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
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
So there were more Prisoners Released since any point since 2009. The 54 men who have been cleared from the weeds out of the 122 that still remain there. And we and others are pushing for their release as soon as possible as soon as they can be transferred to countries where they will be protected from rights violations. We need to prosecute the people against whom there is genuine evidence of wrongdoing. And we need to release the rest. So as i talked about earlier, this is one way of doing it hopefully not a hideous case like this one, thats another way of doing it, we see a greater momentum but far more needs to be done if this is going to close before president obama leaves office. The map we have time for one more question. I want to know if you feel as his lawyer that you have enough opportunity to get your hands on all of the information and that includes how if it was proven, that it was torture, and is in background enough to throw out any case against somebody . To answer the
Decision to publish what is commonly known as the torture report. I am rick macarthur, the publisher of harpers magazine. How many harpers magazineer subscribers here . We have a few. I am delith to welcome you to what i hope is the first of book culture. Book culture columbia is a proud new bookstore in upper manhattan manhattans west side. Harpers magazine is an independent outlet for the bet in American Literature with fiction, reporting, criticism and photography. As part owner we hope to work with chris dublin over there. Definitely give a hand. As often as we can to bring in authors and issues to the fore in front of audiences who are readers and book buyers. Tonight we are lucky to discuss the Senate Intelligence Committee Book on torture. Senator Diane Feinstein expo of the Central Intelligence program in the wake of 9 11. This is published by Melville House house and who else would have converted this massive, but readable text into a book in such a short time. We will talk to
On the offices of the student terrible newspaper. Massive manhunt underway. Two different foreign brothers of algerian descent. It was very shocking. Islam never taught this. It is not about killing people. It is a great sin. Today we will be joined by the leading european islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan, phyllis surprise winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, the lebanese french academic and harpers magazine publisher Rick Macarthur. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. France has declared a day of mourning as it continues a manhunt for two brothers wanted for killing 12 people at the satirical magazine. Wednesday night, thousands of people took part. The attack killed several common cartoonists, including the magazines editor Stephane Charbonnier. Use placed on al qaedas most wanted list in 2013. The paper had come under threat and was firebombed in 2011 after publishing controversial caricatures of the prophet m