Virtually Speaking
Summary: Live & lively. Informal & informed conversations about politics, policy, economics, media, science and more. Sundays feature a panel of prominent members of the liberal blogosphere. Wednesdays dedicated to science, authors and practitioners with hosts Alan Boyle, Tom Levenson and Jennifer Ouelette. Thursdays, Jay Ackroyd talks public affairs, mostly with authors, mostly about progressive issues. , presented simultaneously through the 3-D Second Life communications platform.
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Podcasts:
Jay/Jimbo will chat with Stirling about the financial crisis and the bailout plan and its eventual effects
Hugo and Nebula award winning author Terry Bisson talks about science fiction and particularly 'Meat.'
Cliff Schecter comes to talk about the Real McCain
Karen Tumulty of TIME magazine joins us to discuss her experiences on Obama's overseas visits.
Organizers of NetRoots Nation in Second Life. CS Kendrick moderates.
David Sirota author of the Uprising will discuss the book and grassroots movements.
Cliff Schechter, author of The Real McCain will his book, and his experiences on MSNBC
Jeffrey Sharlet and Jay talk about religious subcultures in the United States and his new book, The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. The book investigates the political power of The Family, a secretive association of Christian evangelicals. Links:http://jeffsharlet.com/ http://www.harpers.org/archive/2003/03/0079525 http://killingthebuddha.com/author/jeffsharlet/
Rick Perlstein, Author of Nixonland comes by to discuss his extraordinary history of the 1960s.
Jay Ackroyd, aka Jimbo Hoyer, interviews Anthony Romero, head of the ACLU
Jay Ackroyd, aka Jimbo Hoyer interviews Darcy Burner discussing the Responsible Plan to end the war in Iraq.
Jay Ackroyd, aka Jimbo Hoyer interviews Stirling Newberry, modern Renaissance Man.
Eric Haas discusses the political framing of the immigration policy.
Glenn Greenwald joins us at the Virtually Speaking set to discuss his new book, Great American Hypocrites
Discussion of the political framing of the immigration issue.