On this week’s show, we presented a lecture given by the Swiss Ambassador to the United States Alfred Defago at the Boston University Center for International Relations this past week. The topic of his lecture was “Europe and USA: Two Worlds Drifting Apart.” Ambassador Alfred Defago was appointed Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States [...]

On this week’s show, we presented the address given by Reverend Prathia L. Hall at the 16th Boston University annual commemoration of the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. The theme of this year’s commemoration address was “Transformation of Dr. King’s Dream.” Boston University’s most distinguished alumnus, Dr. King received a Ph.D. in philosophy in [...]

Although the issue of Presidential Disability may not appear to be important, physical and psychological disabilities that threaten their job performance have been common among American Presidents throughout the country’s history.
On this week’s show, we presented a lecture given by Boston University Professor of History Robert Dallek in which he proposes that an independent medical [...]

On this week’s show, we presented an archived show edition on the 25th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam war.
We spoke first with retired war correspondent Joseph Galloway who served a 16-month tour as a war correspondent in Vietnam beginning in March 1965, shortly after the first U.S. Marines landed at Danang.
We also talked [...]