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Just ahead of the start of the new school year, districts across the United States are issuing new policies on the use of artificial intelligence applications in classrooms. Last Wednesday, New York City effectively banned most student facing AI in all K-8th grade classes while allowing a limited set of approved tools to be used for high schoolers for the upcoming school year. And on the same day, Los Angeles school officials announced the district was placing a one-year moratorium on generative AI for all of its estimated 378,000 students.To learn more about these announcements and the politics driving them, Justin Hendrix spoke to two individuals who covered these matters for Tech Policy Press this summer: Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo and audio reporter Laura Karpas, who interned at Tech Policy Press this summer and is currently a graduate student at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY.

En el episodio 64 de La Ventana PR conversamos con el Dr. Carlos Vargas-Ramos, director de política pública del Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños de Hunter College (CUNY). Seis millones de puertorriqueños viven en Estados Unidos y tres millones en Puerto Rico. Hablamos de por qué la migración boricua nunca fue solo económica, por qué el gobierno dispersó deliberadamente a su gente fuera de Nueva York, qué explica el voto republicano puertorriqueño, dónde puede pesar hoy la diáspora, y por qué ni la quiebra ni el huracán María movieron al Congreso a atender el estatus. Marcas de tiempo: - `00:00` — Apertura y avance del episodio - `03:38` — Bienvenida al Dr. Carlos Vargas Ramos - `04:25` — Nacer en España, criarse en Puerto Rico, salir en la ola de los 80 - `06:22` — Las colonias puertorriqueñas antes de 1898: comerciantes, marinos y exiliados - `07:21` — 1904: U.S. nationals. 1917: la ciudadanía - `08:40` — Las leyes migratorias de 1921 y 1924, y los boricuas como mano de obra sustituta - `10:16` — La Gran Depresión frena la salida; Manos a la Obra la reanuda en el 47 - `11:17` — Medio millón para 1960, la migración de retorno y el nacimiento del "Nuyorican" - `12:29` — Los años 80 y la crisis que arranca en 2006 - `13:05` — Entre 65,000 y 70,000 salían al año antes de María; más de 100,000 con María - `15:00` — El abuelo barbero que emigró en los años 20 - `16:55` — El Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños: fundado en 1973 por la lucha de derechos civiles - `19:20` — De las ciencias sociales al enfoque cultural: qué investiga el Centro hoy - `22:45` — La División de Migración desviando boricuas fuera de Nueva York para evitar la mala prensa - `24:45` — Tomateros en Nueva Jersey, tabaqueros en Connecticut, fábricas en Camden y Hartford - `25:35` — El nuevo mapa: Florida, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Carolina del Norte - `26:41` — Por qué Orlando: Disney, veteranos y bases militares - `27:42` — El tercer factor: más boricuas con grados universitarios - `28:40` — No todo migrante migra por trabajo - `30:42` — Tres millones aquí, seis millones allá: un tercio nacido en Puerto Rico - `31:35` — La caída de la participación electoral en Puerto Rico - `32:23` — En Estados Unidos no hay elecciones nacionales: hay 50 elecciones - `33:04` — Por qué los partidos no tienen incentivo para movilizar el voto boricua - `33:57` — Florida: de contrapunto demócrata a estado rojo - `35:08` — Los tres factores del voto republicano puertorriqueño - `36:16` — Inquilino contra propietario: por qué la vivienda es el factor político - `38:11` — Florida es el estado con más boricuas; el Bronx sigue siendo el condado - `39:23` — La salida de Nydia Velázquez y el escaño en peligro de Darren Soto - `40:17` — Pensilvania: el nuevo estado bisagra donde la diáspora sí puede decidir - `41:37` — Redistribución, Trump y el Tribunal Supremo - `43:47` — El error del Partido Demócrata: ignorar la política estatal - `45:00` — Diez años de PROMESA vistos desde la diáspora - `45:52` — Lo que sí entienden: el agua, la luz, las escuelas - `46:44` — La diáspora en las catástrofes y el lobby ante el Congreso - `47:06` — Comparación con la comunidad mexicana: "todos somos mexicanos" - `48:45` — Por qué la diáspora es reacia a meterse en la política de Puerto Rico - `49:23` — El estatus: la gente no distingue entre estadidad y ELA - `51:11` — Por qué los plebiscitos no van a resolver el problema - `52:38` — El ELA como vitrina de la Guerra Fría - `53:42` — Ni la quiebra más grande ni María movieron la brújula - `54:32` — El valor de Puerto Rico como plaza militar: Granada, Panamá, Venezuela - `55:16` — Puerto Rico como asunto residual - `56:33` — La corrupción institucionalizada como espada de Damocles - `57:09` — Lo que un estadounidense promedio sabe de Puerto Rico - `58:15` — Alaska, Hawái, Oklahoma y Nuevo México: el componente racial de la anexión - `59:07` — El miedo al escenario hawaiano - `1:00:11` — La única salida: consenso interno y una sola voz en Washington - `1:00:37` — La encuesta: sube la independencia, y más del 20% no tiene opinión - `1:02:19` — Por qué Nueva York se volvió epicentro del socialismo democrático - `1:04:03` — Obama, Trump, Mamdani: el ciclo de la esperanza - `1:05:30` — Cuomo, el arraigo perdido y el factor generacional - `1:05:55` — El DSA: candidatos de color, liderato blanco no hispano - `1:07:03` — "Los puertorriqueños escuchan la palabra socialismo y salen corriendo" - `1:07:45` — ¿Es exportable esa marca fuera de Nueva York? - `1:08:34` — Antonio Reynoso pierde pese al endoso de Nydia Velázquez - `1:09:30` — Gobernar modera: el límite de lo posible - `1:10:02` — Recomendación: Ser Islas / Being Islands, de Víctor Fragoso - `1:11:30` — Dónde encontrar al Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños - `1:12:44` — Cierre Enlaces: Sígueme en las redes sociales: Facebook, Instagram, X, y TikTok Sigue a La Ventana PR -

Eileen Markey, assistant Professor of journalism at Lehman College CUNY, longtime journalist covering the Bronx and author of the forthcoming book, All They Had: How The Bronx Survived a Death Sentence (Duke University Press, 2027), talks about the recent news of layoffs, shutdowns and shrinking of local news outlets in the Bronx, and how that impacts the borough. Photo: The final issue of Norwood News (Courtesy Norwood News) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Gilded Age and Progressive Era Podcast is back! After our summer hiatus, we're kicking off a new season and returning to our regular every-other-week release schedule. Thanks for your patience over the break — we've got a great slate of guests lined up, starting with this one.Long before Hollywood, there was a hand-painted glass slide, a smoky projection lamp, and a darkened lodge hall. For the better part of a century, the magic lantern — not the movie camera — was America's dominant screen medium, and no one worked it harder or better than Joseph Boggs Beale, a Philadelphia commercial artist who produced over 2,600 lantern slide images between 1881 and 1917.This week we're joined by Terry Borton, magic lantern historian, collector, and for twenty-five years the touring performer behind The American Magic Lantern Theater, whose new book Magic Lantern Art: The American Screen's First Great Narrative Artist, Joseph Boggs Beale (John Libbey Publishing) makes the case that Beale worked out the visual grammar of cinematic storytelling a generation before film existed. We talk about Beale's career, the business that mass-produced his images, and the surprisingly wide range of Americans — women lecturers, Black entrepreneurs, Native performers, temperance reformers, and Jacob Riis himself — who picked up the lantern to tell their own stories on their own terms.Links & Further ViewingTerry shared a few things he thought listeners would enjoy alongside the episode:A recreated Jacob Riis lantern lecture. Some years ago, Terry created a condensed recreation of one of Riis's own traveling lantern lectures for the exhibition Jacob A. Riis: Revealing New York's Other Half at the Museum of the City of New York and the Library of Congress. The exhibition — and this recreation — will be reprised this fall/winter at the New Museum in New York City. Watch hereDr. Toer's Amazing Magic Lantern Show. A scholarly recreation of a traveling lantern show performed for audiences of recently freed African Americans in the Reconstruction-era South, built around the real touring program of J. W. Toer, a Baptist minister and former slave. Produced as part of the Who Built America? documentary series by the American Social History Project at CUNY. Watch hereThe Museum of American Magic Lantern Shows. Terry's own virtual museum, tracing how lantern shows shaped American culture from the 1850s through the 1930s — women performers, Black performers, religious and reform lantern shows, war coverage, and more. (A few pages are still being fixed, but most of the site is up and running.) Visit the museum.Boyd Cothran -- cothran@yorku.ca Cathleen Cahil -- czc335@psu.edu Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"From the Frontlines" is an ADL podcast which brings listeners to the frontline in the battle against antisemitism, hate and extremism through conversations with ADL staff, advocates and, in this podcast, five college and university leaders who are getting something right. This podcast an edited version of a webinar from the end of last semester, titled "Top of the Class: Report Card Success Stories," bringing together five campus leaders from institutions that earned an A on ADL's most recent Campus Antisemitism Report Card. It was sponsored by the ADL NY/NJ Region's Campus Committee. ADL's 2026 Campus Antisemitism Report Card, its third annual assessment, found that 58 percent of the colleges and universities that ADL evaluated received an A or a B, up from 41 percent the year before and just under 24 percent the year before that. That is real, measurable progress. And right here in ADL's New York/New Jersey region, six schools earned an A: Queens College, Baruch College, Brooklyn College, Rockland Community College, NYU and Vassar College. Five of those six joined Regional Director Scott Richman for this conversation: 1. President Frank Wu of Queens College, part of the City University of New York. 2. President S. David Wu of Baruch College, also part of CUNY, 3. President Michelle Anderson of Brooklyn College 4. President William Mullaney of SUNY Rockland Community College 5. Dean Rafael Rodriguez, the Vice President for Student Engagement and Dean of Students at New York University Here are links to the resources mentioned during the webinar: - ADL Campus Antisemitism Report Card: https://notoleranceforantisemitism.adl.org/campus-antisemitism-report-card - ADL Not on My Campus Resources: https://notoleranceforantisemitism.adl.org/ - ADL Campus Antisemitism Legal Line: https://www.legal-protection.org/ - Take Action with ADL: https://notoleranceforantisemitism.adl.org/take-action-campus This conversation was recorded in April 2026.

She studies why anti-racist professional development in schools so often fails to change how teachers actually treat students — and what works instead. Dr Abby C. Emerson is an assistant professor of Childhood Education at Hunter College, CUNY, where her research spans anti-racist and abolitionist teacher education, restorative justice, and the critique of whiteness in educational spaces. She's been named National Association for Multicultural Education's Critical Teacher of the Year, and this fall she releases her book, From Anti-Racism to Professional Learning for Liberating Schools, with Harvard Education Press. Most schools running anti-racist professional development hit the same wall: teachers learn the theory, reflect on their own bias, update a unit — and the discipline data doesn't move. Dr. Abby C. Emerson studied schools across New York City to find out why, and she found the fix isn't another workshop. It's handing the mic to students.

On this Summer Friday, we've put together some of our favorite recent interviews, including: Elie Mystal, justice correspondent and columnist for The Nation magazine and bestselling author of Bad Law: Ten Popular Laws That Are Ruining America (The New Press, 2025), looks back at the recently concluded Supreme Court term. Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, civil rights scholar, architect of Critical Race Theory and the concept of intersectionality, professor of law at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Columbia Law School, cofounder and executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and the author of Backtalker: An American Memoir (Simon & Schuster), talks about how key moment's in her life contributed to her groundbreaking legal concepts. Mason Williams, historian and associate professor at Williams College, and the author of City of Fortune: Inequality and the Making of Contemporary New York (W.W. Norton, 2026), argues that New York's recovery from the 1970s fiscal crisis ushered in an era of deepening inequality. Rossana Rosado, a commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), CUNY trustee, former New York Secretary of State, former editor, CEO and publisher of El Diario-La Prensa, and the author of memoir Bronx Attitude (Elite Voices/Halo, 2026), talks about her life and work.   These interviews were lightly polished up and edited for time, the original versions are available here: Elie Mystal on the Supreme Court & the Constitution (July 7, 2026) Kimberlé Crenshaw's Life and Work (May 11, 2026) Today's Inequality & NYC's Post-1970s Recovery (July 7, 2026) Rossana Rosado's Bronx Attitude (July 15, 2026)   Photo: People resting on grass at Sheep Meadow: Central Park, N.Y.C., 1997 (LBM1948, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Cinco años después del magnicidio de Jovenel Moïse, Haití parece encaminarse hacia unas elecciones para elegir a su sustituto. Este jueves se abrió el período de inscripción de candidatos para los comicios del 13 de diciembre, cuya celebración está condicionada al "establecimiento de un clima de seguridad estable". Tras un primer aplazamiento, el camino hacia la votación no se presenta fácil.  Análisis de Jean Eddy Saint Paul, profesor de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York.  Las elecciones del 13 de diciembre serán las primeras en el país en 10 años, marcados por la violencia, la inestabilidad política y el magnicidio del último presidente, Jovenel Moïse, en julio de 2021. Tras varias idas y vueltas, las autoridades provisionales de facto lograron establecer un calendario electoral. Este jueves se iniciaron las inscripciones de candidatos, pero después de una primera postergación de los comicios —previstos inicialmente para el 30 de agosto—, el camino no se anuncia fácil.  "El país debe ser accesible para cualquier persona que quiera votar y tenga derecho a hacerlo. Es un derecho fundamental. Las circunstancias no son las mejores", dijo el secretario general de la OEA, Albert Ramdin, tras concluir esta semana una misión de alto nivel en Haití. Para que la votación se celebre, debe existir previamente "un clima de seguridad estable". Algo complejo en un país, donde la violencia ha obligado a casi 1,5 millones de personas a abandonar sus hogares, según una estimación de la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones. Sin embargo, para Jean Eddy Saint Paul, profesor e investigador haitiano-estadounidense de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (CUNY), este requisito no es indispensable. "Creo que las elecciones son un prerrequisito para que a mediano plazo pueda haber autoridades legalmente electas. Van a tener una legitimidad y van a poder trabajar para fortalecer las instituciones y dotar al Estado de la capacidad necesaria para que recupere, una vez más, el monopolio de la violencia física legítima" - Jean Eddy Saint Paul, profesor en el departamento de Sociología del Brooklyn College de la CUNY Para el experto, las elecciones permitirán recuperar la confianza de la ciudadanía y de la diáspora haitiana en el extranjero, así como la de los inversionistas internacionales, lo que podría derivar en un "cambio en el discurso internacional" sobre Haití. No obstante, reconoce que las condiciones "mínimas" aún no están dadas. "Primero, el Consejo Electoral Provisional tiene que hacer un mejor trabajo de comunicación política. No hay suficientes ciudadanos haitianos que se hayan registrado para las elecciones", señala el también director fundador del Instituto de Estudios Haitianos de la CUNY. "Otro factor necesario es que el gobierno de facto utilice estrategias para negociar con los grupos armados. La tercera condición es tener una diplomacia proactiva con Estados Unidos porque Haití no produce armas y la gran mayoría de ellas vienen de ese país", agrega. Leer tambiénHaití: Más de 2.300 personas murieron en lo que va de año por la violencia de las pandillas Aunque no será un camino simple, el investigador considera que las autoridades provisionales cuentan con la voluntad para reunirlas a tiempo y poder así celebrar unos comicios que, a su juicio, son el "mejor medio para reformar el sistema desde dentro" en el país más pobre de América.

Cinco años después del magnicidio de Jovenel Moïse, Haití parece encaminarse hacia unas elecciones para elegir a su sustituto. Este jueves se abrió el período de inscripción de candidatos para los comicios del 13 de diciembre, cuya celebración está condicionada al "establecimiento de un clima de seguridad estable". Tras un primer aplazamiento, el camino hacia la votación no se presenta fácil.  Análisis de Jean Eddy Saint Paul, profesor de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York.  Las elecciones del 13 de diciembre serán las primeras en el país en 10 años, marcados por la violencia, la inestabilidad política y el magnicidio del último presidente, Jovenel Moïse, en julio de 2021. Tras varias idas y vueltas, las autoridades provisionales de facto lograron establecer un calendario electoral. Este jueves se iniciaron las inscripciones de candidatos, pero después de una primera postergación de los comicios —previstos inicialmente para el 30 de agosto—, el camino no se anuncia fácil.  "El país debe ser accesible para cualquier persona que quiera votar y tenga derecho a hacerlo. Es un derecho fundamental. Las circunstancias no son las mejores", dijo el secretario general de la OEA, Albert Ramdin, tras concluir esta semana una misión de alto nivel en Haití. Para que la votación se celebre, debe existir previamente "un clima de seguridad estable". Algo complejo en un país, donde la violencia ha obligado a casi 1,5 millones de personas a abandonar sus hogares, según una estimación de la Organización Internacional para las Migraciones. Sin embargo, para Jean Eddy Saint Paul, profesor e investigador haitiano-estadounidense de la Universidad de la Ciudad de Nueva York (CUNY), este requisito no es indispensable. "Creo que las elecciones son un prerrequisito para que a mediano plazo pueda haber autoridades legalmente electas. Van a tener una legitimidad y van a poder trabajar para fortalecer las instituciones y dotar al Estado de la capacidad necesaria para que recupere, una vez más, el monopolio de la violencia física legítima" - Jean Eddy Saint Paul, profesor en el departamento de Sociología del Brooklyn College de la CUNY Para el experto, las elecciones permitirán recuperar la confianza de la ciudadanía y de la diáspora haitiana en el extranjero, así como la de los inversionistas internacionales, lo que podría derivar en un "cambio en el discurso internacional" sobre Haití. No obstante, reconoce que las condiciones "mínimas" aún no están dadas. "Primero, el Consejo Electoral Provisional tiene que hacer un mejor trabajo de comunicación política. No hay suficientes ciudadanos haitianos que se hayan registrado para las elecciones", señala el también director fundador del Instituto de Estudios Haitianos de la CUNY. "Otro factor necesario es que el gobierno de facto utilice estrategias para negociar con los grupos armados. La tercera condición es tener una diplomacia proactiva con Estados Unidos porque Haití no produce armas y la gran mayoría de ellas vienen de ese país", agrega. Leer tambiénHaití: Más de 2.300 personas murieron en lo que va de año por la violencia de las pandillas Aunque no será un camino simple, el investigador considera que las autoridades provisionales cuentan con la voluntad para reunirlas a tiempo y poder así celebrar unos comicios que, a su juicio, son el "mejor medio para reformar el sistema desde dentro" en el país más pobre de América.

Stand Up is a daily podcast. I book,host,edit, post and promote new episodes with brilliant guests every day. This show is Ad free and fully supported by listeners like you! Please subscribe now for as little as 5$ and gain access to a community of over 750 awesome, curious, kind, funny, brilliant, generous soul On YOUTUBE.com/StandUpWithPete ON SubstackStandUpWithPete Get Jeff's NEW BOOK  Hot Type The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media and Drove Mark Twain Mad I'm a long-time (longer than I choose to confess) journalist and educator. Lately, I'm writing books: currently, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, and The Web We Weave. My next book: Hot Type: The Magnificent Machine that Gave Birth to Mass Media – and Drove Mark Twain Mad, a history of the Linotype, will get published by Bloomsbury Academic in the spring. My earlier books: What Would Google Do?, Public Parts, and Geeks Bearing Gifts. I'm cohost of the podcasts Intelligent Machines with Léo Laporte and Paris Martineau and AI Inside with Jason Howell. I retired recently from CUNY, where I was the first prof hired, and so I am now the Emeritus (Latin for old) Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation. I am now a visiting professor at Stony Brook University's School of Communication and Journalism, helping to develop new programs there, and a distinguished fellow at the Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University. In past lives, I was president and creative director of Advance.net, the online arm of Advance Publications (including Condé Nast and Advance Local newspapers); creator and founding editor of Entertainment Weekly at Time Inc.; Sunday editor and associate publisher of the New York Daily News; TV critic of TV Guide and People magazines; a columnist for the San Francisco Examiner; and an editor for the Chicago Tribune. And while at Northwestern University, I was an intern on Chicago Today … a paper that had no tomorrow. Listen rate and review on Apple Podcasts Listen rate and review on Spotify Pete On Instagram Pete on Blue Sky Pete on Threads Pete on Tik Tok Pete on Twitter Pete Personal FB page Stand Up with Pete FB page     Gift a Subscription https://www.patreon.com/PeteDominick/gift Send Pete $ Directly on Venmo All things Jon Carroll  Buy Ava's Art    Subscribe to Piano Tuner Paul Paul Wesley on Substack Listen to Barry and Abigail Hummel Podcast Listen to Matty C Podcast and Substack Follow and Support Pete Coe Hire DJ Monzyk to build your website or help you with Marketing          

“Our language is valuable, and we've gotta hold on to that. That's the most human thing we have.” — Jeff Jarvis Last week, to celebrate episode 3,000 of the show, the New York Times' Sam Roberts articulated the art of the obituary. Borrowing from Citizen Kane, he described it as the Rosebud method. Obits are all about life (death only figuring as an afterthought), Roberts explained, so hunt for the moment which defines that life. Today's show is a kind of obituary of that type. Only it's about the life of a machine and the mass media that emerged in its wake. In Hot Type, tech historian Jeff Jarvis introduces us to the magnificent late 19th century machine that not only gave birth to industrial mass media, but also bankrupted Mark Twain. It's the history of the Linotype, the machine invented by Ottmar Mergenthaler that ended four hundred and fifty years of setting type, as Jarvis puts it, “one damn letter at a time.” It's an extraordinary story. Before the Linotype, American daily newspapers were limited to a 4,000 circulation. First installed at the New York Tribune on July 3, 1886, the Linotype scaled print, thereby enabling the age of mass circulation newspapers, magazines and books. It appeared so infinitely scalable that Mark Twain poured his entire family fortune into its doomed rival, the Paige Compositor. He lost all his money, of course, making it his Rosebud moment — Citizen Twain, so to speak. But for the rest of us, Mergenthaler's magnificent type machine was so hot that it revolutionized 20th century culture in the same way that AI is now revolutionizing 21st century reading and writing. The art of obituary. A description of life, not death. Five Takeaways •       One Damn Letter at a Time. For four hundred and fifty years after Gutenberg, virtually every word in every language was set by hand, one letter at a time — which is why the average American daily circulated just 4,000 copies, “a small Substack newsletter.” Steam-powered presses, cheap wood-pulp paper, stereotyping, and the telegraph had solved every other bottleneck; the typesetter with a composing stick was the last. More than 300 typesetting machines failed before Ottmar Mergenthaler — a Baltimore watchmaker who knew nothing about printing, prodded by James O. Clephane, once a stenographer in Lincoln's cabinet — had the eureka: stop imitating hand-setting and mold entire lines of type at once. Installed at the New York Tribune on July 3, 1886, the Linotype made type fresh for every edition, let print catch up with the telegraph, and gave birth to mass media.•       The Union That Didn't Smash the Machine. The book's great labor surprise: the typesetters didn't fight the typesetting machine. Having studied the Luddites' defeat, the International Typographical Union sent spies into the Tribune's composing room, concluded the Linotype was inevitable, and demanded to operate it — with Mergenthaler's blessing. Thirty thousand jobs disappeared, returned to full strength within five years, and grew for seventy-five more, making the ITU America's most powerful union. Then came wave two — paper tape, computers that could hyphenate and justify, cold type, PostScript — and this time the union fought: six of nine New York papers died in the strikes, Bert Powers traded automation for lifetime job guarantees (the last holder retired from the New York Times around 2012), and Murdoch's secret Wapping plant ended Fleet Street — a century, almost exactly, after machine number one. The two lessons: take charge of the technology if you can; if it will replace you outright, find something else to do.•       The Machine That Drove Twain Mad. Mark Twain wanted to be filthy rich and stop writing — so he poured his fortune, and his wife's family coal fortune, into the Paige Compositor, the Linotype's brilliant, doomed rival: only two ever built, the sole survivor sitting in the basement of Hartford's Mark Twain House looking like “a railroad with nowhere to go.” Bankruptcy followed — a far deeper shame in the nineteenth century — and Twain repaid every debtor. Jarvis reads the scars in the fiction: A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court ends with technology destroying technology in an Armageddon of Camelot; the unfinished No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger conjures strange beasts endlessly duplicating pages — scale itself as nightmare. He lost all his money, of course — his Rosebud moment, as Andrew puts it, borrowing from Sam Roberts' art of the obituary on episode 3,000. The machine robbed Twain not of his humor, Jarvis concludes, but of his love of technology. The biopic pitch: Citizen Twain.•       From One Gilded Age to Another. The Linotype era bridges Twain's Gilded Age — tycoons of steam, steel, and wire — to ours, with its barons of bits and AI. Whitelaw Reid, the book's villain and the first capitalist media mogul, used the machine against his own union and predicted newspapers would never exceed eight pages (completely wrong); Frank Munsey invented the attention economy at a dime a copy — content as honey, audience as product, a model that ruled mass media and infected the Internet. Today's moguls fare no better in Jarvis's telling: Altman selling “vending machines for intelligence” that actually dispense compute, Amodei “the paragon of safety” with a skewed definition of it, all chasing the Valhalla of AGI, “pure BS.” His hope: open-weight models to check the frontier companies. His warning against banning them: guardrails are a fool's errand — the printing press was a general machine, and nobody could tell Gutenberg to keep it from Martin Luther.•       Words Matter, Damn It. The through-line from Jarvis's blog post to the book: language is the most human thing we have. His objection to Anthropic's watermark isn't Keith Teare's shame argument — it's that a scheme treating “overcast” and “gray” as interchangeable declares all language fungible, “a cultural statement damaging to our craft.” His own AI practice is disclosed down to a confessional footnote in Hot Type for a single borrowed phrase: Gemini may pull facts (“don't write for me”), but what you express must be what you want to express. The typewriter shaped Nietzsche and made Hemingway; the newsroom computer made Jarvis an editor more than a writer; Quark made everyone typesetters — “in the end, it was all still me.” Against Kirschenbaum's gray goo, he holds up Pope Leo (work brings dignity; not a Luddite) and poetry itself. Hot type revolutionized 20th century culture the way AI is now revolutionizing 21st century reading and writing. The art of obituary: a description of life, not death — and the most human thing we have is the words. About the Guest Jeff Jarvis is the Emeritus Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism Innovation at CUNY's Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism. The creator and founding managing editor of Entertainment Weekly, he has been TV critic for TV Guide and People, Sunday editor of the New York Daily News, and a media columnist for The Guardian. His books include What Would Google Do?, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, Magazine, and The Web We Weave; he blogs at Buzzmachine...

On todays show, we will speak to Aditi Varshneya about AI “activation zones” and Data Centers in downtown Oakland. Then ICE wants a new toy and looks like they are getting them – electric shock gloves are on the menu – we will speak to Mother Jones reporter Sophie Hurwitz and finally we will speak to the director of a new film about Joan Little. No Data Centers in Oakland campaign  Aditi Varshneya is an organizer with the No Data Centers in Oakland campaign led by the Party for Socialism and Liberation. “G.L.O.V.E”  The ICE's New Toy and the Company Behind it Sophie Hurwitz is a reporter for Mother Jones covering breaking news, politics, and social movements.  She wrote the article The Orwellian Company Behind ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves. Film Free Joan Little  Yoruba Richen is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and director of the film Free Joan Little.  Yoruba is the founding director of the Documentary Program at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and founder of Promised Land Film documentary production company. Bay Area Premier Free Joan Little Film Tuesday, August 18, 2026 At 7:30 PM (doors open at 7:00 PM) at La Peña Cultural Center 3105 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, CA. —- Subscribe to our podcast: https://plinkhq.com/i/1637968343?to=page Get in touch: lawanddisorder@kpfa.org Follow us on socials @LawAndDis: https://twitter.com/LawAndDis; https://www.instagram.com/lawanddis/ The post No Data Centers in Oakland. Then, ICE's New Electric Shock Gloves. Plus, Free Joan Little Film appeared first on KPFA.

Being an immigrant New Yorker is an experience of contradictionspride in recent civic gains and resistance to an anti-immigrant and xenophobic regime. In this conversation, panelists will explore the moment through the lens of challenges and possibilities for Asian American New Yorkersopportunities for multiracial solidarity, deeper examination of internalized racism and Islamophobia, openings for building cross-class solidarity and ongoing commitment to strengthening civic and political power.

This presentation examines heritage language as a social technology within immigrant homes, exploring how families negotiate intergenerational identity, linguistic labor, and the pressures of assimilation in English-dominant society.

Featuring artists from Hindus for Zohran, Pakistanis for Zohran, and the Palestinian Youth Choir, the panel will examine how the arts catalyze grassroots mobilization and fortify community bonds. Through a moderated dialogue and audience Q and A, speakers will share firsthand insights into building powerful, arts-driven coalitions.

This panel brings together Dalit movement workers, leaders, and writers to analyze the erasure of caste identity within recent South Asian political milestones and to provide a roadmap for building authentic, inclusive solidarity across the diaspora.

The election of Zohran Mamdani as the first Muslim and Asian American mayor of New York City marked a seismic shift in the citys political landscape. This presentation provides a comprehensive analysis of these historic election results and explores the vital lessons this turning point offers for the future of Asian American political organizing.

This roundtable examines the essential role of young people as trusted messengers in immigrant and BIPOC households, arguing that passing the Student Voter Empowerment Act and Vote 17 NY is critical to fostering youth leadership, overcoming barriers to civic participation, and securing political representation for the decade to come.

Shekar Krishnan, Member, New York City Council, District 25

As the author of five books on nutrition, fitness, wellness and fulfilling life's goals, she has a special interest in enhancing the education of the general public, and providing accurate health information to today's consumer. Passionate about her own wellness, Patricia ran 20 marathons, 110 half marathons, and climbed towers and stadiums all over the world. Now at 65, she is a Yin Yogi and gym devotee, determined to stay strong for life. Married with a grown daughter, she is an avid knitter and book club junkie. Credentials: YouTube, Host, It's OK to be Old 2021 - Present KABC, Los Angeles Host of Eat Well, Live Well, Age Well 2019-2021 KCSN , Northridge, CA Host of The Fitness Gourmet 2001-2009 BA in Nutrition and Food Science from Queens College, NYC Culinary Arts Degree - Le Cordon Bleu in Scottsdale, AZ Certified Culinary Professional -IACP – Certificate of Gerontology, CUNY, New York City Certified Nutritionist and trainer, ACE - Senior Fitness Arthritis Foundation Ambassador American Society of Aging, active member Author: The Whole Soy Cookbook 1998 Soy Desserts 2001 Scrumptious Sandwiches, Salads, and Snacks 2017 Eat Well, Live Well, Age Well 2022 It's OK to be Old 2025 Follow her: https://patriciagreenberg.com/its-ok-to-be-old/ Instagram: It's ok to be old officialwww.thefitnessgorumet.com Threads: Patricia Greenberg ***********Finalist "Women in Cloud - Podcast of the YEAR" - #empowHERaccess Global Prestige Awards 2026Susanne Mueller / www.susannemueller.biz TEDX Talk, May 2022: Running and Life: 5KM Formula for YOUR Successhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT_5Er1cLvY Join Substack: https://substack.com/@susannemuellernyc?Enjoy one coaching session for free if you are a yearly subscriber. 800+ weekly blogs / 500+ podcasts / 1 Ironman Triathlon / 5 half ironman races / 26 marathon races / 4 books / 1 Mt. Kilimanjaro / 1 TEDx Talk

Nicholas Freudenberg, professor emeritus of public health at the City University of New York School of Public Health and the author of Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since the 1960s (Columbia University Press, 2026), talks about his long career advocating for solutions to public health crises in NYC and analyzes the successes of the activists working to improve the health of New Yorkers. Photo: People wait to recieve the Monkeypox vaccine at a mass vaccination site in Manhattan on July 26, 2022 in New York City. (Liao Pan/China News Service via Getty Images) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

For the first time since the 1990s, Chinese immigrants have surpassed Dominicans as New York City's largest foreign born population. CUNY Baruch College professor Kenneth Guest explains what is driving that growth, how Chinese communities are expanding beyond Manhattan's Chinatown and what the shift could mean for services, political influence and the future of immigrant New York. -Got any questions, comments or story ideas? Send us a message at NYCNow@WNYC.org Photo Cred: Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Easy Peasy is an AI conversation partner built specifically for South Asian immigrant women especially homemakers who face a steep confidence gap in speaking English. Unlike their spouses or children, who practice English daily at work or school, these women often lack safe, judgment-free spaces to build language skills, leaving them isolated during everyday moments like doctor visits, grocery shopping, and school meetings. The app pairs culturally relevant content like recipes and home cooking with a culturally intelligent AI companion offering real-time conversation practice, native-language support, and encouraging feedback.

BLOOM is a homework companion app that helps bilingual kids understand their English worksheets, one word at a time, by building on the language they already know at home. Roughly two out of three U.S. students are not reading at grade level, not because they dislike reading, but because unfamiliar words cause them to lose the thread of the story. BLOOM bridges the gap between a childs home language and their English homework kids snap a photo of a worksheet, tap any word they dont know, and instantly get a kid-friendly definition plus a translation (like Chinese), all without ever leaving the page. Progress is gamified through a growing flower, rewarding effort rather than just correct answers.

FOCUS is a mobile app that helps students build consistent, sustainable study habits in a world full of digital distractions. Based on Jun Lins own struggle to stay focused while studying, the app tackles a problem he identified as systemic students dont lack motivation, they lack a structured system to reinforce good habits. Rather than solving just one piece of the puzzle like existing gamified timers or distraction blockers, FOCUS combines motivation and self-awareness in one experience: users earn points and build streaks through daily sessions, while a Distraction Shield blocks notifications during focus time.

In 2018, hundreds of thousands of people in France showed up day after day, month after month, to protest the French government's attacks on labor, on social benefits, and on the environment, among other things, including police violence.  Anthropologist Ida Susser took part in these communal actions, interviewing a vast array of participants, who came from all walks of life, from political positions across the spectrum, and from many different regions and class identities. We learn how people formed common cause, organized unique social worlds, and how their struggles, defeats, and successes, can teach us critical lessons in making the a new, more just, world.In the spirit of communing, Ida Susser has made Yellow Vests a free download here.Ida Susser, PHD, is  Distinguished  Professor of Anthropology at the Graduate Center and Hunter College, CUNY. Her recent book The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy: taking to the streets of Paris in the 21st Century  (Routledge 2026) focuses on commoning movements and new visions. Her previous books include:  Norman Street (Oxford, 2012)   a study of working class opposition to cutbacks during the New York City fiscal crisis and the transition of Greenpoint-Williamsburg from a working class neighborhood to a gentrified enclave, and AIDS, Sex and Culture: Global Politics and Survival in Southern Africa (Wiley-Blackwell 2009), a history of the power of social movements to transform health. 

10th Anniversary Special: Interview with Linda Garber The Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast - Episode 348 with Heather Rose Jones An interview with Professor Linda Garber about her research into lesbian historical fiction. Books and Media Mentioned Garber, Linda. 2022. Novel Approaches to Lesbian History. Palgrave. ISBN 978-3030854164 Cruikshank, M. (ed) 1982. Lesbian Studies: Present and Future. The Feminist Press at CUNY. ISBN 978-0935312072 Garber, Linda. 2001. Identity Poetics: Race, Class and the Lesbian-Feminist Roots of Queer Theory. Columbia University Press. Schwartz, Selby Wynn. After Sappho. (novel) Keen, Suzanne. 2003 Romances of the Archive in Contemporary British Fiction. University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978-0802086846 (credit for the phrase “romance of the archives” which I've been misattributing) Martinac, Paula. Out of Time. (novel) Davies, Stevie. Impassioned Clay. (novel) Friend, Catherine. The Spanish Pearl. (novel) Dickinson (tv series) Gentleman Jack (tv series) Arnold, June Davis. The Cook and the Carpenter. (novel) Faderman, Lillian. 1981. Surpassing the Love of Men: Romantic Friendship and Love Between Women from the Renaissance to the Present. William Morrow and Company, Inc. ISBN 0-688-00396-6 Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness. (novel) Portrait of a Lady on Fire (movie) The Favourite (movie) Ammonite (movie) Saturday Night Live “Lesbian Period Drama” (sketch on YouTube) Desert of the Heart (movie) based on Jane Rule's Desert Hearts A Knight's Tale (movie) Giffney, Noreen, Michelle M. Sauer & Diane Watt (eds). 2011. The Lesbian Premodern. Palgrave. ISBN 978-0-230-61676-9 The Belle of Amherst (movie) Gomez, Jewelle. The Gilda Stories. (novel) Giddings, Megan. The Women Could Fly (novel) Korn, Gabrielle. Yours for the Taking (novel) Pérez, Emma. Forgetting the Alamo, or, Blood Memory (novel McCollum, Hilary. As a Lover (novel) McCollum, Hilary. Golddigger (novel) Gagehabib, LaVerne. The Blacksmith and the Doctor (novel) Winterson, Jeanette. The Passion (novel) A transcript of this podcast is available here. (Interview transcripts added when available.) Links to the Lesbian Historic Motif Project Online Website: http://alpennia.com/lhmp Blog: http://alpennia.com/blog RSS: http://alpennia.com/blog/feed/ Twitter: @LesbianMotif Discord: Contact Heather for an invitation to the Alpennia/LHMP Discord server The Lesbian Historic Motif Project Patreon Links to Heather Online Website: http://alpennia.com Email: Heather Rose Jones Mastodon: @heatherrosejones@Wandering.Shop Bluesky: @heatherrosejones Facebook: Heather Rose Jones (author page) Links to Linda Garber Online Website: academic website

Today on The Gist, guest host Adaam James Levin-Areddy steps in as host Mike Pesca remains away. Mike brings on CUNY philosophy professor Justin Garson to discuss his book, The Madness Pill, and the legacy of 20th-century neuroscientist Dr. Solomon Snyder. Garson details how early psychiatric experiments using LSD and amphetamines led to the discovery of the dopamine hypothesis, revolutionizing the treatment of schizophrenia. Stop online threats before they become real-world attacks. Visit ironwall.com/GIST and request a free Risk Assessment to see exactly how exposed your executives are. Produced by Corey Wara Video and Social Media by Geoff Craig Do you have questions or comments, or just want to say hello? Email us at ⁠⁠⁠⁠thegist@mikepesca.com For full Pesca content and updates, check out our website at https://www.mikepesca.com/⁠ For ad-free content or to become a Pesca Plus subscriber, check out ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://subscribe.mikepesca.com/ For Mike's daily takes on Substack, subscribe to The Gist List https://mikepesca.substack.com/ Follow us on Social Media:⁠⁠⁠⁠ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4_bh0wHgk2YfpKf4rg40_g⁠⁠⁠⁠ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/pescagist/ X https://x.com/pescami TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@pescagist To advertise on the show, contact ⁠⁠⁠⁠sales@amplitudemediapartners.com Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

As the Gaza war stretches into its third year, journalism professor and MSNBC analyst Peter Beinart claims that, as a Jew, he must reckon with the intense moral and theological tensions that not only he holds, but what he sees as challenges for Judaism as a whole. Because of these tensions, Beinart believes the Jewish community must build a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew? From his book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning, MSNBC analyst Peter Beinart imagines a world where Israeli Jews have the right to equality, not supremacy, and in which Jewish and Palestinian safety are not mutually exclusive but intertwined. In Beinart's view, one story dominates Jewish communal life: that of persecution and victimhood. It is a story that erases much of the nuance of Jewish religious tradition and warps our understanding of Israel and Palestine. Beinart claims that, as a Jew, he must reckon with the intense moral and theological tensions that not only he holds, but what he sees as challenges for Judaism as a whole. Because of these tensions, Beinart believes the Jewish community must tell a new story and build a new answer to the question: What does it mean to be a Jew? From his book, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, Beinart offers a path toward resolution. A frequent contributor to The New York Times and an MSNBC analyst, Peter Beinart is a professor of journalism and political science at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. He is also the editor at large of Jewish Currents and writes The Beinart Notebook, a weekly newsletter. He lives with his family in New York City. Professor Smadar Ben-Natan is a professor of human rights at the School of Global Studies and Languages, University of Oregon. A legal scholar of human rights, criminal justice, and armed conflict, she is an expert on Israel/Palestine. She is working on two books: Citizen-Enemies: Military Courts and the Construction of Citizenship in Israel/Palestine; and The Carceral State in Conflict: Between Reconciliation and Radicalization. Professor Ben-Natan received her PhD in law from Tel Aviv University and a master's in international human rights law from the University of Oxford. She also served as a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and Harvard, and as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. Buy the Book Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning (Hardcover) Third Place Books

CUNY Professor Jeff Lax joins Sid to talk about how we can reject socialism and anti-Semitism here in New York City as Socialist anti-Semite Mayor Zohran Mamdani continues to take a sledgehammer to our once great capitalist and diverse city.

For more than five decades, Nicholas Freudenberg has been at the forefront of some of the most consequential public health movements in America. As Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Public Health at the City University of New York (CUNY), he has dedicated his career to understanding—and transforming—the social, political, and economic forces that shape health outcomes. In this compelling episode of Let's Have This Conversation, Nicholas shares why improving public health requires far more than advances in medicine. It demands courageous leadership, community activism, policy reform, and a willingness to challenge systems that perpetuate inequality. Our conversation explores the evolution of public health activism through the lens of some of society's most pressing challenges, including: Nicholas also discusses his newest book, Fighting for New York: Activism for Health and Social Justice Since the 1960s, which chronicles decades of grassroots organizing and reveals the lessons today's leaders, advocates, educators, and policymakers can apply to create healthier, more equitable communities. As the founder of CUNY's Urban Food Policy Institute, the Hunter College Center on AIDS, Drugs and Community Health, and the university-wide Healthy CUNY initiative, Nicholas has spent a lifetime turning research into action. His work demonstrates that meaningful societal change happens when academic knowledge, community engagement, and public policy come together. Whether you're a public health professional, healthcare leader, policymaker, nonprofit executive, educator, student, or simply someone passionate about creating healthier communities, this conversation offers valuable insights into how collective action can improve lives and shape a more just society. This episode examines critical questions facing communities around the world: Join us for an insightful conversation about leadership, advocacy, public policy, social justice, and the enduring power of ordinary people working together to create extraordinary change.   For more Information: https://sph.cuny.edu/about/people/faculty/nicholas-freudenberg/ Get the Book: https://cup.columbia.edu/book/fighting-for-new-york/9780231221405/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thomas is joined by David O'Brien, a higher education policy scholar who works for the California Community Colleges system, to pick apart Trump's new rules threatening to cut off student loans and Pell grants from "low-earning" degree programs, and to fact-check The Daily's recent take on the same story. The real history runs through Reagan, Prop 13, and decades of quiet austerity nobody on that podcast wants to mention. Mentioned: The Daily college episode Reagan 1966 campaign clip Prop 13 CUNY tuition history California Master Plan for Higher Education Are you an expert in something and want to be on the show? Apply here! Please support the show on Patreon! You get ad-free episodes, early episodes, and other bonus content! https://www.patreon.com/seriouspod

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“I want someone who has regrets. I want someone who's learned the hard way. I want someone who understands that life is made of those messy compromises.” — Joel Christensen on the Odysseus he hopes to see in Matt Damon Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is out — the controversial movie of the year, much of the controversy raging before anyone had seen a frame. So, before either of us had seen the epic, I talked to the CUNY classicist Joel Christensen, author of the timely Why Odysseus? Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero. What, I asked Christensen, did he most dread about Hollywood's treatment of his beloved Odyssey? His answer: a hero too noble to be interesting. The Odysseus of the epic is a survivor, a scoundrel, an antihero — the master sergeant who does what needs to be done, from engineering the Trojan Horse to making sure Hector's infant son doesn't survive it. Christensen's worry about Matt Damon came down to one word: too likeable. What he wanted instead was a man with regrets — De Niro in Raging Bull rather than anybody noble. So did Christensen get the Odysseus he wanted? Below is his review, written after seeing the film when it came out. Postscript: Joel Christensen's Verdict on the Film Nolan's Odyssey is not Homer's Odyssey. This should be clear to anyone. Nolan faced an almost impossible task well: ancient audiences knew the story already. Modern audiences do not, so he created a ring structure with the beginning union of Penelope and Odysseus anticipating the reunion at the end, also introducing plot elements like the dog Argos and the pin by which Penelope will recognize Odysseus. The film is not Homer. Homer's power is poetry; the film's is image. Some of the images are striking: the scene when Circe turns his men into animals is the most arresting in the whole movie, showing everything that can be done with visceral imagery and a slight adaptation (Circe here is a survivor of sexual assault). The changes made to the plot such as omitting the Phaeacians, Nestor, Laertes, the bed and more are not as jarring as some of the general decisions. Calling “Zeus' Law” “do unto others…” makes an understandable translation to a Christian context, but it is somewhat nonsensical for Homer. Depicting a mutilated Helen is a strange decision that I am struggling with. What the movie gets right is making humans responsible for their own suffering. In a novel take on Odysseus as a traumatized warrior, the hero spends seven years with Calypso eating Lotus to forget the loss of his men. Damon, too likeable, regrets the trick of the Trojan Horse after witnessing the slaughter during the sack of Troy. We find out as well that the “sea people” from history, bringing an end to the “civilization” are actually the Greeks returning from the Trojan War and suffering for the transgressions they committed there. Is this ending an echo of Zeus' plan to end the race of heroes in the Trojan War? Is it an allegory for our civilizational collapse in the future thanks to technology, environmental catastrophe, and fascism? Any potential social critique dissipates with the movie's end. The traumatized veteran turns out to be merciful and kills only some of the suitors, showing many mercy. Then, guilty of violating “Zeus' Law”, Odysseus happily goes into exile with Penelope, leaving Telemachus to be king. There's no way to make Homer's Odyssey into a film and convey all its ambiguity and depth. That would be an unfair expectation. Nolan's film is a compelling spectacle and it makes me wonder more about how it reflects who we are as an audience. Do we need the hero to be ultimately good, even if he messed up? Are we so simple that we need to hear about Zeus' Law and the Sea People so repetitively? I fear that in this age where fiction and fact are so hard to disentangle, that we long for narratives that are just simpler. We don't get the Odyssey we want; we get the one we deserve. Five Takeaways •       A Complicated Man: The Translation Problem. Every word of Homer carries echoes no English can hold, and the fights over Nolan's dialogue replay the fights over translation. Emily Wilson detonated a controversy by rendering polytropos — poly, many; tropos, turn — as “a complicated man,” alluding at once to Odysseus's travels and the many forms of his character; Daniel Mendelsohn's “man of roundabout ways” does the work too, if you can stop thinking about rotaries. Even the objection to Tom Holland's Telemachus saying “dad” collapses on inspection: Telemachus uses the colloquial form in Homer. And the “authentic” dialect purists want was an artificial amalgam that no ancient Greek ever spoke. •       The Culture Wars Come for Homer. Nobody remembers a brouhaha over Wolfgang Petersen's Troy — a pretty bad movie, Christensen notes — but Nolan's Odyssey generates more controversy than a scholar can track daily. Lupita Nyong'o's Helen is attacked as inauthentic by one side and as cultural appropriation by the other; since 2015, classicists have watched the Western tradition weaponized by the alt-right while their own field argues about who owns it. Christensen's advice channels the epic itself: between Scylla and Charybdis, take Scylla. You'll lose six men. The alternative is losing the ship — and if the story doesn't persuade in three hours, nobody will remember the armor anyway. •       The Valence of Violence. Modern audiences are more accustomed to represented violence than any in history — you don't need Natural Born Killers when Twitter serves unverifiable clips from Gaza and Iran. The question Christensen brings to the film is what the violence is for. Uberto Pasolini's The Return gave Ralph Fiennes's Odysseus a steady, untroubled thump of arrows; the epic's own slaughter of the suitors, read closely, approaches Tarantino-adjacent parody. And the hardest tests are the atrocities the adaptations always cut: the mutilation of the goatherd Melanthius, and Telemachus hanging the enslaved women. Does the violence glorify the hero — or show what even the best of us are capable of? •       Keep Penelope Ambiguous. The great interpretive question of the Odyssey is when Penelope knows the beggar is her husband — the suitors, dead in the underworld, are convinced she was in on it all along. The epic grants her remarkable intelligence and agency, then reins it in: Agamemnon's ghost praises her by way of insulting all women, and she vanishes from the text. Christensen's advice to Nolan wouldn't be Margaret Atwood's Penelopiad, which centers the women's voices; it would be more screen time and total ambiguity — no access to her mind, a wife who matches her husband in wits and may even have outwitted him. Though based on Nolan's arc, he doubts we'll get a woman at the center. •       Survivor, Scoundrel, (Anti)hero. Christensen's worry about Matt Damon was simple: too likable. Odysseus is the master sergeant — the one who takes the hard orders, tricks Achilles into the war, engineers the Horse, and makes sure Hector's infant son doesn't survive to rebuild Troy. The ancient hero is neither good nor ...

Join us for a powerful conversation with Lorna Cuny from Medicine Wheel Ride as we discuss the upcoming 2026 Sturgis "Ride to Resilience."Medicine Wheel Ride rides for their relatives, rides for awareness, and rides for change. In this episode, Lorna shares the heart behind this year's journey—a ride dedicated to unity, remembrance, and the strength of Indigenous communities.

oin us for a powerful evening of film and conversation on the human consequences of Chinas One-Child Policy, as we screen More Than One Child, a new documentary directed by Vinit Parmar. The 62-minute film follows the lives of three siblings who were separated at birth under Chinas former family-planning regime, tracing their journeys from rural villages to urban migrant neighborhoods as they rediscover one another and confront the legacy of state control over family life. Through intimate interviews, rare archival footage, and a compassionate lens, the film explores themes of displacement, identity, and the enduring emotional impact of policy decisions that once dictated the most personal aspects of citizens lives.

Rossana Rosado, a commissioner of the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), CUNY trustee, former New York Secretary of State, former editor, CEO and publisher of El Diario-La Prensa, and the author of memoir Bronx Attitude (Elite Voices/Halo, 2026), talks about her life and work. Photo: Aerial photo of the University Heights Bridge in the Bronx, New York, linking the Bronx with Harlem over the Hudson River. There is a view of lower Manhattan far in the distance on a beautiful clear sunny day. Via Getty Images. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Across the globe, millions of people continue to face systemic discrimination, exclusion, and unequal opportunities based entirely on their inherited status, descent, or ancestral occupation. While deeply associated with the caste system in South Asia, these rigid intergenerational hierarchies affect diverse global populations, including the Roma in Europe, Haratine in Africa, Buraku in Japan, Osu in Nigeria, and Quilombola and Palenque communities in Latin America. Despite distinct cultural origins, these groups share a common reality of deep-seated social stigma, occupational segregation, and severe barriers to basic human rights.

Peter Beinart joins us to discuss how Jewish faith and practices have been used (and abused!) to justify the war on Gaza.Peter Beinart is an American journalist, political commentator, and professor at CUNY. He is an editor-at-large for Jewish Currents, and author of Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza (2025). He frequently publishes his foreign policy analysis and political commentary through his personal newsletter, The Beinart Notebook: https://peterbeinart.substack.com/Become a monthly supporter of Across the Divide on Patreon hereFollow Across the Divide for more on ⁠Instagram⁠ ⁠⁠⁠‪@AcrosstheDividePodcast‬⁠⁠⁠Across the Divide is a podcast of the Bethlehem Institute of Peace and Justice (BIPJ). Learn more about BIPJ at BIPJ.org.

Razid Season, filmmaker and alum of The City College of New York, will screen his latest short film, Elijah, a coming-out story of a second-generation Bengali-American who desires to live life fully as a man in a trans-phobic immigrant culture. Inspired by a real-life story.

As graduation season wraps up, Félix Matos Rodríguez, CUNY chancellor, talks about the tough job market new grads are entering and what CUNY is doing to help, funding for the system and more news related to New York City's public system of colleges and universities. Photo: Group of Graduates during commencement. Concept education congratulation in University. Graduation Ceremony, Congratulated the graduates in University during commencement. Credit: Rattankun Thongbun   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Welcome back to the show! In this week's episode, I chat with Christian Martinez, a faculty member at Brooklyn College and several other CUNY schools, and Shannon Joyce, a newly minted master's graduate in psychological research—who, as we note at the top, literally graduated the day before we recorded. Christian shares how he redesigned his graduate stats and R course around NYC Open Data, building what he calls an “accidental author” process that transforms students' weekly homework into portfolio books and, ultimately, chapters in a published student gallery. Shannon walks us through her own project exploring the relationship between mold complaints and domestic violence rates in New York City, and reflects on what it means to learn to code by asking questions you actually care about. We also dig into the NYC Open Data R package Christian and his students built together—now streamlined from 40 functions down to three and approaching 2,000 installs—and close with a lively conversation about whether open data skews too negative and what a truly positive city dataset might look like.Keywords: NYC open data, R programming, data visualization, teaching data science, open data, CUNY Brooklyn College, R package, data education, open educational resources, data storytelling, Quarto, RStudio, graduate education, data literacy, public dataSubscribe to the PolicyViz Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.Become a patron of the PolicyViz Podcast (https://patreon.com/policyviz) for as little as a buck a monthFind Christian Martinez and all student work at NYCOpenDataLab.org. Find Shannon Joyce on GitHub (github.com/ShannonJoyce) and LinkedIn.Follow me on Instagram, LinkedIn, Substack, Twitter, Website, YouTubeEmail: jon@policyviz.com

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference. Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The dilemma is that there is no way to make structural change without individual people making different—more structure-facing—decisions. In Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT Press, 2025) Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think. The authors paint a new picture of how social change happens, arguing that our most powerful personal choices are those that springboard us into working together with others—warehouse worker Chris Smalls's unionization at Amazon is one powerful example. Taking inspiration from the writer Bill McKibben, they stress how one “important thing an individual can do is be somewhat less of an individual.” Organized into three main parts, the book first diagnoses the problem of “either/or” thinking about social change, which stems from the false choice of making better personal choices or changing the system. Then it offers a different way to think about social change, anchored in a new picture of human nature emerging across the social sciences. Finally, the authors explore ways of putting this picture into practice. Neither a how-to manual nor an activist's guide, Somebody Should Do Something pairs stories with science (plus some jokes) to help readers recognize their own power, turning resignation about climate change and racial injustice into actions that transform the world. My guests today are Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and Daniel Kelly. Michael is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Jay College and Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, Cuny. Alex is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium at Cal Poly Pomona. Daniel is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference. Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The dilemma is that there is no way to make structural change without individual people making different—more structure-facing—decisions. In Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change (MIT Press, 2025) Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think. The authors paint a new picture of how social change happens, arguing that our most powerful personal choices are those that springboard us into working together with others—warehouse worker Chris Smalls's unionization at Amazon is one powerful example. Taking inspiration from the writer Bill McKibben, they stress how one “important thing an individual can do is be somewhat less of an individual.” Organized into three main parts, the book first diagnoses the problem of “either/or” thinking about social change, which stems from the false choice of making better personal choices or changing the system. Then it offers a different way to think about social change, anchored in a new picture of human nature emerging across the social sciences. Finally, the authors explore ways of putting this picture into practice. Neither a how-to manual nor an activist's guide, Somebody Should Do Something pairs stories with science (plus some jokes) to help readers recognize their own power, turning resignation about climate change and racial injustice into actions that transform the world. My guests today are Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva and Daniel Kelly. Michael is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Jay College and Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center, Cuny. Alex is Professor of Philosophy, Director of the California Center for Ethics and Policy, and Co-Director of the Digital Humanities Consortium at Cal Poly Pomona. Daniel is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

**Every Tuesday we hold an online gathering where we listen to and talk about the episode while building community. Share your insights and questions as we educate ourselves and each other. Macro ‘n Chill, June 2, 8pm ET/5pm PT. Register here: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/OEYtu7v-SciBITwiIWwdzwA frequent theme of our podcast revolves around the contradiction between formal political rights and the material realities of the working class. This week, our guest Ida Susser talks to Steve about the French Yellow Vest movement as a reaction to the contradictions of late-stage financial capitalism which has systematically gutted the welfare state, dismantled public services in the provinces, and further abandoned the universalist promises of the French Republic.Ida, an anthropologist, is author of the book The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy: Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century.Moving beyond the liberal fetish of the ballot box, the conversation explores how the Gilets Jaunes, or Yellow Vests, built horizontalist, leaderless power from the grassroots. They blockaded traffic circles, constructed makeshift commons, and forged bonds of class solidarity across regional and ethnic lines. Ida contrasts this bottom-up mobilization with the top-down, cultish nature of MAGA; she points out that the French movement's refusal of vanguardism did not prevent it from “thresholding” into a broader, anti-neoliberal bloc.Steve introduces the MMT lens to expose the ideological confusion around taxation and public spending.Is it possible the Yellow Vests' defense of the social wage and their rage against the Macronist oligarchy represent a necessary, if incomplete, rehearsal for working-class power?Ida Susser is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has conducted ethnographic research in the U.S., Southern Africa and Puerto Rico, France and Spain with respect to urban social movements and the urban commons, gender, the global AIDS epidemic and environmental movements. She is the author of numerous books, chapters, and articles, including The Tumultuous Politics of Scale (Routledge Press, 2020) co-edited, and Norman Street: Poverty and Politics in an Urban Neighborhood (Oxford University Press, 2012. Her most recent is The Yellow Vests and the Battle for Democracy: Taking to the Streets of Paris in the 21st Century. (Routledge, 2026).

The Trump administration announced that those seeking green cards would need to apply from their home countries, not within the U.S. as many had been able to do. Allan Wernick, legal advisor to CUNY Citizenship Now! — CUNY's free immigration law service program, offers the latest guidance on who will be affected by the change. Photo: Close-up of a United States Permanent Resident Card (Green Card) placed among various official documents (Stock image by PS Photography/Moment via Getty Creative) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The Trump administration announced that those seeking green cards would need to apply from their home countries, not within the U.S. as many had been able to do.  On Today's Show:Allan Wernick, legal advisor to CUNY Citizenship Now!, CUNY's free immigration law service program, offers the latest guidance on who will be affected by the change. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Every victory at the bargaining table starts with workers standing together—but solidarity means looking out for each other's minds as well as their livelihoods. In this episode of America's Work Force Union Podcast, host Ed "Flash" Ferenc sits down with John Lepley, Director of Education and Membership Development at the United Steelworkers (USW). Marking both Mental Health Awareness Month and the USW's 84th anniversary, John highlights a vital shift in the labor movement: treating mental health as a core collective bargaining issue. What We Discuss in This Episode: The Power of Peer Support: Inside the USW's voluntary mental health curriculum, developed alongside CUNY psychology professor Waleed Sami, which teaches members to spot warning signs and connect colleagues with professional care. Healthcare Workers in Crisis: How chronic understaffing, isolation, and workplace violence are compounding the mental health crisis for nurses and healthcare professionals—and how the union is fighting back. Bargaining for Well-being: Why scheduling, staffing ratios, and the boundary between work and home life are fundamental mental health policies that belong in every union contract. Leadership from the Top: The critical role General President Roxanne Brown played in championing this program from its early pilot stages to a nationwide union initiative. Important Resources: If you or someone you know is struggling, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline is free, confidential, and available 24/7 by calling or texting 988. Learn more about the United Steelworkers and their initiatives at usw.org. Subscribe to the America's Work Force Union Podcast for daily insights from the leaders building worker power across America!

Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change and democracy reform are structural. They are larger than any one person can solve on their own, yet we're bombarded with information about individual actions like attending a public meeting or lowering your carbon footprint. Do these individual actions even matter? Should we focus instead of fixing broken systems?  For our final episode of the season, we explore how individual actions and structural reform can work together to create lasting social change on a range of issues, including democracy. Our guests offer a way out of the either-or thinking and a framework for creating lasting social change.  In Somebody Should Do Something: How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change, Michael Brownstein, Alex Madva, and Daniel Kelly show us how we can connect our personal choices to structural change and why individual choices matter, though not in the way people usually think. Brownstein and Kelly join us on the show to discuss examples of how individual actions leveled up to create larger-scale change, including Mothers Against Drunk Driving and the milk pasteurization movement in the early 20th century. We also discuss how the lessons from these movements can be applied to democracy reform campaigns like campaign finance reform and ranked-choice voting.  Brownstein is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at John Jay College and Professor of Philosophy at The Graduate Center, CUNY.. Kelly is Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University, where he is also the Director of the Cognition, Agency, and Intelligence Center. This is our final episode before our summer break. Thank you to Brandon Stover for editing the show this year, to WPSU for production and promotional support, and to Michael Berkman, Chris Beem, Cyanne Loyle, and Candis Watts Smith for sharing their insights on the show. We'll see you in September!   Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

"When I train candidates I always say start with Freud, learn the interpersonalist, learn the object relations folks, know from what you come, even if you want to be a radical interpersonalist, a radical relationalist, because having that stuff in your back pocket is organizing and creates an ideal to which you can aspire or choose not to follow, but at least you'll know what you're not following. My perspective on this stuff really comes from the idea that before we are free to break the rules, we need to know what the rules are and we need to be well grounded in them." Episode Description: We begin by appreciating the evolution of some fundamental practices in psychoanalysis. We consider the meanings of 'rules' and 'guidelines'. Joyce shares with us her current thinking on answering patients' questions – for some, it's helpful, for others, not. We discuss the use of the word 'fantasy' with patients as contrasted with 'guesses' or 'imaginings'. Joyce considers the many ways that patients terminate their treatments and how frequently it does not accord with traditional models of ending. We consider reluctance to leave the treatment relationship from both sides of the couch – analysts, too, have needs satisfied in this work and can play a part in the nature of the ending. Joyce relates how some former patients remain in contact with their analysts, and that isn't necessarily problematic.  For others, "being able to 'go it alone' represents an extraordinary achievement." She concludes that "termination remains an ideal worth holding onto. But loosely."   Our Guests: Joyce Slochower, Ph.D., ABPP, is Professor Emerita of Psychology at Hunter College & the Graduate Center, CUNY.  Joyce is faculty and supervisor at the NYU Postdoctoral Program, the Steven Mitchell Center, the National Training Program of NIP (all in New York), the Philadelphia Center for Relational Studies in Philadelphia, and the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California in San Francisco. She has written Holding and Psychoanalysis: A Relational Perspective (1996) and Psychoanalytic Collisions (2006). She is co-Editor, with Lew Aron and Sue Grand, De-idealizing relational theory: a Critique from within and Decentering Relational Theory: A Comparative Critique (2018), both of which received the Gradiva award in 2019. Her latest book, Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken, was published in 2024. She is in private practice in Manhattan.    Recommended Readings:  Grand, S. (2009). Termination as necessary madness. Psychoanal. Dialogues, 19: 723–733.   Kantrowitz, J. (2025). A Personal View of Terminations and Endings. The Psychoanalytic Quarterly 94:361-379   Levine, H. B. & Yanoff, J. A. (2004). Boundaries and postanalytic contacts in institutes. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 52:873–901.   Loewald  (1988). Termination analyzable and unanalyzable. Psychoanal. Study Child, 43:155–166.   Peddler, J. R. (1988). Termination reconsidered. Int. J. Psychoanal., 69:495–505.   Schachter, J. (1992). Concepts of termination and post-termination patient analyst contact. Int. J. Psychoanal., 73:137–154.   Slochower, J. (2022). Sequels. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 70:845–873.   Slochower, J.  (2024). Psychoanalysis and the Unspoken. NY, London: Routledge.