Professors Adolph Baker, Jurgen Hinze, Richard Lewenton, and Father William Wallace discuss science and politics. The four professors explore question such as whether scientists be involved in political decisions. World War II and Vietnam War are used as examples by the scientists. An earlier interview with scientists Edward Teller and Albert Szent-Gyorgy is played.

Presenting an award-winning summary program of "Hard Times: an oral history of the great depression" series 1971-72: "A gathering of survivors" (part two) with Jim Sheridan, Pauline Kael, Emma Tiller, Frank Czerwonka, Cesar Chavez, William Benton, Sidney Weinberg. Chapter 12.

Discussing gays in the military with Director of Veterans Affairs for the City of Chicago Jim Balcer, Illinois State Representative Larry McKeon and Joey McDonald.

Discussing the book "Backfire: A History of How American Culture Lead Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight The Way We Did," (published by W. Morrow) with the author Loren Baritz.

Interviewing Jack Beatty, author and editor of the Atlantic Monthly.

American screenwriter, Walter Bernstein, discusses his book "Inside Out: A Memoir of the Blacklist".

Discussing "Guerrillas of Peace: Liberation Theology and the Central American Revolution," (published by South End Press) with the author Father Blase Bonpane.

Citizen Action and the New American Populism