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Has Our View of Corruption Been Corrupted?

Phil Roeder
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The Supreme Court of the United States.

There's a new anti-corruption task force in Connecticut replete with billboards asking the public to report the corrupt. This hour, we explore the history of corruption and our complicated attitudes toward it. 

Comment below, email Colin@wnpr.org, or tweet @wnprcolin.

GUESTS:

  • Deirdre M. Daly - United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut
  • Noah Rosenblum - Ph.D. student at Columbia; law student at Yale Law School, where he is an articles editor at the Yale Law Journal
  • John Joseph Wallis - Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland

Lydia Brown and Chion Wolf contributed to this show. 

Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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