Ours is an era of breathless talk about innovation, technical change, and disruption –- all for the presumed greater good. But what if the focus on relentless innovation has obscured the more important work of maintenance and care? Historian Lee Vinsel discusses the trajectory of technical innovation and its valorization, as well as the devaluing … Continued


Guest: Alexander Stille is the San Paolo Professor of International Journalism at Columbia University. He is the author of many books including Benevolence and Betrayal: Five Italian Jewish Families Under Fascism; Excellent Cadavers: The Mafia and the Death of the First Italian Republic. His latest, The Sullivanians: Sex, Psychotherapy, and the Wild Life of an American Commune.


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Trump Indictment in Georgia, Campaign to Stop Oakland Airport Expansion; Plus, Maui Fires

0:08 — Andrew Fleischman is a Georgia Trial and Appellate Lawyer at Sessions & Fleischman, LLC. 0:33 — Ariella Granett is on the Steering Committee of the Stop OAK Expansion Coalition, a grassroots Coalition with 62 supportive organizations sharing concern about Airport Expansion. She has lived and worked in the East Bay for 24 years … Continued