APM: Word for WordAmerican Public Media's Word for Word is a one-hour weekly program featuring the very best of the nation's recent speeches. Speakers address current events and issues and are drawn from the National Press Club, the Chautauqua Institution, the Aspen Institute and other notable institutions. It's updated every Friday.Jul. 25, 2008: Word for Word: How the rich get richer (David Cay Johnston)- July 25, 2008 You may have heard there's no such thing as a free lunch, but David Cay Johnston says there is -- and wealthy Americans do get richer because of it. In an April 14, 2008 speech at the Commonwealth Club of California, Johnston, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author of Free Lunch, outlines how government-private sector collusion affects the middle class and the poor.http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/wordforword/2008/07/25/wordforword_64.mp3 Jul. 18, 2008: Word for Word: The history of insect control- July 18, 2008 The human battle with bugs has been going on for centuries, but James McWilliams says chemical insecticides came into the picture by accident. McWilliams is a fellow in the Agrarian Studies Program at Yale University and an associate professor of history at Texas State University. His new book is "American Pests: The Losing War on Insects from Colonial Times to DDT" and he was one of the featured speakers at the 2008 Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/wordforword/2008/07/18/wordforword_64.mp3 Jul. 11, 2008: Word for Word: "Who Speaks for Islam"- July 11, 2008 In a July 1 panel at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Dalia Mogahed director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies and Irshad Manji, author of "The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in her Faith" debated the question: "Who Speaks for Islam"http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/wordforword/2008/07/11/wordforword_64.mp3 Jul. 4, 2008: Word for Word: The Aspen Ideas Festival- July 4, 2008 A half dozen pundits and commentators joined in this conversation, including David Brooks of the New York Times, Jim Wallis of Sojourner magazine, Arianna Huffington of Huffington Post, Stuart Rothenberg of the Rothenberg Political Report, Amy Goodman of The Pacifica Network's Democracy Now! And Jonathan Capehart of the Washington Post. Moderating the roundtable was Jonathan Alter, columnist with Newsweek magazine.http://download.publicradio.org/podcast/wordforword/2008/07/04/wordforword_64.mp3 |