Free Forum with Terrence McNally
637 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 28 ratingsFeatures conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. Guests have included Michael Lewis, Ken Burns, Arianna Huffington, Paul Krugman, Temple Grandin, Bill Maher, Cornel West, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Norman Lear. [http://terrencemcnally.net]
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JOHN NICHOLS - Getting Impeachment Right & Winning the Rust Belt in 2020
November 16, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.4 MBThe impeachment hearings have started and we're a year away from the 2020 election. Who better to talk to about how to get impeachment right and how to beat Trump in the Rust Belt states next year than JOHN NICHOLS. He's National Affairs correspondent for The Nation and associate editor of The Capital Times in Madison, Wisconsin. Not only that, he also wrote the book, THE GENIUS OF IMPEACHMENT: The Founders' Cure for Royalism. Join us we talk about all this and more.
FOR SAMA- Best doc at Cannes & SXSW - inside the siege of Aleppo, Syria
November 12, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.4 MBThe documentary FOR SAMA - airing on PBS Tuesday 11/19 - takes us inside Aleppo during the brutal siege by al Assad and the Russians. Waad al-Kateab began shooting graffiti on university walls and a revolution rose around her - followed by an overwhelming response. Best Doc, Cannes Film Festival, Doc Grand Jury Prize, SXSW. I talk with directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, and with Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, who ran the last hospital in East Aleppo. Listen. You’ll get a unique feel fo...
The Book Behind the Wealth Tax - EMMANUEL SAEZ, Triumph of Injustice
October 31, 2019 00:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MBI talk with EMMANUEL SAEZ, UC Berkeley economist, about his newest book, THE TRIUMPH OF INJUSTICE: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay - co-authored with Gabriel Zucman. The pair grabbed headlines when their book reported that in 2018, for the first time in history, America’s richest billionaires paid a lower effective tax rate than the working class. Their solutions include a wealth tax, and they’ve advised Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on their proposals. You ca...
NEW: JEREMY RIFKIN - The Green New Deal
October 17, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBI talk with JEREMY RIFKIN, advisor to China and the European Union, and author of 20 books about the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, society, and the environment. In his newest book, THE GREEN NEW DEAL: Why the Fossil Fuel Civilization Will Collapse by 2028, and the Bold Economic Plan to Save Life on Earth, he draws on successful lessons from bold initiatives in Europe and China to flesh out what it will take to pull it off in the US.
WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS (2013 documentary) THOMAS TAMM & FRANZ GAYL, punished under Bush and Obama
October 12, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBWhistleblowers are in the news. And Trump’s not the first to attack them. Here’s my 2013 show on the documentary, WAR ON WHISTLEBLOWERS: Free Press and the National Security State. I speak with producer/director, ROBERT GREENWALD, and with THOMAS TAMM and FRANZ GAYL, two of the four whistleblowers in the film, punished under Bush and Obama for standing up to demand accountability and defend the constitution.
NEW: JONATHAN BLANK, Sex, Drugs & Bicycles - How does Holland do it?
October 04, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MBIn his documentary SEX, DRUGS & BICYCLES, high-tech entrepreneur JONATHAN BLANK asks, “How scary is life in a social democracy?” Beyond windmills, cannabis “coffeeshops”, and the red light district, Holland has one of the best economies in the world, is top 5 in almost every quality of life index, #1 for work-life balance. Dutch kids are the happiest in the world, the healthcare system is #3, and the government runs a budget surplus. Boo!
American Heroes-GEORGE McGOVERN & HOWARD ZINN
September 28, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 82.8 MBWith impeachment hearings starting, let’s listen to a couple of past heroes, men of principle, including one whose electoral opponent resigned rather than face his own impeachment. In the first half, I talk with longtime Senator and 1972 Democratic presidential candidate, GEORGE MCGOVERN, followed by my conversation with HOWARD ZINN, a leader of the anti-Vietnam War movement and author of A People's History of the United States. Both were recorded in 2005.
NEW: TIFFANY SHLAIN - 24/6: The Power of Unplugging One Day a Week
September 19, 2019 20:36 - 56 minutes - 39 MBEpisode Summary: Welcome to Free Forum, a show that features conversations with people who offer pieces of the puzzle of “a world that just might work” -- provocative approaches to business, environment, health, science, politics, media and culture. In this episode, Terrence welcomes Emmy-nominated filmmaker, speaker and Webby Awards Founder Tiffany Shlain to the podcast. Terrence and Tiffany discuss her career path, the societal impact of technology, and the inspiration for her bo...
NEW-ADAM HOCHSCHILD-Lessons from a Dark Time - for our own dark times
September 18, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 82.3 MBAs soon as I picked up and started reading LESSONS FROM A DARK TIME, I wanted to have this conversation with ADAM HOCHSCHILD. As a writer, he doesn’t waste your time. He brings an artist’s touch and a moralist’s conscience to the issues and events he grapples with. He’s one of the founders of Mother Jones Magazine, and threaded through his journalism and his books - King Leopold’s Ghost, Spain in Our Hearts among them - is his concern for social justice and the people who fight for i...
TERRENCE McNALLY - 60s2.0 (15 min) Generations w Shared Values vs Global Crises
September 04, 2019 02:48 - 16 minutes - 22.4 MBI offer a commentary on what I call 60s2.0 - generations with shared values coming together to create the sort of fundamental change we need in order to improve the daily lives of millions and to solve the enormous problems we've created for ourselves.
NEW: CHIP CONLEY, WISDOM @ WORK: The Making of a Modern Elder
August 22, 2019 06:59 - 42 minutes - 58.4 MBLife expectancy has grown 30 years in the U.S. since 1900—from 47 to 77. Meanwhile the rapid pace of new technology is changing the nature of work, so that you may struggle to keep up. 40% now have a boss who is younger than they are. After 24 years as CEO, CHIP CONLEY sold Joie de Vivre, the second largest boutique hotel brand in America. Four years later, the young founders of Airbnb hired him as Head of Global Hospitality and Strategy. Reflecting on his four years in that role, Co...
NEW: ERICA CHENOWETH-Non-Violent Protests On the March - Why They Work
August 10, 2019 01:20 - 53 minutes - 73.4 MBJune 25th NYTimes headline: “2019 might be the year of the protest” - mass demonstrations in Prague, Hong Kong, Russia, Kazakhstan, and the UK. The President of Algeria, the President of Sudan, and Governor of Puerto Rico leave office after protests. What’s going on? Why are nonviolent protests working? And what might that mean for us here in the US where the global climate movement has called for a general strike September 20th? I speak with ERICA CHENOWETH, Professor at Harvard’s K...
RALPH NADER - Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for America’s Future (2012)
August 03, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 81 MBCNN did their best to turn presidential debates into Wrestlemania, pitting moderates against progressives, pushing the story that their policies are too bold and will elect Trump. Tuesday night Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren held their ground. With that in mind, here's my 2012 interview with Ralph Nader about his book, The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future, recorded at the time of the Obama-Romney debates. Let’s see how many of his bold ideas are on the tab...
NEW-FOR SAMA-Don’t miss this award-winning doc on the siege of Aleppo, Syria
July 26, 2019 00:00 - 30 seconds - 41.4 MBThe documentary FOR SAMA takes us inside the heartbreaking suffering of the people of Aleppo during the long and brutal siege by al Assad and the Russians. Waad al-Kateab began shooting students spraying revolutionary graffiti on university walls. The revolution rises around her – as does the overwhelming response. Best Doc, 2019 Cannes Film Festival and Doc Grand Jury Prize, 2019 SXSW Film Festival. I interview directors Waad al-Kateab and Edward Watts, and Dr. Hamza al-Kateab, who ...
NEW: BARBARA FINAMORE - Will China Save the Planet?
July 18, 2019 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.5 MBIn the US today, we see how even one person willing to oppose the popular consensus can dictate our nation’s response to climate change. Meanwhile China has leapt into the vacuum created by our retreat. In her provocative new book, Will China Save the Planet?, BARBARA FINAMORE, Senior Attorney and Asia Senior Strategic Director, Natural Resources Defense Council, explores China’s big picture, long-term strategy to seize the leadership of the global response and reap the technological...
THOMAS HOMER DIXON-The Ingenuity Gap-Are we able to solve the problems we create?
July 14, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBWe go deep into the archives to bring you my 2002 conversation with THOMAS HOMER DIXON on his insightful and provocative book THE INGENUITY GAP, in which he asks whether we’re going to be able to generate and implement useful ideas fast enough to solve the problems we ourselves are creating. Problems like the surveillance capitalism of Facebook and Google, the jobs we’re losing to robots, and the crisis of climate change. In the book and interview, he said there was still time but th...
NEW: NATHAN SCHNEIDER - How much of a difference can co-ops make?
July 06, 2019 00:00 - 30 seconds - 40 MBWhen the three richest Americans have more wealth than the lowest 50%, shareholder capitalism is not working. In EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE: The Radical Tradition that is Shaping the Next Economy, NATHAN SCHNEIDER reminds us of a hopeful alternative – cooperatives - jointly owned, democratically controlled enterprises that advance the economic, social, and cultural interests of their members. Schneider previously wrote a book on the Occupy movement. You can learn more at nathanschneider...
ARLIE HOCHSCHILD STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND: Anger and Mourning on the Right
June 29, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBAs the Democratic candidate debates begin, here's my March 2018 conversation with ARLIE HOCHSCHILD. In her book, STRANGERS IN THEIR OWN LAND, based on five years research in Southern Louisiana, she asks, why residents of the nation's second poorest state vote for candidates who resist federal help? Why, when corporations devastate their lives and their land, do they most hate the government? And I ask, how can we come up with a story that can change their minds? Listen to get a sense...
DR. ANDREW WEIL-2003 Conversation w America’s Favorite Doctor of Integrative Medicine
June 14, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBThis 2003 interview traces the evolution of Dr. Weil’s work and thinking from his earliest understandings of health and healing to his ongoing commitment to train a new generation of physicians. Weil’s definition of integrative medicine: rooted in the connection of medicine with nature and the natural healing potential of the organism, it utilizes the magic of the doctor/patient relationship to treat the whole person. Hyla Cass MD joins the conversation.
NEW: JOSHUA GOLDSTEIN-How did France & Sweden successfully solve climate change?
June 14, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBI’m always interested in what the US can learn from other countries. So I was immediately attracted to JOSHUA GOLDSTEIN’s new book A BRIGHT FUTURE: How Some Countries Have Solved Climate Change and the Rest Can Follow. When Goldstein (and co-author Staffan Qvist) did the research and the math on what it was going to take to reduce carbon emissions enough to avoid the worst of climate change, they concluded that rapid development of renewables would need a large and fast buildout of n...
NEW podcast: GREG GRANDIN, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall
May 31, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBThe idea of the frontier has been central to American identity. Its image of endless promise fostered our belief in the US as exceptional. Today America has a new symbol: the border wall. As GREG GRANDIN sees it, America’s constant expansion helped deflect domestic political and economic conflicts outward. But the 2008 financial crash and unwinnable wars in the Middle East turned Americans inward, leading to the rise of reactionary populism, racist nationalism, extreme anger, polariz...
What’s Trump hiding? 2017 interview w DAVID CAY JOHNSTON, The Making of Donald Trump
May 24, 2019 21:44 - 59 minutes - 81.2 MBAs the confrontation between House investigators and Donald Trump drags on, as he ignores subpoenas of his financial and tax records, what is he hiding? Here’s my June 2017 conversation with Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist DAVID CAY JOHNSTON. He’s been covering Trump off and on for 28 years, and his book THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP profiles how Trump has gotten wealthy bilking others, colluding with criminals, evading prosecution, and romancing the press.
NEW podcast: JOSHUA DOUGLAS - How to Take Back Our Elections
May 17, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBThe Republican party games the political system with gerrymandering, voter suppression, and election manipulation. In VOTE FOR US, JOSHUA DOUGLAS writes about the many positive initiatives through which Americans are taking back their democracy, one community at a time - expanding voter eligibility, easing voter registration rules, making voting more convenient, giving redistricting back to the voters, improving civics education, and more. This interview offers warnings, good news, a...
Daniel Ellsberg - When the Supreme Court upheld free speech rights of the press (2009 interview)
May 11, 2019 00:00 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBAs the Trump White House claims executive privilege gives them the right to hide the full Mueller report - let’s listen to my 2009 interview with Daniel Ellsberg, whose courageous civil disobedience stood up to Richard Nixon, and led to one of the proudest moments for the Supreme Court, when they declared the first amendment gave the press the right to publish the Pentagon Papers. Will we be so lucky with the current court?
NEW - RICHARD WRANGHAM - The Goodness Paradox - Humans show extremes of violence and harmony.
May 04, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBHow is that humans can be both the nicest and the nastiest of species? Biological anthropologist RICHARD WRANGHAM wrestles with that question in The Goodness Paradox: The Strange Relationship Between Virtue and Violence in Human Evolution. Though our capacity for coolly planned and devastating violence remains unrivaled, Wrangham offers a strikingly original theory that capital punishment has been instrumental in humans becoming extremely peaceful in our daily interactions. Can this ...
NEW - BILL McKIBBEN, founder 350.org, new book, FALTER: Has the Human Game Begun to Play Itself Out?
April 17, 2019 00:00 - 57 minutes - 79.5 MBThirty years ago, BILL McKIBBEN’s THE END of NATURE was the first popular book about climate change. Since then the effects have exceeded our expectations, while our response has lagged what’s needed. Bill has done his part - with books, articles, and as co-founder of the climate movement 350.org, which has held 20,000 rallies in 182 countries and spearheaded the fight against the XL pipeline and the movement to divest from fossil fuel companies. We talk about the latest findings, wa...
1) TIM RYAN, running in 2020, A Mindful Nation 2) WINIFRED GALLAGHER, Attention, our most valuable resource
April 13, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MB(1) Ohio Congressman TIM RYAN entered the race last week for the Dems’ 2020 nomination. Here’s our 2012 interview on his book, A MINDFUL NATION: How a Simple Practice Can Help Us Reduce Stress, Improve Performance, and Recapture the American Spirit. (2) In 2009’s RAPT: Attention and the Focused Life, WINIFRED GALLAGHER argues that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it. Worth paying attention to.
NEW - Reflecting on big questions with essayist GEORGE SCIALABBA
April 04, 2019 00:00 - 59 minutes - 40.5 MBI have complete freedom booking guests, driven by the pursuit of what I term “a world that just might work.” Still, I know that recognizable names mean more clicks, listens, downloads, and shares. This week I defy that knowledge. Over the last 35 years, GEORGE SCIALABBA has written nearly 400 essays and book reviews for everyone from The American Conservative to The Nation. Praised by his peers, including Barbara Ehrenrich, Noam Chomsky, and Thomas Frank, we’ll examine some of the bi...
How inequality hurts everybody - Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett, The Spirit Level.
March 30, 2019 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBAs the college admissions scandal emphasizes once again the gulf between the wealthy and the rest of us, and the deficit skyrockets due to Trump’s GOP tax cuts for the rich and corporations, here’s my January 2010 conversation with Richard Wilkinson & Kate Pickett about their groundbreaking book, The Spirit Level. Based on 30 years of research, it makes clear that the more unequal a society is, the worse it is for everybody – rich and poor alike.
NEW podcast: CHARLES EISENSTEIN, Climate - A New Deeper, Fuller Story
March 22, 2019 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.7 MBHere’s a radical idea: Have we become too focused on climate change? In CLIMATE - A New Story, CHARLES EISENSTEIN calls for a reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ to reverse climate change and heal ecological destruction. If we begin from an understanding that rivers, forests, and creatures are sacred and valuable in their own right, not simply for carbon credits, he believes we can engage meaningful emotional and psychological connections that are bigger and dee...
JONAH SACHS-Winning the Story Wars (2012)-As timely as ever
March 15, 2019 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.1 MBToo often today facts and reality are less important than which narrative you embrace or which stories you believe. My December 2012 conversation with JONAH SACHS, Co-Founder of Free Range - the folks behind The Story of Stuff - and author of UNSAFE THINKING and WINNING THE STORY WARS, offers you a better understanding of how this works and how to use it to your advantage.
NEW-ELAINE PAGELS-Why Religion: A Personal Story
March 07, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 39.8 MBIn WHY RELIGION? A Personal Story, ELAINE PAGELS weaves what she's learned about religion with her own experience responding to dual tragedies that took place 25 years ago – the death of her young son, followed a year later by the death of her husband. She asks, Why is religion still around in the twenty-first century? How do traditions still shape the way people - whether religious or not - experience everything from sexuality to politics? Finally, can religion help us get through t...
NEW Sister Jeannette Lucey & Sister Constance Touey DO IT BETTER: How the Kids of St. Francis deSales Exceeded Everyone's Expectations
February 23, 2019 03:15 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MBToo often when we read about immigrant children, they are being torn from their parents' arms or blamed for lawlessness. Sisters Constance Touey & Jeannette Lucey met in 1984 when they were both assigned to a parish K-8 school in inner city Philadelphia. DO IT BETTER: How the Kids of St. Francis de Sales Exceeded Everyone's Expectations tells remarkable stories of their 30+ years as principal and 8th grade teacher as they worked to educate and transform the lives of wave after wave o...
NEW - DAVID KIRP, Does the US love its children?
February 08, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBHow are we doing by our kids? School and college budgets shrink. Teacher strikes are on the rise. College debt is crippling. Children are separated from their parents. I check in with DAVID KIRP, Professor at UC Berkeley. His books include THE SANDBOX INVESTMENT and KIDS FIRST. We talk about innovative programs that work and could make a big difference. If only we cared.
NEW - CORY DOCTOROW - Copyright, Freedom, Empathy, and Walkaways
January 25, 2019 00:00 - 58 minutes - 39.8 MBCORY DOCTOROW, has a lot to say about human nature, society, and technology. He writes speculative fiction - YA best-seller LITTLE BROTHER, and most recently the novel, WALKAWAY and graphic novel IN REAL LIFE. As a technology expert and activist, he’s co-editor of Boing Boing.net, a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate. Learn more at craphound.com. I suspect we’ll just scratch the surface. Photo: jonathanworlth.com
ALI NOORANI-As Trump Throws Tantrums, Red States Meet the Immigration Challenge
January 12, 2019 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBAs the government shutdown continues and 800,000 federal workers suffer along with asylum seekers caught by the President’s anti-immigrant actions, listen to my interview from last February with ALI NOORANI, Executive Director of the National Immigration Forum and author of THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD: How Communities Overcome Prejudice and Meet the Challenge of American Immigration. You can learn more at ali-noorani.com and immigrationforum.org where you can link to Ali’s podcast, O...
NEW - BILLY WIMSATT - Money in the grassroots wins elections and makes change - Movement Voter Project
December 28, 2018 00:00 - 59 minutes - 40.9 MBBILLY WIMSATT, is the founder and executive director of Movement Voter Project, which offers a clear break from the tired and true strategy of electoral politics - big donors, big consultants, and big TV ad buys. MVP helps progressive donors move some of their money to support the best local community-based organizations in key states - organizations alive on the ground 365 days a year, whether there’s an election or not. In 2018, they moved more than $13M to 350+ groups in 42 states...
NEW - ERWIN CHEMERINSKY offers a progressive vision of the Supreme Court
December 15, 2018 00:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBIn his newest book, We the People: A Progressive Reading of the Constitution for the 21st Century, ERWIN CHEMERINSKY, Dean of Berkeley Law, makes the case that the right has since the 1970s developed and enacted a clear vision of constitutional interpretation. He calls on progressives to fight back with an alternative vision based on fulfilling the Constitution’s promise of liberty and justice for all.
NEW - GREG PALAST on dirty tricks and voter suppression in the midterms
December 14, 2018 00:00 - 30 minutes - 41.2 MBInvestigative reporter GREG PALAST (Rolling Stone, Guardian, BBC) has been exposing GOP dirty tricks and voter suppression since 2000. Listen for the latest in the mid-terms in Georgia, Florida, and elsewhere - and how to fight back.
AFTER INNOCENCE-2006 doc w stories of prisoners exonerated by Innocence Project
December 08, 2018 00:00 - 5 minutes - 82.3 MBAs Trump cronies are caught up in Mueller’s dragnet, let’s look at how justice works for regular folks. 2006 documentary AFTER INNOCENCE tells the stories of wrongly convicted prisoners exonerated and freed by DNA evidence. My guests include: JESSICA SANDERS, Director, Producer, Writer; MARC SIMON, Producer, Writer, and a former attorney with the Innocence Project; HERMAN ATKINS, exonerated and released in 2001 after 13 years in prison; DENNIS MAHER, exonerated and released in 2003 a...
New-LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD-How Change Happens: Why Social Movements Succeed
November 30, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBWhile elections matter, a vital society demands much more. In How Change Happens: Why Some Social Movements Succeed While Others Don't, LESLIE CRUTCHFIELD examines some movements that have succeeded — from tobacco control and gun rights expansion, to marriage equality and acid rain reduction — as well as recent campaigns that haven’t - like Occupy Wall Street, controlling C02 emissions, and gun violence prevention. Her research identifies six practices linked to success. We’ll explor...
American hero, Gregory Boyle, Homeboy Industries, breaking through gang tribalism.
November 10, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBMidterms are over, Sessions has been fired, Trump has two months till the new House arrives. I’m on vacation and can’t respond to any of that. This week you’ll hear my April 2010 conversation with Father Gregory Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries. We’re joined by Luiz Perez, one of the senior staff at Homeboy. My guests and their work run absolutely counter to the kinds of prejudice and ugliness indulged in by the President.
NEW - DAVID CORN, Mother Jones The Most Important Election of Our Lives The Most Important Scandal in Our History
October 27, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBDAVID CORN wrote the Mother Jones cover story - The Most Important Election of Our Lives, declared that "The Russia scandal is the most important scandal in the history of the United States", and co-authored with Michael Isikoff, Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump. Who better to talk to at this moment...less than two weeks till the midterms.
JOHN NICHOLS Beto O’Rourke & What It’s Going Take to Turn Things Around
October 13, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBJOHN NICHOLS, Nation magazine’s national affairs correspondent, reports from Texas on Beto O’Rourke’s insurgent campaign against Senator Ted Cruz. We place today’s political and societal crises in context - How are things broken? How did they get broken? How do we fix them? With a nod to new blood and new passion on the campaign trail.
MARSHALL GANZ (UFW, Obama ’08) - Public Narrative - Key to successful organizing
October 06, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBMARSHALL GANZ dropped out of Harvard in ’64 to work on Freedom Summer, was a lead organizer for years with United Farm Workers, and led the grass-roots storytelling model for Obama ’08. He’s a lecturer in public policy at Harvard, having returned after 28 years to earn his BA and PhD. I participated recently in one of his public narrative trainings. For the mid-terms and beyond, we need to learn from him. Here’s our conversation, recorded in March 2012.
NEW - JOAN WILLIAMS - White Working Class - Overcoming Class Cluelessness
September 28, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBA friend emailed me JOAN WILLIAMS’ Harvard Business Review article, What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class. Read over 3.7 million times, it’s the most read article in HBR’s 90-plus year history, and I can see why. WILLIAMS is the author of WHITE WORKING CLASS: Overcoming Class Cluelessness in America. “If we don’t take steps to bridge the class culture gap, when Trump proves unable to bring steel back to Youngstown, the consequences could turn dangerous.”
MICHAEL LEWIS - 2010 Q&A re THE BIG SHORT - !0 years after the crash
September 21, 2018 00:00 - 57 minutes - 39.1 MBIt’s 10 years since the financial crash, and books, articles and commentators are looking back. So let’s listen to my 2010 conversation with Michael Lewis, We talk about his #1 best-seller THE BIG SHORT, but more than that, I ask him to define terms - like securitization, derivatives, credit default swaps. It's one of my all time favorite interviews.
NEW - MILTON BENNETT - The Cult of Trump?
September 14, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBI read an interview by Dahr Jamail with today’s guest, cultural communication expert Milton Bennett, at Truthout.org. Titled Is There a Cult of Trump? It spells out the methods utilized – consciously or unconsciously - by Trump to turn his followers into a cult – impervious to outside or contrary influence and united in defense of their aims and their leader. It’s a story of tactics and behavior that transform the Trump phenomenon into something more dangerous than a simple politica...
PAUL HAWKEN, DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan to Reverse Global Warming Rise for Climate Global Day of Action Sat Sept 8
September 08, 2018 00:00 - 1 hour - 41.2 MBThis weekend when folks in communities around the world take part in a Global Day of Climate Action, you'll hear my October 2017 conversation with PAUL HAWKEN (The Ecology of Commerce; Natural Capitalism; Blessed Unrest) about his research project and best-selling book: DRAWDOWN: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming, which ranks the 80 most impactful solutions - plus 20 others for which there isn't enough data yet to rank them.
NEW-MICHAEL BRUNE-Sierra Club ED, Good news, Bad news, Get Involved
August 30, 2018 00:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MBCalifornia Natural Resources Agency predicts severe heat waves, wildfires, ocean rise will cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars. Trump administration decimates Obama emissions rules for cars and power plants. Rise Up for Climate global day of action Sat 9/8. MICHAEL BRUNE, Executive Director of Sierra Club, shares good news, bad news, and ways to get involved.