Frank Schaeffer, best-selling novelist and co-author of AWOL, The Unexcused Absence of America's Upper Classes From Military Service -- and How It Hurts Our Country. Schaeffer has a new novel, Baby Jack, about the Ogden family, "where intelligent and talented son Jack decides, in the words of his father, to 'throw his life away' on the Marine Corps and join that 'collection of victims'.”

Challening stuff deep in the third year of the Iraq War.

Schaeffer is our guest at noon, WBAL AM 1090. E-mail comments during the show at rodricks@wbal.com