Good War

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Is there ever such a thing as a good war? Guest host Julie Burstein talks to Nicholson Baker about the uses of war, and the case for pacifism in our modern world. Also: poet Mark Doty. Then Ceridwen Dovey's debut novel. And Underreported looks into how women care for domestic water supplies around the world. Plus: restoring Iraq's marshlands.

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