Eric Kuhn '09 will interview Pat Buchanan, Ron Reagan and George Lakoff (author of Don't Think of an Elephant!) on the college's radio station WHCL 88.7 FM on Monday, Oct. 9, at 4 p.m. The show, Kuhn and Company, can also be heard at www.whcl.org. Kuhn is soliciting questions from his audience for Buchanan, Reagan and Lakoff. He asks that all questions be sent to him at ekuhn@hamilton.edu.
Kuhn and Company is broadcast live every Monday from 4-5 p.m. Among Kuhn's previous guests are former New York City Mayor Ed Koch, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, activist Cindy Sheehan, Merrill Lynch Chief U.S. and Quantitative Strategist Richard Bernstein, Andrea Mitchell (NBC) and Tucker Carlson (MSNBC). Previous interviews may be heard at www.erickuhn.com. Future guests include pundit and blogger Arianna Huffington, marketer and author Seth Godin, author Doris Kearns Goodwin and Salon.com's Eric Boehlert, among others.
Pat Buchanan has been a senior advisor to three American presidents (Nixon, Ford and Reagan) and a presidential candidate during the '92, '96 and 2000 campaigns. One of the nation's foremost conservative political figures, he has been a columnist and commentator on three talk shows: PBS's "The McLaughlin Group," CNN's "Capital Gang," and CNN's "Crossfire."
A former ballet dancer, Ronald Reagan, son of the 40th president of the United States, worked in recent years as a magazine journalist and a TV personality. He has expressed his opposition to many of the Bush administration's policies. In a 2003 interview with Salon.com, he called the administration "overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt."
George P. Lakoff, UC Berkeley linguist and author of Don't Think of an Elephant: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate--The Essential Guide for Progressives (2004) dissects conservative catchphrases like "death tax" and "war on terror." He is an expert in political behavior and society and the Right's success in shaping the language of political debate. He is also the founder of a progressive think tank, the Rockridge Institute.
Kuhn and Company has been featured on WOR's The Joey Reynolds Show, NBC affiliate WKTV News Channel 2, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Syracuse Post-Standard, the Utica Observer Dispatch and numerous Internet blogs. Kuhn is from Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y.
