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rssJames Carroll: Practicing “Americanist” Catholic
Click to listen to Chris’s conversations with James Carroll (56 minutes, 26 mb mp3) “Practicing” — meaning: James Carroll: radical, pastoral, sacramental …that through these disciplines, rituals, and searches, we have some prospect of getting better. This, therefore, is practice like the practice of an art or sport. That we are practicing means, above [...]
Audio|Fri, 10 Apr 2009
|James Carrollfound at0:20, 6:11
“…occasion is the publication of a reflective testimony title practicing Catholic. -- James Carroll the novelist ex priest. Personal historian best known for the book that became the movie called Constantine. Sort. Jim Carroll -- my …”
“…that. In astonishingly it really. Criticized itself out of existence. Of the Roman Catholic Church is an unusual institution. Because it dismantled it is one of the key -- of its power. -- dismantling that took place …”
The Obama Effect: a Rebirth of Global Politics
We are hanging out here at an improvised Clubhouse of Candid Social Democratic Statesmen. Click to listen to Chris’s conversations with Ricardo Lagos and Romano Prodi (61 minutes, 28 mb mp3) The drift of the conversation is that the global crisis is a mix of comeuppance and liberation. The crisis is surely an end of [...]
Audio|Wed, 8 Apr 2009
|Latin Americafound at21:33, 1:28
“…from. Bush to Obama we can't cover all we can't cover the Middle East and Africa and Latin America and immigration and climate and drugs in so many other things. I wish you just take one -- two. Representative areas that …”
“…men have played a huge international rules. The European Commission. In the United Nations. . Who better to watch the global storm -- us and to reflect on the Obama effect the new president. In a world …”
Mahmood Mamdani: You (and I) got Darfur Wrong
Click to listen to Chris’s conversations with Mahmood Mamdani (59 minutes, 25 mb mp3) Who can imagine that a Save Darfur coalition vocally including Al Sharpton (”we know when America comes together, we can stop anything in the world”), Mia Farrow, the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, Elie Wiesel (”Darfur today is the world’s capital of [...]
Audio|Fri, 3 Apr 2009
|Iraq Iranfound at31:50, 34:09
“…force attacked. And and and and that's the difference to me because Iraq. . Iran thinks Americans feel -- feel guilty. More. Own up to the limits of American. In and god for however. They can feed. …”
“…saved their hotels. Is that these -- Arabs who came from the Middle East. . -- outsiders. Could outsiders who came in India are pressing. Insiders these types -- Africans. And because -- you've seen who takes …”
After Gaza: The road back from shame and silence
Henry Siegman: a “fierce urgency” How many setbacks does it take to induce moral clarity, or to create an opportunity? This seems to be the general question at the Harvard-MIT conference on Gaza this week. In the short term, horror seems to freeze hearts and harden old positions. The hundred-to-one ratio of Palestinian [...]
Audio|Thu, 2 Apr 2009
|Middle Eastfound at0:12, 2:15
“…University. And American conversation with the global attitudes become. -- the Middle East this time after the Gaza. A -- in December. -- seems to Harden hearts in fact 200 to one ratio of Palestinian …”
“…policy. And the good manners and good good Monroe's Barack I Chuck Hagel. . -- don't have people includes in addition to version ski and hagel and strong growth. -- Lee Hamilton and Carla hills of …”
The President of Flow… and the end of Hip Hop?
What if “My President is black” is a reset button, marking the end of a cultural era? Just talking here again about the hip hop pulse of Obama Nation. Tricia Rose says the President of Flow will be (surely ought to be) the death of commercial hip hop… of the last decade’s giant [...]
Audio|Thu, 26 Mar 2009
|Miles Davisfound at36:10, 4:53
“…the things understand is that. Swagger without substance. Is foolishness. And when Miles Davis swagger and onto the stage. Law. Charlie Parker walked onto the stage. Law Duke Ellington glided onto the stage. He's one of these individuals. Had an intellectual depth. That could equal any artistic. Abilities which they have …”
“…There's not and let me just you just have black male swagger Miles Davis said black male swagger you know much Olympic black male swagger Malcolm X had bitten on those people are hip hop generation. …”
Obama as Gorbachev: a Regime in Crisis
Click to listen to Chris’s conversations on the global crisis. (37 minutes, 17 mb mp3) 1. Unless the West suddenly gets a new act together, China wins the global crisis — because it has cash, a production machine, an orderly, top-down system co-designed by Milton Friedman and Stalin, and a domestic market of customers if [...]
Audio|Thu, 19 Mar 2009
|Mikhail Gorbachevfound at1:55, 14:49
“…Today Barack Obama in this country is performing the same rolled my Mikhail Gorbachev. . Was performing in the times of the collapse of socialism. And this was the question basically whether we -- did learn something …”
“…Chris Gocong. . China is now openly nervous about this but trillion dollars worth there's T bills that they have quietly saying it what does …”
Obama & Hip Hop: The Transracial Drumbeat
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Adam Bradley. (47 minutes, 21 mb mp3) Adam Bradley is talking about the President of Flow — about how 30 years of hip-hop (”the most widely disseminated poetry in the history of the world”) laid down the rhyme-and-rhythm track for the Age of Obama. Add this to the [...]
Audio|Wed, 18 Mar 2009
|Charlie Parkerfound at29:35, 11:09
“…will be remembered 304050. Years on in anything like the way. That count Basie or Miles Davis or Charlie Parker. . Have. Asserted themselves -- knows more and more into. A tremendous tradition of American art this is this is this is. …”
“…hear from rock camp you know I can hear from Jay-Z from Kanye West and is a way that's when things that I observed in the book is that. Once context. Creates. The poetic form so …”
Fred Kaplan on the Neo-Cons: Daytime Dreamers
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Fred Kaplan and James Der Derian. (61 minutes, 28 mb mp3) Fred Kaplan: a short history of bad ideas Fred Kaplan, the “War Stories” columnist at Slate, reminds us in his trashing of the Bush-Cheney neo-cons, Daydream Believers, not only that his barbed book title comes from T. E. Lawrence, [...]
Audio|Thu, 5 Mar 2009
|new bookfound at0:20, 9:26
“…war stories columnist at slate the online magazine Fred Kaplan. But -- new book is titled daydream. Believers yeah. An allusion to Lawrence of Arabia which we will ask him to unfold. The book is about …”
“…For two reasons. For true completely different reasons that happened to converge. Donald Rumsfeld the secretary of defense wanted. This is oversimplify the shuttle pilot of that -- oversimplifying. One of the rock -- to serve …”
Blindspot: Lepore and Kamensky in Olde Boston
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Jane Kamensky and Jill Lepore. (45 minutes, 21 mb mp3) Kamensky & Lepore: 2 madwomen, 1 attic Blindspot is a lark, with lessons. First, about sex and slavery in 18th Century Boston, where you didn’t expect to find so much of either. And then, about the writing of [...]
Audio|Mon, 2 Mar 2009
|New York Cityfound at27:05, 3:29
“…is imported from New York -- 20% of the population was African. New York City was the largest. The largest population -- anywhere in north. The Potomac and violence that was about slavery in New York City in the eighteenth century. So a lot of what a lot of and -- a lot of the social history -- that's …”
“…bicentennial of the French revolution and -- at the time and and Charles dickens' tale of two cities is still the best book. On the French revolution in the certainly but he also wrote that article …”
Parag Khanna: Anxious in Afghanistan
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Parag Khanna. (29 minutes, 13 mb mp3) Parag Khanna Parag Khanna reads and sounds to me like the sane, worldly-wise, long-view alternative to the mainstream bloviators about American power in this new Age of Obama. His breakthrough piece in the New York Times Magazine just a year ago was [...]
Audio|Wed, 25 Feb 2009
|North Koreafound at25:08, 8:47
“…be adopting European view of engagement and dialogue in the resources take North Korea where the same thing uses his idea happening as -- so. It's not so much that American leadership is being restored. Or that America is going back to the world before rejoining the world us -- do those things but. If you value to what extent there even is an international order for America to rejoin. I I believe that an international order is in some form of -- because these rising powers are doing things their own way. Russia has not consulting with the United Nations -- it invades Georgia you know. Did China has not consulting any human human rights committee when it when it's -- tanks and Tibet. So you know things are going on that really speak against that notion of a strong central and -- communities. Clearly Obama has said that read that the UN is going to be a priority he's made the ambassador to the United Nations a cabinet level position. That doesn't mean that the United Nations will suddenly be more effective organization either national intelligence council's 20/20 five report. Says that by that point 101015 years now. There …”
“…game to anybody suddenly it all this corruption in Afghanistan I'm shot Joe Biden. . He's leaving the meeting and our media suddenly falls into place. What is this about. This is most. …”