Five Leaders at King Drew Medical Center Fired; Therapy Culture; Caltech Oral History Project; Taxes
Five Leaders at King Drew Medical Center Fired
Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with Los Angeles Times staff writer Charles Ornstein about the firing of five top leaders at King Drew Medical Center.
Therapy Culture
Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with sociologist Frank Furedi about his new book Therapy Culture: Cultivating Vulnerability in an Uncertain Age (Routledge). The author argues that Americans are increasingly framing everyday problems through the prism of emotions, resulting in needless feelings of powerlessness and illness.
Caltech Oral History Project
The Caltech Archives has housed an Oral History Project since the late 1970s, to record the accomplishments of its professors and administrators. In the fall of 2002, Caltech began putting some of the oral histories online, making select interviews available to the general public. Caltech’s archivist, Dr. Judith Goodstein, joins guest Host Jon Beaupre to discuss the project. Joining Jon also is one of the oral history subjects, Dr. Neil Corngold.
Taxes
Guest host Jon Beaupre talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times tax reporter David Cay Johnston about his new book Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everyone Else.