Archive for 2008
Grand Strategy: Posen on Obama
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Barry Posen (33 min, 15 MB)
Barry Posen is a very smart, connected foreign-policy “realist” who runs the MIT Security Studies Program. He was one of those prized 33 policy types who signed the New York Times ad in September, 2002, arguing that “War with Iraq is not …
In the Obama Moment: Robert Coover
Cult novelist Robert Coover that underlying the global \"Obama Moment\" is an age-old American suspicion of the \"outside world.\"
In the Obama Moment: Rick Moody
Novelist Rick Moody (\"The Ice Storm,\" and others) feels relief, above all, in the Obama Moment.
The Indispensable Musician: Barenboim Backstage
Daniel Barenboim is the Israeli conductor who plays the unplayable (Wagner) and says the unsayable about peace with Palestinians.
Amitav Ghosh and his Sea of Poppies
Anti-imperial novelist Amitav Ghosh marks the links between the 19th Century Opium Wars and our war in Iraq in his new epicSea of Poppies.
Our Better Angel: Chris Adrian
Chris Adrian\'s novels and stories are driven, he says, by the feeling that it\'s his fault that George Bush is our president.
This Pariah-to-Messiah Moment: John Comaroff
The Obama Moment, says Anthropologist John Comaroff, marks the world\'s notice of \"the reentry of a pariah nation\" (that\'s us).
New Conversation, New Narrative: Stanley Fish
Stanley Fish, the Culture Warrior, sees the imperturbably civil and centered Barack Obama as the model of a new public conversation.
The Hunter’s Evidence: Carlo Ginzburg
Carlo Ginzburg, the father of \"micro-history,\" learned from Sherlock Holmes and Sigmund Freud, among others, the art of unearthing secrets from, as Freud said, \"the rubbish heap\" of evidence all around us.
Thank you, Studs Terkel!
The late Studs Terkel celebrates a version of himself, Walt Whitman, on the 150th anniversary of \"Leaves of Grass.\"
