Hillary, Barack & the future of liberalism [audio 52min]

Psychologist Drew Weston, author of The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation, tells host Jim Fleming that Democrats need to learn to sell their core issues by speaking in emotionally effective language, as the Republicans have since the days of Ronald Reagan. Paul Krugman, one of the most prominent liberal pundits in America, talks with interviewer Steve Paulson about his latest book, The Conscience of a Liberal. Interviewer Anne Strainchamps talks with three contributors to a new book called Thirty Ways of Looking at Hillary, which is comprised of essays by women novelists, essayists and critics on the subject of how the writers respond to Hillary Clinton as a cultural symbol and public personality. Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy, author of Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word, talks with Paulson about Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal and says Clarence Thomas is the most disliked prominent Black man in America, but may not deserve the term"sellout." And Barack Obama talks with Paulson about his self-image and success.