Just how far is too far? Kurt Andersen asks cultural commentators Michael Medved and Rochelle Gurstein to weigh in on the decency debate. Penn Jillette discusses his new documentary The Aristocrats — which tells and retells the filthiest joke in the world. Graphic novelist Phoebe Gloeckner tells us why libraries wanted to ban her memoir. And we’ll find out why the broadcast of Jerry Springer: the Opera put the BBC on the defensive.
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