For Your Ears Only - Apr. 10, 2011

Podcast: 

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I. BILLBOARD

II. SHUT-DOWN POLITICS ,

Craig Shirley, political consultant, Shirley & Banister Public Affairs; author of" Rendezvous with Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America"

III. THE BIGGER BUDGET BATTLE

Marc Goldwein, policy director, bi-patisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget

IV. ACCIDENTAL GUERRILLAS?

David KilCullen, former top military adviser in Iraq/Afghanistan; founder of Caerus Associates, strategy consultants for conflict environments; author of "The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a big One" (Oxford University Press paperback, April 2011)

V. LESSONS FROM AN EPIDEMIC

Michael Willrich, Brandeis University associate professor of history, author of "POX: An American History" (Penguin Press, March 2011)

VI. GOING FOR "BAROQUE"

Junko Onishi, jazz pianist and composer, "Baroque" CD

VII. CREDITS/CLOSE

VIII. ARCHIVE: HIGH COURT HAMLET (4/11/10)

Dahlia Lithwick, SLATE legal correspondent