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JUBILEE DAY 1: Barbara Ehrenreich!
Current Affairs - September 03, 2019 22:40 - 54 minutes ★★★★★ - 576 ratingsHello all! This week, we're launching a fundraiser to help our small business grow into a fearsome (yet still beautiful) media empire. If you like what we do, please consider donating to our Kickstarter page, so that we can improve the quality of our podcast, magazine and Youtube channel, as wel...
The Best of 2018: Seymour Hersh on Trump, Barbara Ehrenreich on ‘Wellness,’ and Amos Oz Remembered
The Nation Podcasts - January 02, 2019 23:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsOur most popular interviews of the year, starting with Seymour Hersh, one of our heroes; he says “don’t underestimate Trump.” He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for his expose of the My Lai massacre—he was a 33-year-old freelancer at the time. Since then, he’s won pretty much every other journalism...
Barbara Ehrenreich | Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer
Free Library Podcast - July 10, 2018 12:07 - 59 minutes ★★★★ - 106 ratingsJournalist and social critic Barbara Ehrenreich, ''who for more than 40 years has been one of our most accomplished and outspoken advocacy journalists and activists'' (Los Angeles Times), is the bestselling author of 16 books, including the working-class exposé Nickel and Dimed, in which she subs...
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Fully Booked by Kirkus Reviews - May 29, 2018 06:00 - 58 minutes ★★★★ - 80 ratingsBarbara Ehrenreich is the notable writer who tackles whatever subjects interest her most: American poverty, the American idea of "positivity," and now, in NATURAL CAUSES, she returns with research and rumination on the complexity of our human bodies and the misconceptions of our minds. She urges ...
Episode 209 Teaser - Barbara Ehrenreich on Medicating the Elderly
Chapo Trap House - May 10, 2018 20:56 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 8.5K ratingsSubscribe today for access to all premium episodes! www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse
Barbara Ehrenreich with Ross Reynolds
Town Hall Seattle Science Series - May 07, 2018 05:00 - 53 minutes ★★★★★ - 12 ratingsHow to live well, even joyously, while accepting our mortality is a vitally important philosophical challenge. Author and cellular immunologist Barbara Ehrenreich shared insight from her latest book Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Lo...
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Slate Conversations - April 13, 2018 14:00 - 23 minutes ★★★★ - 179 ratingsBarbara Ehrenreich is the author of Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certainty of Dying, and Killing Ourselves to Live Longer. She sits down with Isaac Chotiner to discuss why Americans thinks “mindfulness” will make them happy, whether smoking bans are a form of condescension towards...
Barbara Ehrenreich: What’s Wrong with ‘Wellness’; plus David Cole on Trump and Mueller, and Katha Pollitt on Stormy and Melania
The Nation Podcasts - April 11, 2018 20:00 - 40 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsBarbara Ehrenreich talks about the pressure to remain fit, slim, and in control of one's body, even as the end of life approaches—and about the epidemic of unecessary testing pushed by our for-profit medical profession. Barbara’s new book is 'Natural Causes: An Epidemic of Wellness, the Certaint...
Barbara Ehrenreich Explains Why the White Working Class Is Dying—Literally
The Nation Podcasts - December 16, 2015 16:53 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 290 ratingsOn this week’s podcast, Barbara Ehrenreich talks about the alarming rise in the death rate of middle-aged white working class men, who are committing suicide and dying of drug overdoses and alcoholism. Also: Rebecca Solnit explains the achievements and limitations of the Paris climate agreement, ...
Living with a Wild God: Barbara Ehrenreich, Atheism, and Transcendence
Point of Inquiry - April 14, 2014 17:19 - 23 minutes ★★★★★ - 758 ratingsThis week, Point of Inquiry welcomes Barbara Ehrenreich, award-winning columnist and essayist, and author of 21 books. In Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America, she went undercover as a minimum wage worker and in Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America, she took aim...
Author Barbara Ehrenreich on inequality in America, and Critic Clive James on who's worth remembering in the 20th Century
Bill Moyers Journal (Audio) | PBS - August 03, 2007 15:00 - 56 minutes ★★★★★ - 363 ratingsBill Moyers talks with author Barbara Ehrenreich about inequality in America and discusses who's worth remembering in the 20th Century with culture critic, Clive James.