Telephone lines were open for comments on the question, “Does the United States still need campaign finance laws?”
A video clip was shown of the weekend’s “Q&A” program of Michael Scammell, author of the book Koestler: The Literary and Political Odyssey of a Twentieth-Century Skeptic, talking on December 9, 2009, about Arthur Koestler’s philosophy that a writer should not be just a writer but a man of action.