I believe human beings want more than anything to feel seen and heard. Last week the US Surgeon General declared loneliness a public health epidemic, as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes a day, raising the risk of premature death by 30%, with higher rates of heart disease, stroke, anxiety, depression, dementia, and suicide. Here’s my 2021 conversation with NOREENA HERTZ about her book, THE LONELY CENTURY: How to Restore Human Connection in a World That’s Pulling Apart. You can learn more at noreena.com
Episode 490: THOMAS HOMER-DIXON - for the new year - COMMANDING HOPE: The Power to Renew a World in Peril
Episode 489: NEW-Sisters Constance Touey & Jeannette Lucey - DO IT BETTER: How the Kids of St. Francis de Sales Exceeded Everyone’s Expectations
Episode 488: SAM MYERS, PLANETARY HEALTH: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves - Exhibit A: the pandemic
Episode 487: REBECCA HENDERSON, REIMAGINING CAPITALISM In a World on Fire
ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Trump’s legal options, How Biden reverses Trump’s orders, and the Supreme Court
MILTON BENNETT-The Cult of Trump -72M Americans voted for four more years
ROB JOHNSON-Relief - but no congratulations. Dems must be bolder.
CHICAGO CONSPIRACY TRIAL - JON WIENER -What does it have to tell us?
BILLY WIMSATT, Movement Voter Project (2018) - Invest in the grassroots to win elections and make change.
ALEX KEYSSAR-Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
JON WIENER, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Rec. JAN 28, 2017-MARK HERTSGAARD, RICHARD ESKOW, DREW DELLINGER-the Week Trump Took Office
ROBERT FRANK, best-selling economist - UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST - We know innovative programs that work - whether kids are in school or not
ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Racial Justice and the Trump-Barr Assault on Rule of Law
PAUL HOWARD, director, INFINITE POTENTIAL: Life & Ideas of DAVID BOHM
JEAN GUERRERO, author, HATEMONGER: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
CHUCK COLLINS-Inequality is only getting worse during pandemic
JODIE EVANS (2017) co-founder CodePink, where activism never stops
GREG PALAST-You’ve been warned-HOW TRUMP STOLE 2020 ELECTION
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