This week’s show featured a lecture by Professor Wendy Doniger titled “When Humans Are More Beastly Than the Beasts: Zoomorphism in Ancient India.” Her lecture included a discussion of animal imagery in Ancient India, and the characteristics that humans and animals share.
Professor Wendy Doniger is a Phi Beta Kappa Society Visiting Scholar, Director of the [...]

On this week’s show, Massachusetts Middlesex County District Attorney Martha Coakley talked about how gavel-to-gavel television coverage of high-profile criminal cases affects the American justice system.
A 1979 Boston University School of Law graduate, Coakley joined the Middlesex Distric Attorney’s office in 1986 as an assistant district attorney. Five years later, she became chief of [...]

This week’s show featured a lecture on why and how desire has been seen as evil in both the Christian and Jewish traditions by Richard Kearney, Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College and Visiting Professor at University College in Dublin.
Responding to Professor Kearney’s comments was Robert C. Neville, Professor of Philosophy, Religion, and Theology, [...]

This week’s show featured a panel discussion entitled “The U.S. and Europe: Still Sharing the Same Values?” presented by the Institute for Human Sciences at Boston University.
The panelists were Quentin Peel, International Affairs Editor of The Financial Times and Peter Schneider, author and current Roth Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Georgetown University. They discussed the relationship, and [...]