Mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. The john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org. Park foundation, dedicated to heightening Public Awareness of critical issues. The kohlberg foundation. Barbara g. Fleischman. And by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why were your retirement company. Welcome. Trade, money and politics are our issues this week, and my guest is the outspoken journalist who runs the iconic harpers magazine, which for 164 years now has thrown open its pages to some of the most ferociously independent voices in american letters, from mark twain, jack london and Herman Melville to william styron, Joyce Carol Oates and david foster wallace. As the president and publisher of harpers for the last 31 years,john r. Rick macarthur has been as ferocious a champion of democr