Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where Shakepeare in the Park plays in the summer

Altruism, Agony, Ecstasy, and Race

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jun 25, 2010

Oren Harman discusses 150 years of scientific attempts to explain kindness. Filmmaker Vikram Jayanti talks about his film “The Agony and the Ecstasy of Phil Spector.” Lily Rabe and Marianne Jean-Baptiste discuss their roles in this year’s Shakespeare in the Park performances. Plus, civil rights lawyer Charles Ogletree revisits the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr,. to see what it says about race, class and crime in America.

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