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KBOO
Program::
Air date:
Thu, 12/17/2015 - 10:15am to 11:00am
Law and Disorder on Progress on More Humane Drug Policies and the History of Radicals in America
Flashpoints is off today.
We'll hear Law and Disorder featuring Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs, talking about progress being made toward establishing more sensible and humane drug policies in the US. Also Christopher Phelps, historian of modern American political and intellectual life, (and former Portlander), discusses his new book, Radicals In America: The US Left Since The Second World War, a comprehensive history of the American left since the Second World War co-authored with Howard Brick.
We'll hear Law and Disorder featuring Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, the leading organization in the United States promoting alternatives to the war on drugs, talking about progress being made toward establishing more sensible and humane drug policies in the US. Also Christopher Phelps, historian of modern American political and intellectual life, (and former Portlander), discusses his new book, Radicals In America: The US Left Since The Second World War, a comprehensive history of the American left since the Second World War co-authored with Howard Brick.