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This Week:
Making people feel safe is not the same as making the people truly safe. Illusions and delusions are no substitute for actual security. When the threat to our well-being comes from terrorist, Christopher Dickey says the work of the New York Police Department provides important lessons for all of us. An award-winning Newsweek reporter, Mr. Dickey is their Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor. Previously, he was Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief for the Washington Post. Mr. Dickey, author of Securing the City: Inside America’s Best Counterterror Force -- the NYPD, also writes the weekly “Shadowland” column on counterterrorism, espionage and the Middle East for Newsweek online. His five other books include Summer of Deliverance. He lives in Paris and New York City.
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Next: Faith and Enlightenment While far from inevitable, the conflict between reason and religion was built into American politics by an accident of the historical timing of its political creation. The nation's founding thinking, principles and documents are rooted firmly in the English Enlightenment. Yet at roughly the turn of each century since that founding, the nation has swung into periods of anti-scientific, fundamentalist fervor. Garry Wills says that the latest manifestation of this habitual oscillation was the political ascendancy of George W. Bush and the Republican Right. Dr. Wills is a scholar, historian, classicist and author. Professor Wills’ many bestselling books include What Jesus Meant, What Paul Meant and What the Gospels Meant. His Lincoln at Gettysburg won the Pulitzer Prize, his two dozen other books are also widely read and admired. As one of nation’s leading public intellectuals, he appears often in leading periodicals. Professor Wills took his doctorate in the classics after studying for the priesthood, a tradition with which he continues to identify and to critique. Many years a teacher of ancient and New Testament Greek at Johns Hopkins University, Dr. Wills is now professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University. This Program with Garry Wills will be here at 11:50 PM GMT, Sunday, March 21. |
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Paula's regular commentary is available on The Huffington Post.
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Over the years we have talked with several Canadian Ambassadors to the U.S., beginning with T.H. Michael Kergin because Canada is our close neighbor, an important ally, our major trading partner and a very similar culture from which we can learn. For the same reason, we talked in 2004 with two Canadian Provincial Premiers, Bernard Lord and Gary Doer. We're encouraged that on October 19 Gary Doer became Canada's ambassador to the United States. We are pleased for him, for Canada and for U.S. |
Sadly, a quick Google search fails to uncover any mention of Canada's new Ambassador to the U.S. in American media. It really is rude to ignore one of our closest friends and neighbors. |
On January 29th, Paula served as the moderator for the opening session of the Building Sustainability Conference in Kimberley, British Columbia. Our video contributions are here. Or, you can watch them below. |
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Video excerpts of some programs are available on YouTube. and Dailymotion new video added February 3.
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