Michael J. Astrue has earned degrees from Yale and Harvard. He had a long and distinguished legal career and held several government positions as well as leadership posts in biotech companies. From 2007-2013, he served as the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration.
A.M. Juster has published something like ten books of original and translated poetry and has served as the poetry editor at First Things and now one of my favorite journals, Plough Quarterly.
These two men might sound pretty different, but they are in fact the same person. Over the course of his conversation with Jeff Bilbro, they discuss his tangles with Anthony Fauci, whether poets or civil servants are the "unacknowledged legislators of the world," what makes good political verse, the role of humor in poetry, translating Petrarch, and more.
Resources
A.M. Juster's website
His recommendation of a Richard Wilbur poem
Family Time with Timothy Carney
Living Outside the Machine
Brian Miller on Kayaking with Lambs
Humane Politics
Human Responses to Technology
Imagining Life Beyond the Machine: Eric Miller and Jason Peters
Paul Kingsnorth: Blizzard of the World
Paul Kingsnorth’s Opening Prayer
Bill Kauffman in Conversation
After Virtual: Civic Life
After Virtual: Health
After Virtual: Chris Arnade
After Virtual: Education
After Virtual: The Church
Mark Mitchell on Plutocratic Socialism
Matt Stewart on Wallace Stegner
Katharine Hayhoe Talks Climate Change
Chuck Marohn on the Human Errors of Traffic Engineering
Will Hoyt‘s Ohio River Journey to the Middle Ages
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