Archive for April, 2010
Mustafa Barghouti: Is there Room for Gandhi in Palestine?
Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Mustafa Barghouti. (53 minutes, 32 mb mp3)
Ask Palestinians why there is no Gandhi in their movement, and often the answer comes: but there are several, and Mustafa Barghouti should be recognized more widely as one of them.
A medical doctor, born in Jerusalem in 1954, …
Anthony Shadid: Questions a Reporter Asks Himself
Anthony Shadid, two-time Pulitzer-prize reporter on Iraq, thinks Americans have missed the point: we didn't win that war.
David Hoffman: A Running Tour of YouTube Nation
The decorated documentary film maker David Hoffman gives us his tour of YouTube nation. It’s homey, it’s cheap, it’s much much bigger than network television already, and it’s barely begun to chew up what we used to call media and spit it all out.
James Kwak: The Problem is Bank-o-cracy
James Kwak on the banker oligarchy that governs the country.
Michael Lewis’ Big Short and Our Appetite for Apocalypse
Michael Lewis is more novelist than finance writer in "The Big Short." It's a common anxiety turning apocalyptic, and it relates to Tea Baggers as well as environmental Greenpeaceniks.
David Shields’ Reality Hunger: Kicking Ass and Dropping Names
David Shields kicks ass and drops names talking about his manifesto: "Reality Hunger." Aphorisms, Emerson, David Markson are in. Novels, Ian McEwan and Michiko Kakutani are out, out, out.
Colum McCann: American Literature and New York’s Redemption
Colum McCann, the National Book Award novelist for "Let the Great World Spin," embodies the global range of a new "American" literature.
Arundhati Roy’s Version of Disaster in India
Arundhati Roy, the "God of Small Things" novelist a decade ago, sees the middle-class market boom in India as a disaster for an impoverished majority of India's people.
Ted Bogosian: Confessions of a Truth Hound
Ted Bogosian, a decorated "truth hound" in documentary TV, finds more information but less truth in the media landscape of 2010.
