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Angela Davis first came to national attention in 1969 when she was removed from her teaching position at UCLA because of her membership in the Communist Party.

Lou Gossett, Jr. is one of the most respected African American stage and screen actors, rising to fame with his Emmy-winning role in the television miniseries Roots and Oscar-winning performance in An Officer and a Gentleman.

Former US Vice President and climate change activist Al Gore discusses his new book Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Global Climate Crisis.

Six-time Emmy Award-winning actor of M*A*S*H, West Wing, ER and best-selling author Alan Alda, discusses his new memoir Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself.

William Kristol and John Podesta debate the issues, from stem cell research to the war on terror, that define and often divide American politics today. Evan Thomas, Assistant Managing Editor of Newsweek, moderates.

Dr. Leonard Peikoff, intellectual heir to Ayn Rand, explores the unlikely tension between a democratic nation and its people.

Bruce Feiler talks about his latest work of literary history, which may change the way America's history, faith, and future are viewed. Feiler adds a poignant, personal postscript to his talk.

Keen observers of the historical moment discuss how this may or may not be a pivotal moment in American culture.

Philip F. Gura traces the intellectual genealogy of America's first group of public intellectuals, who profoundly shaped 19th century American literature and social reform.

Amir D. Aczel, mathematician and historian of science, talks about the largest and yet arguably the most fundamental experiment in scientific history: the work with the Large Hadron Collider.