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Steven Conn History professor Steven Conn’s new book,“To Promote the General Welfare, the Case for Big Government,” takes apart the myth of a free market. He points out that there has never been a truly free market in America because the private sector routinely relies on government –from building railroads to breaking strikes to banning women’s reproductive choices. Buy the book Jennifer Burns Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan was an acolyte of the right wing philosopher Ayn Rand. Jennifer Burns is a professor at Stanford who is an expert on that philosophy, and she explains its hold on Ryan and other extreme conservatives. According to Dr. Burns, Ayn Rand is “a gateway drug to life on the Right.” http://www.jenniferburns.org/ Sherrod Brown Bill Press and guest Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown with a morning-after analysis of the vice presidential debate. http://www.billpressshow.com/ http://www.brown.senate.gov/