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John Kenneth Gailbraith died this weekend. The Harvard professor was a distinguished economist and one of the most important and articulate voices for the liberal agenda. He appeared on the Conversations with History program on March 27, 1986. Here is the link http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/conversations/Galbraith/
Professor John Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago 
and Professor Stephen Walt of Harvard University 
have launched a national debate on the impact of Israel and its supporters on United States foreign policy. In the community of international relations theorists, both are realists with distinguished publishing records. Before the start of the Iraq War, they opposed the Bush administration's plan to depose the Iraqi dictator arguing that the containment strategy of Presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton had kept Saddam Hussein in a box where he was not an imminent threat to U.S. national security. They took their case to the Council on Foreign Relations where they debated leading neocons Max Boot and William Kristol. Both scholars have been guests on Conversations with History. Their interviews provide background to an understanding of their scholarship on international politics. Mearsheimer's interview is here http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people2/Mearsheimer/mearsheimer-con0.html and Walt's interview is here http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people5/Walt/walt-con0.html
