A debate that was held Saturday July 12 at FreedomFest 08 in Las Vegas will be aired on BookTV (CSpan-2) on Sunday August 24 from about 6:15 am to 7:30 am EDT. The program is described here at booktv.org. The page title says: “Debate on Intelligent Design with George Gilder, Stephen Meyer, Michael Shermer, and [...]
Category Archives: BookTV
Creationists’ new legistlative maneuvering: state “Academic Freedom” acts
April 6, 2008 – 4:25 pm
The latest wave of anti-bioscience activity in the legislative arenas in several states is the Introduction of “Academic Freedom” bills, such as the one introduced in Louisiana recently (and discussed by Casey Luskin at the Discovery Institute’s Evolution News and Views blog (with the illustration posted here at right).
The “Louisiana Academic Freedom Act” declares its [...]
Schönborn & Ratzinger on Evolution, Creation, and “Intelligent Design”
February 25, 2008 – 1:04 am
This program will be re-run this weekend:
Upcoming Schedule
Sunday, April 13, at 9:30 AM EDT
Sunday, April 13, at 2:00 PM EDT
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This weekend I heard the talk by Christoph Cardinal Schönborn at Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, California, given February 15, 2008, and aired this weekend on CSpan2/BookTV (where it might be re-aired in [...]
Children of Jihad
December 30, 2007 – 8:47 pm
I’m listening now to a fascinating presentation by a book author who has spent substantial time with young people in the Middle East. The book is:
Cohen, Jared. Children of Jihad a Young American’s Travels among the Youth of the Middle East. New York: Gotham Books, 2007.
Information about the book, including library holdings in local areas, [...]
Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker
December 16, 2007 – 1:15 pm
from BookTV.org (ncludes links for purchasing the book, or viewing RealPlayer recording of the program):
Richard Kahlenberg talks about the life and career of Albert Shanker, president of the United Federation of Teachers from 1964 to 1984 and president of the American Federation of Teachers from 1974 to 1997. Commentary is provided by Eugenia Kemble [...]
E.O. Wilson on BookTV (& “methodological naturalism”)
August 3, 2007 – 12:20 pm
E.O. Wilson will be featured in a 3-hour interview program on CSpan-2 in the US Sunday August 5 Here is a question that I’ve sent by email. I don’t expect they’ll use it, but I’d be interested in responses from others as well. Since this blog concerns curriculum, the question here is not whether ID is true or not, but whether it belongs in science classes.
Pledging Allegiance (BookTV)
May 17, 2007 – 7:21 pm
Added April 20, 2008: Somebody reached this post today by doing a search on “Ayers” and “BookTV”. I see the BookTV and CSpan links that were originally posted here are no longer good. They’ve changed their databases. The new link for the BookTV database is HERE. The page there includes a link for [...]
Blyth Patriotism (BookTV): “How to Raise an American”
May 17, 2007 – 7:19 pm
On BookTV — CSpan-2 — Eastern Daylight Time
On Saturday, May 19 at 9:15 am and Sunday, May 20 at 4:00 pm
How to Raise an American: 1776 Fun and Easy Tools, Tips, and Activities to Help Your Child Love This Country
Myrna Blyth
Description: In “How to Raise an American,” Myrna Blyth instructs parents on how to [...]
Rod Paige v. Teachers Unions (BookTV)
May 17, 2007 – 7:17 pm
Remember when Bush’s Education Secretary Rod Paige called the NEA a terrorist organization? Well, he’s Baa-ack — with his new book: The war against hope: how teacher unions hurt children, hinder teachers, and endanger public education.Click the title (above) for detailed information on the book, and to check your local libraries on WorldCat (with link [...]
Zimbardo: Abu Ghraib, Milgram, Prisoner Experiment (BookTV)
May 17, 2007 – 7:13 pm
Zimbardo cites the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and draws on the findings of his Stanford Prison Experiment, in which a group of student volunteers were arbitrarily divided into “guards” and “inmates” and then placed in a simulated prison environment.
Howard Zinn on BookTV (video online)
February 4, 2007 – 11:50 am
On BookTV Howard Zinn talks about themes in his new book, A Power Governments Cannot Suppress. His talk includes comments that are relevant to the attack on Zinn by Lynne Cheney (discussed earlier here).
Shermer & Wells @ Cato (video online)
November 22, 2006 – 11:48 am
Update: This event will be on BookTV three times this (Thanksgiving) weekend:
On Thursday, November 23 at 5:30 pm and Friday, November 24 at 6:15 am and Sunday, November 26 at 3:00 am …
Michael Shermer spoke on themes of his book Why Darwin Matters: The Case against Intelligent Design, followed by Jonathan Wells, author of the “Promiscuously Incorrect Guide to Darwinism and Intelligent Design.” MP3 Podcast and RealMedia video recordings of the event are linked from the Cato site.
Sunstein & “social knowledge”
October 14, 2006 – 2:59 pm
In the future I will be writing more about the crucial difference between these two senses of “information.” They are such different ideas that I need to adopt different ways of signifying them. For now, I’m thinking of differentially using “in-formation” juxtaposed with “info-mation.” It seems to me that this could work. What do you think?
Infotopia on BookTV
October 13, 2006 – 2:16 pm
Professor Sunstein presents the possibilities of a human potential to aggregate information by sifting through volumes of unfiltered information without resorting to prejudice and preconceptions.
Book TV: Travels of a T-Shirt, and National Book Festival
September 29, 2006 – 11:23 am
note: if you would like to know about any rebroadcasts of the T-Shirt program in future weekends, use the RSS feed. See
http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/03/booktv-notification/
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The weekend schedule for CSpan-2 is at
http://www.booktv.org/schedule/ .
A big chunk of time this weekend will be live coverage of the National Book Festival, which means the scheduling is more flexible and we don’t have descriptions of author presentations [...]
Antietam
September 17, 2006 – 3:08 pm
Re-airing on Saturday, December 23 at 11:15 am and Tuesday, December 26 at 4:00 am [ET]
http://www.booktv.org/History/index.asp?segID=7367&schedID=468
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note: if you would like to know about rebroadcasts in future weekends, use the RSS feed. See
http://tonywhitson.edublogs.org/2006/09/03/booktv-notification/
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I did not intend to record this, since it looked like one of those “reenactors” events that I generally don’t see as worthy [...]
Lynne Cheney vs. Howard Zinn; and an invitation to participate in an online history project
September 9, 2006 – 12:46 am
Please join in developing a collaborative wiki alphabet book of Great American Accomplishments. Please add your own entries, or add to the entries that are already here! Click here for the Index page. Why would I (or anybody) do this? Here’s an explanation of where the idea for this wiki comes from:
During an interview that was [...]
