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Amitav Ghosh and his Sea of Poppies

Amitav Ghosh and his Sea of Poppies

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Amitav Ghosh. (67 minutes, 31 mb mp3) Amitav Ghosh: on addiction and amnesia The Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh brings the British Empire to life again — the other side of the story, so to speak, from the other side of the world. If we’d had his wondrous new novel, [...]

Audio|Thu, 20 Nov 2008
|Middle Eastfound at25:14, 33:18

“…things we learned in this whole period I think is that the Middle East is almost impossible. To talk about in the so open American discourse and I think it's a continuing problem. Israel does so …”

“…you know I mean that is for each American. Before him all American troops there. America has to recognizing that there are the pilots and that these are with a legitimate interest. You know it can't …”

Our Better Angel: Chris Adrian

Our Better Angel: Chris Adrian

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Chris Adrian. (44 minutes, 20 mb mp3) Chris Adrian: Pain’s Artist, Doctor, Minister The writer Chris Adrian is a medical doctor, a pediatric oncologist, who seems to have known from the beginning that our bodies are not the problem. I think of Beatrice, an attempted suicide, “the jumping lady,” [...]

Audio|Thu, 13 Nov 2008
|George Bushfound at3:46, 11:39

“…was why do I feel like it's. So personally my fault that George Bush president there none of them could turn of redemptive promise that floated around in the first. Chief few days -- weeks may …”

“…him from probably it was 20042005. -- some time Iran and Iraq War was. Well on its way and reports restarting the comeback of teenagers Smith's young man's age who are dying in Iraq. And …”

This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: John Comaroff

This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: John Comaroff

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with John Comaroff. (52 minutes, 24 mb mp3) The Obama Moment in America reminds the Chicago anthropologist John Comaroff of the Mandela Moment in his native South Africa in the early 1990s. The whole world has embraced the Obama Moment as its own, Comaroff says, because it marks “the [...]

Audio|Mon, 10 Nov 2008
|Barack Obamafound at0:24, 1:29

“…player. Eminent scholar now at the University of Chicago and neighbor of Barack Obama he's still a specialist in sub saharan Africa. And issues of identity order -- media. Capital of the human social and Financial …”

“…for the lost eight years America has become steadily pariah nation just South Africa under apartheid became a pariah nation. Oh yeah but it's too omni wander around the streets who wish to war the barrios …”

New Conversation, New Narrative: Stanley Fish

New Conversation, New Narrative: Stanley Fish

Stanley Fish: Paradise Regained? Stanley Fish made the campaign’s most audacious — also the most thoughtful — attribution of a certain aspect of divinity to Barack Obama. Fish was a Milton scholar before he became a culture warrior and, more recently, the New York Times’ “Think Again” blogger on the life of the mind, on [...]

Audio|Wed, 5 Nov 2008
|Barack Obama presidencyfound at0:16, 8:11

“…Attitude. This time trying to absorb to imagine. The implications of the Barack Obama presidency. . Of the big public picture of lead this country is. And how we see and talk about a place in the world. Our guest Stanley fish. He's best known as a literary scholar John Milton. Paradise lost kind of guy do in the in Chicago and now he's famous as a veteran of the post modern theory wars. He's also the New York Times is think again blogger on the life of the mind on campus and -- My main question was whether that improved her …”

“…example. Not so much questions. I mean I think that. In the Middle East. . In in Latin America. In. In Russia in Africa. So it. There will be an opportunity for it the United States especially …”

The Hunter’s Evidence: Carlo Ginzburg

The Hunter’s Evidence: Carlo Ginzburg

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with micro-historians Carlo Ginzburg and David Kertzer. In Carlo Ginzburg’s beautifully extended metaphor, the original public intellectual was the Stone Age hunter: Carlo Ginzburg: the historian as card shark Man has been a hunter for thousands of years. In the course of countless chases he learned to reconstruct the shapes [...]

Audio|Mon, 3 Nov 2008
|United Statesfound at28:20, 0:04

“…started. Stopping me me. Then there was a supple -- does so. Great Britain. . France Germany. The United States -- largest. -- and so Mexico. -- mock. And not the slow. Heights. Heights and now this is not an anecdote. Because …”

“…I'm Christopher like it is open source. . From the Watson institute at Brown University. An American conversation because with global attitude. This one's ability art and science and writing …”

Thank you, Studs Terkel!

Thank you, Studs Terkel!

Click to listen to Studs Terkel declaiming on the gap between Walt Whitman’s America and ours.

Audio|Mon, 3 Nov 2008
|World War IIfound at0:23, 2:14

“…Are stars of Haitians. -- YE. What purpose it was not World War II. . …”

“…to bring Oman. We have a young man account was bigger than neo cons to neo -- and Leone and accounts at work. Are you know here and I think about the World Bank and realized …”

Campaign ‘08: How was it for you, Jim Fishkin?

Campaign ‘08: How was it for you, Jim Fishkin?

James Fishkin’s ideal democracy is ruled by “the voice of the people, when they are thinking.” Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with James Fishkin (52 minutes, 24 mb mp3) James Fishkin: a thinking democracy? A political scientist long at the University of Texas, now at Stanford, he is the Johnny Appleseed of “deliberative democracy” — [...]

Audio|Fri, 31 Oct 2008
|George Bushfound at21:44, 25:36

“…skeptical pat wood whose chairman of the PC a Republican appointee from George Bush. . Use that data to lobby the legislature to make sure that Texas. That those preferences considered preferences of the public which continued …”

“…determined everything the war going way back the initial event. Was the Iraq War. . Which which provided the opening for the Obama. A big part of the opening for the Obama candidacy and remember. That was …”

A Longer View of 2008: Historian Gordon Wood

A Longer View of 2008: Historian Gordon Wood

What does a real historian make of this 2008 election that we all (reflexively now) call “historic”? Gordon Wood: a lot of Lincoln in Obama This is our opportunity with Gordon Wood – ace historian of 18th Century America at Brown, the trump card that Matt Damon and Ben Affleck invoked in the famous Cambridge [...]

Audio|Wed, 29 Oct 2008
|new bookfound at0:47, 9:12

“…and who critiques the best of the modern problems historians in his new book. . The purpose of the past. In his office at Brown University Gordon -- began by saying yes historians will have the last …”

“…things will have a profound effect. But fundamentally our interests in the Middle East interest in Israel. Those who remain and the president will have to deal with those and that the terror threat will continue. …”

J. S. Bach’s “Habit of Perfection”: Andrew Rangell

J. S. Bach’s “Habit of Perfection”: Andrew Rangell

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Andrew Rangell (50 minutes, 23 mb mp3) Andy Rangell at his Well-Tempered Clavier The Bradley Effect is by definition unmeasurable. The recession, or depression, is unfathomable. So what can we think and talk about to break the obsession with questions that have no answers until the night [...]

Audio|Mon, 27 Oct 2008
|Glenn Gouldfound at33:12, 0:49

“…I. And I'm I'm always very happy to talk about Glenn Gould because Glenn Gould. . Is a figure of enormous. Pleasure and importance. For me Glenn Gould listen very peculiarly. Alive. And cheeky and eccentric and lovable. Person who I I literally. In a way have grown up with musically. Unquestionably it was his -- His -- that repeated his D minor concerto his Goldberg variations. . Italian concerto and many other things. That spoke to me almost before I even knew what what was going on. Musically why …”

“…or depression is unfathomable. So we repaired to the ageless constellations of Johann Sebastian Bach. . In this conversation we're talking with the pianist Andrew ranger go about the perfect they'd nested set a box camera pieces. Daniel …”

Poster Art Then and Now: RISD’s John Maeda

Poster Art Then and Now: RISD’s John Maeda

Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with John Maeda (20 minutes, 9 mb mp3) Call this Take 2 on the show of Soviet poster art, through the eyes of a 40-year-old Japanese American graphic artist who just happens to be the new president of the Rhode Island School of Design, John Maeda. On a gabby, [...]

Audio|Mon, 20 Oct 2008
|art galleryfound at0:03, 1:13

“…I'm Christian polite and this is open source from the Watson institute at Brown University. . Go to the American conversation with a global attitude. This what is -- impromptu stroll through an art gallery with the president of the Rhode Island School of Design John my data. The art in this case on the walls of the Brown University museum. -- Soviet posters cartoons and visual propaganda. From the 1920 with the collapse of communism. The experiment here maybe the -- …”

“…Stalin cult so I'm not out of my Russian history. What am I supposed to feel right now. Anything you want but I would think propaganda. In. Public art -- Mind that the masses. Fleet and emulation this is JPMorgan and -- this is. This is America. Figure than big people you can if you -- …”

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