July 9, 2020
Reparations and the Wealth Gap
July 2, 2020
Return of the Prophet: Baldwin in the...
This week, we revisit our 2017 show on James Baldwin. James Baldwin was the prophetic voice of an era that isn’t over. Fifty years ago,...| More
June 25, 2020
Warrior Cops
Once upon a time in the crack cocaine epidemic of the 1980s, “community policing” came forth as the solution to a law-and-order problem. In 2020...| More
June 18, 2020
Deaths of Despair
The warning bell sounded in 2014: a down dip in the ever-rising American lifespan, which was 50 years, on average, in 1900, and up close...| More
June 11, 2020
Inequality and Injustice
“A Change is Gonna Come,” the songwriter put it: it was Sam Cooke, at a peak of the civil rights movement in 1964. And it...| More
June 4, 2020
Reviving Reconstruction
We’re transfixed, all of us, looking at a collision of deadly viruses, racial hatred and a pandemic disease. Suddenly what commands attention is the black...| More
May 28, 2020
Moral Economics
John Maynard Keynes was a philosophical giant in twentieth-century England. In his day job, he was a public economist; in America he was a political...| More
May 21, 2020
Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach
The force of art to rescue a world breaking down; the power of music in particular to heal people one by one, perhaps all together:...| More
May 14, 2020
Coronavirus Conspiracism
What we’re learning again in coronavirus time is that when the medical system stumbles in a pandemic – and when the media machinery, the chattering...| More
May 7, 2020
COVID’s Cold War?
The coronavirus may have arrived just in time to punctuate a 50 year turn in the grand tide of events. It could mark, that is,...| More
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