Zbigniew K. Brzezinski

How can a country spend as much time and money on education as ours does and produce declining literacy and numeracy?

Mr. Barzini has the depth of a scholar and the facility of a journalist. Agree with him or not that Europe "should have one common foreign policy, one common defense policy, and one financial policy," he is a joy to listen to.

This show starts with the narrow question of how bilingual education is supposed to work and how it in fact works; but it very quickly broadens and deepens into an exploration of what holds the American society together--and whether it deserves to be held together.

In 1970 the wife and daughters of Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald--a Green Beret stationed at Fort Bragg--were killed. The chain of evidence eventually led to MacDonald himself, and despite testimony at the pre-trial hearings by Drs. Sadoff and Halleck to the effect that it was all but inconceivable that he was the murderer, he was tried and convicted.