Month: June 2022

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NPR's Book of the Day - Hanya Yanagihara grapples with pandemics in ‘To Paradise’

Author of the wildly popular and, at times, controversial A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara, is out with a new novel. To Paradise is an epic – in three parts – sprawling over 700 pages and 200 years about a make-believe New York City. Yanagihara was mostly through writing her story, which features pandemics prominently, when COVID-19 first hit in early 2020. But Yanagihara told NPR's Scott Simon that she was able to keep her story and her fears about the pandemic in reality separate.
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Read Me a Poem - “Nobody But You” by Charles Bukowski

Amanda Holmes reads Charles Bukowski’s poem “Nobody But You.” Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you’ll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman.

 

This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch.


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It Could Happen Here - Anti-Racist Hoods Fighting in Ukraine (with Jake Hanrahan)

We sit down with Jake Hanrahan to talk about his new documentary.

 

Ukraine's Anti-Fascist Football Hooligans Fighting the Russian Invasion: https://youtu.be/nsodbPkjO3c

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Opening Arguments - OA608: Forget Church-State Separation, SCOTUS Mandates Christian Favoritism

The hits just keep on coming with this disgraceful, illegitimate Supreme Court. Andrew Seidel joins us to break down Carson v. Makin, and explains why precedent is meaningless, and the only thing that matters to this court when it comes to Church/State cases is: Christians win. Then, Ace Associate Morgan Stringer joins us to explain why the entire internet is wrong about Biden "banning Juuls and cigarettes."

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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Slate Plus Bonus: Praying at the 50 Yard Line and Dunking on the Libs

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern on Kennedy v Bremerton School District: a referendum on the status of truth at the high court, and another nail in the coffin of the establishment clause. 


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Amicus With Dahlia Lithwick | Law, justice, and the courts - Slate Plus Bonus: Praying at the 50 Yard Line and Dunking on the Libs

Dahlia Lithwick and Mark Joseph Stern on Kennedy v Bremerton School District: a referendum on the status of truth at the high court, and another nail in the coffin of the establishment clause. 


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The Gist - Is SCOTUS Illegitimacy Talk Legit?

After Dobbs, the Supreme Court can lay claim to a lot of pejorative: “extreme,” “unsafe,” “unfair,” “unkind” …but what about “illegitimate?” Also, how Chief Justice Roberts’ lonely status is entirely unsurprising. Plus Mike interviews Kim Masters of The Hollywood Reporter and host of KCRW’s The Business about the massive Netflix sell off, and how it changes what we, and Wall Street, thought about streaming.

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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Abortion Politics, Past And Present

Reset digs into the conservative movement that successfully overturned Roe. Plus, we look at the Democratic strategy to protect abortion rights at the federal level and what the Supreme Court’s ruling could mean for the midterm elections. GUESTS: Mary Ziegler, law professor at the University of California, Davis; author of Dollars for Life: The Anti-Abortion Movement and the Fall of the Republican Establishment Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times Washington Bureau Chief
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Reset with Sasha-Ann Simons - Abortion Rules In ‘Trigger Law’ States

Abortion is now illegal in at least 10 states. More total or near-total bans will go into effect soon. Reset checks in on states that neighbor Illinois where it’s now impossible or nearly impossible to have an abortion. GUESTS: Molly Beck, Wisconsin politics and state government reporter at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sarah Fentem, health reporter at St. Louis Public Radio Aprile Rickert, health reporter at WFPL News in Louisville, Kentucky.