WILL - Media Matters - December 28, 2008
Our guest this week is Prof. Andrew Bacevich, author most recently of The Limits of Power: American Exceptionalism (2008). Bacevich is Professor of International Relations and History at Boston University. His previous books include American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U. S. Diplomacy (2002), The Imperial Tense: Problems and Prospects of American Empire (2003) (editor), The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War (2005), and The Long War: A New History of US National Security Policy since World War II (2007) (editor).
WILL - Media Matters - December 21, 2008
Advertising and Marketing to Children, with Juliet Schor, Professor of Sociology at Boston College and author of Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture.
WILL - Media Matters - December 14, 2008
Our guest today was Toby Miller, a Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California, Riverside, where he is director of the university's program in film and visual culture. He is the author, most recently, of Makeover Nation: The United States of Reinvention.
WILL - Media Matters - December 07, 2008
Our guest this week is US Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio. Prior to becoming a Senator in 2006 he was a Congressman for Ohio's 13th district from 1993. Senator Brown sits on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the Banking Committee. He's the first Ohio Senator in 40 years to sit on the Agriculture and Nutrition Committee and the first Ohio Senator to serve a full term on the Veterans committee. As a member of the banking committee he has recently been active as a proponent of support for the 'Big 3' automakers.
Brown's wife, Connie Schultz, a former Media Matters guest herself, and a columnist for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize, "...for her pungent columns that provided a voice for the underdog and underprivileged.
