'A carcinogenic organization’

My phone rang not long ago and a vaguely familiar voice greeted me with a question I’ve never been asked before: “Is this the mighty Alyssa Katz?”

The caller was Ralph Nader, a steady presence in the background of The Influence Machine. We chatted for a bit, first on the phone (about, among other things, his soon-to-open American Museum of Tort Law and his view of the Chamber of Commerce as what he called “a carcinogenic organization”), and then a few weeks later on the air on his Ralph Nader Radio Hour. Listen in.