of the
new book The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of
String Theory, the Fall of a Science, and What Comes
Next about testing string theory and the anthropic
principle. (10/5/06) [ link
to book]
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Milt
shares the studio with three current and former 911
operators: James Argiropolous, Ron Stewart and Caroline
Burau about their job. (10/4/06)
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Milt
talks to Bob Skilnik, author of Beer: A History
of Brewing in Chicago, and Greg Browne, owner
of Mickey Finn’s Brewery about beer. (9/19/06) [ link
to book]
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Milt
talks to Bruce Kraig, Judith Dunbar Hines, and Monica
Eng about the local origins of most cuisine and the
diverse selection of it available in Chicago. (9/15/06)
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Milt
talks to Ian Bremmer, author of The J Curve: A
New Way to Understand Why Nations Rise and Fall,
about American foreign policy. (9/13/06) [ link
to book]
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Milt
talks to Irving Rein, Philip Kotler and Ben Shields,
all professors from Northwestern University and co-authors
of the new book  The
Elusive Fan: Reinventing Sports in a Crowded Marketplace,
about marketing sports at home and abroad in an increasingly
crowded sports marketplace. This
clip begins with the panel speculating on how they
might turn the classic game of marbles in to a big-time
sport for the 21st century. (8/29/06)
[link
to book]
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Milt
talks about the philosophy of Rene Descartes with
Ken Seeskin, Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern
University, and Samuel Fleischacker, Professor of
Philosophy at the University of Illinois Chicago.
(8/24/06)
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Milt
is joined by Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota,
author of the new book Take This Job and Ship
It: How Corporate Greed and Brain Dead Politics Are
Selling Out America, and Casey Mulligan, professor
of economics at the University of Chicago, to discuss
"big box" stores and Chicago's recent wage
ordinance. (8/16/06)
[ link
to book]
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We
examine the science and ethics of genetic engineering
with Eugene Pergament, medical geneticist and professor
emeritus of obstetrics at Northwestern University's
Medical School, Nigel Cameron, professor of bioethics
at Chicago-Kent College of Law, and Lori Andrews,
an expert on genetics and the law and the author of
the new novel, Sequence.
In this clip, the panel discusses prenatal genetic
testing for certain diseases. (8/4/06)
[ link
to book]
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Joseph
Parisi, former editor of Poetry magazine,
and Christine Pugh, assistant professor of English
at UIC and working poet, talk about W.H. Auden and
William Carlos Williams and read poems from each.
(7/28/06)
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Jim
Phillips of the Field Museum and Emily Teeter from
the Oriental Institute talk with Milt about historical
and archeological evidence of the Exodus. (7/25/06)
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David
Solzman, author of The Chicago River: An Illustrated
History and Guide to the River and Its Waterways,
and Margaret Frisbie, executive director of Friends
of the Chicago River, guide Milt down the river by
boat and canoe. (7/21/06)
[ link
to book]
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Joseph
Schofer and David Schulz - both of Northwestern University’s
Infrastructure Technology Institute - talk with Milt
about using bicycles as an alternative form of transport
and address the parking issue in downtown Chicago.
(7/20/06)
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Steve
Lubet (author of Lawyers' Poker: 52 Lessons that
Lawyers Can Learn from Card Players), Chris Lind
(attorney at Bartlit Beck) and Sean Berkowitz (head
of the Enron task force) discuss feigning weakness
in court. Chris talks about his involvement in Bush
v. Gore and Sean talks about an example from the Enron
Trial when he was questioning Jeffrey Skilling. (7/12/06)
[ link
to book]
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Sports
lawyer Eldon Ham analyzes the Cubs dismal season so
far. (7/5/06)
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Jonathon
Gross, editor of Thomas Jefferson’s Scrapbooks:
Poems of Nation, Family and Romantic Love Collected
by America’s Third President, talks about Jefferson
and Sally Hemmings and Jefferson’s feelings towards
love generally. (7/4/06)
[ link
to book]
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Alan
Gitelson, Penelope Mesic and Ellen Hunt discuss books
that have changed their lives. (6/29/06)
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Tom
Zoellner, author of The Heartless Stone: A Journey
Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit and Desire,
talks about where diamonds come from and their often
sinister or tragic pedigree. (6/23/06)
[ link
to book]
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Loren
Graham, professor of the history of science at MIT
and Harvard and author of Moscow Stories,
discusses his time in Russia and whether there is
a “Russian national character.” (6/22/06)
[ link
to book]
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Theodore
Dalrymple, author of the new book, “Romancing Opiates:
Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy,”
discusses the literary antecedents for modern thinking
about drug use, including Thomas DeQuincey and Samuel
Coleridge. (6/8/06)
[ link
to book]
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Mark
Bowden, author of Guests of the Ayatollah: America’s
First Battle with Militant Islam, and Ahmad Sadri,
a native Iranian and professor of sociology and anthropology
at Lake Forest College, talk about whether militant
Islam received a boost from the Iran hostage crisis.
(6/7/06)
[ link
to book]
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Milt
talks with family therapist David MacKinnon and psychiatrist
Elizabeth Roberts about modern parenting and gives
his own diagnosis as to what’s wrong with the American
family. Roberts is the author of the book, Should
You Medicate Your Child’s Mind?. (6/1/06)
[ link
to book]
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Milt
talks with Mark Lamster, author of Spalding's
World Tour: The Epic Adventure that Took Baseball
Around the Globe - And Made It America's Game,
about the origins of baseball and the invention of
earmuffs. (5/31/06)
[ link
to book]
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Frederick
Crews, professor emeritus of English at the University
of California at Berkeley and author of the book,
Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays, debunks
intelligent design. (5/26/06)
[ link
to book]
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Milt
talks to former inspector general of the Department
of Homeland Security, Clark Kent Ervin, about the
nature of bureaucracies. He also critiques the government
response to Hurricane Katrina. Ervin is the author
of the new book, Open Target: Where America Is
Vulnerable to Attack.
(5/24/06)
[ link
to book]
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Milt
talks with Chicago historian Richard Lindberg and
with Jeffrey Adler, porfessor of criminology at the
University of Florida and author of First in Violence,
Deepest in Dirt: Homicide in Chicago, 1875-1920.
They discuss the Black Hand in Chicago and how crime
rises with a prospering economy and drops during a
depression.
(5/18/06)
[ link
to book]
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Milt
looks at the beginnings of the radio industry with
J. Fred MacDonald, an expert in the history of radio
and television and president of MacDonald and Associates
historical archive, and Alfred Balk, former professor
at Columbia University and author of the new book,
The Rise of Radio, from Marconi through the Golden
Age.
(5/12/06)
[ link
to book]
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Milt
Rosenberg marks the opening of the McCormick Tribune
Freedom Museum by talking with General David Grange,
CEO of the McCormick Tribune Foundation, and David
Anderson, executive director of the museum. (4/26/06)
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Milt
talks with Harvey Mansfield, professor of government
at Harvard University and author of the new book,
Manliness. (4/21/06) [ link
to book]
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Allan
Carlson, president of the Howard Center for Family,
Religion and Society in Rockford, IL, and Elizabeth
Marquardt, affiliate scholar at the Institute for
American Values and author of Between Two Worlds:
The Inner Lives of Children of Divorce, discuss
divorce and its affects on children.
(4/4/06) [ link
to book]
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Milt
talks with Ed Zotti, the editor, confidant and personal
trainer for Cecil Adams of the Chicago Reader's
"Straight Dope" column. (3/24/06)
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During
a discussion about the life of a graduate student,
Milt and his guests--Samir Haddad, a PhD student in
philosophy at Northwestern University, Jennifer Searcy,
a graduate student in the department of history at
Loyola University Chicago, and William Junker, graduate
student in English Language and Literature and the
Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago--discuss
professors who allow their personal political views
to enter the classroom. (3/15/06)
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Milt
discusses the mistakes made by the Confederate army
during the Civil War with Michael Perman, professor
of history at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
Vernon Burton, professor of history and sociology
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and
James Swanson, noted Lincoln scholar, member of the
Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Committee and author
of the new book Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for
Lincoln's Killer. (2/22/06) [ link
to book]
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Milt
welcomes Sam Peltzman, professor of economics at the
University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business,
Paul Kasriel, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist
at Northern Trust Bank, and Steven Antler, professor
of economics at Roosevelt University and blogger at
Econopundit, for a general overview of the state of
the American economy, as well as an examination of
how the global market affects our finances here at
home. (2/14/06) [link to Econopundit]
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Milt
examines the history and evolution of speechmaking
and the importance of style over content with David
Zarefsky, professor of communication at Northwestern
University and an expert in the history of rhetoric.
(2/7/06)
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Milt
and his guests, Hans Williman from the Four Seasons,
Peter Simoncelli from the Westin River North and Thomas
Mathes from the Hotel Burnham, put together a general
theory of hotel management. (1/19/06)
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Ellis
Booker, editor of Crain’s B2B and an
expert in all things Internet, Robert Jordan, the
founder of Online Access magazine and CEO
of Inc. 500, and Steve Johnson, Internet columnist
for the Chicago Tribune join Milt to discuss
the size and scope of the blogosphere. (1/16/06)
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Milt
discusses all the newest trends in food safety and
technology with Martin Cole, head of the National
Center for Food Safety and Technology at IIT, Rosetta
Newsome, director of the Department of Science and
Communications at the Institute of Food Technologists,
and Charles Santerre, professor of food and nutrition
at Purdue and an expert toxicologist. (1/12/06)
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Extension
720 examines some of the great empires throughout
history with Brian Lavelle, professor of classics
at Loyola University, Cornell Fleischer, professor
of history at the University of Chicago and an expert
on the Ottoman empire, and Michael Khodarkovsky, professor
of history at Loyola University Chicago and an expert
on imperial Russia. (1/6/06)
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Milt
discusses the long history of epistemology and philosophy
of mind with two experts: David Hilbert, professor
of philosophy at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
and David Finkelstein, professor of philosophy at
the University of Chicago. (1/4/06)
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