Is it time to end the war on drugs?

Seth Manouken will join us to talk about his review of Johann Harries chasing the

scream, the first and last days of the war on drugs.

This concept that when people talk about addiction, they only talk about it from the perspective

of one person doing drugs and a vacuum is kind of visible.

How is the great American songbook managed to endure?

Ben Yugoda will be here to tell us about his new book, The B Side, The Death of Tin

Pan Alley, and The Rebirth of the Great American Song.

And it was this simplistic little ditty that people couldn't get out of their heads, Richard

Rogers and Cole Porter and Irving Berlin were still around.

What is going on?

My colleague John Williams will join me to talk about what's a foot in the publishing world.

And Greg Cole's Has Best Cellar News.

This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.

I'm Pamela Paul.

Seth Manouken joins us from Boston to talk about his review this week of chasing the scream,

the first and last days of the war on drugs by Johann Harries.

Hi Seth.

Hi how are you?

Good, good.

So I should also say that you are a professor of science writing at MIT and the author most

recently of the panic virus, the true story behind the vaccine autism controversy.

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