May 20th, 2008 · Joseph Epstein, contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, talks about an awkward honorary degree situation at Northwestern University; the university offered and then rescinded a degree to Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former pastor, who made headlines with inflammatory remarks.
Feb 14th, 2008 · Last year, the dean for the Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism wrote two articles in the alumni magazine praising the school's curriculum. In those articles, Dean John Lavine used quotes from anonymous students, who talked about the wonderful education they were receiving. Medill senior and Daily Northwestern columnist David Spett found the anonymous quotes odd and went searching for the students who wrote them. He was never able to find them. Michele Norris talks with David Spett about the column he wrote this week about trying to find those students.
Jul 10th, 2007 · Scholars Charles Moskos, professor emeritus at Northwestern University, and Chris Gelpi, political science instructor at Duke University, discuss military service and public opinion.
Aug 31st, 2006 · Northwestern University's Pat Fitizgerald is the youngest coach in Division 1A college football. He was asked to step in after the team's popular head coach, Randy Walker, died suddenly this summer, just weeks before practices were to start. On Thursday night, Fitzgerald -- himself a former Northwestern football star -- and his team will kick off the new season.
Jun 7th, 2006 · Commentator Deborah Mathis looks at what role skin shade, and not just race, plays in prison sentencing. A new study shows darker-skinned African-Americans receive harsher sentences than their lighter-skinned counterparts. Deborah Mathis is a syndicated columnist and a professor at the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
Jan 24th, 2006 · Farai Chideya and Northwestern University law professor Dorothy Roberts talk about black women's issues in relation to the abortion debate. Roberts is author of Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction and the Meaning of Liberty.
Sep 15th, 2005 · In his latest book, historian Garry Wills takes a new approach to a history of America written by a member of the famous Adams family. In Henry Adams and the Making of America, Wills refutes the accepted reading of Adams' history as an attack on Thomas Jefferson and provides interesting insights into our national history that resonate in politics today. Wills is professor of history emeritus at Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.