Archive for March, 2010
Nell Painter’s History of White People: it’s coming to an end
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Nell Irvin Painter. (27 minutes, 16 mb mp3)
Nell Painter and I seem to have opposite takes on the great Ralph Waldo Emerson. In The History of White People, she makes Emerson “the philosopher king of American white race theory.” On the contrary, I say he …
This "Year of India" (6): What’s Wrong with our Afghan War
A senior Indian commentator sees "fundamental weaknesses" in American strategy in Afghanistan, where the civilian kill rate is up in the Obama "surge" over the Bush years.
Jared Malsin: the kid next door reports from Bethlehem
Jared Malsin is a young, earnest American journalist; he was reporting from the Palestinian Territories until the Israeli government detained and deported him in January. He tells us what he saw there.
Healthcare: in the post-game booth with James Morone
James Morone, chronicler of 75 years of healthcare politics, marks the passage of universal insurance as the end of the 30-year Age of Reagan, and a new start of the Age of Obama.
Linda Nathan’s Public HS for Artists, Scholars and Citizens
A day in the life of a big-city public high school that works: Linda Nathan's Boston Arts Academy.
Whose Words These Are (25): Fabienne Casseus’ Broken Haiti
Haitian-American High School Senior Fabienne Casseus gives us a bit of her poetry, and shares her vision of a shattered homeland.
Whose Words These Are (24): Eli Marienthal’s Spoken-Word Haiti
Performance poet Eli Marienthal gives us his Haiti story, jolted loose into action by the earthquake this winter.
Whose Words These Are (23): Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell’s Haiti
Hatian-American poet Marilène Phipps-Kettlewell gives us a glimpse of the shattered landscape of her youth.
Whose Words These Are (22): Peace-Poet Fred Marchant
Fred Marchant continues our series of poets, this time on Haiti and the artist's obligation that he sees alongside the doctor's and engineer's.
Whose Words These Are (21): Afaa Michael Weaver on Haiti
Afaa Michael Weaver, the poet, works a popular black "take" on the earthquake in Haiti -- that Haitians are still being punished for the first successful slave rebellion in the West.
