brown: from indonesia, ray suarez has the story of the search for a birth control pill for men that would help stem population growth in the world s 4th largest country. on the foothills of this dormant volcano, lost inside these leave there is may be a compound that s eluded scientists for decades an effective male oral contraceptive. ifill: and the first in a series of interviews with republican presidential candidates. tonight, judy woodruff talks to ron paul about his opposition to raising the debt ceiling and his quest to shrink the size of government. the department of education doesn t improve education. we don t need department of energy. all those subsidies in the department of agriculture. we don t need that. we don t need the department of commerce. ifill: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: i mean, where would we be without small businesses? we need small businesses. they re the ones t
cellular phone : : coming up next, book tv presents after word, an hour-long interview program where we invite a guest host to interview the author of a new book. this week, george packer and christopher hitchens talk about george orwell and his book. mr. packer collected the pieces that appeared in two recently published volumes of george orwell s writing. mr. hitchens, an essayist is the author of why orwell matters. host: welcome to c-span book tv s after words program. i m here in the unaccustomed roll of interviewer and producer of my friend and colleague, george packer, who has produced two volumes of the essays of george orwell, picked and introduced and commented upon, and so today orwell its our subject. i wish we had more than an hour. i m guessing, that you will have read the taylor book on george orwell. guest: i haven t. host: what a shame. doesn t matter. what i wanted to say from his book was something that i have a feeling you will agree with. taylor w
as far as trying to catch the guys that really want to blow us up. and there goes back too christmas day and a guy who is handing on an airplane in the detroit area apparently trying to blow up a bomb in his underwear and ever since then the transportation people, the homeland security people kind of ramped things up from them and this past week weekend we will tell you the big mess going on in newark. the administration sent out one of the top terrorism guys to do some spinning. we had janet napolitano who said the system worked and then the next day she walked it back, it didn t work. john brennan was in the hot seat yesterday. and he wanted to explain how listen, wele find out what happened but there really wasn t any one thing that would have told us this was going to happen on december 25th so the fact that he bought the tick with cash and the fact that he had no luggage and might not have had a pass part and the fact this guy s father turned him in. all the elem