Jul 25, 2013
The executive director of the advocacy group NETWORK, Sister Simone Campbell is a passionate advocate for social justice whose work is an expression of her religious faith. It is good for one's development as a person to be reminded that people can arrive at a similar place by very different routes. Randy first heard...
Jul 18, 2013
An actor, writer, and comic, John Fugelsang is the host of pretty much the entire Current TV lineup during its transition to Al-Jazeera. His Off-Broadway solo show, All The Wrong Reasons, recounts the unusual courtship of his parents, a Franciscan brother and an ex-nun. For reasons too complicated to explain, John may...
Jul 15, 2013
A columnist for The Nation and a professor of political science at Tulane University, Melissa Harris-Perry is particularly astute about gender, race and politics, which she explores in her recent book, Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. In addition to writing, teaching, and raising...
Jul 8, 2013
A contributor to The New Yorker for fifty years, he is particularly admired for his writing about food and crime, a combination we leave to more subtle minds to untangle. He is the winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor for his collection, Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff. On this...