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Talk is part of symposium on the challenges of globalization
March 23, 2006
ANDOVER, Mass.—For more than 25 years, Mike Shuster has traveled the globe as a journalist for National Public Radio (NPR), reporting on the most important political stories of the day. Most recently, he has filed reports from such Middle East hot spots as Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, and Israel. On Friday, March 31, his travels will take him to the campus of Phillips Academy, where he will share his experiences and offer his thoughts on some of the most troubling foreign policy issues currently facing the U.S., including terrorism and nuclear non-proliferation.
Shuster will present his talk, titled “Covering the Axis of Evil: Intelligence, Nuclear Proliferation, and the Public’s Need to Know,” in Kemper Auditorium in the Elson Arts Center on the Phillips Academy campus at 7:00 p.m. In addition to addressing the challenges of reporting on the secret activities of hard-to-reach places, Shuster will explore provocative ethical issues related to journalism and the public’s right to be involved in critical decisions in a democracy. The talk will include a Q&A session with the audience and will be followed by a reception. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are required.
Shuster’s campus visit is part of the 2006 Andover Symposium: The Challenges of Globalization. The purpose of the year-long symposium is to bring to campus distinguished experts who can speak to students about globalization, global citizenship, and the daunting political, social, and economic challenges that face the world community. This effort, explains Andover history instructor Derek Williams, is intrinsic to the Academy’s mission to nourish within its students a commitment to world affairs and a sense of public service.
Toward that end, the school brought to campus earlier this year Sarah Chayes, a former NPR reporter who quit her job to help with rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan, and Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III, who headed up the U.S. coalition government in Iraq from 2003 to 2004. During her visit, Chayes was presented with the Academy’s highest honor, the Claude Moore Fuess Award.
Three other speakers slated to visit the campus later in the year are Jonathan Spence, professor of modern Chinese history at Yale University (April 21); Amy Chua, professor at Yale University Law School and author of World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability (Sept. 27); and Jared Diamond, UCLA professor and author of Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Oct. 20).
Shuster began his career with NPR in 1980 as a freelance reporter covering business and economic issues. Over the years, he has worked at NPR bureaus in New York, London, and Moscow, and he has covered such events as the Angolan civil war, the Malta Summit, the opening of the Berlin Wall, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War, and, most recently, the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. He is currently a diplomatic correspondent and roving foreign correspondent based out of NPR’s Los Angeles bureau.
Shuster comes to Andover as the John H. Hosch III lecturer. The John H. Hosch III Memorial Fund was established in 1958 in memory of Hosch, a member of the Andover Class of 1953, through gifts from his classmates, friends, and family.
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