Walter V. Robinson (born January 13, 1946) is an American investigative reporter for The Boston Globe, where he has worked as reporter and editor for 34 years. From 2007 to 2014, he was a Distinguished Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University in Boston. Robinson currently holds the title of Editor-at-Large at the Boston Globe, as well as the Donald W. Reynolds Visiting Professor of Journalism at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University, and a Professor of Practice at Northeastern University.Robinson led the Globe's coverage of the Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal, for which the newspaper won, and he personally accepted, the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service.[1][2] The last investigation Robinson led for the Spotlight Team, called "Debtors Hell", exposed the practices of debt collectors.[3] That work was a finalist for the Local Reporting Pulitzer in 2007. The Pulitzer Board cited the staff's "well documented exposure, in print and online, of unscrupulous debt collectors, causing two firms to close and prompting action by state officials."[4] Robinson has reported for The Boston Globe from 48 states and more than 30 countries. Robinson was portrayed by Michael Keaton in the 2015 film Spotlight, the winner for Best Picture at the 88th Academy Awards.[ Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_V._Robinson

Walt Pavlo is a nationally recognized speaker who lectures on all aspects of white collar crime and federal law enforcement. In addition to speaking, Walt is the co-founder and president of Prisonology, an expert testimony, consulting and training firm for issues on the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Walt co-authored "Stolen Without A Gun" with Neil Weinberg (Reporter at Bloomberg) and is currently a contributor to Forbes.com and the New York School of Law's Compliance and Enforcement Program where he writes on white-collar crime and the federal legal system. He is a Loyola Law Journalism Fellow. Over the past 14 years Pavlo has presented at top ranked business schools, accounting firms, law enforcement agencies and professional societies as part of their training program. He recently appeared on CNBC's American Greed for his coverage of the Sky Capital trial. Pavlo is represented by the speaker's bureau 500 Pearl Street (www.500PearlStreet.com). Pavlo's story and work have been covered by Forbes, NY Times, Wall Street Journal, NBC Today Show, National Public Radio and ABC Nightline. He is a frequent contributor on white-collar crime on CNBC and Fox Business. When not speaking, he is covering white-collar crime for Forbes.com and his own website www.500PearlStreet.com Visit Walt's Website: https://prisonology.com .

Lawrence Maxwell Krauss (born May 27, 1954) is an American-Canadian theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is Foundation Professor of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, and director of its Origins Project.[2]He is an advocate of the public understanding of science, of public policy based on sound empirical data, of scientific skepticism and of science education, and works to reduce the influence of what he regards as superstition and religious dogma in popular culture.[3]Krauss is the author of several bestselling books, including The Physics of Star Trek (1995) and A Universe from Nothing (2012), and chaired the Bulletin of the Atomic ScientistsBoard of Sponsors.[4] After some time in the Harvard Society of Fellows, Krauss became an assistant professor at Yale University in 1985 and associate professor in 1988. He was named the Ambrose Swasey Professor of Physics, professor of astronomy, and was chairman of the physics department at Case Western Reserve University from 1993 to 2005. In 2006, Krauss led the initiative for the no-confidence vote against Case Western Reserve University's president Edward M. Hundert and provost John L. Anderson by the College of Arts and Sciences faculty. On March 2, 2006, both no-confidence votes were carried: 131–44 against Hundert and 97–68 against Anderson.In August 2008, Krauss joined the faculty at Arizona State University as a Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at the Department of Physics in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. He also became the Director of the Origins Project, a university initiative "created to explore humankind's most fundamental questions about our origins".[2][8] In 2009, he helped inaugurate this initiative at the Origins Symposium, in which eighty scientists participated and three thousand people attended.[9]Krauss appears in the media both at home and abroad to facilitate public outreach in science. He has also written editorials for The New York Times. As a result of his appearance in 2002 before the state school board of Ohio, his opposition to intelligent design has gained national prominence.[10]Krauss attended and was a speaker at the Beyond Belief symposia in November 2006 and October 2008. He served on the science policy committee for Barack Obama's first (2008) presidential campaign and, also in 2008, was named co-president of the board of sponsors of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In 2010, he was elected to the board of directors of the Federation of American Scientists, and in June 2011, he joined the professoriate of the New College of the Humanities, a private college in London.[11] In 2013, he accepted a part-time professorship at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics in the Physics Department of the Australian National University.[12]Krauss is a critic of string theory, which he discusses in his 2005 book Hiding in the Mirror.[13] In his 2012 book A Universe from Nothing Krauss says about string theory "we still have no idea if this remarkable theoretical edifice actually has anything to do with the real world".[14][15] Another book, released in March 2011, titled Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science, while A Universe from Nothing —with an afterword by Richard Dawkins—was released in January 2012 and became a New York Times bestseller within a week. Originally, its foreword was to have been written by Christopher Hitchens, but Hitchens grew too ill to complete it.[16][17] The paperback version of the book appeared in January 2013 with a new question-and-answer section and a preface integrating the 2012 discovery of the Higgs boson at the LHC. On

Mark Edward Whitacre (born May 1, 1957) is an American business executive who came to public attention in 1995 when, as president of the Decatur, Illinois-based BioProducts Division at Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), he became the highest-level corporate executive in U.S. history to become a Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) whistleblower. For three years (1992–95), Whitacre acted as an informant for the FBI, which was investigating ADM for price fixing.In apparent retaliation for his role as an informant,[7] ADM investigated Whitacre's activities and, upon discovering suspicious activity, requested the FBI investigate Whitacre for embezzlement. As a result of US$9.5 million in various frauds, Whitacre lost his whistleblower's immunity, and consequently spent eight-and-a-half years in federal prison. He was released in December 2006. Whitacre is currently the chief operating officer and President of Operations at Cypress Systems, a California biotechnology firm. The Informant! is a Warner Bros. feature film released on September 18, 2009. Produced by Jennifer Fox and directed by Steven Soderbergh, the dark comedy/drama film stars Matt Damon as Whitacre. The screenplay by Scott Z. Burns is based on Kurt Eichenwald's book, The Informant, with most of the filming done in Central Illinois (Moweaqua and Decatur).[23] In the movie, the character of Whitacre is portrayed as exhibiting bizarre behavior, including delusions, mania, and compulsively lying. It was eventually learned that Whitacre was suffering from bipolar disorder.[23] Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Whitacre I also recommend taking a look at these links that Dr. Whitacre was nice enough to provide me with personally: The links that I was referring to about FBI support is (and their take on the movie is linked below):http://www.markwhitacre.com/fbibacksmark-hometown.htmlAnd the short trailer of the 2010 Discovery Channel Documentary of the real FBI agents including Brian Shepard linked below:http://www.markwhitacre.com/discovery.html

Before the diatribe, let’s begin with a simple--relatively simple, thought experiment… what do you think of when you hear the word “totalitarianism”? As my ear is obviously not party to your inner thoughts, I am remanded to the custody of speculation. I imagine you conjure up, quite readily and with little trouble, images of bootheels, synchronized marches of uniform as well as various flags and banners exalting the visage of a dear leader (or great leader, perhaps?) for all to see. In other words, an aggressive light, yes? I did, as well. Imagine then, the unpleasant surprise that stole over me as I watched almost-certain virgin and beta-male, Sean Taylor of the University of Utah say in one of the more ineloquent and clumsily-prepared burps I have heard, the following line: “I don’t care… that’s not a relevant document” when asked by an ABC news reporter about the first amendment’s role in allowing conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to speak on campus. You can find his disgraceful and uninspired performance in the annals of YouTube if you look hard enough (just kidding, here’s the link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj5JXrpwsZs; Taylor begins, rather ironically, at 4:20) Is there not rather more than the fundamental totalitarian element endemic in Mr.Taylor’s words? What serious person could have guessed (and indeed, what person would have been taken seriously?) for postulating the idea that this would be the shape in which the modern totalitarian ideal takes?Perhaps you’re reading this and wondering why we shouldn’t simply laugh off the hapless Mr. Taylor? Or do I, with my (somewhat noticeable) conservative bent, have another motive entirely? On the proposal of mirth as the answer, I am unpersuaded. And I am unpersuaded for the following reason: Last year, Federal Judge Richard Posner (can we call him Dick?), said the following in a piece for Slate Magazine:I see absolutely no value to a judge of spending decades, years, months, weeks, day, hours, minutes, or seconds studying the Constitution, the history of its enactment, its amendments, and its implementation (across the centuries—well, just a little more than two centuries, and of course less for many of the amendments). Eighteenth-century guys, however smart, could not foresee the culture, technology, etc., of the 21stcentury. Which means that the original Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the post–Civil War amendments (including the 14th), do not speak to today. David Strauss is right: The Supreme Court treats the Constitution like it is authorizing the court to create a common law of constitutional law, based on current concerns, not what those 18th-century guys were worrying about. In short, let's not let the dead bury the living. Does the ideal still seem worthy of nothing more than a laugh and a shrug? I would invite you to say if it does. Now to truly dig into the gravamen of the discussion, my feeling is summed up rather eloquently and concisely by Adelaide Stevens who said the following in a 1952 address to the American Legion Convention: “The tragedy of our day is the climate of fear in which we live, and fear breeds repression. Too often sinister threats to the Bill of Rights, to freedom of the mind, are concealed under the patriotic cloak of anti-communism.” Sadly, that cloak is still worn with gusto. However, in our current climate, this cloak is sewn with two manners of thread: political correctness and victimhood. Both seem to be wholly liberal values (in answer to any lingering suspicions regarding my political fealty). Regardless of what you feel of Milo Yannopoulis, is not the central thrust of the argument for banning him from speaking on campus (which was so eloquently expressed with flipping cars and threats of violence towards any dissidents) done in the name of PC-flavored delusions of persecution?While we’re at it, let’s pick up the insufferable (and insidious) ideal of the “safe space” and examine it. The insipid suggestion that we

Reston was an assistant to U.S. Secretary of the Interior, Stewart Udall (1964–1965) and served in the U.S. Army (1965–1968) as an intelligence officer. He was a lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of North Carolina (1971–81).[1] Reston is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington D.C.[2] and has been a fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a resident scholar at the Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.Reston is the author of 17 books, three plays, and numerous articles in national magazines. His works of both fiction and non-fiction cover a wide range of historical and political topics. Five of his works, Galileo: A Life, The Last Apocalypse, Warriors of God, Dogs of God, and Luther's Fortress have been translated into thirteen foreign languages. Warriors of God was an international best seller. The Last Apocalypse was a main selection of the Book of the Month Club in 1999. His 2015 book, Luther's Fortress, was nominated for the prestigious Philip Schaff Prize for the best book about church history published in 2015-16. Reston was David Frost's Watergate adviser for the historic Nixon Interviews which forced ex-President Nixon to apologize for his Watergate crimes and remains the most watched public affairs television program in broadcast history. (The Watergate interrogation had an audience of 57 million viewers.) His book on the historic interviews, The Conviction of Richard Nixon, is the basis for the hit play, Frost/Nixon, in which the Jim Reston character is the narrator. In the Hollywood film adaptation of the play, directed by Ron Howard, Reston is played by the actor, Sam Rockwell. The movie received 5 Academy Award nominations. Reston's 2013 work, The Accidental Victim, is a non-fiction book about John F. Kennedy's assassination which argues that Texas Governor John Connallywas Lee Harvey Oswald's intended victim.[3]In 1985 Reston was the Newsweek, PBS, and BBC candidate to be the first writer in space on the NASA space shuttle. That program was scrapped after the Challenger accident in January 1986.Reston's three plays are: "Sherman the Peacemaker" which premiered at the Playmakers Repertory Company in Chapel Hill, N.C. in 1979; "Jonestown Express" premiered at the Trinity Square Repertory Company in 1982; "Galileo's Torch", which adapted from his biography of Galileo, has had seven productions between 2014–17, including at the University of Oklahoma, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, and the Castleton Festival in 2017.Reston's articles have appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Time, The New York Times Magazine, George, Esquire, American Theatre, Playboy, and Rolling Stone.r In recent years he has lectured widely in the United States and overseas on the millennium and the Crusades, citing their relevance to modern issues. Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Reston_Jr.

      Thank you for tuning in! I am your host Josh Cohen. In my debut interview, I have the pleasure of speaking with best-selling author and television personality, J Randy Taraborelli. He has written 14 New York times bestsellers! We discuss our mutual love of Martial Arts, how he got his start as a journalist, his friendship with and experience writing the famed biography of Michael Jackson., as well as his various Kennedy books and much more! I hope you enjoy and please feel free to leave any feedback! Thank you!

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