Richard Heffner's Open Mind Archive | THIRTEEN episodes:

• May 21, 2011There are not all that many people who can really move the needle: Sir Paul Nurse

  Medicine Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse discusses notions of scientific elitism.

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• May 14, 2011Have Scientists Earned the Trust of their Paymasters… the Public?

  Sir Paul Nurse discusses the relationship between scientists and the public.

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• May 13, 2011Farewell to Gutenberg?

  Historian Michael Korda discusses the history and trajectory of publishing.

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• May 12, 2011Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama

  Writer Will Bunch discusses his new book on "paranoid politics."

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• April 16, 2011Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

  Law professor David Garland discusses his book on capital punishment in America.

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• April 09, 2011The Bully Pulpit

  Speechwriter Michael Waldman discusses his book "POTUS Speaks.

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• April 02, 2011Medicalizing Poor Political Leadership, Part II

  Lord David Owen continues discussing illness in heads of government.

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• March 26, 2011Medicalizing Poor Political Leadership, Part I

  Lord David Owen discusses illness and heads of state.

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• February 26, 2011Palliative Medicine: Care versus Cure?

  Dr. Diane Meier discusses her new book on dealing with serious illness.

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• February 19, 2011The Obama Agenda… for a New Deal, Part II

  Sociologist Theda Skocpol continues her discussion of contemporary politics.

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