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A judge in Pennsylvania ruled intelligent design could not be taught in high school biology classes. We'll talk about the case and the claims of some that there is a growing anti-science bias in the U.S.
Margaret Talbot, contributing writer at The New Yorker, senior fellow at New America Foundation
Robert Hazen, staff scientist, Carnegie Institution, Robinson Professor of Earth Sciences at George Mason University, and author of "Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin" published by Joseph Henry Press, National Academy of Sciences
David Guston, associate director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes and professor, Political Science, Arizona State University
Dr. Philip Pizzo, Dean, School of Medicine, Stanford University and professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology and Immunology
Diane invites listeners to join her and a panel to discuss the first book Lewis wrote in what would become "The Chronicles of Narnia" series.
Kate Lehrer, author, most recently of "Confessions of a Bigamist."
E. Ethelbert Miller, poet; director of the African American Resource Center at Howard University, chair of the Washington D.C. Humanities Council. His last book was "How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love."
Adam Gopnik, staff writer for "The New Yorker" and author of "The King in the Window" and "Paris to the Moon."
E.J. Dionne, senior fellow at The Brookings Institution, Washington Post columnist, and author of "Stand Up Fight Back."