Junot Díaz’s diversity in best short story picks and the lessons of ‘Firing Line’

“The level of discourse in this year’s presidential election season has some observers longing for more civil times. MIT film and media professor Heather Hendershot examines such an era in “Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line” (Broadside). On his pioneering TV program “Firing Line,” the pioneering TV program which aired from 1966 to 1999, Buckley debated his opponents with respect and a sharp tongue.”

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