Shows
“American Conversation with Global Attitude”
David Weinberger in “the smartest room in the house”
David Weinberger treats the Internet as a philosophical event — a radical turn in the human understanding of understanding itself. It’s not about experts anymore or hierarchies of learning, much less “the smartest guy in the room.” It’s about the room.
Anthony Shadid: An immeasurable loss
Anthony Shadid, two-time Pulitzer-prize reporter on Iraq, had the nerve to say Americans missed the point: we didn't win that war.
Pico Iyer: Channeling Graham Greene and the World Spirit
The strongest dialog in Iyer's busy brain seems to run between Emerson and the late English novelist Graham Greene ...
Steve Pinker’s “Better Angels”: Dodging Our Own Bullet?
Steven Pinker spells out the science and history behind his game-changing conclusion that we live in a near-heaven of peace.
Anatol Lieven: how to end the US dust-up with Pakistan
Anatol Lieven, of Pakistan: A Hard Country, knows why the so-called allies in the so-called War on Terror are now in a lethal dust-up with each other.
Ha Jin’s recovered memory of Americans in China
Ha Jin, the prize Chinese-American novelist, has reconstructed a moral drama of American-Chinese solidarity in the agony of Nanjing in 1937.
Mark Blyth (7): “We can’t all export to Mars”
Mark Blyth is flying us over the embattled Eurozone -- populations aging, economies flagging, and now democracy shrinking...
David Grossman: looking for an end of “the situation”
David Grossman, of the Israeli epic novel "To the End of the Land," considers why his own brave politics has not availed for peace.
