Lundberg, who is now Executive Vice President of Medscape, speaks out against American healthcare and what he sees as its neglect of prevention, research and ultimately of patient well-being. At one time the classics were revered as the wellsprings of Western culture and civilization. Tune in tonight as we rescue the world of Thucydides, Aristotle, Euripides, Plato and other white males from, to borrow Anthony Flew s useful term, the fallacy of pseudo-refuting categorization. Though most would agree that the mind is a terrible thing to waste, much disagreement has arisen in recent days over the structure of the American education system. Tonight, we evaluate vouchers, school testing, teaching reform, and a host of other education issues currently on the table.
Milt is joined in the studio by a panel of Illinois education reform activists and scholars.
Since the troubled 2000 Presidential Campaign, our leaders have finally buckled down to the more serious business of policymaking. A new administration, tax cuts, campaign finance reform, education initiatives, debate over the future of American foreign policy, and much more have been put on the table. Tonight, Milt is joined by an expert panel which will attempt to sort out the news of the past few months and its impact. Over the course of two presidential administrations, Henry Kissinger was the central figure in one of the most important eras of American foreign policy. From negotiating the end of the War in Vietnam to Cold War diplomacy with the Soviet Union and China to the Middle East and Africa, Kissinger, along with Presidents Nixon and Ford, articulated a new diplomacy, and controversy always followed.