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"Note from Non-People": Kurdish History, Language & Culture with SERHAT TUTKAL & HEVIN KARAKURT
Season 16 Episode 1236
How does the literature of a collective that shares neither one nation nor any one language function? What can the study of state violence in Latin A…
1 month ago
How the Pandemic Exposed the Cruelties of Incarceration w/ VICTORIA LAW
Season 16 Episode 1235
“The United States has this mentality that if somebody is serving a prison sentence or if somebody is in jail, they somehow deserve whatever happens.…
1 month, 1 week ago
Science in Resistance: Direct Action for Climate Justice, Democracy in Education w/ FERNANDO RACIMO
Season 16 Episode 1234
“By pretending like science is neutral or apolitical, we're really feeding a particular discourse which serves whatever political structures are in p…
1 month, 1 week ago
Listening to the Living World: Ami Vitale, Yann Martel, Carl Safina, David George Haskell & Others on Climate Change & The Rights of Nature
Season 16 Episode 1233
Today, we hear from writers Yann Martel, Carl Safina and David George Haskell on the practice of listening to the living world. Tom Chi discusses the…
1 month, 1 week ago
War, Grief, Love & the Human Cost of Conflict - YANN MARTEL - Highlights
Season 16 Episode 1232
“Storytelling, which is a very whole person kind of activity, is one that delivers all kinds of truths. It's on the factual ground of reality that we…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Limits of Rationality & the Enduring Power of Myth with YANN MARTEL
Season 16 Episode 1231
Why do ancient myths still hold the answers to our modern anxieties? When faced with inexplicable grief or the incomprehensible scale of modern war, …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
For the Sun After Long Nights: Iranian Women Leading Fight for Freedom w/ FATEMEH JAMALPOUR
Season 16 Episode 1230
In the face of devastating state violence, the people of Iran continue to find new ways to resist. From a female marathon runner pacing her cell in p…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Much Worse than McCarthyism: Resisting the Right-Wing War on Academic Freedom w/ ELLEN SCHRECKER
Season 16 Episode 1229
“We're looking at a lot of bad things in American history that we should have been thinking about over the past 50 years. What McCarthyism did, what …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Poems on Gaza—Contemplating the Impossible & Being Steadfast in Solidarity w/ JAMAICA OSORIO
Season 16 Episode 1228
"I am a poet without language and an empath without root. I am overflowing in something I do not recognize... something like terror, but still not qu…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Palestinian Experiences & Generational Trauma: CHERIEN DABIS on Directing All That's Left of You - Highlights
Season 16 Episode 1227
Two weeks away from filming her most ambitious film to date, Cherien Dabis and her crew were forced to evacuate Palestine as the devastating events o…
1 month, 3 weeks ago