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10:00Paul Wolfowitz and the World Bank

A discussion of the current questions being raised about Paul Wolfowitz' leadership of the World Bank, and why some say the controversy points to the need for more general institutional reform.

Guests

Dennis de Tray, vice president, Center for Global Development and former director at the World Bank

Stephen Moore, member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board and former President of the Club for Growth

John Cassidy, staff writer, The New Yorker

Devesh Kapur, Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania and coauthor of "The World Bank: Its First Half Century" (with John Lewis and Richard Webb, Brookings)1997

11:00Paul Starr: "Freedom's Power" (Basic Books)

Liberalism has a long and important history in the United States. But today, many shun the liberal label. The history of liberalism and how it can once again work for America.

Guests

Paul Starr, professor of sociology and public affairs at Princeton University and its Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, "The Social Transformation of American Medicine" and "The Creation of the Media." He is cofounder and editor of "The American Prospect."

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