"I don't know of any other radio program
that invests so much time in serious ideas or makes them so accessible
to listeners. It's a great public service. And Hugh LaFollette is a
wonderful interviewer. His questions are intelligent and well-formed, he
has a sure sense of what matters, and he has an easy, gentle style that
would coax the best from any guest. Both the show and the interviewer
are a credit to public radio."
Charles Beitz, Politics, Princeton
University
"LaFollette
is a wonderful interviewer: extremely thoughtful and well-prepared,
exceedingly well organized. He is fun to talk to: he relaxes the
interviewee. We got to the issues that would be of greatest interest to
a curious and reflective audience, and he keeps the discussion from
going off on tangents that would be of merely academic interest. 'Ideas
and Issues' is a first-rate show that would engage a wide and
enthusiastic audience if it were to become more broadly available."
Martha Nussbaum, Law and
Philosophy, University of Chicago