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Police, The Courts and the Subversion of Civil Rights: A Conversation with Erwin Chemerinsky
Episode 490
While the issue of systemic racism, along with a long history racial conflict occupies a large portion of our social and political landscape, the iss…
4 years, 7 months ago
As You Look At The Emmys, Remember That It Is Only Streaming and Entertainment That is Bringing the World Together
Episode 489
It wasn’t very long ago that to see a foreign language film, you wound up in the smallest theater in the multiplex or a little art theater somewhere …
4 years, 7 months ago
The News About the News: A conversation with Martha Minow
Episode 488
For journalism, it may be the best of times and the worst of times. On the one hand, the national media is more vibrant than ever. The New York Times…
4 years, 7 months ago
The Myth of ”Nobody Saw it Coming”
Episode 487
The more we know about disasters, the more we realize that most were preordained. Covid 19 or Katrina, the current fires in California or the deep fr…
4 years, 8 months ago
Democracy Dies In The Chaos of Competing Truths: A Conversation with Robert M. Smith
Episode 486
Survey after survey shows that trust in the news media is at an all time low. And it’s not just the left/right divide.
A recent study by the America…
4 years, 8 months ago
America Is No Longer A Serious Nation: My conversation with Tom Nichols:
Episode 485
Almost everywhere in the world, liberal democracy is, if not under siege, or at least being tested. Only in rare historical times have would-be autoc…
4 years, 8 months ago
Roger Bennett Teaches Us About Soccer AND About America
Episode 484
From Alexis de Tocqueville, to Alexander Solzhenitsyn to John Lennon, it has often taken those born outside of America to help us understand and defi…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Second American Revolution - Will it Ever Be Won?
Episode 483
In the 1960s and early 1970s political and social battles were fought by people who were trying to reshape America. Sixty years later, we are still a…
4 years, 8 months ago
The Ultimate Corporate Delusion: The Story of WeWork
Episode 482
If someone pitched the story idea of a guy who was a former baby clothes salesman who then started a company that sublet co-working office space to m…
4 years, 8 months ago
Trump's Final Days: My conversation with Carol Leonnig
Episode 481
If daily news reporting is the first draft of history, books that come out almost contemporaneously to events are I suppose the second draft.
But to…
4 years, 9 months ago