Charlie Rose

If you do have the luxury of not having to get up early every morning (as I presently do!), it will definitely be worth your while to check out the Charlie Rose show on PBS thirteen, aired at 11p EST. It is probably the best talk show on TV right now, and has been for a while.

Looking at the last two weeks as a basis, there have been some tremendous people featured on the show, from molecular biologists to New York film critics. Some of the best interviews over the last few days have been; the scientific duo of James Watson (yes, the Watson-Crick model!) and naturalist Edward Wilson on Charles Darwin and evolution; Thomas Friedman (at his animated best!) on foreign policy and George Shultz (former secretary of state and current academic at the Hoover institute), who I think is one of the sharpest minds on foreign policy, and its no coincidence that his protege (Condi Rice) is doing a fine job right now.

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