TERRENCE McNALLY. Podcasts and articles available at terrencemcnally.net. Host/producer of Free Forum on KPFK/90.7fm, Los
Angeles, streaming globally at www.kpfk.org, Terrence talks with people he
thinks have pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work.” His
interviews appear in print at AlterNet.org. Guests have included Al
Franken, Ken Burns, Roger Ebert, Arianna Huffington, Kevin Phillips,
Cornel West, Eric Schlosser, Robert Reich, Andrew Weil, Noam Chomsky,
Greg Palast, Paul Krugman, Robert Scheer, and Bill Maher. Terrence is
in demand as a speaker, writer, consultant, and coach to public
agencies, non-profits, foundations, and corporations, on strategic
communications as well as issues of social responsibility and
environmental sustainability. McNally has worked as a writer, producer,
and director of documentaries including BBC’s Earth Summit special
"Greenbucks”. He co-wrote and produced Julie Brown's "Goddess In
Progress" (Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun; I Like ‘em Big & Stupid) voted
#4 mini-album of the year in the Village Voice 1985 National Music
Critics Poll. Having acted in over a hundred films and television
shows, McNally co-wrote and co-produced the musical comedy feature
"Earth Girls Are Easy" (Geena Davis, Jim Carrey, Jeff Goldblum), now
being developed as a Broadway musical. A Harvard graduate, McNally's address to the 20th Reunion of the class of 1969 was featured on CBS’s Sunday Morning. Terrence is an annual participant at the Conference on World Affairs in Boulder CO.

Blog Entries by Terrence McNally

If I Were President: How I Would Answer the Public Option Question

17 Comments | Posted August 27, 2009 | 02:50 PM (EST)


I can't shake the feeling that one moment in President Obama's August 15th Town Hall captures the lost opportunities of the whole summer.

From a front page story in the Los Angeles Times, August 16, 2009:

During an otherwise placid town hall meeting in Green Junction, CO, with...
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Q&A with Robert Wright (Part 2): Is Belief in God Any Weirder Than Belief in Electrons?

89 Comments | Posted August 21, 2009 | 02:48 PM (EST)


This is Part 2 of interview excerpts that do not deal with the big idea at the center of Robert Wright's new book.

In The Evolution of God, Wright follows the changing moods of God in ancient scripture, to see what circumstances brought out the best and worst in...

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Q&A with Robert Wright (Part 1): There Is Some Larger Purpose At Work in the Universe

5 Comments | Posted August 12, 2009 | 03:38 PM (EST)


In his new book, The Evolution of God, Robert Wright follows God's changing moods in ancient scripture, to see what circumstances brought out the best and worst in religions: "The moral of the story is simple. When people see their interests threatened by another group, this perception brings out the...

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Q and A with Michael Lewis (Part 2): There's a Real Chance There's Going to Be an Uprising

84 Comments | Posted August 2, 2009 | 02:55 PM (EST)


I recently interviewed Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis. After talking about his new book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, we discussed the financial meltdown and the bailout. This is Part 2 of some excerpts. You can hear the full podcast at terrencemcnally.net.

In Part 1, we...

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Q&A with Michael Lewis (Part 1): The Rules of the Game Were Totally Screwed Up

34 Comments | Posted July 31, 2009 | 12:00 PM (EST)


I recently interviewed Liar's Poker author Michael Lewis, and I didn't even ask him if the Moneyball movie was on again. (Apparently it is, with Aaron Sorkin doing a re-write.) We talked about his new book, Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood, but we also got into his take...

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Q&A with Green Collar Economy Author Van Jones

Posted December 11, 2008 | 06:37 PM (EST)


VAN JONES received the $100,000 2008 Puffin/Nation Prize for Creative Citizenship in New York City December 8th. Hamilton Fish, President of The Nation Institute, said, "In a year of change, Van Jones offers an integrated, progressive blueprint that simultaneously promotes jobs, environmental stewardship, and economic progress. He has arrived to...

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Q&A with Dean Baker -- No Financial Plan B?

Posted October 9, 2008 | 02:21 PM (EST)


Terrence McNally interviews Dean Baker 10/07/08

Dean Baker, co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (cepr.net), is the author of THE CONSERVATIVE NANNY STATE: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer. He also has a blog on The American Prospect, "Beat the Press,"...

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Echoes of Kennedy-Nixon, Clinton-Dole

Posted October 8, 2008 | 11:48 AM (EST)


  • We all know about the difference between the responses of those who listened to the first Kennedy-Nixon debate on the radio versus those who watched it on (a small, black & white) television. I did both last night and the same was true.

    I recall Frank Luntz earlier this year...

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We Are Better than Our Leaders

Posted November 7, 2006 | 05:59 PM (EST)


1. WE AMERICANS ARE BETTER THAN OUR LEADERS.

The leadership of the Bush administration and the Republican party are cheaters. Please read a partial litany of their cheating below, but let me here just mention: Florida 2000, Enron, tax cuts for the rich, huge budget deficits, denial of global...

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