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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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"The War on Normal People' with Andrew Yang
May 01, 2018 16:00 - 16 minutes - 15.4 MBGood jobs, says Andrew Yang (), are disappearing. Speaking here with @KGNU 'It's The Economy' host, Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) he founder of Venture for America (@Venture4America) says that new technologies like robots and AI are great for business, but will quickly displace millions of American workers. In the next twelve years, a third of all American workers are at risk of permanently losing their jobs, a crisis far worse than the Great Depression. If we want a bright future, we have to ...
A Perfectionist's Homage to Other Perfectionists, To His Father, To Precision and To Accuracy.
April 25, 2018 16:00 - 37 minutes - 34.6 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with author Simon Winchester (@simonwwriter) about his latest book, In this, he writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the Higgs Boson. Precision, Winchester says, is the key to everything. It is an integral, unchallenged and essential component of our modern social, mercantile, scientific, mechanical and intellectual landscapes. The items we valu...
How To Be a 'Genius', or 'Business Genius' with James Bannerman
April 23, 2018 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.5 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for KGNU Denver/Boulder (@KGNU)'It's The Economy' with James Bannerman (). Bannerman is a 'Creative Change Agent' who "combines Creativity with Psychology to help businesses innovate". His most recent books are "r" and "". Kindly note: In the US, the first of these two books is published as ' Bannerman says that the books aren't going to turn you into a genius, but he says you already knew that. What it will do, he maintains, is increase the number of ...
Dev Aujla's Excellent and Unconventional "50 Ways To Get a job"
April 06, 2018 16:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks for KGNU (@KGNU) with Dev Aujla () who has come up with a new, personalized way he says, to find the perfect job, while at the same time staying grounded during the process. Aujla says that we are all so much more than a resume or job application, but how can you communicate that to your potential employer? You need to learn to ask the right questions, stop using job sites like LinkedIn el al. and actually start doing the work that counts. Based on infor...
Ellen B Meachem on the Legacy and Relevance of RFK's "Delta Epiphany:"
April 02, 2018 22:00 - 21 minutes - 19.8 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks with (@ebmeacham) about her new book. On 10 April 1967, a year before his run for president, Senator Robert F. Kennedy knelt in a crumbling shack in Mississippi trying to coax a response from a listless child. The toddler sat picking at dried rice and beans spilled over the dirt floor as Kennedy, former US attorney general and brother to a president, touched the boy's distended stomach and stroked his face and hair. After several minutes with little...
So, #HillbillyElegy, What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia, with Elizabeth Catte
March 12, 2018 16:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for @KGNU with Elizabeth Catte (@ElizabethCatte), public historian. Her work, , is a short, compelling read, steeped in history, and serves as a wonderfully intelligent antidote to the untruths of our political moment. It could also be transformative. Appalachia is more than just a region in the eastern United States. For some Americans, it’s an important element in the story about why we have the president that we do. A case and point: , the 2016 bes...
A Millennial Non-Profit Start Up with Sarah Smith, co-founder, Sawhorse Revolution
March 01, 2018 23:00 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for KGNU Denver/Boulder with Sarah Smith, one of the founders of The organization is designed to foster a "revolution" to rebuild our communities through carpentry, design, and education. Based in Seattle, Sawhorse is a non-profit startup engage in "guerilla" building projects with student-led design and propagating a new way of thinking about education, building, and work. Smith tells @KGNU how with a group of friends she went about founding the init...
Tackling the 'Age of American Unreason' with Susan Jacoby
February 28, 2018 17:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia for @KGNU) speaks here with about her new book, “,” in which she asserts that “America is now ill with a powerful mutant strain of intertwined ignorance, anti-rationalism and anti-intellectualism.” For more than a decade, Jacoby says, there have been growing symptoms of this affliction, from fundamentalist assaults on the teaching of evolution to the Bush administration’s willful disavowal of expert opinion on and strategies for prosecuting the war in Iraq. Conse...
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz on her new book, 'Loaded'
February 26, 2018 17:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia for @KGNU) speaks here with historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (@rdunbaro)on her new book, 'Loaded', which Kirkus Reviews calls "a provocative cultural analysis arguing that the Second Amendment and white supremacy are inextricably bound." "Though some argue that the Second Amendment is necessary to protect the “right to bear arms” for hunters and other law-abiding citizens, Dunbar-Ortiz ( 2014) maintains that the “well-regulated militia” has been the crucial element a...
Max Boot on Edward Lansdale, c.f. Possibly Graham Greene's 'Quiet American'
February 20, 2018 22:00 - 22 minutes - 21 MBThe debate over why the Vietnam War went so wrong still rages as we reach its 50th anniversary. But as Max Boot argues in THE ROAD NOT TAKEN, one figure looms especially large as a symbol the war’s many missed opportunities: . Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here for @KGNU with Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and renowned military historian,Max Boot () and the author of and the New York Times bestseller . (WW. Norton; Jan 2018) is a biography of profound historical co...
'The Written World' with Martin Puchner
February 19, 2018 17:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNU @KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Harvard Professor Martin Puchner (@martin_puchner) on his latest book, The Written World. This is the story of how literature has shaped world history in sixteen acts, from Alexander The Great and the Iliad to Do Quixote and Harry Potter. As Puchner has been extensively interviewed, and as Puchner is himself a 'modernist' by persuasion, this interview starts very late in the 4,000 year old catalogue that the book represents. The author le...
Lisa Stulberg on Marginalization and Using Political Tools for Change
February 17, 2018 01:30 - 21 minutes - 19.3 MBHere, Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia, for @KGNU) speaks with Lisa M Stulberg (@LisaStulberg),associate professor, sociology of education, at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. about her latest book, . In recent years, there has been substantial progress on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights in the United States. We are now, though, in a time of incredible political uncertainty for queer people. LGBTQ Social Movem...
Barbara J Risman on Young Adults: Gender Rebels or Returning to Tradition?
February 14, 2018 22:30 - 28 minutes - 26.5 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia, for @KGNU) speaks with (@bjrisman) to find out if today's young adults are gender rebels or returning to tradition? In , Risman reveals the diverse strategies youth use to negotiate the ongoing gender revolution. Using her theory of gender as a social structure, Risman analyzes life history interviews with a diverse set of Millennials to probe how they understand gender and how they might change it. Some are true believers that men and women are essentially diffe...
Roseann Lake, Author of 'Leftover in China'
February 14, 2018 17:00 - 26 minutes - 23.9 MB(Factory Girls meets The Vagina Monologues in this fascinating narrative on China’s single women―and why they could be the source of its economic future.) Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia, @KGNU) speaks here with Roseann Lake (@roslake) on her new book, 'Leftover in China: The Women Shaping The World's Next Superpower. Lake is The Economist’s Cuba correspondent. She was previously based in Beijing, where she worked for five years as a television reporter and journalist. Forty years ago, China ena...
George R Tyler on the 'Billionaire Democracy' in the US
February 12, 2018 17:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MBClaudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia for @KGNU speaks here with , on his latest book, , from In this Tyler clearly lays out the sinister architecture of what many recognize to be 'The Swamp' and the fundamental problems plaguing US democracy. But Tyler also lays out a realistic pathway to improve middle-class economics. It's time, he says, for the people of the United States to demand a government that properly serves the nation - the way any real democracy should. Economist George R. Tyler was appo...
The Internet and 'How To Fix The Future' with Andrew Keen
February 01, 2018 17:00 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MB(@KGNUClaudia for @KGNU) talks here with Andrew Keen (@ajkeen) whose latest book is 'How To Fix The Future'. Keen is one of the world's best known and controversial commentators on the digital revolution. He is the author of four books: , , international hit How to Fix the Futurehas been called "[a] bracing book" by Walter Isaacson and "the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature…in which technology's smartest thinkers are raising alarm bells about the state of the In...
Flat Broke With Two Goats, Jennifer McGaha
December 27, 2017 17:00 - 31 minutes - 28.8 MBWhen Jennifer McGaha () discovered that she and her husband owed back taxes―a lot of back taxes―her world changed. Desperate to save money, they foreclosed on their beloved suburban home and moved their family to a one-hundred-year-old cabin in a North Carolina holler. Soon enough, Jennifer's life began to more closely resemble her Appalachian ancestors than her comfortable upbringing. But what started as a last-ditch effort to settle debts became a journey that revealed both the challenges o...
"Diet for a Small Planet's" Frances Moore Lappé on 'Daring Democracy'
December 11, 2017 17:00 - 25 minutes - 23.3 MB's speaks here with about Americans who, she says, are asking, in the wake of Trump’s victory, "What do we do now?" Her answer: "(We) need to organize and fight to protect and expand our democracy." Americans, she says, are distraught as they see tightly held economic and political power drowns out their voices and values. Legendary author Frances Moore Lappé and organizer-scholar offer a fresh, surprising response to this core crisis. This intergenerational duo, from her cooperation wi...
MIT's Tom Kochan on Shaping the Future for Work
November 29, 2017 17:00 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MBWho works and how we work have changed dramatically in recent years, yet the policies and institutions governing work and employment remain mired in the world of work of the 1930s. As a result, the social contract—what we expect from and are accountable for at work—has broken down. The central challenge of our generation of industrial relations professionals is to update these policies and institutions to create and support a new social contract capable of meeting the needs and expectations o...
Noliwe Rooks on 'Segrenomics', Cutting School.... and the End of Public Education
November 27, 2017 17:00 - 30 minutes - 28 MB's speaks here with about her new book which illustrates the ways that segregation, poverty, and race intertwine to affect America’s education landscape, Rooks () clearly and vigorously maps the systemic disadvantages imposed upon students of color and the poor. “The infrastructure, ideology, progress, and promises [of America’s schools] all fall more than a little short if the goal is equality,” Rooks argues. While the performance gap between students from poor schools and wealthy schools...
Dr Helen Caldicott speaks on 'Sleepwalking to Armageddon'
November 08, 2017 17:00 - 27 minutes - 24.7 MB, please? All feedback greatly appreciated. Thank you. 's speaks with pioneering antinuclear activist about a new book she has edited, . This is a "frightening but necessary" assessment of the threat posed by nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century, edited by the world’s leading antinuclear activist “Dr. Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi Klein With the world’s attention focused (not in...
Ron Formisano on 'American Oligarchy' and the US Permanent Political Class
October 31, 2017 16:00 - 27 minutes - 24.9 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with Ron Formisano about his new book, '' and what he sees as the permanent political class has emerged on a scale unprecedented in America's history. Formisano discusses what he sees as the self-dealing, nepotism, and corruption which contribute to rising inequality. Its reach, he says, extends from the governing elite throughout nongovernmental institutions. Aside from constituting an oligarchy of prestige and power it enables, he says, the creation of "an ...
Joe Hagan on Jann Wenner's (Politically) Sticky Fingers
October 27, 2017 16:00 - 27 minutes - 25.5 MB, please? All feedback greatly appreciated. Thank you. speaks here with 's about his new book about . Even though this, , has only just been published, many others have already spoken to Hagan about the sleazier elements. This, though, ignores the, arguably, huge political ramifications of Wenner and his publication The 'celebritization' of politics, Hagan argues, is very likely a significant contributing factor to the rise in the U.S. of Donald Trump as a political force to the positi...
Philip Moeller - Get What's Yours for #Medicare
October 23, 2017 16:00 - 35 minutes - 32.5 MB, please? All feedback greatly appreciated. Thank you. 's talks with Philip Moeller @PhilMoeller about his new book, "Get What's Yours for Medicare", an essential companion to explain the nation’s other major benefit for older Americans. Learn how to maximize your health coverage and save money. In the season for annual re-enrolment for health insurance, many Americans would benefit from what he has to say. #SocialSecurity provides the bulk of most retirees’ income and Medicare guarantee...
Journal for Joy with Douglas Abrams, The Dalai Lama & Rev Desmond Tutu
October 18, 2017 21:12 - 29 minutes - 27.1 MB, please? All feedback greatly appreciated. Thank you. Following on from Claudia Cragg's previous interview with Douglas Abrams on (with HH The Dalai Lama, and the Very Reverend Desmond Tutu) this interview discusses that book's companion. A In The Book of Joy, two great spiritual masters, Nobel laureates, and dear friends met for a landmark discussion on how we can live with joy even in the face of adversity. His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu shared their personal st...
Yanis Varoufakis: His battle with the 'Deep Establishment'
October 04, 2017 16:00 - 23 minutes - 21.7 MB, please? All feedback greatly appreciated. Thank you. In a renewed conversation (listen, also, to Oct. 13, 2016) 's speaks here with , the former finance minister of Greece. This new book's title, , borrows a term used pejoratively by Christine Lagarde, the head of the IMF, and provides an extraordinary account of low cunning at the heart of Greece’s 2015 . The more defiant the leftwing Syriza government became, the more it was met with intimidation from some or duplicitous reassurance fr...
Jessica Bruder's "Nomadland" - Surviving America in the 21st Century
September 29, 2017 16:00 - 26 minutes - 24 MB, please? All feedback greatly appreciated. Thank you. Here 's speaks with Jessica Bruder about her book, . In this, tells the stories of these nomadic laborers navigating a changing economic landscape for America’s retirees. A new labor force is growing across the country: “workampers,” older Americans who have turned to short-term transient work when Social Security and their retirement cushions have fallen short. In its review, Kirkus stated that "What photographer Jacob Riis did for ...
Karlos Hill on Modern-Day "Lynchings" in the US
August 13, 2017 16:00 - 25 minutes - 23.4 MB() speaks with 's Claudia Cragg about "" an interdisciplinary study that draws on narrative theory and cultural studies methodologies to trace African Americans' changing attitudes and relationships to lynching over the twentieth century. Hill argues that. rather than being static and one dimensional,both broad American and African American attitudes towards lynching and the lynched victim evolved in response to changing social and political contexts.
The New Yorker's Peter Hessler on "How #Trump is Transforming Rural America"
July 25, 2017 23:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MB's Claudia Cragg speaks with Peter Hessler about in the 24th July edition of "How Trump is Transforming Rural America". The main focus of this piece is Grand Junction, Colorado. Peter Hessler joined The New Yorker as a staff writer in 2000. From 2000 until 2007, he was the magazine’s correspondent in China. His Letter from China articles included features on the basketball player Yao Ming, a Shenzhen factory worker, and a rural family in the grip of a medical crisis. His first book, “River...
A Summer Reprise, Mark Kurlansky on 'Edibles'
July 22, 2017 16:00 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MBMark Kurlansky is the New York Times bestselling and James Beard Award-winning author of many books, including, Choice Cuts, The Basque History of the World, Salt, Cod, The Food of a Younger Land, and The Last Fish Tale. With EDIBLE STORIES: A Novel in Sixteen Parts Kurlansky brought readers all new stories about the food we share, love and fight over. (This is a reprise of an interview originally aired on KGNU in 2010. In these stories, Mark Kurlansky reveals the bond that can hold people...
LISTEN AGAIN: Chris Rapley, former Director, British Antarctic Survey
July 19, 2017 16:00 - 16 minutes - 7.71 MBProfessor Chris Rapley, Ph.D., CBE and Director of the British Antarctic Survey, has been one of the most respected scientists in the UK. This was first broadcast on KGNU Denver/Boulder in 2006. Rapley has spent years looking at what the deep ice of Antarctica tells us of past epochs. Through his work, he can explain what influence man has made to our climate and what the data shows for future trends. According to Professor Rapley, "As well as changing the chemistry of the atmosphere, oceans...
Nancy Maclean discusses her 'Democracy in Chains'
July 13, 2017 16:00 - 21 minutes - 19.7 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with Professor Nancy Maclean about her latest book, 'Cemocracy in Chains'. Nancy MacLean attempts to show how ideas were forged in a last-gasp attempt, she believes, to preserve the white elite's power in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. By recasting the era's legal and social-movement successes, developed a brilliant, if diabolical, plan to undermine the majority's ability to use its numbers to level the playing field between the rich and powerful a...
Curious? What me?? Astrophysicist Mario Livio
July 10, 2017 16:00 - 30 minutes - 27.5 MBIn this interview with KGNU's Claudia Cragg, world-renowned astrophysicist and author Mario Livio investigates perhaps the most human of all our characteristics—curiosity—as he explores our innate desire to know why. Experiments demonstrate that people are more distracted when they overhear a phone conversation—where they can know only one side of the dialogue—than when they overhear two people talking and know both sides. Why does half a conversation make us more curious than a whole conver...
Geek Girls Rising with Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens
June 01, 2017 16:00 - 28 minutes - 26.2 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg talks with Heather Cabot and Samantha Walravens about their book that tells the story of the women who haven't asked for permission from Silicon Valley to chase their dreams. They are going for it -- building the next generation of tech start-ups, investing in each other's ventures, crushing male hacker stereotypes and rallying women and girls everywhere to join the digital revolution. isn't about the famous tech trailblazers you already know. Instead, journalists @Cabo...
Corey Dolgon on Why the Kill It To Save It Philosophy Has To End
June 01, 2017 04:30 - 27 minutes - 25.3 MB's Claudia Cragg discusses tackling the interconnected issues of globalization, neoliberalism, and declining public institutions with Corey Dolgon @cdolgon1 who argues that, for the most part, American citizens now readily accept reform policies that destroy the public sector. In his new book, Dolgon argues that this is done seemingly in the public interest and in a political culture that embraces what Stephen Colbert calls ""--a willingness to agree to arguments that feel right "in the gut"...
The 'Reducetarian Solution' with Brian Kateman
May 05, 2017 16:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB's Claudia Cragg speaks here with who coined the term ""—a person who is deliberately reducing his or her consumption of meat—and a global movement was born. In his book, Kateman, the founder of the Reducetarian Foundation, presents more than 70 original essays from influential thinkers on how the simple act of cutting 10% or more of the meat from one's diet can transform the life of the reader, animals, and the planet. This book features contributions from such luminaries as Seth Godin, Joe...
Gordon Lafer on 'The One Percent Solution'
May 04, 2017 16:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBIn the aftermath of the decision, it's become commonplace to note the growing political dominance of a small segment of the economic elite. But what exactly are those members of the elite doing with their newfound influence? The provides an answer to this question for the first time. 's book is a comprehensive account of legislation promoted by the nation's biggest corporate lobbies across all fifty state legislatures and encompassing a wide range of labor and economic policies. In an era o...
Ex Philadelphia Inquirer, Lou Ureneck, on The #Armenian #Massacre #Genocide
April 23, 2017 12:00 - 31 minutes - 28.5 MBA new movie has just been released, '', set against the background of World War I dealing with the program by to exterminate the This was a cinematic project dear to the late , perhaps best known for his Las Vegas hotel and casino connections and his ownership of MGM, but himself an Armenian for whom the massacre was not just some tale of history. But in this reprise of interview conducted for the 100th anniversary of the Massacre two years ago, KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks with , a former D...
T. R. Reid on the 'Fine Mess' that is the US Tax System
April 06, 2017 16:00 - 24 minutes - 22.6 MBT.R. Reid, whose latest book is A Fine Mess,. In this, Reid crisscrosses the globe in search of solutions to pressing tax systems problems for the US. With an uncanny knack for making a complex subject not just accessible but gripping, he investigates what makes good taxation (no, that’s not an oxymoron) and brings that knowledge home where it is needed most. Never talking down or reflexively siding with either wing of politics, T. R. Reid presses the case for sensible root-and-branch reforms...
Professor Marcus du Sautoy "Scientists need to Keep on Asserting to How We Get Where We Are"
March 30, 2017 16:00 - 22 minutes - 20.7 MBMarcus du Sautoy, "I don't see how anybody can believe that is not happening because if you see the correlation between the carbon that's being put into our environment via us as humans and the increase in temperature, if you don't think there's a connection (then) I really don't understand how you can make any connections about anything!" BROADCAST on KGNU Denver/Boulder on 31 May 2017 amidst White House announcements of the US withdrawal from the KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with the...
YES Magazine's Sarah Van Gelder, The Revolution Where You Live
March 16, 2017 16:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MBcofounder, Sarah van Gelder was becoming increasingly alarmed about the state of American society until it came to her that something could be done. Witnessing the deep divides, racial violence, climate change, economic insecurity, and inequality - she wondered if perhaps US society is coming unraveled? Has anyone got answers? She confided her fears to a friend, who said, "If the universe could deploy the one small person that is you, what would it have you do?" Her answer surprised them both...
(I) We Will Survive, Gene Stone on Living Through What You Hoped Would Never Happen
March 09, 2017 17:00 - 29 minutes - 27.2 MBAuthor - talks about his latest book, The Trump Survival Guide' with KGNU's Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia). The book contains twelve chapters, each one centering on an important matter to voters—from civil rights to immigration, from the economy to women's issues. Inside each chapter is a discussion of the issue, first in the form of a brief history lesson, then a summary of how President Obama addressed the issue, and next a prediction as to what Donald Trump realistically can and can't do. ...
Would President Trump's Repeal of 2010's Dodd-Frank Act really be such a great idea?
February 09, 2017 17:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBNot long ago and prior to a meeting with his economic advisory council, President Donald Trump held a briefing to discuss the putative repeal of 2010’s . This was the single most visible legislative consequence of the banking crisis. “We expect to be cutting a lot out of Dodd-Frank,” Trump said. “I have so many people, friends of mine, with nice businesses, they can’t borrow money, because the banks just won’t let them borrow because of the rules and regulations and Dodd-Frank.” Hours later, ...
Kimball Taylor on 'The Coyote's Bicycle"
February 02, 2017 17:00 - 30 minutes - 27.7 MBYou may not, till now, have heard of ', The untold story of 7,000 bicycles and the rise of a borderland empire. Here, journalist () talks to KGNU's Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) about how he followed the trail of the border bikes through some of Mexican society’s most powerful institutions, and, with the help of an unlikely source, he reconstructed the rise of one of Tijuana’s most innovative coyotes. Touching on immigration and globalization, NAFTA, "mercadores", as well as the history of th...
The Unsettlers, with Mark Sundeen
January 11, 2017 17:00 - 23 minutes - 21.9 MB#KGNU 's Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Mark Sundeen (@SundeenMark) about his latest book, 'The Unsettlers'. On a frigid April night, a classically trained opera singer, five months pregnant, and her husband, a former marine biologist, disembark an Amtrak train in La Plata, Missouri, assemble two bikes, and pedal off into the night, bound for a homestead they’ve purchased, sight unseen. Meanwhile, a horticulturist, heir to the Great Migration that brought masses of African Am...
Elizabeth F Schwarz on The New Administration and Legal Rights
January 10, 2017 17:00 - 19 minutes - 18.1 MB#KGNU 's Claudia Cragg (@KGNUClaudia) speaks here with Elizabeth F Schwarz () about her new book, Before I Do. Elizabeth Schwartz has been practicing law since 1997 and is a nationally recognized advocate for the legal rights of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. She is the author of Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise (The New Press, 2016), and her Miami-based law practice focuses on estate planning, probate, family formation (adoption, insemi...
The Dalai Lama, Rev Tutu w Doug Abrams, The Book of Joy, Lasting Happiness..
December 24, 2016 09:11 - 26 minutes - 23.8 MBTo listen to the interview, please click the 'pod' icon next to title. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays one and all. KGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here with Douglas Abrams about his work with His Holiness The Dalai Lama and Reverend Desmond Tutu on 'The Book of Joy'. They have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships or, as they would say, because of them they are two of the most joyful people on the planet. In April 2015...
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, get it right? #VikingEconomics Why not the US?
November 30, 2016 23:00 - 36 minutes - 33.7 MBThe incoming US administration may abolish Medicare and will most certainly radically alter Obamacare. In this interview with George Lakey, KGNU's Claudia Cragg explores for #ItsTheEconomy how Nordic countries boast the world’s happiest, most productive workers, and explains how, if the US could enact some of the changes that the Scandinavians fought for surprisingly recently, the US too, can embrace equality in economic policy. George Lakey co-founded Earth Quaker Action Group which won its ...
Yanis Varoufakis, Former Greek Minister of Finance, on The US, Bretton Woods & Europe
October 13, 2016 08:00 - 33 minutes - 30.6 MBKGNU's Claudia Cragg speaks here for KGNU Fall Fund Drive ( for the Denver/Boulder Area and beyond) with , the former Greek Finance Minister. In his latest book, Varoufakis (“the most interesting man in the world” according toBusiness Insider) offers a potted history of post-war global finance, the rise of the euro, and its spectacular fall, along with his own prognosis and solution for the interminable crisis of European capitalism. As is explained in the book, the rather clunky title come...
"The War on Cash" with Brett Scott, from thelongandshort.org
September 08, 2016 16:00 - 20 minutes - 18.9 MB'Cashless society', says Brett Scott, is a euphemism for the "ask-your-banks-for-permission-to-pay society". Rather than an exchange occurring directly between the hotel and me, it takes the form of a "have your people talk to my people" affair. Various intermediaries message one another to arrange an exchange between our respective banks. That may be a convenient option, but in a cashless society it would no longer be an option at all. You'd have no choice but to conform to the intermediarie...