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September 11, 2001: Expert Analysis, Part 2

With Morton Kondracke, Bill Gertz

Added 5.7.18. In this second installment of expert interviews conducted during the week of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, Milt talks to Morton Kondracke, then the editor of Roll Call magazine; and Bill Gertz, then the Pentagon correspondent for The Washington Times. This fascinating and historic discussion foreshadows much of the subsequent response of the U.S. and its allies.

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September 11, 2001: Expert Analysis, Part 1

With Daniel Pipes, Donald Kagan, more

Added 5.7.18. In these broadcast excerpts dating from shortly after the terrorist strike on the World Trade Center in New York, Milt speaks with two expert panels. The first is made up of Daniel Pipes of the Middle East Forum, plus three University of Chicago political scientists: Charles Lipson, John Mearshimer, and Robert Pape. Their conversation centers in part on the appropriate response to the attack, and the efficacy of U.S. and allied military force as a deterrent to future radical Islamic terrorism. The second group is historians Donald Kagan of Yale and Frederick Kagan of The U.S. Military Academy. This conversation includes analysis of the dangers of action versus the dangers of inaction.

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P.J. O’Rourke: Driving Like Crazy

With P.J. O'Rourke

Added 5.3.18. Milt in 2009 interviewed writer and political analyst P.J. O’Roure about his other life as a car journalist. O’Rourke had just had published a collection of related articles titled, “Driving Like Crazy.” The chat veers from the golden era of the U.S. auto industry toward a range of related topics including: how both the manufacturing and hot-rodding of cars has changed; government regulation of the industry; and O’Rourke’s mad adventure driving a Land Rover across northern India.

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Media Freedom Imperiled In Canada

With Mark Steyn, Ezra Levant

Added 5.3.18. Milt in 2009 interviewed two journalists who found themselves in very hot water with the Canadian government, for what they had published relating to radical Islam. They were Ezra Levant, author of, “Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy In The Name Of Human Rights,” and Mark Steyn, author then of, “Lights Out: Islam, Free Speech, And The Twilight Of The West.”

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