Category: podcast
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410 Scott Borchert: How the government paid broke writers to rediscover America
in podcastAbout Scott Borchert Scott Borchert is a writer and editor based in New Jersey, and a former assistant editor at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. He holds a master’s degree in cultural reporting and criticism from New York University, and his work has appeared in Southwest Review, Monthly Review, The Rumpus, PopMatters, Brooklyn Magazine, and other…
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409 Robert Levine: In the times of Frederick Douglass and Andrew Johnson
in podcastAbout Robert Levine Robert Levine is a Distinguished University Professor of English at the University of Maryland, College Park, with wide interests in 19th-century American literature and culture and a particular fascination with the life and work of Frederick Douglass. He’s the General Editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature and past winner of…
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408 Mark Babbitt: Creating a culture that does good
in podcastAbout Mark Babbitt Mark S. Babbitt is the President of WorqIQ, a consultancy focused on improving leadership, building “good comes first” company cultures, and developing Workplace Intelligence (WQ). Mark is also the Founder and CEO of YouTern, a community focused on helping young careerists get their first or next internship or job. A recovering Silicon…
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407 Eyal Press: Essential but immoral jobs
in podcastAbout Eyal Press Eyal Press is a writer and journalist who contributes to The New Yorker, The New York Times, and other publications. Since the spring of 2021, he is also a sociologist with a Ph.D. from New York University. He grew up in Buffalo, which served as the backdrop of his first book, Absolute…
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406 Kai Bird: Jimmy Carter was a president ahead of his time
in podcastAbout Kai Bird Kai Bird is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biographer. His new biography is The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter Where to find Kai Bird? WebsiteTwitter The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter Four decades after Ronald Reagan’s landslide win in 1980, Jimmy Carter’s one-term presidency is often labeled a…
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405 Benjamin Smith: The Drug trade and violence in Mexico
in podcastAbout Benjamin Smith Professor of Latin American history at the University of Warwick. Has written about nineteenth and twentieth-century politics, land, indigenous groups, Catholicism, journalism, violence, and the war on drugs. Where to find Benjamin WebsiteTwitter The Dope: The Real History of the Mexican Drug Trade A myth-busting, 100-year history of the Mexican drug trade…