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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
Hour 1 By all accounts, the Supreme Court's current term has been filled with decisions on important and historic cases, influencing criminal procedure, privacy, and decency on the airwaves, with decisions still to come that will influence politics and policy. The Court has already decided on cases including redistricting in Texas, whether religious schools have [...]
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Hour 1 Vanity Fair editor-at-large CULLEN MURPHY believes there is nothing new under the sun about interrogation. He says ingredients for a modern day inquisition are here today as bureaucracies, information technology, and surveillance keep expanding; and there are still religions and totalitarian regimes fixed on an idea, forcing everyone else to tow the line. [...]
More »Friday, January 13th, 2012
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] We like to think we’re in charge of ourselves but neuroscientist DAVID EAGLEMAN says that have a lot less self-control than we think. In his fascinating book "INCOGNITO: The Secret Lives of the Brain," Eagleman describes the leading role that our unconscious mind plays in our daily lives, commanding our instincts, emotions, [...]
More »Friday, December 30th, 2011
Hour Two [REBROADCAST] Where do convicted sex offenders live after they’re paroled? Laws vary within the United States and the states themselves, and Miami-Dade County made news the last several years as its ordinance banned registered sex offenders at least 2,500 feet from children, pre-empting the Florida law of 1,000 feet. In 2007 news of [...]
More »Friday, December 16th, 2011
Hour 2 [REBROADCAST] It’s called the “five finger discount” and it’s been around for centuries – Plato, Zeno and St. Augustine all had thoughts on shoplifting. In her fascinating book, The Steal: A Cultural History of Shoplifting, writer RACHEL SHTEIR traces the modern origins of shoplifting to Elizabethan England, when pilfering from stalls and shops [...]
More »Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Hour 2 Several high profile cases in recent years involving the abuse of children have highlighted serious weaknesses in Pennsylvania's child welfare system and the Commonwealth's laws designed to protect them. Charges of sexual abuse at Penn State and against priests within the Archdiocese of Pennsylvania point to the need for (1) institutions to be held [...]
More »Tuesday, November 15th, 2011
Hour 1 As shocking and disturbing as the allegations against former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky are, some of the facts of the case come as no surprise to experts in the field of child sexual abuse. As in most cases of involving child molestation — the Catholic Church, the Boy Scouts — this one [...]
More »Monday, November 14th, 2011
Hour 1 Eyewitnesses identify roughly 75,000 suspects a year and some studies have shown that as many as one-third of them may be wrong. DNA evidence has exonerated over two hundred people convicted, in part, on false identification. This has raised serious questions about the trustworthiness of our eyes, memories, and police and court procedures. [...]
More »Monday, November 7th, 2011
Hour 1 Sometimes, it’s because they’re drunk or high. Sometimes it’s because they’re uninsured or unlicensed. But why – how – a driver could flee the scene of an accident – hit and run – is still largely a mystery in most cases, as vast numbers of hit-and-run drivers speed off, leaving wounded, maimed and [...]
More »Friday, November 4th, 2011
Hour 1 BOB DELANEY’s life has already brought him deep inside worlds most of us can only dream about. In his first act, he spent three years infiltrating the Mafia as a young New Jersey state trooper. Then he spent 25 years running up and down professional basketball courts as a referee in the NBA. [...]
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February 20
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