How Google affects our knowledge, our politics, our privacy, and our public projects and why we should be concerned, with University of Virginia professsor Siva Vaidhyanathan, author of The Googlization of Everything: (And Why We Should Worry);

Then, Religion, politics, the so-called God Gap, and how it’s all changing, with Harvard professor and author of Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam, And University of Notre Dame professor David Campbell. Together, they authored American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us.

AND on the Scholars’ Circle: more crackdowns in Syria, Saudi Arabia’s counter revolution, and the diplomatic and economic relationships that matter among the Arab States and with the West. 

Scholars’ Circle guests: Professor John Esposito, Founding Dir. of the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown Univ. and author of more than 35 books including, Islam: The Straight Path. Nader Hashemi, professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at University of Denver,  and  co-editor of, The People Reloaded: The Green Movement and the Struggle for Iran’s Future. Mehran Kamrava is Director of the Center for International & Regional Studies and the editor of, The New Voices of Islam: Rethinking Politics and Modernity.

Political power: what is political power? Who has power? How is it changing? And who will be the new powerful? WPRR Fri, KPFT Sat, KPFK Sun (noon). www.kpfk.org for archives. A roundtable with Joseph Nye, Guilio Gallarotti and Erica Chenowith.

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How political systems developed, and how and why they decay:  A discussion with Francis Fukuyama.

THis week on the Insighters, we analyze the latest Supreme Court term in the context of history with Erwin Chemerinsky for the Insighters followed by a discussion about how the new billionaire class is affecting law and society. It may be slightly different from what you think. On WPRR, KPFT, KPVL, KRFP, KPFK Sunday and poscasted & archived at www.kpfk.org after Sunday.