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Episode 2033: Batya Ungar-Sargon on how American elites have betrayed the country's working men and women
Behind all the partisan hysteria, a dramatic political realignment is taking place in America. As SECOND CLASS author Batya Ungar-Sargon told me, the…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2032: Natalie Foster on how the arc of the 21st century American moral universe is bending toward justice
Finally some good news for progressive Americans. According to Natalie Foster, whose new book The Guarantee is out on April 23, Americans are about t…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2031: New books from Salman Rushdie, Erik Larsen, Amor Towles, Mohamed Amer Meziane, Patric Gagne & Leif Enger
I do enjoy our regular new books show with Bethanne Patrick, the astonishingly widely read book critic of Los Angeles Times. For April, she recommend…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2030: KEEN OF AMERICA featuring Sara Paretsky
So what does it mean to be an American? Previous guests on KEEN ON AMERICA like Arlie Russell Hochschild and Thelton Henderson told me that they lear…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2029: How to House America?
How to deal the American crisis of homelessness? Late last year, Kevin Adler, the San Francisco based homeless activist and author of When We Walk By…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2028: KEEN ON AMERICA featuring Thelton Henderson
Few Americans of any color or creed have had a legal career as historically rich or significant as Thelton Henderson. One of the earliest African-Ame…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2027: Marc Hauser on giving children second chances to overcome trauma and lead happy lives
Everyone deserves a second chance. The former Harvard professor of psychology Marc D Hauser has had a controversial academic career, having been inve…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2026: Dr Damon Tweedy on today's struggle to center psychiatry and mental healthcare into the mainstream of the medical community
According to Dr Damon Tweedy there a connection between the historic struggle for civil rights and today’s struggle for more mainstream mental health…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2025: On the eve of the eclipse, Christopher Cokinos illuminates the sun and moon's history and their future
Today, on the eve of the total lunar eclipse of the sun, the media is full of practical guides about how to tilt our heads at this once-in-a-lifetime…
2 years, 5 months ago
Episode 2024: Sheryl Kaskowitz on how FDR and his New Deal team saved America from the Great Depression - one folk song at a time
In this KEEN ON show, the music historian Sheryl Kaskowitz, author of A CHANCE TO HARMONIZE, narrates how FDR and his team of New Dealers saved Ameri…
2 years, 5 months ago