The Bill Newman Show 2.7.14

Posted on February 7, 2014 by Monte

Medical ethicist and Mount Holyoke College President Lynn Pasquerella (smartest person we know); John Bonifaz and Ron Fein from Free Speech for People, on corporate personhood and the Supreme Court (second and third!).

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