Political Perspectives on 05/12/10

Host Michelle Schroeder speaks with activist and author Paul Loeb. He is the author of Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in Challenging Times (St Martin's Press 1999 and 2010, now with over 100,000 copies in print), The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear (Basic Books, 2004, and named the #3 political book of that year by the History Channel and the American Book Association), Generation at the Crossroads: Apathy and Action on the American Campus (Rutgers University Press, 1994), Nuclear Culture, and Hope in Hard Times. He has written on social involvement for numerous publications. In 2008 Loeb worked with Campus Compact to create and coordinate the Campus Election Engagement Project, helping colleges and universities in 15 states engage their students in the election. He is also an affiliate scholar at Seattle's Center for Ethical Leadership and blogs regularly at HuffingtonPost.