January 2, 2025: Terry Bisson – Roger Ebert (repeat)
Repeat due to technical issues. Theatre listings on the page are updated to January 2, 2025. Hosted by Richard Wolinsky.
Featured Episode
Best of 2024 retrospective
Three interviews on Israel’s many wars: Rashid Khalidi and Pankaj Mishra with a historical perspective, and Annelle Sheline adds a former insider’s view. Then, Aziz Rana on the awfulness of the US constitution, Anna Kornbluh with a cultural critique of immediacy, and Brooke Harrington on the offshore money-hiding racket. And a memorial to Jane McAlevey.
Some of the people making LGBTQ news in 2024 including Taiwan’s LGBTQ-supportive incoming president Lai Ching-te, trans-supportive Missouri Rabbi Daniel Bogard, anti-LGBTQ Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, Philadelphia’s Guinness World Record-breaking Drag Queen Story Time, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s pro-insurrectionist wife Martha Ann, Thailand’s pro-marriage equality lawmakers, U.S. Ambassador to Hungary David Pressman, predictably … Continued
Voices of the Middle East and North Africa – January 2, 2025
The richly diverse and fascinating world of culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, co-hosted by Khalil and Malihe.
Guest: Amitav Ghosh is the author of several bestselling books including, Ibis Trilogy; his latest is Smoke and Ashes: Opiums Hidden Histories.
Democracy Now 9am (rebroadcast) – January 2, 2025
Democracy Now! is a daily national independent award-winning news program, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez. This hour rebroadcasts the 6am hour. For daily episode descriptions, see Democracy Now! (6am).
Opposing Solitary Confinement from Behind Bars w/ Christopher Blackwell
We’ll spend the hour today in conversation with Christopher Blackwell, an award-winning journalist currently incarcerated at the Washington Corrections Center. He is serving a 45-year prison sentence for taking another human’s life during a drug robbery and has been incarcerated since 2003. We’ll talk about the book he’s contributing to about the terrors of solitary … Continued
Ciara Torres-Spelliscy on the history of money in American politics
00:08 Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is Professor of Law at Stetson University and a Fellow at the Brennan Center for Justice. Her latest book is Corporatocracy: How to Protect Democracy from Dark Money and Corrupt Politicians.
Democracy Now 6am – January 2, 2025
On today’s show: “Exhausted”: Palestinian Journalist Shrouq Aila on Life and Death in Gaza, and “Duty” to Report on Genocide “Dead Calm”: BBC Film on Greek Coast Guard Abandoning Asylum Seekers at Sea Amid European Crackdown
Wendy Brown / Richard Beck (encore show)
Will the Democrats Confront the Economic Conditions That Gave Rise to Right-Wing Populism?
How 9/11 Made the Trump Presidency Possible and Hollowed Out the Very Idea of Citizenship in the U.S.