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211 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 months ago - ★★★★ - 4 ratingsFeature interviews from journalist and broadcaster, Claudia Cragg
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An "Illegal Occupation" Celebrates Its 127th Anniversary
January 18, 2020 13:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBToday is the 127 anniversary of what many Hawaiians consider to be an "illegal occupation" of their lands. On Jan. 17, 1893, Queen Lili`uokalani of the independent kingdom of Hawai`i was overthrown as she was arrested at gunpoint by U.S. Marines. Native Hawaiians say they are now fighting to stop the construction Thirty Meter Telescope on sacred Mauna Kea. As Patrick Wolfe theorized, "settler colonialism is a structure, not an event. The violence of colonialism — and the fight for Indigeno...
A Much-Needed Antidote to Racism, from Max Klau
January 16, 2020 11:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBAs of production time, the 2020 Presidential Race has only 'Old White Men' contenders. We could debate why endlessly, but perhaps something deeper is at play? Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with , (@maxklau) who as a Harvard doctoral student was researching the topic of 'youth leadership'. Klau stumbled upon a provocative educational exercise, he says, that changed the course of his life. Klau is an author, leadership scholar, educated and Chief Program Officer @NewPoliticsAcad. To...
"Trick and Trap", "Ghetto Taxes" as Hidden Fees
January 08, 2020 23:56 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBClaudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) speaks here with Devin Fergus (@devin_fergus), the Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies, at the University of Missouri, about his new book, '"Land of the Fee: The Decline of the Middle Class and the Making of the New World Financial Order". "Consumer financial fees have helped to choke off dreams of the middle class and middle class aspirants alike," argues Fergus (History and Black Studies/Univ. of Missouri; Liberalism, Black Power, and the Makin...
"Trick and Trap", "Ghetto Taxes" as Hidden Fees
January 08, 2020 23:56 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBClaudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) speaks here with Devin Fergus (@devin_fergus), the Distinguished Professor of History and Black Studies, at the University of Missouri, about his new book, '"Land of the Fee: The Decline of the Middle Class and the Making of the New World Financial Order". "Consumer financial fees have helped to choke off dreams of the middle class and middle class aspirants alike," argues Fergus (History and Black Studies/Univ. of Missouri; Liberalism, Black Power, and the Makin...
Iran, The Four Horsemen of The Apocalypse, and Political Polarization
January 06, 2020 13:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB@claudiacragg speaks here with @DarrWest about why he thinks Americans are so angry with each other, about the economy, about the Middle East versus isolationism, about gender rights, and just about everything. He even has an answer why some quarters in the US are right now racing towards a possibly apocalyptic war with Iran. West argues in his book, '' that he United States is caught in a partisan hyper-conflict that divides politicians, communities—and even, or perhaps especially, familie...
Anne Nelson on Shadow Nework: Media, Money and The Radical Right
December 24, 2019 17:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBFor this episode, Claudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) speaks with Anne Nelson (@anelsona), about her new book. Shadow Network:Media, Money, and The Secret Hub of the Radical Right. An award-winning author and media analyst, Nelson chronicles the astonishing history and illuminates the coalition's key figures and their tactics. She traces how the collapse of American local journalism laid the foundation for the Council for National Policy's information war and listens in on the hardline broadcasting...
'Who Says You're Dead' with Jacob M Appel
December 16, 2019 13:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MBClaudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with , about his newest book, #WhoSaysYoureDead Medical & Ethical Dilemmas for the Curious & Concerned from @AlgonquinBooks Appel presents an invigorating way to think about vital health and ethical issues that many will confront as individuals, or we as a society must reckon with together. Drawing upon the author’s two decades teaching medical ethics, as well as his work as a practicing psychiatrist, this profound and addictive little book offers up ...
David Farber on 'Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed'
December 12, 2019 16:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MBClaudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with , about his shattering account of the crack cocaine years, Please send any comments or questions or ideas for future shows to @ClaudiaCragg. This book from the award-winning American historian, tells the story of the young men who bet their lives on the rewards of selling 'rock' cocaine, the people who gave themselves over to the crack pipe, and the often-merciless authorities who incarcerated legions of African Americans caught in the crack co...
Peter Singer, The Life You Can Save 10th Anniversary
November 29, 2019 17:00 - 24 minutes - 22.4 MBPete Singer, The Life You Can Save, and many are celebrating the 10th anniversary of the publication (originally published 3rd December 2009) and the global initiative which it launched. He is also the author of the iconic book on . This book is available FREE as a download (at ) to all listeners as he mentions in the piece. He says "this is to 'reach the most readers/listeners and help the most people who live in poverty." Singer believes that the end of global poverty is in our reach. ...
Can 'Fakes' teach us what matters or what is 'Real'?
November 20, 2019 17:00 - 22 minutes - 20.9 MBClaudia Cragg (@claudiacragg) takes up a discussion with (@LydiaPyne), historian, about whether or not an authentic painting needs to be painted by Andy Warhol? And should we be outraged that some of those famous scenes in Blue Planet were filmed in a lab? Who are the scientists putting ever-more improbable flavors in our ? Welcome to the world of “genuine fakes”--the curious objects that fall in between things that are real and things that are not. Unsurprisingly, the world is full of genu...
For Veteran's Day, "Aftershock:The Human Toll of War"
November 06, 2019 23:15 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB(@claudiacragg) speaks here for with Richard Cahan (@Picturetweeter) about the book he has put together with Mark Jacob and Michael Williams, :The Human Toll of War. Richard Cahan is the author of 12 books including an acclaimed history of the federal court in He served as the picture editor of the and is currently an independent scholar at the . The world was in ruin at the end of #WorldWarII: from the #Blitz in London to the atomic bomb blasts in #Hiroshima and #Nagasaki. A small group ...
Psychologist Doreen Dodgen-Magee about her new book, 'Deviced!'.
October 17, 2019 13:11 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBKindly consider taking part in a short survey on this podcast (). Your feedback would be greatly appreciated. Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with psychologist (@drdoreendm) about her new book, ''. With current statistics suggesting that the average American over the age of 14 engages with screens upwards of 10 hours a day, the topic of our growing dependence upon technology applies to nearly everyone. While the effects differ at each point of development, real changes to the brai...
Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of The American Prospect
October 10, 2019 16:00 - 13 minutes - 12.3 MBClaudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Robert Kuttner (@rkuttnerwrites) whose latest book is. Some of those interviewed in this long-running series are in such high demand that time in discussion is sorely limited. Recently, one such has been Robert Kuttner, co-founder and co-editor of and professor at Brandeis University's Heller School. In 'The Stakes....', Kuttner argues that the 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular...
Elderhood, Louise Aronson, Transforming How We Think and Feel About Ageing
October 07, 2019 12:00 - 34 minutes - 31.3 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with geriatrician and author, Dr. Louise Aronson () on her new book, , an essential, empathetic look at a vital but often disparaged stage of life. For more than 5,000 years, "old" has been defined as beginning between the ages of 60 and 70. That means most people alive today will spend more years in elderhood than in childhood, and many will be elders for 40 years or more. Yet at the very moment that humans are living longer than ever before, we've m...
Ukraine, Russia, always in the news: what about the people?
October 02, 2019 12:00 - 42 minutes - 39 MBThe news cycle rarely passes these days without negative news of Russia and, sadly for the people of that region, Ukraine. What about the people? Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Caroline Walton (@carolineski) who, during three decades of visiting Russia and Ukraine, met some exceptional women and men, people who had known famine, war and nuclear disaster. Each of them underwent a process of transformation, and in so doing they transcended their circumstances in ways that were ...
From a Filipino shanty to Galveston, De Parle's Good Provider is One Who Leaves
September 12, 2019 12:00 - 29 minutes - 27.3 MBFor this show, Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Jason DeParle (@JasonDeParle) a veteran reporter for The New York Times, about his new book, (Viking, 1st Edition edition, August 20, 2019. Throughout his career, De Parle has written extensively about poverty and immigration. His book, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the Helen Bernstein Award from the New York City Library. He was an Emerson Fellow at New America. He is a recipient of the George Polk Award and is a two...
Shanthi Sekaran and her 'Lucky Boy' (REPRISE)
August 20, 2019 00:18 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBIn 's, 'Lucky Boy, Solimar Castro Valdez is eighteen and drunk on optimism when she embarks on a perilous journey across the US/Mexican border. Weeks later she arrives on her cousin's doorstep in Berkeley, CA, dazed by first love found then lost, and pregnant. This was not the plan. But amid the uncertainty of new motherhood and her American identity, Soli learns that when you have just one precious possession, you guard it with your life. For Soli, motherhood becomes her dwelling and the boy...
The #DemocracyCollaborative, a"Democratic Economy' IS possible, with Ted Howard
August 07, 2019 16:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBThe US economy is designed by the 1 percent, for the 1 percent, says Ted Howard in conversation here with Claudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg). His new book, , written with , offers a compelling vision of an equitable, ecologically sustainable alternative that meets the essential needs of all people. Ted Howard is the Co-founder and President of . Previously, he served as the Executive Director of the National Center for Economic Alternatives. Howard and Kelly argue cogently that we now live in a w...
How To Become a New Technology Entrepreneur with Ran Poliakine
July 17, 2019 16:00 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Ran Poliakine, a serial entrepreneur, inventor and industrial designer. In 2007, Poliakine founded , a company that utilized technology to develop solutions. Then, in 2009, through Wellsense he developed the world’s first bedsore monitoring system and the Monitor Alert Protect (MAP) system. This continuously monitors a patient to display potential development of high-pressure points that lead to and and is used in major hospitals throughout the...
The BBC's Anita Anand discusses her 'Patient Assassin'
July 04, 2019 16:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MBOn April 13, 1919, a column of British troops marched into the , a public garden in Amritsar, a city in Punjab, where more than 15,000 Indians had gathered for a peaceful protest against the increasingly restrictive policies of the British government, and in particular the deportation of two followers of Gandhi. At the orders of Brig. Gen. Reginald Dyer, the soldiers began firing into the crowd without warning. When screaming men, women and children rushed toward the exits, Dyer ordered his t...
"Ted Talker" Priya Parker
June 11, 2019 16:00 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MBIn The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be. We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved. At a time when coming together is more important than ever, Parker sets forth a human-centered approach to gathering that will help everyone create meaningful, memorable experiences, large and small, for work and for play. Drawin...
Christopher De Hamel and his Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts
May 22, 2019 16:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MBClaudia Cragg (@ClaudiaCragg) speaks here with Christopher de Hamel, whose most recent book is Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts. This work won the Wolfson History Prize for history written for the general public and the Duff Cooper Prize for best work of history, biography, or political science. For 25 years from 1975, he was responsible for all catalogues and sales of medieval manuscripts at Sotheby's worldwide, and from 2000 to 2016 he was librarian of the Parker Library in Cambridge,...
#WaPo Journalist and Author Liza Mundy on the 10,000 US 'Code Girls'
May 15, 2019 16:00 - 28 minutes - 26.1 MBspeaks here (reprise of earlier interview) with Liza Mundy on . This is the story of the young American women who cracked German and Japanese communications code to help win the Second World War. Recruited from settings as diverse as elite women’s colleges and small Southern towns, more than ten-thousand young American women served as codebreakers for the U.S. Army and Navy during World War II. While their brothers, boyfriends, and husbands took up arms, these women went to the nation’s capi...
Nomi Prins on 'Collusion' - How Central Bankers Rigged, and Still Rig, The World
May 08, 2019 16:00 - 32 minutes - 29.9 MBPodcast on short sabbatical due to unexpected fractured wrist. Just out in paperback is 'Collusion' by Nomi Prins, ( )a searing exposé, in which this former Wall Street insider Nomi Prins shows how the 2007-2008 financial crisis turbo-boosted the influence of central bankers and triggered a massive shift in the world order.Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks with her here for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy. Central banks and international institutions like the IMF have, says Prins, overstepped their t...
How to Modernize Capitalism with Ed Hess
April 25, 2019 16:00 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MBClaudia Cragg, @KGNUClaudia speaks here for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy with Ed Hess () about what he sees as the urgent need to modernize and deeply reform the present state of capitalism. Hess argues that we are now on the leading edge of a tsunami of coming technological and scientific advances in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI); the Internet of Things; virtual reality; advanced robotics; nanotechnology; deep learning; and biomedical, genetic, and cyborg engineering. Along with quantum...
"Why do SO many incompetent men become leaders"
April 04, 2019 16:00 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MB@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here withTomas Chamorro-Premuzic (about his timely and provocative book. Two powerful questions are asked by the author: Why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders? And why is it so hard for competent people--especially competent women--to advance? And this is no feminist diatribe, rest assured. It serves as a practical and much-needed remedy for our times. Marshaling decades of rigorous research, Chamorro-Premuzic points out that although men...
The College Admissions Crisis - a way through with Erica Meltzer
March 28, 2019 16:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MB@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here for @KGNU with CEO and Founder of Erica Meltzer. Meltzer has, for years, been at the forefront of preparing students for the verbal portion of the SATs and other admissions tests. Her range of best-selling test prep books help students conquer the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT, and AP English & Composition. With over 100,000 copies sold, her SAT and ACT Reading and Writing guides consistently rank at the top of their respective categories on Amazon, outperfor...
"Humane Capitalism", is it possible? With Vlatka Hlupic
March 14, 2019 16:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB@KGNUClaudia speaks here for KGNU Denver/Boulder/Fort Collins with Vlatka Hlupic for #ItsTheEconomy Despite decades of research illustrating the benefits of enlightened leadership, the high-performance workplace is still not the norm. Vlatka Hlupic (@VlatkaHlupic) has spent 20 years investigating this paradox, and in this book she forms a penetrating critique of why such strong evidence has had limited impact, and provides an alternative practical approach that any employer can implement to o...
Are you 'Dying to Work'? Labor Lawyer Jonathan Karmel investigates
February 28, 2019 17:00 - 37 minutes - 34.3 MBFor @KGNU Denver/Boulder/Fort Collins #ItsTheEconomy, Claudia Cragg () discusses '', in which Jonathan Karmel ( raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who were needlessly injured or killed on the job. Based on heart-wrenching interviews Karmel conducted with injured workers and surviving family members across the country, the stories in this book are introduced in a way that helps place them in a historical and political context. They represent a wi...
#WaPo 's Steve Luxenberg on 'Separate: #PlessyVsFerguson
February 12, 2019 05:30 - 33 minutes - 30.4 MB@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here with Steve Luxenberg, @the author of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America's Journey from Slavery to Segregation and the critically acclaimed Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret. During his thirty years as a Washington Post senior editor, he has overseen reporting that has earned numerous national honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes. Separate won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland....
Sayu Bhojwani, New American Leaders Project Founder
February 12, 2019 05:15 - 23 minutes - 21.2 MB@KGNUClaudia, Claudia Cragg, speaks here with She is author of ''. Sayu Bhojwani served as New York City's first Commissioner of Immigrant Affairs, for then Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and is also the founder of South Asian Youth Action, a community-based organization in Queens. Since 2010, she has served as Founder and President of . Bhojwani's work to build a more inclusive democracy has been featured in The Wall Street Journal and in the New York Times. She has shared her personal journey in...
J J Mulligan Sepulveda - NO HUMAN IS ILLEGAL
January 24, 2019 05:01 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with JJ Mulligan Sepulveda. He is the son of proud mother @emmanvch. Sepulveda is an immigration lawyer working at the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California Davis School of Law. He is a former Immigrant Justice Corps fellow and Fulbright Scholar. This is his first book. For the second anniversary of President Trump’s Muslim Ban, which banned individuals from seven Muslim countries from entering the US—regardless of legal status. Immigr...
Housing: 'Generation Priced Out' with Randy Shaw of SF Tenderloin/BeyondChron
January 07, 2019 17:00 - 36 minutes - 33.6 MBClaudia Cragg, @KGNUClaudia, speaks with (about the lack of affordable housing for low- and middle-income people where homeownership is often, even in 2019, limited by race and class lines. Shaw will be making an appearance to talk about the book at the on Tues. 12th March at 7:30 pm, and at on 13 March 2019, at 7 pm. Shaw, the director of San Francisco's Tenderloin Housing Clinic ( has written a book about the housing crisis, "Generation Priced Out criticizes cities for advancing policie...
Redlined: A Memoir of Race, Change, and Fractured Community in 1960s Chicago
January 03, 2019 17:00 - 42 minutes - 39.1 MBClaudia Cragg () speaks here with about her new memoir. Linda Gartz () is a six-time Emmy-award-honored television producer, blogger, essay writer, and author. Set against the backdrop of the Civil Rights Movement, exposes the racist lending rules that refuse mortgages to anyone in areas with even one black resident. As blacks move deeper into Chicago’s West Side during the 1960s, whites flee by the thousands. But Linda Gartz’s parents, Fred and Lil choose to stay in their integrating neigh...
'What Would Happen If The President of the USA Went Stark Raving Mad?'
December 06, 2018 07:00 - 21 minutes - 19.4 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Jack Knebel, son of , to discuss '', his late father's prescient novel. This has just been republished by Vintage Books. "A president who rages in private about conspiracies against him by the news media and his political opponents. A controversial alliance with a ruthless Russian leader. A key Supreme Court justice named Kavanaugh." "Well, in the justice’s name is spelled “Cavanaugh,” but close enough." "The political thriller, a best-s...
Alexandra Kitty, on 'When Journalism Was a Thing"
November 19, 2018 12:00 - 19 minutes - 17.4 MB, aka the 'World's Most Dangerous Woman', is a Canadian author and academic who says that "journalism used to be everything, until the day it became nothing." In her new book, she argues that journalism used to be a powerful and wonderful thing, yet now it has become a curiosity, and not even the Internet can resurrect it. When Journalism was a Thing considers the downfall of journalism and the reasons why, but also offers a model for a new approach to the once-noble profession. Kitty is the ...
Xi JinPing's 'Red Flags...' from George Magnus
November 15, 2018 14:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MBIn light of the and that country's retaliation, Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks for "' with George Magnus (). He is the author of , in which he explores four key issues that he believes China must confront and overcome in order to thrive - debt, middle income, the Renminbi and an aging population. At the end of this month, Xi and Trump with meet in Buenos Aires for the What is Xi Jinping doing to combat these issues and what more can be done? In addition, how might China’s evolving rel...
Immigrant Girl, Radical Woman - a life. With Robbin Légère Henderson
November 15, 2018 10:00 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB(@KGNUClaudia) speaks for @KGNU #ItsTheEconomy with, about her grandmother, Rabinowitz’s illustrated memoir challenges assumptions about the lives of early twentieth-century women. In , Rabinowitz describes the ways in which she and her contemporaries rejected the intellectual and social restrictions imposed on women as they sought political and economic equality in the first half of the twentieth century. Rabinowitz devoted her labor and commitment to the notion that women should feel entit...
"Your future isn't going to pay for itself" So, use 'Common Financial Sense'
November 08, 2018 13:00 - 29 minutes - 27 MB@KGNUClaudia, , speaks here with Harris Nydick and Greg Makowskfor @KGNU Denver/Boulder/Fort Collins and #ItsTheEconomy. Their new book, lays out the basics of 401(k) and 403(b) planning in simple, easy to understand language. They say that, the decisions you make about your 401(k) or 403(b) plan today will have a huge impact on your life tomorrow. And, starting with as little as $1 - 10 a week, you can make a difference to your financial security going forward. They discuss how to:- Choos...
"The Marble Faun" speaks: Jerry Torre on the Life and Influence of Grey Gardens
October 25, 2018 01:47 - 32 minutes - 29.6 MBThe #MarbleFaun of #GreyGardens, the touching and at times haunting memoir about his teenage days as caretaker of , the now-celebrated mansion chronicled in the iconic documentary Grey Gardens and two feature-length films. Claudia Cragg, @KGNUClaudia, speaks here with about the book, co-written with film historian , is a behind-the-scenes look at "" and "" and their bizarre and reclusive life of squalor amidst the tremendous wealth of East Hampton, the family bond that developed between Jerr...
Still relevant in 2018, Roland Philipps on 'Cambridge Spy', Donald Maclean
October 19, 2018 22:00 - 32 minutes - 29.3 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for @KGNU with Roland Philipps, about his new book, the first full biography of one of the twentieth century’s most notorious spies. Donald Maclean. Maclean was one of the most treacherous spies of the Cold War era and a key member of the infamous "#CambridgeFive" #spyring, yet the full extent of this shrewd, secretive man’s betrayal has never been explored—until now. Drawing on a wealth of previously classified files and unseen family papers, A Spy Na...
"Saudi America" - How US fracking is unsustainable, with Bethany Maclean (c.f. Enron expose)
October 18, 2018 23:00 - 58 minutes - 53.7 MBThis program is made possible by . (Please note: this program for the October 2018 KGNU Fund Drive is posted with community pledges. If you would prefer to listen to the full Bethany McLean interview without these, it will be posted separately shortly.) #Saudi America - How US #fracking is unsustainable, with Bethany Maclean (c.f. Enron expose) Bethany McLean may be reached at The US fracking industry has boomed so much that America is producing enough oil that the country is now a formid...
FULL INTERVIEW Bethany McLean
October 11, 2018 16:00 - 34 minutes - 31.7 MB#Saudi America - How US #fracking is unsustainable, with Bethany Maclean (c.f. Enron expose) Bethany McLean may be reached at The US fracking industry has boomed so much that America is producing enough oil that the country is now a formidable player in the global market. But Bethany McLean, the author of Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It’s Changing the World, says financial risks are lurking beneath the surface. The US fracking industry was able to grow so quickly on the b...
Ex Obama White House Dan Pfeiffer (c.f. #PodSaveAmerica)
July 24, 2018 16:00 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MB@KGNU's Claudia Cragg () speaks here with Dan Pfeiffer, a cohost of #PodSaveAmerica, now also coming to #HBO in the fall in four hour-long specials. The show's co-creators/presenters are & . One of Barack Obama’s longest serving advisors, Pfeiffer was White House director of communications under President Obama (2009-2013) and senior advisor to the president (2013-2015). The Decade of Obama (2007-2017) was, Pfeiffer believes, one of massive change that rewrote the rules of politics in ways ...
Pulling Yourself Up By The Bootstraps and 'Grit' Are NOT Enough - Linda Nathan
July 02, 2018 16:00 - 28 minutes - 25.6 MB, Ed.D. is the first executive director of Harvard's Center for Artistry and Scholarship, which fosters and mobilizes creative, arts-immersed schools. Dr Nathan, speaking here for @KGNU with Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) tackles on #ItsTheEconomy what she believes are the five myths that we tell many of our students in K-12 schools. The book’s title refers to one of these myths, that if you, the students, can just apply more grit, you will succeed in high school and go to college. Of course th...
Cory Albertson, A Perfect Union? TV Representations of LBQT Relationships
June 24, 2018 11:00 - 24 minutes - 22.5 MBKGNU's (@KGNU) Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Cory Albertson () is an interdisciplinary scholar whose research spans media cultures, gender and sexuality studies and social justice movements. His new book, A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage (Routledge, 2018), examines network television’s representations of LGBQ relationships and their impact in shifting public attitudes in favor of same-sex marriage. On June 26, 2015, Supreme Court Justice Anthony...
Journalist, Author, Poet Dunya Mikhail on 'The Beekeeper of Sinjar'
June 13, 2018 16:00 - 38 minutes - 35 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for KGNU (@KGNU) to the acclaimed poet and journalist () In her latest work, '', Mikhail - who is herself an Iraqi exile, tells the harrowing stories of (mostly) Yazidi women from across Iraq who have managed to escape the clutches of ISIS. Since 2014, ISIS has been persecuting the Yazidi people, killing or enslaving those who won't convert to Islam. These women have lost their families and loved ones, along with everything they've ever known. Dunya ...
Financial Literacy with Annamaria Lusardi
June 01, 2018 16:00 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for @KGNU with ,(@A_Lusardi) the founder and academic director of (www.gflec.org) Research from the Programme for International Student Assessment () shows that a disappointingly high proportion of teenagers struggle to understand money matters, and they are not alone. Many older people too are equally financially ignorant, we are told. Lusardi argues that people often say, wrongly, that financial knowledge can be acquired with experience. But if the ...
"Screwnomics - Rickey Gard Diamond
May 17, 2018 16:00 - 31 minutes - 29.1 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for #ItsTheEconomy with Rickey Gard Diamond () whose new book is 'Screwnomics'. In , she shares personal stories, cartoons, and easy-to-understand economic definitions in her quest to explain the unspoken assumptions of 300 years of what she calls "EconoMansplaining"—the economic theory that women should always work for less, or better for free. It unpacks economic definitions, turns a men-only history on its head, and highlights female experie...
Kelsey Kauffman, The Indiana Women's Prison Project Founder
May 09, 2018 16:00 - 37 minutes - 34.5 MBClaudia Cragg () speaks here for with ) who founded the Higher Education Program at the Indiana Women’s Prison in 2012 and directed the program until 2017. She is also Director Emeritus of started as part of her Public Policy class at the prison. Kelsey’s interest in prisons and related topics of race and violence began as a teenager with three experiences: marching with Martin Luther King, Jr. in Montgomery, AL, working with an all-male inmate crew assigned to the Maryland Statehouse whe...