January 20, 2001 - Three months after the most controversial presidential elections in American history, George W. Bush is inaugurated as the 43rd president of the United States; April 1, 2001 - U.S. spy plane makes an emergency landing in China; May 23, 2001 - Senator James Jeffords leaves Republican Party giving Democrats majority control [...]

This week’s show featured a talk by Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen entitled “The Idea of Identity.” Sen is the first scholar to hold the visiting professorship at the Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future at Boston University.
According to Sen, classification of identities ignores the complexity of each human’s identity. In [...]

This week, we presented an Oxford-style debate organized by Boston University’s College of Communications on whether the United States should pay reparations for slavery.
Arguing for paying reparations were Alexander Pires, an attorney for the Department of Justice; Christopher Hitchins, a contributing editor for Vanity Fair magazine and columnist for The Nation, and Matt Brown, a [...]

On this week’s show, we presented a roundtable discussion on the world of lifelong-learning and the impact that it has at any age. The discussion participants included John Ebersole, Associate Provost and Dean at the Division of Extended Education at Boston University; Dorothy Durkin, Associate Dean at the New York University School of Continuing and [...]