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Historian David Kennedy on military-civilian relations … professor Jennifer Lawless on why young people hate politics … and Bill Press interviews progressive banker Keith Mestrich.

Pulitzer Prize winning military historian David Kennedy talks about the politics of war and relations between the military and their civilian bosses. Bernie Sanders may be attracting a lot of young people, but government professor Jennifer Lawless says they generally show no interest in running for office themselves ... EVER! And Bill Press interviews Keith Mestrich --  a progressive, that’s right, a progressive banker!

David Kennedy

Military historian David Kennedy says the military industrial complex isn’t what it used to be. And he advocates attaching a specific appropriation to any congressional authorization for the use of force.

http://west.stanford.edu/people/kennedy

Jennifer Lawless

How do we get high school and college students to harness their do-gooder spirit into elective politics? Professor Jennifer Lawless suggests – video games!

http://www.american.edu/spa/faculty/lawless.cfm

Keith Mestrich

Bill Press and his guest, progressive banker Keith Mestrich.

Jim Hightower

"We are writing the rules." Who's "we"?