Ideas In Action with Jim Glassman
A weekly series on ideas and their consequences. Each episode limits itself to one topic, and presents a discussion of trends, conditions, and ideas behind the week's headlines, in order to go deeper into a subject than the average TV show. Viewers engage with a diverse group of economists, historians, anthropologists, political scientists, demographers, and social philosophers, as well as authorities from many other disciplines.
Ideas In Action with Jim Glassman Previous Broadcasts
The Quest: Energy, Security and the Remaking of the Modern World, an Interview with Daniel Yergin (Episode #306)
KQED World: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 4:00 AM
Interview with author Daniel Yergin, international energy expect and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his book, The Prize, in 1992.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED World: Fri, Feb 22, 2013 -- 10:00 AM
How Do You Solve A Problem Like Illegal Immigration? (Episode #240)
KQED World: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 -- 4:00 AM
Guests: Doris Meissner, Senior fellow at the Migration Policy Institute and former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service; Mark Krikorian, Executive Director of the Center for Immigration Studies; Ali Noorani, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum. Illegal immigration has become a hot button issue in America. Can a compromise be found between those who want all illegal immigrants to be sent home and those who want to give them amnesty and allow them to stay?
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED World: Fri, Feb 15, 2013 -- 10:00 AM
Is Nuclear Energy Dead? (Episode #304)
KQED World: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 -- 4:00 AM
Guests: Tony Pietrangelo, Sr. VP of the Nuclear Energy Institute; Charles Ferguson, President, Federation of American Scientists; Thomas Cochran, Senior Scientist, Natural Resources Defense Council. The nuclear power industry has suffered severe setbacks recently that bring into question whether it will be a viable source of energy in the future. Yet China has committed to nuclear in a big way. A discussion of the future of nuclear energy at home and abroad.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED World: Fri, Feb 8, 2013 -- 10:00 AM
Bringing Better Health Care to Women In Africa (Episode #303)
KQED World: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 -- 4:00 AM
A program taped during the Global Health Care Conference held in Washington in September, 2011.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED World: Fri, Feb 1, 2013 -- 10:00 AM









