Podcast appearances and mentions of eugene lang

In this episode you will hear:   (02:12) In The News Vince Garcia and Mark Stucker discuss observations from admission decisions from this year's class. (23:34) Question from a listener:  Mark and Susan answer a question from an anonymous listener who has a number of questions about selecting an engineering program (56:18) Interview: Mark Stucker and David Blobaum, The Co-Founder of Summit Test Prep Debate whether selective colleges should make the SAT or the ACT mandatory-Part 2 of 3 Preview of Part 2 of 3 ²  I share multiple other reasons why I am not in favor of a mandatory ACT or SAT policy ²  David shares what he thinks about some of the other reasons I do not favor mandatory test scores ²  I share my skepticism that the return to test scores is being motivated by a desire to admit under-represented students ²  Dave shares why he believes it was courageous for colleges to return to test scores ²  I share why the overwhelming majority of admission officers who read files, love test optional and they are discouraged if their institution returns to an ACT or SAT mandatory policy   (01:22:58) College Spotlight-Jim Bok Interview, Understanding Swarthmore College Preview of Part 2 ²  Jim Bock talks about the importance of playing ball with others ²  Jim talks about how they target students who meet their needs and not students who they think will come when making admission decisions ²  Jim talks about whether they build out predictive models to see how kids at certain high schools do at Swarthmore academically ²  Jim talks about how Swarthmore differs from schools like Pomona, Carlton, Amherst and Williams? ²  Jim talks about Swarthmore's Honors program tutorials that have been around for over 100 years ²  Jim talks about why Swarthmore is pass/fail for the first semester ²  I ask Jim to comment on some perceptions I have about Swarthmore and I ask Jim if they are correct. The first one is academically intense ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are quirky ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are progressive politically ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students are diverse ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students have an insatiable love of learning ²  I ask Jim if Swarthmore students want to change the world ²  Jim talks about the Lang center for civic and social responsibility that Swarthmore grad, Eugene Lang provided the funding for ²  Jim and I talk about how wait lists may change in light of the unforeseen future       Speakpipe.com/YCBK is our method if you want to ask a question and we will be prioritizing all questions sent in via Speakpipe. Unfortunately, we will NOT answer questions on the podcast anymore that are emailed in. If you want us to answer a question on the podcast, please use speakpipe.com/YCBK. 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Mayor Bass' Broken Promise, NYC's Unnoticed Landmarks, Kathy Hochul's Congestion Pricing Flip Flop & the Power of Private PhilanthropyWelcome to episode twenty-nine of David & Stu… Unhinged! As always, we'd like to thank Clara Wang for creating the fantastic artwork for this podcast. In this episode, David and Stu cover the following:1) An update on the tragic LA Fires, how Mayor Karen Bass flagrantly broke her promise not to engage in foreign travel, and her praise of Fidel Castro as a "champion of social justice."2) Stu recounts what he encounters as he strolls NYC streets, including a plaque commemorating Union soldiers.3) Kathy Hochul's outrageous flip-flop on congestion pricing and how it is merely another tax on the working class that will be used to subsidize the losses from fare evasion that the Democrats won't prosecute or punish.4) Eugene Lang's private philanthropy and how he helped underserved communities obtain higher education.Connect with David & Stu: • Email David & Stu: davidandstuunhinged@gmail.com and share your comments, concerns, and questions.The views expressed on air during David & Stu... Unhinged! do not represent the views of the RAGE Works staff, partners, or affiliates. Listener discretion is advised.

Brian interviews Eugene Lang. Eugene is an assistant professor in the school of policy studies at Queen's University, a senior fellow at the Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History at the University of Toronto and a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Eugene Lang talks about Justin Trudeau's barren business legacy: “The business Liberal, sometimes called a blue Liberal, used to be found with relative ease in Ottawa. Over the past decade, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has more or less driven that species into extinction. Canadian business, the economy and public finances have suffered as a result“

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Brian interviews Eugene Lang. Eugene is Assistant Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University; Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute; and Senior Fellow, Bill Graham Centre for Contemporary International History, Trinity College, University of Toronto. Eugene Lang published an op ed last week in the Globe about Canada's funding of Ukraine. We speak about the war in Ukraine, NATO funding, Canada's lack of military preparedness, leadership in the world and how history repeats itself.

Eight years ago, Justin Trudeau and 30 ecstatic Liberal MPs walked up to Rideau Hall, ready to be sworn in as Canada's next government. But after three elections, the Liberal glow has faded – drastically – as more and more Liberals suggest it's time for the prime minister to step down. This week on “It's Political,” Abacus Data CEO David Coletto, P.E.I. Sen. Percy Downe and Toronto Star reporter Alex Ballingall join me to discuss whether Prime Minister Justin Trudeau should step down, and what the Liberals could do to address the public's growing fatigue with their leader.  But first, if Trudeau were to step down, what would he be remembered for? We ask several close observers for their thoughts on the prime minister's legacy. Some of their answers may surprise.  2:20 Mini documentary on Justin Trudeau's legacy 31:55 Panel discussion on Justin Trudeau's future as Liberal leader Some of the clips this week were sourced from CBC, CPAC, Global, CTV, and The Guardian. This episode of “It's Political” was produced by Althia Raj and Michal Stein. Kevin Sexton mixed the program. Our theme music is by Isaac Joel. In this episode: Abacus Data CEO David Coletto, Prince Edward Island Sen. Percy Downe, Toronto Star reporter Alex Ballingall, University of Calgary political science professor Lisa Young, UBC economics professor Kevin Milligan, Acadia University politics professor Alex Marland, Queen's University adjunct professor Eugene Lang, the executive director of First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada and McGill University School of Social Work professor Cindy Blackstock, Canadian Climate Institute executive vice-president Dale Beugin, and York University public administration professor Thomas Klassen. Hosted by Althia Raj.

Canada has consistently fallen short on its obligation to NATO to spend two-percent of GDP on the military. Is it feasible to get to two-percent and what sort of impact would it have if we hit that target? We discuss with Eugene Lang, Professor from the ‘School of Policy Studies' at Queen's University.   Do you know what it looks like when someone is drowning? Do you know how to respond if you see someone struggling in the water? We get some ‘water safety' tips, in recognition of “World Drowning Prevention Day”, with Jonathan Kusyanto of the “Lifesaving Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories”.   And finally, if you're in the market for a new vehicle, prepare to be shocked by the prices! We find out what's behind the record high prices for new cars and trucks with Baris Akyrukek, VP of “Insights and Intellgence” with AutoTrader.

On this episode of Defence Deconstructed, David Perry is speaking to Ian Brodie, Thomas Juneau, Eugene Lang, and Vincent Rigby about the makings of defence policies Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding and Davie Shipyard. Participants bios Ian Brodie is Professor in the Department of Political Science, a Fellow at the Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies, and CGAI's Program Director. https://profiles.ucalgary.ca/ian-brodie Thomas Juneau is associate professor at the University of Ottawa's Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and a CGAI Fellow – https://www.cgai.ca/thomas_juneau Eugene Lang is Assistant Professor in the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University and a CGAI Fellow – https://www.cgai.ca/eugene_lang Vincent Rigby is a non-resident senior adviser with the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. https://www.csis.org/people/vincent-rigby Host Bio Dr. David Perry is President of the Canadian Global Affairs Institute – https://www.cgai.ca/david_perry What our guests are reading Doom by Niall Ferguson – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/668960/doom-by-niall-ferguson/ Private Power, Public Purpose by Thomas d'Aquino – https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/702756/private-power-public-purpose-by-thomas-daquino/9780771000737 25 Days to Aden by Michael Knights – https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/25-days-to-aden-michael-knights/1141985230 The Abyss by Max Hastings – https://www.harpercollins.com/products/the-abyss-max-hastings?variant=40072929935394 Recording Date: 24 Mar 2023 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

Operation Medusa has become the most celebrated battle in recent Canadian history. It was hailed as a stroke of military genius that may have vanquished the Taliban once and for all. But the soldiers and commanders who were on the ground in 2006 have a different story to tell. A rushed battle. Flawed intelligence. And generals putting political considerations ahead of Canadian lives. And even though Canada had defeated the Taliban on the battlefield, that didn't mean they were winning the war. Featured in this episode: Cpl. Sean Teal, Canadian Armed Forces; Bruce Moncur, veterans advocate and former reservist; Lt.-Gen. Omer Lavoie, Canadian Armed Forces; Adnan R. Khan, journalist and contributing editor at Maclean's; Eugene Lang, fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute Further reading: Operation Medusa: The Battle For Panjwai, Adam Day, Legion Magazine Afghanistan veteran recounts brutal battle, Stephen J. Thorne, Legion Magazine It's time for a hard look at Operation Medusa, Adnan R. Khan, Maclean's The Unexpected War: Canada In Kandahar, Janice Gross Stein and Eugene Lang Support Canadaland at canadaland.com/join Sponsors: oxio, Hover, Skipper Otto Additional Music is by Audio Network Support CANADALAND: https://canadaland.com/join See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

"AND THE CATEGORY IS...!" That phrase may be something you've heard while watching either Pose on FX or Legendary on HBO Max but what does it mean? What IS Ballroom? What is the background context and history for this community?  If you've wondered all these things and more then we have the perfect episode in store for you today! Author Ricky Tucker joins the show today to discuss his new book "And the Category Is..." we cover his motivation to write this book, what it means for the Ballroom community and the world at large.  Enjoy! About Ricky Tucker Ricky Tucker is a writer, educator, art critic, and North Carolina native based in Brooklyn. His work explores the imprints of art and memory on narrative, and the absurdity of most fleeting moments. He has written for the Paris Review, the Tenth Magazine, and Public Seminar, among others, and has performed for reading series including the Moth Grand SLAM, Sister Spit, Born: Free, and Spark London. He was chosen as a 2017 Lambda Literary Emerging Writer Fellow for creative nonfiction, a 2021 Writers House Pittsburgh Resident, and a 2022 Virginia Center for The Creative Arts resident. Tucker received his Writer/Teacher MA at Goldsmiths, University of London, and a B.A. in fiction at The New School where he later served as Senior Writer for marketing, and now teaches Reading for Writers at Eugene Lang, its college of liberal arts. His debut book, And the Category Is…Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community (Beacon Press) is available online and in stores About And the Category Is... What is Ballroom? Not a song, a documentary, a catchphrase, a TV show, or an individual pop star. It is an underground subculture founded over a century ago by LGBTQ African American and Latino men and women of Harlem. Arts-based and intersectional, it transcends identity, acting as a fearless response to the systemic marginalization of minority populations. Ricky Tucker pulls from his years as a close friend of the community to reveal the complex cultural makeup and ongoing relevance of house and Ballroom, a space where trans lives are respected and applauded, and queer youth are able to find family and acceptance. With each chapter framed as a “category” (Vogue, Realness, Body, et al.), And the Category Is . . . offers an impressionistic point of entry into this subculture, its deeply integrated history, and how it's been appropriated for mainstream audiences. Each category features an exclusive interview with fierce LGBTQ/POC Ballroom members—Lee Soulja, Benjamin Ninja, Twiggy Pucci Garçon, and more—whose lives, work, and activism drive home that very category. At the height of public intrigue and awareness about Ballroom, thanks to TV shows like FX's Pose, Tucker's compelling narratives help us understand its relevance in pop culture, dance, public policy with regard to queer communities, and so much more. Welcome to the norm-defying realness of Ballroom. To quickly and easily leave a rating/review for this podcast please go to:  https://ratethispodcast.com/dtalkspodcast Thanks to Snuffy for this episode of the podcast! Snuffy is a clothing brand about empowering you to show your weird - unapologetically, with bravery and confidence. 10% of profit goes to LGBTQ+ organizations led by Trans* people of color. Shop online now at snuffy.co Also, thanks to Empire Toys for this episode of the podcast! Nostalgia is something everyone loves and Empire Toys in Keller Texas is on nostalgia overload.   With toys and action figures from the 70's, 80's, 90's, and today, Empire Toys is a one-stop-shop for a trip down memory lane and a chance to reclaim what was once yours (but likely sold at a garage sale)   Check out Empire Toys on Facebook, Instagram, or at TheEmpireToys.com The DTALKS Podcast has also been ranked #9 in the "Top 40 Detox Podcast You Must Follow in 2020" according to Feedspot.com for our work in the Cultural Detox space. Thank you so much to the Feedspot team!  https://blog.feedspot.com/detox_podcasts/

Eugene Lang, a lecturer and adjunct professor with the School of Policy Studies at Queen's University. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this new episode of Defence Deconstructed, David Perry talks Dick Fadden, Andrea Charron, and Eugene Lang about 9/11 and its influence on Canadian politics and policies over 2 decades. Defence Deconstructed is brought to you by Irving Shipbuilding and Boeing Participants' Bio: Mr. Richard B. Fadden was the National Security Advisor to the Prime Minister from January 19, 2015 to March 31, 2016. Previously he was the Deputy Minister of National Defence starting in May 2013, he served as the Director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service from 2009 until 2013. https://www.cgai.ca/advisory_council#Fadden Dr. Andrea Charron  is now Director of the University of Manitoba's Centre for Defence and Security Studies and Associate Professor in Political Studies. She serves on the DND's Defence Advisory Board and has published in numerous peer-reviewed journals. https://www.cgai.ca/andrea_charron Eugene Lang is Adjunct Professor in the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University (where he teaches core and elective courses in the M.P.A. program); and Special Advisor (Policy) to the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries.  https://www.cgai.ca/eugene_lang Host Bio: Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute (www.cgai.ca/david_perry) Read “Learning Lessons from Canada's Foreign (and Domestic Engagements: Time to get Serious” by Brett Boudreau, Howard Coombs, and George Petrolekas: https://www.cgai.ca/learning_lessons_from_canadas_foreign_and_domestic_engagements_time_to_get_serious Recording Date: 10 Sep 2021 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on LinkedIn. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Charlotte Duval-Lantoine. Music credits to Drew Phillips

Eli Oberman—one of, if not the first, trans-identified students at Eugene Lang— talks about coming out as one of two very different trans children to a family of feminists, misogyny in transmasculine communities, the power of music and its ability to influence social change, and his spiritual connection to nature. As a breast cancer survivor living with depression, Eli explains the need for increased access to gender-affirming healthcare, not just in terms of trans-specific treatment, but overall. (Summary by Evan Zavidow.)

Eugene Lang, Lecturer, Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute

On today's show, proof of your COVID-19 vaccination is on the rise and Alberta doesn't seem to have a plan in place on how to implement it. We talk with Dr. Timothy Caulfield. Plus, some doctors are raising the alarm over the fourth wave of COVID-19. We find out what's really going on on the front lines from an Edmonton ER doctor. And, Afghanistan and Vietnam have a lot of similarities and differences. We discuss them with Eugene Lang from Queen's University.  

On October 2nd the New School announced the layoff of 122 staff members, among them Eugene Lang’s director of finance, Alex Draifinger, and the curator of the school’s important collection of contemporary art, Silvia Rocciolo; vital services at every level were affected.In a memo to the University, President Dwight McBride called it a “difficult but necessary decision.” The action spotlighted not only the university’s fiscal crisis, but long-established gaps in communication between faculty, staff, and the administration. Going forward, the school will need to rebuild trust, and remain true to its vision.

Rendering Unconscious welcomes Dr. Emma Lieber (& co) back to the podcast! Emma Lieber is a psychoanalyst in private practice in New York and part-time faculty in Literary Studies at Eugene Lang college. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Cabinet, The Point Magazine, LitHub, New England Review, The Massachusetts Review, European Journal of Psychoanalysis, Slavic Review, Slavic and East European Journal, among others. The book launch event for The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury, 2020) brought together psychoanalysts and writers around the questions of transmission, psychoanalytic formation, and writing. https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-writing-cure-9781501360176/ Watch the book launch here: https://youtu.be/kHmQmqd-zN4 Dr. Lieber contributed two pieces to the anthology Rendering Unconscious: Psychoanalytic Perspectives, Politics & Poetry (Trapart Books, 2019), “Bellowing Presidents” and “Dear Jill, Dear Chris.” https://store.trapart.net/details/00000 Listen to a previous interview with Dr. Emma Lieber: RU29: EMMA LIEBER, AUTHOR & PSYCHOANALYST IN FORMATION ON WRITING, TRANSMISSION: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/psychoanalysis/emma-lieber-writer-psychoanalyst-in-formation/ You can support the podcast at our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/vanessa23carl Rendering Unconscious Podcast is hosted by psychoanalyst Dr. Vanessa Sinclair, who interviews psychoanalysts, psychologists, scholars, creative arts therapists, writers, poets, philosophers, artists and other creatives & intellectuals about their process, world events, the current state of mental health care, politics, culture, the arts & more. http://www.renderingunconscious.org Rendering Unconscious podcast can be found at Spotify, iTunes, Podbean, YouTube and your other favorite podcast platforms. Visit: http://www.renderingunconscious.org/about/ Vanessa Sinclair, Psy.D. is a psychoanalyst based Stockholm, who sees clients internationally, specializing in offering quality psychoanalytic treatment remotely and online. http://www.drvanessasinclair.net Dr. Sinclair is a founding member of Das Unbehagen: A Free Association for Psychoanalysis: http://dasunbehagen.org The track playing at the end of the episode is Clouds by People Like Us from the compilation album Coven. Available digitally from Highbrow Lowlife. https://coven-compilation.bandcamp.com Photo of The Writing Cure (Bloomsbury, 2020) https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-writing-cure-9781501360176/

Today I talk with actor and star of the blockbuster hit movie, Avatar, Stephen Lang. With courage, belief, passion, and a commitment to succeed, Lang has been successful on both stage and screen for more than four decades. He shares how men like Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, James Cameron, and Lang’s father, noted philanthropist, Eugene Lang, all impacted his career and his life. Lang also tells how he uses the influences from his life to bring a humanity, a purpose, to the characters he portrays—especially anti-heroes and antagonists like Avatar’s Col Quaritch—bringing a deeper understanding of these men who might otherwise come off as one-dimensional bad guys and villains. Lang’s ability to make us root for them is a testament to the honor and appreciation he brings to each man. And listening to his story, you’ll understand why.

On today's Defence Deconstructed Podcast, we feature a discussion with Eugene Lang and Ian Brodie about Canada's fiscal snapshot and the impacts that might have on the Government of Canada's finances, and particularly what that might mean for national defence. Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network and today's episode is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). Subscribe to and rate the CGAI Podcast Network on your podcast app! If you like our content and would like to support our podcasts, please check out our donation page www.cgai.ca/support. Participant Bios: - Eugene Lang: CGAI fellow. Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, and Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was chief of staff to two ministers of National Defence in the Chrétien and Martin governments and served as an official in the Department of Finance. - Ian Brodie: Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and previously Program Director at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was chief of staff to Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Host Bio: 

- Dave Perry (host): Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Recommended Readings:
 - "The World in Depression, 1929–1939" by Charles P. Kindleberger (https://www.amazon.ca/World-Depression-1929-1939/dp/0520275853) - "The Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters" by Tom Nichols (https://www.amazon.ca/Death-Expertise-Campaign-Established-Knowledge-ebook/dp/B01MYCDVHH) Related Links: 

- "RIP SSE: What the COVID-19 Pandemic Means for Defence Funding" [CGAI Policy Perspective] by Eugene Lang (https://www.cgai.ca/rip_sse_what_the_covid_19_pandemic_means_for_defence_funding) Recording Date: 10 July 2020 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jay Rankin. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Whether it's economics, geopolitics, or international security and terrorism, few people have a better understanding of global issues than Professor Janice Gross Stein. Her dynamic discussion promises to provide a unique perspective into what's really happening around the world and what it means to us personally and professionally. Professor Stein's webcast will help us connect the dots regarding key events and will also provide a look at the big picture. These long term perspectives are aimed to assist business leaders to start thinking about what their businesses may look like in the future.Janice was the first woman graduate student at Yale University, where she received her Master's Degree. She completed her undergraduate studies and earned her PhD at McGill. Prof. Stein is the Belzberg Professor of Conflict Management in the Department of Political Science and the Founding Director of the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and an Honorary Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.She is the co-author, with Eugene Lang, of the prize-winning work, The Unexpected War: Canada in Kandahar, and her most recent book is Diplomacy in the Digital Age.Professor Stein was the Massey Lecturer in 2001, and a Trudeau Fellow. She was awarded the Molson Prize by the Canada Council for an outstanding contribution by a social scientist to public debate, and has received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Alberta, the University of Cape Breton, McMaster University, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is a member of the Order of Canada and the Order of Ontario.In the media, she has provided commentary for networks such as CBC, CTV, TVO and CNN, and columns and comment for The Globe and Mail and The National Post.Professor Stein's talk promises to leave us with a better understanding of current global issues, a clear vision of the future and what it means for us.If you're interested in tuning into the live webcasts, please visit https://peo-leadership.com/. Tune in to our new podcast, Snippets! In short segments, Leon Goren brings together business leaders to share stories, best practices and learnings with the rest of the community. Available on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts, https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/snippets-with-leon-goren/id1510439127. If you'd like to find out more about our leadership community, please feel free to reach out directly to lgoren@peo-leadership.com. If you enjoyed today's podcast, please subscribe and give us a review on Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.  

On today's Defence Deconstructed Podcast, we are joined by Ian Brodie and Eugene Lang to discuss how defence will work in Canada's new Liberal-minority government. Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network and today's episode is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). Subscribe to the CGAI Podcast Network on iTunes, SoundCloud, or wherever else you can find Podcasts! Bios: Dave Perry (host) - Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Ian Brodie - Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and Program Director at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was chief of staff to Prime Minister to Stephen Harper. Eugene Lang - Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, and Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was chief of staff to two ministers of National Defence in the Chrétien and Martin governments and served as an official in the Department of Finance. Related Links: - "Elections and Defence Policy” [CGAI Podcast] (https://www.cgai.ca/elections_and_defence_policy) Recommended books: Ian Brodie – “The Hundred-Year Marathon” by Michael Pillsbury (https://www.amazon.ca/Hundred-Year-Marathon-Pillsbury-1-Dec-2014-Hardcover/dp/B012HUQ3DI) Eugene Lang – “The English Constitution” by Walter Bagehot (https://www.amazon.ca/English-Constitution-Walter-Bagehot/dp/0199539014/) Recording Date: 4 November 2019. Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jay Rankin. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

NONE OF THE MUSIC IN THIS SEGMENT BELONGS TO WNSR. See full (informal) credits below: - Music: (1) Roy Hargrove - Strasbourg St. Denis (2008), (2) Robert Glasper - So Beautiful (2015) - All ambient noise recorded by me, or found at freesound.org. - The New School 2019 Commencement Ceremony Speech by David Van Zandt. - Lecture on “Integrating Technology to Improve Student Comprehension and Production” given at The New School. Published on The New School’s YouTube channel. (2013) - Courses read from the Parsons 2012-2013 catalog, the Eugene Lang 2012 & 2018 Fall catalogs, The New School for Public Engagement 2008 catalog, The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music Course 2008-2009 catalog. - Short clip from a recording of the lecture series “Gender Studies: What Histories Do We Want to Claim? Session 2: No Longer in Exile: The Legacy and Future of Gender Studies at the New School.” (2010) Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive. - Short clip from footage of “Mobilization Protests and Forum at The New School.” Mark Schmidt collection of Mobilization materials. (1997) Found in The New School Archives and Special Collections Digital Archive.

On today's Defence Deconstructed Podcast, we discuss how Defence policy will come into play during the upcoming election with CGAI-fellow Eugene Lang. Defence Deconstructed is part of the CGAI Podcast Network and today's episode is brought to you by the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries (CADSI). Subscribe to the CGAI Podcast Network on iTunes, SoundCloud, or wherever else you can find Podcasts! Bios: Dave Perry - David Perry is the Senior Analyst and Vice President with the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. Eugene Lang - Adjunct Professor, School of Policy Studies, Queen's University, and Fellow, Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was chief of staff to two ministers of National Defence in the Chrétien and Martin governments and served as an official in the Department of Finance. Related Links: - "Funding Defence for the Age of Accelerations" by CGAI-fellow Ross Fetterly [CGAI Policy Perspective] (https://www.cgai.ca/funding_defence_for_the_age_of_accelerations) - "Elections & Defence Policy -- A Discussion with Ian Brodie" with Dave Perry and Ian Brodie [CGAI Podcast] (https://www.cgai.ca/elections_defence_policy_a_discussion_with_ian_brodie) Book Recommendations: Eugene Lang: "The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy" by Michael Lewis (https://www.amazon.ca/Fifth-Risk-Undoing-Democracy/dp/1324002646/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Fifth+Risk&qid=1565363542&s=gateway&sr=8-1) Recording Date: July 17th, 2019 Follow the Canadian Global Affairs Institute on Facebook, Twitter (@CAGlobalAffairs), or on Linkedin. Head over to our website at www.cgai.ca for more commentary. Produced by Jared Maltais and Jay Rankin. Music credits to Drew Phillips.

Philanthropist and businessman Eugene Lang, who generously supported the liberal arts college that bears his name, died on April 8th at the age of 98. Lang is also well known for the creation of the I Have a Dream Foundation, which offers inner city youth educational opportunities. Lang is remembered here by Eugene Lang College Dean Stephanie Browner, and by Cecilia Rubino, who coordinates the I Have a Dream after-school program at Lang. WNSR reporter Emily Ashenden narrates.

Philanthropist and businessman Eugene Lang, who generously supported the liberal arts college that bears his name, died on April 8th at the age of 98. Lang is also well known for the creation of the I Have a Dream Foundation, which offers inner city youth educational opportunities. Lang is remembered here by Eugene Lang College Dean Stephanie Browner, and by Cecilia Rubino, who coordinates the I Have a Dream after-school program at Lang. WNSR reporter Emily Ashenden narrates.

Sadie is back!  Best Year in Sports?  Think Wilt not Westbrook.  I eat my peas with sorghum. I've done it all my life.  It staves off rigor mortem and keeps them on the knife. (Apologies to Ogden Nash)  Mary Anderson and her ice ax. Eugene Lang and his generosity.  Patricia McKissack and her books.  And the Abuhoff verdict on Beauty and the Beast redux. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Special Guest:  Sadie Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

On Episode 4 of Startup Soundbites, we chat with Vince Ponzo, Managing Director of the Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center at Columbia Business School. Eugene Lang Entrepreneurship Center: http://www8.gsb.columbia.edu/entrepreneurship/ Companies founded by Columbia Business School grads mentioned on the podcast: Saatva Mattress: www.saatvamattress.com/ Thursday Boot Company: https://thursdayboots.com/ Beyond Meat: http://beyondmeat.com/ Happy Family Brands: https://happyfamilybrands.com/ Betterment: https://www.betterment.com/ x.ai: https://x.ai/ EpiBone: http://epibone.com/ It Cosmetics: https://www.itcosmetics.com/ Lola: https://www.mylola.com/ Amper Music: https://www.ampermusic.com/ Intro music by Drop Electric: www.dropelectric.com/ Follow the Columbia Entrepreneurs Organization: www.facebook.com/CBSCEO/ twitter.com/cbsceo

Eureka!By Nick MamatasAdam hadn't worn the crushed velvet blouse in his hands for a long time. It was from his goth phase, twenty pounds and twenty years prior. He shuddered at the thought of it distending around his spare tire these days, but he couldn't bring himself to put it in the box he'd set aside for Out of the Closet either. And not only because it would be embarrassing if anyone saw it.There were memories in the wrinkles of the velvet—well, not memories exactly. Half-memories, images and glimpses and smells. Two decades of gimlets and bad decisions and a few teeth and a trio of cross-country moves. What was the place? It was Huggy Bear's on Thursdays, when they played disco for a majority black clientele, but on most nights it was just The Bank. A real bank, in the sepia-toned days when great-grandma worked in an Orchard Street sweatshop, a goth/darkwave club now.Full transcript appears under the cut.----more----[Intro music plays.]Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 18 for October 13, 2015. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to be sharing this story with you.Our story today is Eureka! by Nick Mamatas.Nick Mamatas is the author of several novels, including Love is the Law, The Last Weekend, and the forthcoming Lovecraftian murder-mystery I Am Providence. His short fiction has appeared in the anthologies Best American Mystery Stories and Poe's Lighthouse, magazines including Tor.com and Asimov's Science Fiction, and in the recent collection The Nickronomicon. Nick has written about Edgar Allan Poe for Weird Tales, The Smart Set, and Wide Angle.Eureka!By Nick MamatasAdam hadn't worn the crushed velvet blouse in his hands for a long time. It was from his goth phase, twenty pounds and twenty years prior. He shuddered at the thought of it distending around his spare tire these days, but he couldn't bring himself to put it in the box he'd set aside for Out of the Closet either. And not only because it would be embarrassing if anyone saw it.There were memories in the wrinkles of the velvet—well, not memories exactly. Half-memories, images and glimpses and smells. Two decades of gimlets and bad decisions and a few teeth and a trio of cross-country moves. What was the place? It was Huggy Bear's on Thursdays, when they played disco for a majority black clientele, but on most nights it was just The Bank. A real bank, in the sepia-toned days when great-grandma worked in an Orchard Street sweatshop, a goth/darkwave club now.No, not now. Then. Then Adam was just another baby bat, because eyeliner and bad music is what nerds thought cool was. And everyone in New York's goth scene was at least bi, or at least self-identified as bi despite never sucking a cock or doing more than kissing another girl on the dancefloor. So it was something to do.Was it New Year's Eve? Couldn't have been…no, it must have been. What was his name? Adam remembered everything about the man from Poe's house, how he kissed with his eyes wide open and searching, his snickering during the long subway trip up to the Bronx, how his breath somehow didn't steam out of his mouth on the walk through the park, but what the hell was his name? Something old. Maybe, Josef with an f but it's not like Adam asked for an ID or saw a pile of junk mail for the park ranger on the old cottage's stoop."I need your assistance," Josef—that was good enough a guess for now—had said. He was tall and dark and thin and shined somehow under the lights of the nightclub, like a crane that had pulled itself out of an oil spill."Hmm," Adam said, his lip still on the rim of his glass.Josef leaned in and shouted into Adam's ear to be heard over the music. "I've seen you here before. I want you come home with me. I've met many people in my time in this city. To put it delicately, I've seen the inside of many tastefully decorated apartments." His breath smelled of cloves, which Adam liked then, and still liked now. Now, in the present, he brought the shirt to his face and hunted for a whiff. Nothing but dust and the scent of cardboard.That night, Adam felt sweaty, very suddenly, and itchy. But he stood on his toes and, for a moment concerned about his own breath, shouted back, "You sound like a serial killer. It's not as enticing as you think!"Josef laughed, and Adam was relieved that it was a human laugh, complete with a smile you might see on television. So many goths were so affected that you never got to meet the fleshy little man pulling the levers in the brain of the giant bombazine-enrobed homunculus.Josef shouted back, "It gets better. I'm a park ranger!" He held up a long finger and dug into his pocket for his wallet, then flashed his work ID. Adam snatched the whole wallet from Josef's hand and waited for one of the stage lights to spiral around to the edge of the bar where he and Josef stood. The light flashed and in those two seconds, the NYC identification card sure looked authentic.Of course, the ID! Adam thought as he struggled with a packing-tape gun. But he was only sure for a moment.  I didn't ask, he offered it! Was that the name on the ID, or did I put it on the ID now, myself, through the act of trying to remember…? He sealed the box of cast-off clothes shut.Adam handed the wallet back. "You don't look like a park ranger," he said."I wear black leather knee-shorts in the summer, and a velvet kerchief," Josef said. That jack-o-lantern smile again.In the now, Adam turned to his bureau and to the small hand mirror balanced between its top and the wall. He tried to mimic Josef's smile. Nope, still too fat. Christ, did he get old, just over the last few days it felt like.Josef was a very special park ranger. He said he was the sort of park ranger he knew Adam would like. Josef was in charge of the Poe house, in Poe Park."And with what do you need my assistance?" Adam asked. He pressed his arm against Josef's arm. This was all so easy. A Christmas miracle, a week after the fact?"Two things. The band that goes on at midnight—Creature Feature?" Josef began."Yes?""They're terrible!""I know," Adam said. "Everything is dark and terrible." He shifted away from Josef's gaze, took what he hoped was a sophisticated sip of his drink, and then added, "but those guys are truly awful. So what's the second thing?""I've been with many men," Josef said. "Many women. But never where I live. I've always been to their apartments, or just cruised around.""You're back in serial killer mode!"Josef pushed his lips against Adam's ear, so Adam could feel the words on his flesh. "I live in the Poe house."There was packing to do. So much packing. And unpacking. Adam snorted—a flashback within a flashback? Why not? Why was he folding clothes to give away? Adam was nervous, he needed to keep his hands busy. He couldn't smoke anymore; nobody smoked anymore. So, even further back, into the era from which he had kept no clothes. High school Adam was just another suburban brat in Dockers and polo shirts. He didn't read, he left MTV choose his music—and this was before Nirvana, when 120 Minutes was on too late to watch regularly. But Poe, in tenth grade, changed everything. Weird little stories that barely seemed to be in English, and in them anything could happen. A slow and careful murder with no hero to save the day. A detective that solves a crime, but with no sense of justice. "You can't send an ape to prison, and even if you could it wouldn't mean much more to the ape than a zoo"—Adam actually wrote that on the essay exam for "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" and enjoyed a rare 99+ from Mr. Goldstein.And that was that. Adam would be a writer, though he knew better than to tell anyone, or to even engage in any writing. Even diaries could be discovered. Adam would keep it all in his head. He'd be an English teacher, and he'd study in the city, at Eugene Lang, to get away from his parents and experience a little bit of life during the week before taking the Metro North back up to Danbury with a load of laundry. Then he found the goth scene, and made a point of keeping his stranger garments back in the dorm, stuffed under the bunk.It would have been too perfect for the old Poe paperback to be at the bottom of Adam's closet now, as he packed his little room on a sunny North Beach day. The complete works, which he never made it through, were on his smartphone anyway. Came bundled with the e-reader. The towel Adam had been using as a curtain was already packed, and it was hard to read off the phone screen with the sun's rays coming through the window unimpeded. Only a few more boxes left.Adam was a naïf back then—he had heard of the Poe House that NYU owned, and figured that the subway ride from the Lower East Side to the border of the West Village would be short and convenient in the snowy night. Clearly, Josef was somehow responsible for Washington Square Park. Cleaning up the syringes, or polishing the cement chessboard tables or something. City work, union work. It's all supposed to be money for nothing. But at West 4th, Josef led him on to the D train."Now you'll discover my problem," Josef said, snickering. The train was packed with drunks. Mostly lots of Long Island girls with high hair and wobbly heels and their fat Italian boyfriends with rings the size of human eyes yelping and guffawing their way to Times Square, but there were a selection of quieter locals lolling about in the seats. Josef hugged one of the poles for straphangers and shouted in Adam's ear. "The Poe Cottage is in the Bronx." All the blood left Adam's face that moment and Josef smiled. "That's right," he said."I…don't mind," Adam shouted back. He tried to smile, but his lips felt blue and dead. He'd never been to the Bronx. Had never met anyone from the Bronx. It was a strange little island—no, it was the only part of New York City that wasn't an island, the Bronx really was part of mainland America—that so far as Adam knew was comprised of 100 percent raging crack addicts and black street gangs who breakdanced on flattened cardboard boxes all day and mugged old ladies at night.Adam sucked on his teeth now, thinking of his old idiocy. College and moving to the West Coast had beaten most of the casual racism out of him, and that was a good thing. "But all I got in exchange was guilt," he said, aloud, to himself. Then he huffed and returned to sorting the socks with holes in them from the socks without holes in them."What's your favorite Poe?" Adam had asked Josef that night. He almost said, Mine's "The Masque of the Red Death", but didn't want to sound stupid and obvious, so he said nothing more."Eureka!" Josef yelled, but nobody turned. "I design to speak of the Physical, Metaphysical and Mathematical," he said, each adjective louder than the last. "Of the Material and Spiritual Universe:— of its Essence, its Origin, its Creation, its Present Condition and its Destiny.""Oh," Adam said.Josef smiled and leaned down and brushed his lips against Adam's. Adam waited for someone to scream Fags! or just for a knife in the kidney, but neither was forthcoming."It's okay; it's not on the usual syllabi," Josef said, keeping his mouth close and voice down. The train had stopped at 42nd Street, and let out a bunch of confused bridge and tunnlers who didn’t know how far Times Square was from Bryant Park, so the car was a bit quieter now."Poe called it a prose poem, but it's not really poetic. It's essentially a lecture about the creation of the universe. He basically predicted the Big Bang theory.""Okay," Adam said. He wanted to get off the train and go home. And do what? This was his first time staying in the city instead of watching the ball drop on TV with his grandmother."Let us conceive the Particle, then, to be only not totally exhausted by diffusion into Space. From the one Particle, as a centre, let us suppose to be irradiated spherically—in all directions—to immeasurable but still to definite distances in the previously vacant space—a certain inexpressibly great yet limited number of unimaginably yet not infinitely minute atoms," Josef recited, smiling and pleased. He drew himself up to his full height, leaving Adam to contemplate the nipples visible through his black mesh. Those would need to be warmed up later, Adam decided, with his very own tongue."Previously vacant space," Adam repeated. "That doesn't really sound like the Big Bang theory to me." Josef frowned, so Adam quickly added, "but not bad for a poet from the 1840s. Sheer literary insight, and he almost got it right.""No," Josef said. "He got it all right. It's the modern world that's got it all wrong. You'll see."Adam wasn't quite sure at what stop it happened, but at some point he and Josef became the only two white people in the train car. They'd passed through some sort of racist mesh, a geographical sieve. He hoped he would see everything Josef had to offer. It had better be worth it.It was nearly 2 am when Josef led Adam up to Knightsbridge and the Grand Concourse. Adam heard the voice of his old grandmother saying how nice everything in the city used to be before those people started moving in. It was depressing now, but not dangerous. Just dead. Everyone had watched the ball drop on their shitty little televisions, then turned off the lights and went to bed. Josef walked quickly, with determination, a prize tropical bird again."Do you like Public Enemy?" Josef said, seemingly out of nowhere. Adam walked through a puff of his own steaming breath, to catch up."What?""You know. 'Fight the Power.' Chuck D and Flava Flav? I saw them a couple of years ago, with Sisters of Mercy.""Oh, no," Adam said. He'd been in high school a couple of years ago, and only knew what little Sisters of Mercy MTV played. "I missed that show.""It was great. Gang of Four opened—old school punk, that is. And nobody came; Radio City was practically empty, just like the streets up here are tonight. That's what reminded me," Josef said. He wrapped his arms around himself and shivered, finally playing human again for a moment. "I got a great t-shirt. It says, it's a black thing. you wouldn't understand. I should have worn it tonight. I'm freezing my tits off." Josef ran his palm over Adam's velvet top. "You're a smart lad," he said.Adam was smart enough not to ask how Josef actually lived in a tourist attraction. Did he stow everything in a closet, or have to take all his meals out?  Poe Park was small, but bright thanks to the blanket of diamond show on the ground. A stone tablet on the walkway read eureka! and went without snow. There was probably something with the relative temperature of the tablet versus the modern concrete Adam thought, then he realized that everything he'd been thinking—the fear, the trivia, had all been to put aside his wonder and craving for the taste of Josef's cock.The cottage itself was a small little two-story number with a porch. It wouldn't have been out of place in Danbury, with some old cat lady or poor family with seven kids stuffed into it. Josef trotted ahead again and waved Adam around the corner. "The digs are in the basement. You can see my problem, yes? I made a New Year's resolution to have sex in my own bed, in my own place, sometime this year.""Well, it's already next year," Adam said. He flashed a crooked smile and pointed to his watch. "See?""Oh, in that case you'd better just get back on the train and go home." Josef stood straight as a rod and waited. Adam puffed out a breath and smiled. Then Josef smiled back. They tumbled joyfully down the concrete steps and into the cramped studio.Josef's hair was long and chaotically spiked. One of the wayward points practically scraped against the low ceiling. There were milk crates stuffed with books and CDs along one wall, a futon on the other, and a laptop blinking away in the corner. No real kitchen, but there was a sink and a hot plate and a microwave and a coffee maker. Not much closet space either, if the puddles of black clothing on the floor were anything to go by. It smelled a little moldy, a little tangy, like old sex.Even now, Adam can taste the next morning's coffee on his tongue. Part of why he had moved to North Beach was that one of the little Italian dives served coffee that almost tasted like Josef's.Josef ran his hand along one of the walls. "The cottage was originally down the block," he explained, suddenly professional. "It was moved here when the subway came in. This basement is modern, and serves as the foundation for the cottage in its new location right over our heads. Had it been a nineteenth century basement, the walls likely would have been of hewn stone, plastered over…" He trailed off, seemingly unsure of what to do next.Adam walked right up to him. "You're a park ranger, not a serial killer. I believe you. Kiss me, stupid," he said, and Josef did indeed kiss him stupid, sucking on Adam's tongue softly, like it was a half-hard cock.The basement was cold, and the boys were cold too—their limbs were more like a quartet of icicles looking to melt than anything else. The winter had never left Adam's bones, not even after fifteen years in California. He shivered in the middle of his empty room, only now realizing how closely he had arranged its layout to match Josef's basement studio. Back in 1993, belts slid off, knees all pointy and white rose up, and Adam buried himself in Josef's lap, mouth open wide.Josef leaned back and muttered something. First it was the usual—good boy, my little facecunt, more more.Then, something odd. "Especially attractive Adam…"No. Especially attractive atom.Then some more muttering Adam didn't catch, as he was busy trying not to use his hands on Josef's cock, but just his mouth and lips and tongue and jaw.  "I propose," Josef said turned on to his side, his fingers seeking out the crack of Adam's ass as he said the words.Adam jerked upright. "Wait, what?" He smacked Josef's hand away. "What?"If I propose to ascertain the influence of one mote in a sunbeam upon its neighboring mote, I cannot accomplish my purpose without first counting and weighing all the atoms in the Universe and defining the precise positions of all at one particular moment. If I venture to displace, by even the billionth part of an inch, the microscopical speck of dust which lies now upon the point of my finger, what is the character of that act upon which I have adventured?Adam looked at the boxes on the floor of his bedsit. Seven to keep, three to donate, one just to fling out the window, but he didn't have the balls for that. San Francisco wasn't that kind of place anymore. The Imp of the Perverse had left the world, it seemed. It was a small life he had. That was the character of the act upon which he had adventured, Adam realized.Josef was stronger than he looked. He had a wiry strength to him, arms like rebar. But his face was suddenly soft, so soft, like a child. Like Poe's little virgin wife, Adam thought, dying of consumption. "Please don't tell me to stop," Josef said, practically whimpering. "Please don't." He kissed Adam's shoulder, took his cock in one hand and pumped a finger into Adam's ass with another. "Please don't tell me to stop."Adam didn't say anything. It was dark in the basement—everything was black on black, and when he turned his head he couldn't even see the little green light from Josef's computer. He couldn't see the white knuckles wrapped around his dick, or the edge of the wall, or anything. The world fell away from Adam, and the dark grew ever longer in every direction.The futon was gone.No. Adam's legs were gone, his thighs were. The world was gone. Adam was a point, floating in infinite black space.No. Not space either. The previous vacancy. Adam was terrified—the little ripple in the velvet of the night that he was quivered, and the universe shook with him. Then he sensed them. The other men. The men that Josef had brought down here. The man that had brought Josef down here for the first time to suck and fuck, years prior. Decades of men, with thick hands and huge round shoulders. Little men, willowy like girls, their fingers tracing at what were once the borders of his body. Toothless grins and soft soft gums around his cock. Terrible bloodshot eyes, the pressure of blood pushing through the capillaries. Then the man himself, with his head huge like a white pumpkin's, scrounging for winter roots in the field across from his home, and finding only the previous vacancy in the dirt between his desperate fingers. Adam could eat that agony, feed off it for years. And before Poe, men in wigs, then breeches. Brown men with smooth chests and nipples like chestnuts. And before them, men of vintages of yet unknown, or types that could never be forced to fit into the taxonomies of the species.  Adam didn't see them, he wore them like a snake slithering back into a strange discarded skin.Thus, according to the schools, I prove nothing.Adam gulped something older than air. But he could feel his tongue again, his teeth, and Josef's as well.There is no mathematical demonstration which Could bring the least additional True proof of the great Truth which I have advanced—the truth of Original Unity as the source—as the principle of the Universal Phaenomena.Somewhere, miles and eons south of his brain, Adam felt his body experiencing an orgasm. It was distant and remote, like listening to a tinny radio through a closed door.I am not so sure that my heart beats and that my soul lives:—of the rising of to-morrow's sunAnd he was cold again. Bare feet on concrete and scraps of cloth.I do not pretend to be one thousandth part as sure -- as I am of the irretrievably by-gone Fact that All Things and All Thoughts of Things, with all their ineffable Multiplicity of Relation, sprang at once into being from the primordial and irrelative One."Do you see?" Josef said. "Did you see it?" Only now was steam coming from his mouth as he spoke. He nestled closer to Adam and asked again, and again. "It's us. It's the whole world. Created from one, not two. Just one. We are all that we ever need, see? Did you see?"Adam said the worst kind of truth—the literal sort of truth that burns hotter than the worst of lies. "I didn't see anything."Josef pulled himself away, sticky crotch peeling from sticky crotch, and hugged himself on the far side of the futon. "I'm not sure I believe you, but I know what you mean," he said. "Well, think about it."Adam did, all night, not sleeping, trying to listen for Josef's breathing, trying to hear the sunrise and the morning frost melt in the grasses over his head. When Josef finally woke up, he was reasonably chatty in the way a goth boy would be. He asked after Adam's dreams and if they had been twisted and nightmarish. Adam had none he remembered. Josef then made coffee, followed by apologies for having no cream for it.He smoked a clove cigarette—the smell filled the little room instantly—and nudged at his clothing with a precise and subtle foot when trying to decide what to wear for the day. "New Year's Day. The cottage is closed, so I can wear black on the outside." Adam wanted those toes jammed down his mouth. "The way I feel on the inside!" Josef finished, then guffawed loudly at himself like a cartoon donkey. Adam drank his coffee and realized that he didn't have to make excuses for an early exit. The cup in his hands was a farewell.One of the local homeless guys hooted as Adam shouldered the last of his boxes into the hatch of his Zip Car."Yo, they rent out your room yet?" he asked."Of course they did!" Adam said, louder and angrier than he wanted, but he didn't turn around. "It's the Bay Area.""Where you going off too?""Storage warehouse in Oakland.""And after that?"Adam did turn around at that question. He didn't even recognize the guy, and he thought he knew all the homeless guys and all the SRO bottom-feeders on the block. North Beach was no Castro, not with the families grazing at the restaurants and the straight strip joints, but the neighborhood was still pretty cruisy. "The airport," he said. "One way trip, for the time being at least.""Going to New York or somethin'? You sound like a New Yorker?" the guy said. He scratched at his balls absently through his ruined jeans. "Stawrije wear-haus" he said. "That's Noo Yawk."No, that's not it. Never New York. Never ever. Adam walked around the car, got in, started the ignition, rolled down the window, pulled out of the parking lot, looked at the homeless guy—whose hand was still on his own crotch—and said, "Connecticut, sorry. My mother is getting old. I have to care for her.""You are sorry," the homeless guy said. He smiled, planted his free hand on the car door, and showed off three teeth."I am sorry," Adam said. He thought about swinging the door open hard and getting rid of the guy that way. But he didn't do anything."I know you is," the guy said. "Just remember…" he stopped to chew on his furry bottom lip. "Uh…that the sense of individual identity will be gradually merged in the general consciousness.""What!"The homeless guy opened his mouth again, his voice loud and strange. "That Man, for example, ceasing imperceptibly to feel himself Man, will at length attain that awfully triumphant epoch when he shall recognize his existence as that of Jehovah!"Adam stared at the homeless guy, his eyes wide. The homeless man was as surprised as anyone else. Behind them, someone impatiently honked their car horn, so Adam revved the engine and when the homeless guy lifted his hand Adam slid the car easily into traffic. It didn't even occur to him until an hour later, when he was standing in the security line at Oakland International, that he could have said something to that homeless guy. Something like, I bet you say that to all the boys.END"Eureka!" was originally published in "Where Thy Dark Eye Glances" edited by Steve Berman, and published by Lethe Press in 2013.This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library.Thanks for listening, and I’ll have another story for you on October 13th.[Music plays out]

Johnny Rivera was the Program Coordinator for the I Have A Dream Foundation started in 1981 by Eugene Lang. Rivera recalls what it was like to work with Mr. Lang and shares the program's successes. Produced by Sam McFarland.

Johnny Rivera was the Program Coordinator for the I Have A Dream Foundation started in 1981 by Eugene Lang. Rivera recalls what it was like to work with Mr. Lang and shares the program’s successes. Produced by Sam McFarland.