Terrence Mcnally Podcast

Aired 03/18/12 Among the things that most people agree are in big trouble these days are the European Union and democracy in the US. I will talk with today's guest, STEVEN HILL, about both. We have been hearing for two years about the trouble Europe is in. The debt crisis in Greece, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and beyond is challenging this federation of nations and economies to share the solutions to problems that have proven worst in individual countries who took greater risks than their more prudent neighbors. After Europe seemed to have fared better than the US in the early stages of this prolonged crash, what brought on this crisis? How close are they to solving it? How close are they to blowing it? What would Hill's advice be? And what does it mean for the rest of the world and for the US in particular? While the bad news of this Euro crisis makes headlines in the US, what has not made headlines is the good news contained in HILL's 2010 book EUROPE'S PROMISE. I will check in with Hill about the curren