Speakers' Forum: Pledge Drive Special Fall 2009

10/08/2009 at 8:00 p.m.

Twice a year during the pledge drive, we pull together our favorite talks from the previous six months and give you a chance to hear them again. Tonight, a candid ex–marine spills about military life. Tyler Boudreau says he was practically giddy when the Iraq war started. Once there, he even wrote about the joy in killing. But in that same diary entry, Boudreau said he was pretty sure he would eventually feel some guilt.

Also, we'll get a clear health care explainer from T.R. Reid. Reid pulls out everything you want to know about Canadian, British, and German systems, for example, and explains in plain terms how they work.

Last: Barack Obama is President, so racism in America is over, right? Um... no. Tim Wise speaks against racism and the privileged status he enjoys as a white person. He says any post–racial America talk is nonsense.