Today on Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard has a conversation with Harlow Giles Unger talks about his new book, “Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation,”
Ninety percent of Americans could not vote and did not enjoy rights to life, liberty, or the pursuit of happiness when our Founding Fathers proclaimed, “all men are created equal.” Alone among those who signed the Declaration of Independence, Dr. Benjamin Rush heard the cries of those other, deprived Americans and stepped forth as the nation’s first great humanitarian and social reformer. Dr. Rush led the Founding Fathers in calling for abolition of slavery, equal rights for women, improved medical care for injured troops, free health care for the poor, slum clearance, citywide sanitation, an end to child labor, free universal public education, humane treatment and therapy for the mentally ill, prison reform, and an end to capital punishment.
Today Leonard speaks to director Stephanie Welch and co-writer Andrew Kimbrell. The documentary “A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream” reveals how...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Randy Shaw expands on the themes of housing inequity that he explores in his book. In cities across...
Today, Leonard’s conversation is with economist Idrees Kahloon and Ben Freeman of the Center for International Policy talking about foreign policy. And discussing Kahloon’s...