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Back to SearchBinyavanga Wainaina — The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective
Episode 163
We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices wh…
16 years, 8 months ago
[Unedited] David Brooks And E.J. Dionne With Krista Tippett
Episode 158
This unedited conversation with David Brooks and E.J. Dionne comes from our produced show “David Brooks and E. J. Dionne on Obama’s Theologian: Neibu…
16 years, 9 months ago
David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Obama's Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present
Episode 159
President Obama has cited Reinhold Niebuhr’s teachings as significant in shaping his ideas about politics and governance. In a public conversation, w…
16 years, 9 months ago
[Unedited] Majora Carter with Krista Tippett (Repossessing Virtue: Being More Deliberately Joyful)
Episode 148
Activist Majora Carter says she doesn’t think of her work at Sustainable South Bronx as a moral endeavor, but a pragmatic one. Nevertheless she looks…
16 years, 9 months ago
[Unedited] Sharon Salzberg with Krista Tippett (On Repossessing Virtue)
Episode 152
The Buddhist teacher and author Sharon Salzberg reflects on our current culture and its inability to acknowledge the inevitability of suffering. We h…
16 years, 9 months ago
[Unedited] Anchee Min with Krista Tippett (Repossessing Virtue: Repairing the American Individual)
Episode 149
Novelist Anchee Min grew up during the Cultural Revolution in Mao’s China. Living in the United States for several decades, she offers a challenging …
16 years, 9 months ago
Repossessing Virtue: Wise Voices from Religion, Science, Industry, and the Arts
Episode 155
As the global economic crisis began to unfold this past fall, we wanted to respond immediately, in our way. We began to conduct an online conversatio…
16 years, 9 months ago
[Unedited] Rachel Naomi Remen (On Repossessing Virtue: Economic Crisis as Spiritual Journey)
Episode 154
Our SOF First Person series continues with physician Rachel Naomi Remen, author of “Kitchen Table Wisdom.” She sees these fiscally hard times as an o…
16 years, 9 months ago
[Unedited] Esther Sternberg with Krista Tippett (On the Economic Crisis in Biological Terms)
Episode 150
SOF First Person continues its series on the economic downturn with Dr. Esther Sternberg, a rheumatologist and stress researcher. She doesn’t see the…
16 years, 9 months ago
[Unedited] Martin Marty with Krista Tippett (On Repossessing Virtue: Trust in Uncertain Times)
Episode 151
The SOF First Person project kicks off with our search for fresh ways to talk about the current economic crisis — beginning with reflections from an …
16 years, 9 months ago