CLAScasts
CLAScasts brings you audio recordings of lectures by distinguished guests to the Franklin & Marshall community.
Seth Shulman, "Restoring Scientific Integrity: Advice for the New Administration"
Shulman, author of Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration, discusses a misuse of science and lack of scientific integrity in policymaking in the Bush administration.
Interview with Seth Shulman:
Interview with Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason
"To paraphrase Thomas Jefferson, I tremble for my country when I reflect upon the utter lack of reason in a lot of our public discourse right now."
Naomi Oreskes: The Denial of Global Warming
"The historical fact is that science has already told us. It told us a long time ago, and it told us that global warming is largely man-made. The most recent assessment report of the IPCC, which was issued last February, uses even stronger and clearer language; they now use the word 'unequivocal,' and as a historian of science, when I saw that I really sat up and took notice because scientists almost never say that anything is 'unequivocal'…"
Daniel Levy: The Shape of a Peaceable Foreign Policy
"The reason I focus so long on this issue of occupation is--dignity matters to people. Yes, bread, salary, living conditions. But dignity matters to people. It's very difficult to have dignity under occupation."
Joe Szabo: America's Image Abroad in Political Cartoons
"I want to show you how people think. In their words."
Jonathan Miller: A Brief History of Disbelief
"I never had to lose belief; I never entertained it in the first place. So that I've only become, as it were, a self-conscious disbeliever, and a chronicler of disbelief, by the raucousness of express by those who are exponents of belief."
Bert Drake: Beyond an Inconvenient Truth
"I could sense a sea change. And what I sensed was what one of the oil executives said on one of the talk shows early Sunday morning--the debate's over. The question is: what do we do now?"
