Richard Striner

Richard Striner, professor of history at Washington College, visits this hour to discuss his cover essay in the winter edition of The American Scholar: "How to shock the U.S. economy back to life without raising taxes, without adding to the national debt and without causing inflation."

Love, death and the afterlife. A look at a genre of film that explores the most profound of human emotions. Ghosts in love with humans, humans in love with ghosts, sexual desire and fear of death. From Death Takes a Holiday, to Heaven Can Wait and Meet Joe Black. Our guest: historian Richard Striner, author of Supernatural Romance in Film: Tales of Love, Death and the Afterlife. (REBROADCAST)