December 2022 – Page 2

The United States is seeing some concerning trends when it comes to school shootings, deaths by suicide, overdoses and other unhealthy behaviors; they're on the rise. Physician Gabor Maté says that's not so much a coincidence as a consequence of a toxic culture in our country. His new book, The Myth of Normal, dispels the idea that these are unavoidable, unrelated statistics. In this episode, he speaks to Here & Now's Peter O'Dowd about capitalism's role in this morbid, new "normal," and where society can look for opportunities to start healing.

December 27, 2022

Audio Poem of the Day - A Prior Despair

December 27, 2022

Everything Everywhere Daily - The Little Ice Age

Approximately 700 years ago, something happened to the Earth’s climate.

The world started to cool down. It wasn’t dramatic enough to cause another ice age and cause ice caps to cover the poles of the Earth, but it did result in significant changes.

In fact, many historians think for a period of about 500 years, this shift in the climate dramatically influenced human history.

Learn more about the Little Ice Age and how it changed humanity on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.

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December 27, 2022

NPR's Book of the Day - ‘Demon Copperhead’ tackles opioids, poverty and resilience in Appalachia

Novelist Barbara Kingsolver loves living in the Appalachian hills of southwestern Virginia. But she says she feels that the region is often misconstrued by mainstream media. Her new book, Demon Copperhead, follows a young boy grappling with the consequences of loss, addiction and poverty – but also finding ways to survive through creativity and imagination. In this episode, Kingsolver speaks with Here & Now's Scott Tong about the Dickensian influences in the novel, the divide between urban and rural, and the idea that "the middle of nowhere is relative."

December 27, 2022

Read Me a Poem - “I cannot live with You” by Emily Dickinson

Amanda Holmes reads Emily Dickinson’s poem “I cannot live with 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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