From the K-P-F-K studios in Southern California,

it's the Ralph Nader Radio Hour.

Stand up, stand up.

You've been sitting ready to jump.

Welcome to the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. My name is Steve Scrovan along with the man of the hour. Ralph Nader, how you doing today, Ralph.

Pretty good. We have a unique show today as usual.

As usual, yeah. And I'm going to give you a little rundown of that.

It seems like the hardest thing for human beings to do is to organize themselves in societies that both create wealth

but are also democratic and just and we're going to talk about how to do that with

someone who has devoted his professional life to trying to solve that problem.

Returning Gessgar Alpervitz, architect of the system he calls the pluralist commonwealth.

That will be in the second half of the show. That's just the second half.

We will also as always find out what the bad suits are up to this week when we check in with

corporate crime reporter Russell Mokieber, the Gil Grissom of the corporate crime beat.

But first, we were going to talk about something

that certainly never occurred to me

and probably has never occurred to most Americans.

And that is how our Jim Crow laws

might have influenced the Nazis

and their own racial policies of the 1930s.

And I gotta tell you, that's a hard look in the mirror and that's the explosive topic covered by our first guest

James Q Whitman is the Ford Foundation professor of comparative and Foreign Law at Yale Law School.

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