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In this installment of Books of Our Time, host Lawrence R. Velvel discusses with author Elizabeth Warren her new book "The Two Income Trap."  The book is a revealing look at how overall wages have decreased for family earners despite women entering the workforce.  Warren is a professor of law at Harvard University.

Dean Lawrence R. Velvel sits down with author Dan Oren to discuss his  book "Joining the Club."  The book details the extensive religiously based discrimination that took place at Yale University and other Ivy League institutions throughout the 21st century.

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William Chafe from Duke University sits down with Dean Lawrence R. Velvel from the Massachsuetts School of Law to discuss Chafe's new book "PRIVATE LIVES AND PUBLIC CONSQUENCES: PERSONALITY AND POLITICS IN MODERN AMERICA."  This is the second part of their two hour discussion on BOOKS OF OUR TIME. They discuss the personal lives of FDR, MLK, JFK and many more prominent public figures of the 20th century.

Listen in during this installment of Books of Our Time as Dean Lawrence R. Velvel interviews Charlie Savage.  Savage is a national reporter for the Boston Globe and recently won a Pulitzer prize for his articles about signing statements that were used by George W. Bush to negate legislation and extend presidential power.

 

In this interview Savage will be discussing his new work, “Take Over – The Return of the Imperial Presidency in This inversion of American Democracyâ€?.  This interview is the first of two parts.

 

Savage describes in extraordinary detail Vice President Dick Cheney’s actions on 9-11, the expansion of presidential war authority and war powers, and the high levels of executive involvement in illegal wiretaps and torture.

 

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In this installment of "What the Media Doesn't Tell You" host Larry Velvel discusses The New York Time and their coverage of the wire tapping scandal with Sherwood Ross and David Walsh.

Overthrow, part 2 of 2

In this second of two parts, What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel talks with author Stephen Kinzer about his book, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.  They discuss why America has entered upon so many overthrows of governments, why this is largely ignored by the media and common history books and how it has impacted the world of today and the rold of American in that world.

The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss, for subscriptions, or http://mslaw.libsyn.com, for direct downloads. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.

 

Overthrow, part 1 of 2

What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel talks with author Stephen Kinzer about his book, Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq.  They discuss why America has entered upon so many overthrows of governments, why this is largely ignored by the media and common history books and how it has impacted the world of today and the rold of American in that world.

The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss, for subscriptions, or http://mslaw.libsyn.com, for direct downloads. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.

 

What Terrorists Want

What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel talks with author Louise Richardson about her book, What Terrorists Want.  They cover terrorism from the first records of such over 2000 years ago to the present, with an emphasis on understanding the mental processes that drive these terrorists.  Can an effective antiterrorism policy be crafted without such an understanding?  Richardson believes not, and presents her case.

The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss, for subscriptions, or http://mslaw.libsyn.com, for direct downloads. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.

 

Covering, the Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights

What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, and author Kenji Yoshino discuss the phenomenon of people putting on false faces in public in order to project conformity and "getting along."  The book and author suggest that the intense pressure we experience daily to conform and not stand out in terms of either opinion nor personal characteristics   amounts to an assault on our civil rights, and one that is difficult to both specify and counter for the very reason of forced conformity.

The Massachusetts School of Law, located in Andover, Massachusetts, makes high quality, affordable legal education available to less privileged persons who are traditionally excluded from the legal profession. As part of its mission of providing high quality education and information for both law students and the general public, the Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public via television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books. For more information visit www.mslaw.edu. MSLAW podcasts are available from http://mslaw.libsyn.com/rss, for subscriptions, or http://mslaw.libsyn.com, for direct downloads. MSLAW videos are available from Google Video.

 

Will Corporations Destroy American Democracy?

What the Media Doesn't Tell You host, Larry Velvel, and author Lee Drutman discuss the history and abuses of corporations in America.  As useful as they can be, have corporations imposed their will on the American Democratic system?  How did it become that corporations are considered legal persons with Constitutional rights.  Is this healthy?

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