Janie Hampton is the leading authority on the social history of the Olympic games in London. We discuss the 1948 Olympics based on her book The Austerity Olympics.
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Guests include UCSB professor Doc Searls explaining the new era of consumerism; comedian Michael Ian Black extolling the freedoms we have in America; Rebecca Coffey helping us make sense of the Aurora, CO shooter John Holmes; gun control law expert John Lott, Jr. explaining his controversial theory of how more guns mean less crime; and Joyce Gioia commenting on a titanic shift in today’s workplace where older workers outnumber younger ones.