As many of you know, Milt is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Having spent so many decades in the field, he’s often hesitant to discuss it. But this fascinating new book by the highly regarded Dr. Jeffrey Lieberman proved too much to ignore. Listen to these two amazing minds discuss the mind itself along with the history of psychology and psychiatry. You’ll hear a brand new take on the legacy of Sigmund Freud that could change the way that we view the field. Also discussed: Are psychiatrists in the 21st century too quick to prescribe psychotropic drugs?

Does that title suggest a newly-arisen concern? Not actually. Here are three veteran football players (all from the Chicago Bears) telling their disturbing stories way back  in 2001. What emerges in this rollicking conversation is that getting your bones broken gains you temporary riches, great stories and permanent pain.

Well, maybe not everything but in this spirited conversation with two physicians and one psychologist – all specialists on aging – we get around to almost everything. Including: longevity and its extension, modes of decline, methods of cognitive maintenance and, more broadly, the joys as well as the burdens of aging.

The travelers on this excursion are a former U.S. Assistant Attorney General (Joe Morris), a lawyer and broadcaster focused on “strategic” issues (Mary Hartigan) and the co-founder and Political Editor of The American Thinker (Richard Baehr).

Liberal versus Conservative is the way you classify this sort of discussion but it never – well, hardly ever – describes or predicts the way the discourse will go. These three discussants take on such problems as: the emergence and deep threat of ISIS, white cops and black victims,  the legalization of the illegal, the loss of American international “credibility,” the uses of soft and hard power, the future of Obamacare, how the presence of a black President has affected the rage and despair of “ghetto” youth.

We drew together two members of our “A-Team” and a major Democratic strategist. They are: old friend and regular Chris Robling; the Chicago Tribune’s great editorial cartoonist, Scott Stantis: and joining us for the first time, Kevin Lampe who really is and has long been an election manager and consultant for Democratic party candidates.

Our friendly combatants zero in on a number of expected and unexpected issues and questions.

Among them are:

• T-Tip. Whazzat?
• Obama’s personality as a factor in the great humiliation of his party;
• 32 million green cards for illegals and Republican responsibility for encouraging border-jumping;
• As campaigners, all new Republican Senators  called for full repeal of Obamacare;
• How the life of one of the discussants may have been saved by Obamacare;
• The banning of the  pipeline and the planned death of coal;
• Hillary as failed campaigner;
• The continuing war within the Republican Party;
• Obama’s penchant for “executive actions” and what the new majority (and the Supreme Court?) might do about it;
• Racism, sexism, homophobia and the minimum wage as worn-out Democratic ploys;
• And, oh yes, our problems elsewhere, including Iraq, ISIS, Putin and Ukraine, the Chinese challenge