Hour 1
The controversial passage of sweeping changes to American health care have spurred 14 states’ attorneys general to file legal challenges to the federal law. These efforts have enlisted language and legal precedents of “nullification” and “interposition” that have roots that date back to Madison and Jefferson, John C. Calhoun and the secession of the Confederate South, and the Southern resistance to Civil Rights law and integration. Joining Marty to discuss these efforts, their legal and political bases and the Constitutional questions they raise are Columbia Law professor and Constitutional legal scholar GILLIAN METZGER and Princeton historian SEAN WILENTZ.

Filed under: health, politics, social issues |

Hour 2
Last week a car crashed into a horse-drawn carriage in Philadelphia. The accident ended up involving four other carriages. Two of the carriage drivers were hospitalized along with car’s driver; however the horses were only scratched. The accident has sparked debate over the use of horse-drawn carriages for tourism in Philadelphia and other cities. This hour, we'll debate the issue and get a historical perspective on how horses have been used in American cities. Our guests include: Midge Leitch, University of Pennsylvania equine veterinarian, Edita Birnkrant, New York director of Friends of Animals, Michael Kates, vice-president of operations for 76 Carriage Company, and Ann Norton Greene, an historian at the University of Pennsylvania.

Filed under: transportation |