In Part 2 of 2 of "Bloggers As the Fifth Estate," TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Glenn Harlan Reynolds of Instapundit.com, Charles Johnson of LittleGreenFootballs.com and Dean Barnett of SoxBlog.com and gathers their impressions of mainstream media in today's world.

[20 minutes, 26 seconds]

Science doesn't just coexist with faith -- it may actually support the existence of religion. So says Frederick Turner, author of Natural Religion, who argues that the universe is just weird enough to support a supernatural explanation.

[29 minutes, 20 seconds]

TCS Daily Editor in Chief Nick Schulz interviews guest Ramesh Ponnuru, senior editor of National Review, about his new book, The Party of Death: The Democrats, the Media, the Courts, and the Disregard for Human Life, in which Ponnuru argues that even the experts misunderstand the implications of Roe v. Wade. [38 minutes, 15 seconds]

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Stephen D. Cooper, an Associate Professor of Communications at Marshall University about his new book, "Watching the Watchdog: Bloggers As the Fifth Estate" which addresses both sides of the isle of the blogosphere since 9/11.

[17 minutes, 22 seconds]

This week host Nick Schulz interviews guest Martin Fridson, author of Unwanted Intrusions: The Case Against Government Intervention in the Marketplace.

[36 minutes, 13 seconds]

TCS Daily columnist Ed Driscoll interviews Radley Balko, a policy analyst for the Cato Institute, about his report, "Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America," which looks at the growing power and prevalence of SWAT and SWAT-style raids by local police departments for often routine police work.

[19 minutes, 04 seconds]