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Nixonland, Then and Now: Q&A With Rick Perlstein
May 19, 2008 "Nixonland" -- that's Rick Perlstein's term for the political world where candidates win power by mobilizing people's resentments, anxieties and anger, where politics destroys its victims. Do we still live in Nixonland, and if so, when will we leave?
Pico Iyer on Tibet, China and the Dalai Lama
May 10, 2008 As opening day of the Beijing Olympics approaches, the Chinese government and official media have intensified their attacks on the Dalai Lama, blaming him for the recent violent demonstrations in Tibet. Pico Iyer, whose new book is "The Open Road: The Global Journey of the Fourteenth Dalai Lama," talks with Truthdig's Jon Wiener about this intercultural conflict and about the Dalai Lama himself.UC Irvine Fires Liberal Law School Dean
Sep 14, 2007 In a move that shocked legal scholars and outraged faculty, University of California Irvine Chancellor Michael Drake has fired noted liberal law professor Erwin Chemerinsky, who had signed a contract only a few days ago to become the first dean of UC Irvine's new law school.
Carl Bernstein: Hillary?s Politics From 1968 to 2008
Jul 20, 2007 The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter on Watergate has just published "A Woman in Charge," a biography of Hillary Clinton, for which he interviewed almost 100 of her friends and enemies. Carl Bernstein spoke recently with Truthdig's Jon Wiener about the first former first lady to make a bid for the presidency.
Christopher Hitchens: Religion Poisons Everything
Jun 7, 2007 Jon Wiener spoke with Hitchens in 2007 about his views on religion and the book that would turn out to be one of the milestones of Hitch's career as a public intellectual.
Palestinians’ Hard Choice: An Interview With Sari Nusseibeh
May 3, 2007 Palestinian intellectual, political figure and former PLO official Sari Nusseibeh (above) talks with Jon Wiener, historian and contributor to The Nation, about Nusseibeh's new memoir, future prospects for peace between Israelis and Palestinians, and the 2006 July War in Lebanon -- a war, he says, that "both sides lost."