ELECTION 2008: America On The Line
Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
236 Commercial Street, Provincetown
Tuesday, September 9 at 8:00pm
Regular Tickets: $25
Premium Tickets: $50 (Includes reception)
Each year WHAT commemorates 9/11 with a thought-provoking event in
Provincetown. This year, a critical one for the future of America, a
panel of influential commentators will join Mindy Todd,
popular host of "The Point" on WCAI, the Cape's NPR affiliate, to
discuss the upcoming Presidential election.
Buy a premium ticket for special seating and an after-party with Todd and our special political guests:
Robert Jay Lifton is a visiting professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Hospital and a former distinguished professor of psychiatry and psychology at the Graduate School University Center and director of The Center on Violence and Human Survival at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at The City University of New York. He had previously held the Foundations' Fund Research Professorship of Psychiatry at Yale University for more than two decades. He has been particularly interested in the relationship between individual psychology and historical change, and in problems surrounding the extreme historical situations of our era. He has taken an active part in the formation of the new field of psychohistory.
His writings on Nazi Doctors (on their killing in the name of healing) and the problem of genocide; nuclear weapons and their impact on death symbolism; Hiroshima survivors; Chinese thought reform and the Chinese Cultural Revolution; psychological trends in contemporary men and women; and on the Vietnam War experience and Vietnam veterans, have appeared in a variety of professional and popular journals. He has developed a general psychological perspective around the paradigm of death and the continuity of life and a stress upon symbolization and "formative process," and on the malleability of the contemporary self.
Todd Domke is a Boston area Republican political analyst,
public relations strategist, and author. Todd's been writing a bi-monthly column for the Boston Globe, analyzing the 2008 presidential race. He has often been quoted in the national media as a strategist and career advisor - including The Today Show, CNN, NPR, The Wall Street Journal, The New Republic, Newsweek, Maxim, Cosmo, Smart Money, PBS, ABCNews.com and Dateline NBC. He has been a regular commentator for WGBH-TV, New England Cable News, and WBUR radio. He is co-author of "Cain and Abel at Work: How to Overcome Office Politics," published by Broadway Books in 2001 and published overseas in Korean and Spanish in 2004, and "The Conservative's Dictionary," a book of humorous definitions published by St. Martin's Press in 1996. He is the author of "Grounded," a humorous novel for young adults published by Knopf. He is now writing a humorous book about amateur golf.
Jimmy Tingle was the American correspondent for Sir David
Frost’s show for PBS and the BBC, The Strategic Humor Initiative. He
completed two seasons with 60 Minutes II on CBS as the humorist /
commentator in the Andy Rooney spot. He worked as a contributor and
satirist for MSNBC and has appeared on Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn,
The Tonight Show, Larry King Weekend, and The Late Show with Conan
O'Brien, The Late Late Show with Tom Snyder, The American Comedy
Awards, as well as his own HBO comedy special.
From 2002 to 2007 he served as owner, principal performer and
producing director of Jimmy Tingle's OFF BROADWAY Theater in
Somerville, MA, which presented over 200 productions and/or co
productions from the worlds of comedy, music, theater, television,
radio, political events and kids shows during it’s five years of
existence.
Jimmy is currently touring his latest theatrical satire "Jimmy
Tingle for President: The Funniest campaign in History”
Nancy Giles is currently a contributor to the Peabody Award
winning “CBS News Sunday Morning,” voicing her opinions on
everything from politics and race to plus-sizes and Janet Jackson’s
famed “wardrobe malfunction.” She was also part of the ensemble
cast of the Emmy Award winning drama series China Beach and the
comedy series Delta (starring Delta Burke), both on ABC; and was the
announcer and sometimes co-host of Fox After
Breakfast. Nancy’s toured with Chicago’s Second City, and has
written and performed two solo pieces: Black Comedy: The Wacky Side
of Racism and Notes of a Negro Neurotic. She’s adapting that
material, her essays, and other autobiographical and embarrassing
stories for a book she’s praying people will buy.
Robert Kuttner is co-founder and co-editor
of The American Prospect magazine, as well as a
Distinguished Senior Fellow of the think tank Demos. He was a
longtime columnist for Business Week, and continues to
write columns in the Boston Globe. Obama's Challenge:
America's Economic Crisis and the Power of a Transformative
Presidency is his eighth book. Bob's book, The Squandering
of America, exploring the political roots of America's narrowing
prosperity and the systemic financial risks facing the U.S.
economy (2007) was recently honored with the Sidney Hillman
Journalism Award. His magazine writing has appeared in The New
York Times Magazine and Book Review, The Atlantic, The New
Republic, The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, Dissent, Columbia
Journalism Review, and Harvard Business Review. He
has contributed major articles to The New England Journal of
Medicine as a national policy correspondent. His other
positions have included national staff writer on the Washington
Post, chief investigator of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee,
and economics editor of The New Republic. Bob was educated at
Oberlin, The London School of Economics, and the University of
California at Berkeley. He has taught at Brandeis, Boston
University, the University of Massachusetts, and Harvard's
Institute of Politics. For four decades, Bob's intellectual and political
project has been to revive the politics and economics of
harnessing capitalism to serve a broad public interest. He has
pursued this ideal as a writer, editor, teacher, lecturer,
commentator and public official. Christy Mihos is a politician and
businessman from Massachusetts. He served as a member of
Massachusetts Turnpike Authority from 1999 to 2004. He was an
Independent candidate for Governor of Massachusetts in 2006. Mihos
owns the Christy’s Markets convenience store chain on Cape Cod. In
1999, he was appointed to the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority by
Governor Paul Cellucci, where he served as Vice Chairman.