Both guests have articles in the January 2007 issue of Harper's Magazine: "Republic or Empire" and "Army of Altruists". What is the state of the US empire and where are we going? Why do working class kids join the army?
Producers: Alan Minsky and Melissa Figueroa Engineer: DAngelo Jones
CHALMERS JOHNSON taught for thirty years, 1962-1992, at the Berkeley and San Diego campuses of the University of California and held endowed chairs in Asian politics at both. At Berkeley he was chairman of the Center for Chinese Studies and of the Department of Political Science. His B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in economics and political science are all from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1968 until 1972 he served as a consultant to the Office of National Estimates of the Central Intelligence Agency. His most recent books are Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. His new book Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic will be published by Metropolitan in 2007
in the Januaary issue of Harper's Magazine, Chalmers Johnson wrote: Republic or Empire, A National Intelligence Estimate on the United States
David Graeber is an anarchist and anthropologist. He is an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University, although Yale has controversially declined to rehire him, and his term there will end in June 2007. He is the author of Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology and Towards an Anthropological Theory of Value: The False Coin of Our Own Dreams. As of January 2007, he is preparing four books for future publication. Two, Possibilities: A Book of Essays, and Direct Action: An Ethnography, are already written and in process of review by AK Press; two more (one, a history of the concept of debt; the other, an attempt to outline an anarchist version of world-systems analysis) are works still in progress.
also in the January issue of Harper's Magazine, David wrote an article entitled: Army of Altruists, On the alienated right to do good.
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