THIS WEEK'S SHOW: October 1, 2026
"A juvenility of moral imagination that is at the core of this."
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March 12, 2015, 2015
“We had class-based affirmative action. It was called American history.”
Orlando Patterson has spent his career puzzling over the "immutable force" in American race relations. Is it the ongoing, grassroots cultural revolution we see and hear in the world of...
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March 9, 2015, 2015
"Great sex, great American body, great American summer, great American dad "— whatever.
The Egyptian graffiti genius known as Ganzeer is working on our turf now. I am presuming to welcome him as an artist of radical humanism. Four years ago in the...
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, 2014
Protesters: what got you out onto the streets in 2014?
The protests chanting “Black Lives Matter” and “I Can’t Breathe” in the wake of the police killings in Missouri, New York, and elsewhere, will draw comparisons. They’re less pious than the Civil Rights Movement...
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December 4, 2014, 2014
What does justice look like in the winter of Ferguson?
We’re all caught in the floodlights of Ferguson, Missouri, still reeling from the death of Michael Brown and the non-indictment of Darren Wilson, the man who shot him. We seem...
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November 20, 2014, 2014
Can America come to terms with its history of slavery?
We’re continuing our series on capitalism by going back to its unspeakable origins. A new wave of historians say that the “peculiar institution” of slavery explains more about the present than...
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, 2014
"We've had now three generations of young people that have been wasted."
"To be on fire is to have a deep love that ignites a holy anger and a righteous indignation and moral outrage at unemployment, decrepit schools, wealth inequality and callousness...