Dr. Timothy Leary, LSD advocate and champion of the “Drop Out, Cup Out, Turn On” crowd, drops in on student demonstration against Dow Chemical Co. recruiters on the Syracuse University campus.

The Eights | Alienation in America

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 11, 2018

Michael D'Antonio, executive editor of The Harris Poll, and the co-author (with John Gerzema) of The Athena Doctrine: How Women (and the Men Who Think Like Them) Will Rule the Future (Jossey-Bass, 2013), and John Gerzema, Harris Poll CEO, social scientist, and New York Times best-selling author, examine the historic Harris Poll Alienation Index, which has measured how alienated Americans feel since 1966, and introduce a new Brian Lehrer Show Harris poll.

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