In her book Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought, Melissa Harris-Lacewell studies various ways that racial and political issues are discussed in America. Bill Moyers talks with the Princeton University associate professor about the need for constructive public dialog as the racial makeup of the United States evolves. Also on the program are Harper’s Magazine publisher John R. MacArthur, author of The Selling of “Free Trade”: NAFTA, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy, and writer Bruce Bawer—who left the U.S. to escape religious fundamentalism and homophobic bigotry—on what his journey says about the rise of Islamic fundamentalism in Europe. Broadcast date: May 18, 2007. (58 minutes)