Archive for February, 2009
Parag Khanna: Anxious in Afghanistan
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Parag Khanna. (29 minutes, 13 mb mp3)
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 …
Jonah Lehrer: Brain Science for the Rest of Us
Jonah Lehrer on the brain-science of decision-making: the first choice is to apply your reason or your reptile brain.
Dave McKenna: My Private Collection of the Master
Dave McKenna, the jazz immortal, plays and talks his passion in a private collection of piano-bench conversations.
Obama’s Lincoln: The Writer and the Imperial Crisis
Abraham Lincoln, the Writer, in Fred Kaplan\'s biography, was the child of Shakespeare and the King James Bible, and the father of Barack Obama.
The Palestinian Who Knows (or Knew) the President
The Palestinian who knows (or knew) President Obama: Historian Rashid Khalidi at Columbia recounts a rich, now forbidden, friendship.
Barack Obama: What Kind of Insider? Brown Bag (V)
Obama in a Bind? Outsider tradition, insider power. Brown University economist Glenn Loury reflects...
Chafee Chides Obama on Gaza: Brown Bag (IV)
Lincoln Chafee, the ex-Senator from Rhode Island who cast the only Republican vote against the Iraq war authorization, is distressed by the Obama silence on Israel in Gaza.
Obama Channels John F. Kennedy: Brown Bag (III)
John Kennedy\'s advice to Barack Obama, in Jim Blight\'s educated guess, would be: don\'t believe anybody\'s expert advice that you can \"win\" a war in Afghanistan.
