Audio Tapes/CDs of Public Programs

• Abuse of Executive Power: Worse Than Watergate? examines the aggressive use of executive power by President Bush, especially his claim that as Commander-in-Chief he can override statute law.
• Gulliver in Lilliput examines the neo-conservative ideas that have inspired the foreign policy of the Bush administration.
• Superpower Syndrome helps us understand 9-11 and the Bush response as examples of apocalyptic violence -- ridding the world of evil.
• The Patriot Act Under Surveillance asks what some true patriots, ranging from Tom Paine to Sam Ervin, would say about this act. Three panelists add their assessments. Main speaker is Christopher H. Pyle.
• Will U.S. Dominance Bring Security? takes a critical look at Bush's National Security Strategy and offers alternatives for U.S. foreign policy.
• Crony Capitalism - Global and American Style looks at the influence of powerful individuals and corporations on public policy and the economy.
• Underfunding: A Threat to Our Civil Society explores sources of Wisconsin's budget mess, its impact on people, and strategies for reform.
• Alternative Media in A Democratic Society illustrates how alternative media operate to help citizens understand issues.
• A Thoughtful Response to Sept. 11 suggests we begin, not with violent retaliation, but with an analysis of the dynamics of terrorism.
• Bush's Missile Defense: Will It Make Us More Secure? shows why this "defensive shield" is really an aggressive weapon which will imperil world peace and make us less secure.
• Rewind and Fast-Forward reviews progressive achievements of the 20th Century and points directions for progressive action in the 21st.
• Privatization contrasts public with private control of public services and describes the impact of privatization on wages and quality of services.
• Tax Reform: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire? unmasks exaggerated claims for the flat tax and argues for the superiority of a broad-based income tax.
• Corporate Power Series deals with the media, the public relations industry, and global capitalism. (Three tapes)

See listings below for details

Abuse of Executive Power:

Worse Than Watergate?

John Dean, author, White House Counsel to President Nixon at the time of Watergate

Stanley Kutler, Professor Emeritus,  Law School, E. Gordon Fox Professor of American Institutions

University of Wisconsin-Madison

58-min cassette or CD                                Recorded 4-29-06 

Gulliver in Lilliput:
American Foreign Policy in a Neo-Conservative Age

Shadia B. Drury, Professor of Philosophy, University of Regina, Canada

with comments on Conservative Politics by

Matt Rothschild, Editor, The Progressive
Don Jones, Resigned military officer, political consultant, Member of the TMI Board

80-min cassette or CD        Recorded 10-01-05

Superpower Syndrome:
America's Apocalyptic Confrontation with the World

Robert Jay Lifton, Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School

with additional comments by

Patrick Barrett, Administrative Director, Havens Center, UW-Madison
Jeff Patterson, Professor of Family Medicine, UW-Madison

82-min cassette        Recorded 04-17-04

The Patriot Act Under Surveillance

Christopher H. Pyle, Professor of Politics, Mount Holyoke College
"The Patriot Act According to Patriots"

Discussion Panel:

Christopher Ahmuty, Executive Director, ACLU Wisconsin
Sheila Spear, former Director, International Student Services, UW-Madison
Carin Clauss, Professor, Law School, University of Wisconsin

With audience participation

90-min cassette        Recorded 10-11-03

Will U.S. Dominance Bring Security?

Thomas Ambrogi, theologian, human rights and social justice activist
"Bush's National Security Strategy"

Chris O'Sullivan, Lecturer in History, University of San Francisco
"Alternatives for U.S. Foreign Policy"

Dialog between speakers, with audience participation

85-min cassette        Recorded 4-26-03

Crony Capitalism - Global and American Style

Tim Shorrock, author and investigative journalist
with response panel:

Bill Duddleston, Professor of Economics, Edgewood College

Allen Jacobson, President, Buttonwood Partners

John Nichols, Associate Editor, The Capital Times

87-min cassette        Recorded 9-21-02

Underfunding: A Threat to Our Civil Society

Andrew Reschovsky, Professor, UW-Madison and LaFollette School of Public Affairs "Wisconsin's Budget Problem: A Structural Deficit” Jack Norman, Research Director, Institute for Wisconsin's Future
leading two panel discussions:

Risks to Our Quality of Life and Strategies for Reform

Anne Arnesen, Executive Director, Wisconsin Council on Children & Families

Dave Cieslewicz, Executive Director, 1000 Friends of Wisconsin

Ed Huck, Executive Director, Wisconsin Alliance of Cities

Jim Cavanaugh, President, South Central Federation of Labor

Karen Royster, Executive Director, Institute for Wisconsin's Future

80-min cassette        Recorded 5-11-02

Alternative Media In a Democratic Society

Norman Stockwell, Operations Coordinator, WORT Community Radio
"Alternative Media and The Pacifica Story”

Matthew Rothschild, Editor and Publisher of The Progressive
"Bush's Pre-emptive War on Iraq: A Commentary"

55-min CD         Recorded 3-9-02 and 8-12-02

A Thoughtful Response to Sept. 11

Anne McClintock, Professor of English and Women's Studies, UW-Madison
"Masculinity and Other War Zones”

42-min cassette         Recorded 11-17-01

Bush's Missile Defense:
Will It Make Us More Secure?

Robert M. Bowman, President, Institute for Space and Security Studies Director of Star Wars programs under Presidents Ford and Carter
"Bush's Missile Defense: Defensive Shield or Aggressive Weapon?"

Joseph Elder, Professor, Sociology and Languages and Cultures of Asia University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Bush's Missile Defense: Stability or Instability in Asia?"

Matthew Rothschild, Editor and Publisher of The Progressive
"Bush's Missile Defense: Risking Catastrophe"

60-min cassette        Recorded 3-31-01

Rewind and Fast-Forward:
Reinvigorating Progressive Action for the 21st Century

John Nichols, Editorial Page Editor of The Capital Times
"The Progressives—Then and Now”

Matthew Rothschild, Editor and Publisher of The Progressive
"Promise and Peril Ahead”

Robert McChesney, author of "Rich Media, Poor Democracy." Professor, Institute of Communications Research, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana
"The Media and Democracy”

Connie Threinen, League of Women Voters, Wisconsin Women's Network
"Feminism and the Political Left"

Steve Braunginn, Executive Director, Urban League of Greater Madison
"Civil Rights and the Left"

Jim Roseberry, Instructor of History and Economics at MATC
"Economic History of the American Left"

90-min cassette        Recorded 4-29-00

Privatization

Tape #1

Joseph Elder, Professor of Languages and Cultures of Asia University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Public vs. Private Control: Past History and Recent Changes”

Frank Emspak, Professor in the School for Workers, Univ. of Wisconsin
"Should Markets Govern?”

David Newby, President, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO
"Impact of Privatization on Workers”

Eugene Farley, Professor Emeritus and former Chair of Family Medicine University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Privatizing Our Health Care”

John Nichols, Editorial Page Editor of The Capital Times
"Privatizing Our Democracy”

Dialog with the Audience

Tape #2

Barbara Lawton, Democratic Candidate for Lt. Governor, Wisconsin, 1998
“Privatizing Our Government”

Ed Garvey, Democratic Candidate for Governor, Wisconsin, 1998
"Privatizing Our Information System”

Dan Cornwell, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Privatizing Social Security”

Gordon Clark, National Executive Director of Peace Action
"Corporate Influence in U.S. Military and Foreign Policy”

Dialog with the Audience

Two 90-min cassettes        Recorded 10-2-99 and 11-6-99

Tax Reform: Out of the Frying Pan, Into the Fire?

Congressman Tom Barrett (D-WI)
"The Flat Tax: A Loser for Wisconsin Taxpayers"

Michael Ettlinger, Tax Policy Director, Citizens for Tax Justice
"Unmasking the Flat Tax"

Max Sawicky, Economist with the Economic Policy Institute
"Income vs. Consumption Taxation"

Dan Cornwell, Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"Fixing the Income Tax: Why and How"

Audience Q&A

60-min cassette        Recorded 4-25-98

Corporate Power Series

Robert McChesney, Professor of Journalism and Mass Communication University of Wisconsin-Madison (now at University of Illinois at Urbana)
"Corporate Power and the Media"

72-min cassette (includes Q&A)        Recorded 1-11-97

John Stauber, Founder and Director, Center on Media and Democracy
"Corporate Power and Propaganda"

60-min cassette        Recorded 2-8-97

William Greider, author of One World, Ready or Not
"The Manic Logic of Global Capitalism"

60-min cassette        Recorded 4-12-97

How to Order

Prices:

$10 for one tape, $ 5 for each additional tape
$12 for one CD, $10 for each additional CD

Be sure to include information below.

Please enclose check with order mailed to:

The Madison Institute
2712 Marshall Court, Suite 2
Madison, WI 53705