On this week’s show, we presented a discussion on the changing landscape of the relations between U.S. and Europe as NATO has just welcomed seven new members and a potential war against Iraq looms in.
James Hoge brings 30 years in journalism to his role as editor of “Foreign Affairs,” and to his membership on the [...]

On this show, we presented excerpts from three contrasting views on the possibilities and consequences of an American-led military action against Iraq from a discussion organized by Boston University’s Core Current Affairs Association earlier this month.
We first heard remarks by Mickey Edwards, former U.S. representative and professor of legislative politics at Harvard University’s JFK [...]

On this week’s show, we broadcasted the 13th Great Debate held as part of the biannual Great Debate Series that Boston University’s College of Communications began in 1996. The topic of the 13th Great Debate was “Should the Death Penalty Be Abolished?”
Arguing in favor of abolishing the death penalty were Steven Hawkins, Executive Director of [...]

On this show, we heard a lecture titled “Comfortable Virtue: Remarks on the Enlightenment” that Boston University Professor of Philosophy Stanley Rosen presented as part of the 52nd annual “University Lecture” series. Professor Rosen is the author of 13 books on philosophy, the most recent one of which is titled “The Elusiveness of the Ordinary.” [...]