Extension 720 Audio Archives

• Extension 720 Archives, October 13, 2009, John Des Rosiers, Gregg Horan, and Gian Carlo Nardini Audio

  Milt welcomes John Des Rosiers from Inovasi, Gregg Horan from Gibsons Restaurant Group, and Gian Carlo Nardini from Club Lago to dicuss different angles of the Restaurant Business, what goes into it and the Restaurant game. more

• Extension 720 Archives, July 23, 2009, Arika Okrent Audio

  Milt talks to Arika Okrent about her book, In the Land of Invented Languages. more

• Extension 720 Archives, July 16, 2009, John Drummond Audio

  Milt talks with Chicago legend John Drummond about his time covering Chicago crime. more

• Extension 720 Archives, July 10, 2009, Bruce Gans and Tom Lindsay Audio

  Milt talks with Bruce Gans and Tom Lindsay about the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution. more

• Extension 720 Archives, July 9, 2009, Doug Stanton Audio

  Milt talks with Doug Stanton about his book Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of US Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan. more

• Extension 720 Archives, June 30, 2009, Harry Stein Audio

  Milt talks with City Journal writer Harry Stein about his latest book I Can't Believe I'm Sitting Next to a Republican. more

• Extension 720, June 17, 2009, P.J. O'Rourke Audio

  Milt talks to P.J. O'Rourke about his book Driving Like Crazy more

• Extension 720 Archives, June 8, 2009, Paul Rahe Audio

  Milt talks with Hillsdale professor Paul Rahe about his book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift. more

• Extension 720 Archives, May 11, 2009, Fairness Doctrine Audio

  Milt talks with Brian Anderson of the City Journal and Brian Jennings, a longtime radio executive, about the fairness doctrine. more

• Extension 720 Archives, April 20, 2009, Mark Steyn & Ezra Levant Audio

  Mark Steyn and Ezra Levant join Milt to talk about free speech in Canada and the United States. more

• Extension 720 Archive, April 6, 2009, Curtis Roosevelt Audio

  Curtis Roosevelt, grandson of Franklin Roosevelt, joins Milt to discuss his book Too Close to the Sun, his account of his time at the White House and beyond, as well as a documentary he participated in making called Charlotte: A Royal at War. more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, March 2009

  Does the second amendment guarantee the right of citizens to bear arms? Or is this merely an outdated right that ought to be revoked or seriously restricted? On this program, we debated this divisive issue. Arguing for the continued... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, February 2009

  Now that the impeachment trial is over and we have a new governor, we thought it would be a good time to sit down and sort out the pieces. What kind of shape is Illinois government in? What is on the agenda of our new governor? We... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, January 2009

  On this program, we discussed the state of higher education with three guests- K.C. Johnson, Anne Neal, and Roger Kimball. (1/30/2009) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, December 2008

  This show, we bring you coverage and analysis of the explosive allegations concerning Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich. With us on this program in studio to discuss the events were Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass and political commentator Chris Robling, and joining us by phone were National... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, November 2008

  It was seventy-five years ago that the on-screen partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers began. Our guest on this program thought this a good time to examine the life of one of America's most beloved performers, Fred Astaire. Joseph Epstein, an old friend of the program and an incredibly... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, October 2008

  Milt discusses the potential revival of the fairness doctrine with Brian Anderson, editor of the City Journal and author of the new book A Manifesto for Media Freedom. (10/28/2008) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, September 2008

  Milt talks with Brian Greene about Icarus at the Edge of Time. (9/23/2008) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, August 2008

  Milt talks with Stanley Kurtz a few days after he gains access to the Annenberg Challenge files at the University of Illinois Chicago library. (8/27/2008) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, July 2008

  Milt talks with Victor Davis Hanson and Bruce Thornton about the fall of the Rome, and how that may relate to today's political climate (7/29/2008) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, June 2008

  Almost every person in the English speaking world knows has heard the words and knows the context of the phrase "Et tu Brute?", but what do you know of the life of the man who uttered those words? After this program you will know a great deal more! Our guest is Philip Freeman, who has just written... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, May 2008

  In this podcast we were joined by Gordon Horwitz, a professor of history at Illinois Wesleyan University and author of Ghettostadt: Lodz and the Making of a Nazi City. Horwitz tells the story of the Nazi attempt to re-engineer the Polish city of Lodz, home to 230,000 Jews, into a Nazi "utopian"... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, April 2008

  This night, we welcomed one of our favorite guests and political commentators, Mark Steyn. We talked with Steyn for the full 2 hours about the latest in the Presidential campaigns, his take on the Jeremiah Wright scandal, and the release of his book America Alone into paperback. We also talk about... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, March 2008

  Is the power and influence of the United States declining as the global economy flourishes? Yes, says our guest on this show. And it's not necessarily for the reasons you might think, such as the rising power of China and the European Union, although these do contribute as well. Also contributing to... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, February 2008

  Milt talks with John Silber about his latest book, Architecture of the Absurd. (2/29/08) more

• Extension 720, Audio Archives, January 2008

  Milt is joined by three of your favorite WGN personalities- John Williams, Kathy O'Malley of the Kathy and Judy show, and Dave Kaplan from Sports Central. Listen to find out what goes on behind the scenes at WGN Radio. (1/23/08) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives December 2007

  Milt talks with Gary Saul Morson and Susan McReynold Oddo about Russian literature. (12/19/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, November 2007

  Milt talks with his three guests about the use and abuse of the English language. (11/29/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives October 2007

  Milt talks with Oliver Sacks about his latest book, Musicophilia. (10/29/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, September 2007

  Milt talks with John Ferling, author of the book Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in the War for Independence. Ferling is a Professor Emeritus at the University of West Georgia and author of several books on the American Revolution. (9/27/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, August 2007

  Milt is joined in the studio by the AFTRA-SAG Radio Performers for a night of old time radio drama, including a performance of Dracula, as well as some old time commercials and skits. (8/27/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, July 2007

  Milt talks with Seth Lerer, author of the new book, Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. (7/23/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, June 2007

  Is the Fairness Doctrine really fair? Milt takes on this question with guests Joe Morris, a former Assistant Attorney General, Brian Anderson of the Manhattan Institute, and Bradley Smith, former Chairman of the Federal Election Committee. (6/29/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, May 2007

  Milt Rosenberg welcomes columnist, author, and political commentator Mark Steyn to the studio to get his thoughts on the latest events in the news, especially the new immigration reform bill before Congress. (5/31/07) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, April 2007

  Gentrification in Chicago is not a new phenomenon; many experts would argue that it is a part of the natual life cycle of urban communities. However, the recent development boom in Chicago has affected many traditionally run-down neighborhoods, including the North Kenwood- Oakland neighborhood on... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, March 2007

  What is the current state of marriage in America? Many experts would argue that it is very poort, indeed. That is the subject under discussion in this conversation with David Blankenhorn, founder and president of the Institute for American Values and author of the new book The Future of Marriage,... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, February 2007

  Former assistant secretary of defense and chairman of the Defense Policy Board Richard Perle returns to Extension 720 to discuss the current state of American foreign policy. Topics covered in this discussion include the buildup to the Iraq war, the growing threat from Iran, and the ability of the... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, January 2007

  Milt leads and overview of Victorian literature--including discussion of Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Darwin and more--with Lawrence Poston, professor emeritus of English at the University of Illinois Chicago, and Micael Clarke, professor of English at Loyola University... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, December 2006

  We name the best (and worst) books of 2006 with Ron Grossman, top features writer for the Chicago Tribune, and Joe Morris, a frequent guest on Extension 720 and a partner in the Morris and De La Rosa law firm. (12/27/06) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, November 2006

  Simon Winchester discusses the geological causes and the sociological consequences of the great San Francisco earthquake. His latest book is A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906. (11/30/06) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, October 2006

  A fascinating conversation with legendary art critic and social commentator Robert Hughes, who opines about the state of art criticism, modern art, and popular culture. Hughes' latest book is Things I Didn't Know: A Memoir. (10/31/06) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, September 2006

  Roderick MacFarquhar, professor of history, political science and government at Harvard University and co-author of the new book Mao's Last Revolution, discusses the history of communism in China, the roots of the Cultural Revolution, and how it affected Mao's legacy. (09/28/06) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, August 2006

  We remember Hurricane Katrina and analyze the recovery effort with Charles Dowding, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Northwestern University and Angela Rozas, a reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was recently assigned to the Gulf Coast region. Joining the discussion by phone are... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, July 2006

  One of our yearly (or semi-yearly) pleasures is a discussion of poetry with Joseph Parisi, the former editor of Poetry magazine. In this discussion, he is joined by Christina Pugh, a working poety and assistant professor of English at the University of Illinois Chicago. The occasion for their... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, June 2006

  Loren Graham, professor of the history of science at MIT and Harvard, discusses his years of experience in the former Soviet Union, as described in his book Moscow Stories. In this interview, he discusses what went wrong with science under the Soviets, whether there is a Russian national character,... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, May 2006

  One of the greatest living skeptics, Frederick Crews, applies his sharp analytical mind to such follies as psychoanalysis, intelligent design, and contemporary literary theory. The occasion for this conversation was the publication of his new collection Follies of the Wise: Dissenting Essays. (05/... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, April 2006

  An conversation about cosmology, physics, and the universe with Joel Primack, professor of physics at the University of California Santa Cruz, and his wife Nancy Abrams. They are the co-authors of the new book The View from the Center of the Universe: Discovering Our Extraordinary Place in the... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, March 2006

  We explore the roots and evolution of fascism with two experts: Stanley Payne, professor emeritus of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Peter Fritzsche, professor of history at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. (03/31/06) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, February 2006

  David Galenson, professor of economics at the University of Chicago, and Joshua Kotin, graduate student in English language and literature and editor of the Chicago Review discuss the nature of artistic genius and evaluate the careers of such diverse personages as Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Pablo... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, January 2006

  On the day of the Palestinian elections, we welcomed noted journalist Rami Khouri, current editor-at-large for the Beirut-based Daily Star and former editor of the Jordan Times, who provided a guided tour d'horizon of the Middle East. Topics included in this must-listen conversation include the... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archive, December 2005

  WGN's own Dave Kaplan, Steve Cochran and John Williams join Milt to discuss the year at WGN, radio and media in general. (12/28/05) more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, November 2005

  Eminent sociobiologist E.O. Wilson discusses the legacy of Darwin with Robert Richards, professor of the history of science at the University of Chicago. The occasion for this conversation was the publication of the new book From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books, but other topics... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, October 2005

  Thousands of people each year claim that they have been abducted by creatures from another planet. Those claims, and the reasons behind them, are analyzed in this conversation with Susan Clancy, author of Abducted: How People Come to Believe They Were Kidnapped by Aliens. Joining her for part of the... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, September 2005

  Robert Pinsky, former poet laureate of the United States, and Benjamin Sommer, professor of religion and head of the Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies at Northwestern University, discuss the historical and poetical importance of King David. The occasion of the discussion is the publication of... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, August 2005

  As the Gulf Coast--and New Orleans in particular--struggles to recover from the horrific aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Extension 720 gathered a panel of experts to discuss a variety of aspects of the tragedy, particularly the infrastructural and sociological challenges that now face the government... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, July 2005

  Victims of Justice RevisitedA discussion of wrongful convictions--and particularly the history of wrongful convictions in Illinois--with a panel of three experts who are all heavily invested in this issue. They are Rob Warden, head of the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University,... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, June 2005

  Two of Extension 720's oldest friends from the Field Museum--provost Robert Martin and adjunct curator James Phillips--talk about the latest research into the origins and descent of human beings. One of the topics is the recent discovery of a supposedly new species of human, homo floresiensis. (06/... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, May 2005

  Three experts on Buddhism join in a roundtable discussion of the history and practice of that ancient religion. They are: Dan Arnold, professor of the philosophy of religion at the University of Chicago's Divinity School, Patti Nakai, non-resident minister at the Buddhist Temple of Chicago, and... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, April 2005

  Former Chicago alderman Leon Despres--along with former Chicago Tribune reporter Kenan Heise--discusses his twenty years standing up to the Chicago Democratic machine, headed by the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Despres new memoir is Challenging the Daley Machine: A Chicago Alderman's Memoir. (04/27/... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, March 2005

  Henry Ford once said that "all history is bunk," but our panel of three expert historians explains the craft of history and the latest trend in that discipline. James Cracraft of the University of Illinois Chicago, Ethan Shagan of Northwestern University, and Suzanne Kaufman of Loyola University... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, February 2005

  We continue our celebration of the The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare series with this program highlighting the best of Shakespeare's comedies. Nick Rudall, founding director of the Court Theatre at the University of Chicago, and Cindy Gold, professor of theatre at Northwestern University, discuss,... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, January 2005

  Acclaimed film critic David Thomson discusses the golden age of Hollywood and analyzes scenes from classic films, including Gone with the Wind, Casablanca and The Godfather. Thomson is one of the best writers about film working today, and his latest book is The Whole Equation: A History of... more

• Extension 720 Audio Archives, 1996-2000

  Monday December 4th, Milt talked to ANTHONY LAKE, National Security Advisor to President Clinton from 1993-96, as they discussed his new book 6NIGHTMARES: REAL THREATS IN A DANGEROUS WORLD AND HOW AMERICA CAN MEET THEM. (12/4/2000) more