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America at a Crossroads
Susan Glasser with Madeleine Brand | The Trump Cabinet

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 59:30


Susan B. Glasser writes Letter from Biden's Washington for The New Yorker. She previously served as editor of Politico during the 2016 election cycle, founding editor of Politico Magazine, and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy magazine — earning three National Magazine Awards during her tenure.Madeleine Brand is the host of the award-winning daily news and culture show Press Play on KCRW, where she covers national and local stories through a Southern California lens. She's also the co-host of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW's popular legal affairs podcast.

America at a Crossroads
Michael Posner with Madeleine Brand | Social Media and Democracy: Can We Reclaim A Common Truth?

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 60:20


Can we reclaim a common truth in the age of social media? In this America at a Crossroads conversation, human rights expert Michael Posner joins journalist Madeleine Brand to discuss how social media shapes democracy, the spread of misinformation, and what can be done to restore trust in facts.

America at a Crossroads
Jeffrey Goldberg with Madeleine Brand | Inauguration Week: Where Are We Headed?

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 23, 2025 61:29


Press Play with Madeleine Brand
A chance for peace in Gaza, LA's deadline to build more housing

Press Play with Madeleine Brand

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2024 53:00


Hamas is reportedly willing to let Israel stage troops temporarily in Gaza as part of a ceasefire agreement. Could it lead to annexation of the Palestinian territory? LA City Council voted unanimously to approve new housing development in LA’s dense corridors, but critics say more units are needed in single-family neighborhoods.   Critics review the latest film releases: “Kraven the Hunter,” “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” “The End,” and “September 5.”  Sam Sanders shares his approach to a stress-free holiday; Madeleine Brand reveals the secret for a successful office party. 

America at a Crossroads
David Leonhardt with Madeleine Brand | How the Democrats have lost the working class

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 5, 2024 60:18


America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America's democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.Register for our upcoming programs at jewsunitedfordemocracy.org/events/

America at a Crossroads
Celinda Lake and Paul Maslin with Madeleine Brand | Countdown to 2024: What are the polls telling us and are they right?

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 29, 2024 62:26


America stands at a pivotal crossroads.With serious threats to America's democracy posed by nationalists, populists and other non-democratic candidates and forces, America at a Crossroads has offered weekly programming continuously since 2020 to encourage activism and passion to combat these threats to our American democracy.Through our weekly virtual town hall series, America at a Crossroads, we focus on combating authoritarianism and preserving American democracy.Register for our upcoming programs at jewsunitedfordemocracy.org/events/

America at a Crossroads
Aluf Benn with Madeleine Brand | Israel in Crisis Briefing #19

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 29, 2024 61:00


Since 2011, Aluf Benn has been the Editor in Chief of Haaretz, thelongest running newspaper currently in print in Israel. Haaretz,founded in 1918, describes itself as “an independent daily newspaperwith a broadly liberal outlook both on domestic issues and oninternational affairs.” Aluf Benn holds an MBA degree from theKellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and adegree from Tel Aviv University. At Haaretz, Benn has served as aninvestigative reporter and head of the news division. His articles havebeen published in a variety of international newspapers, including theNY Times, The Guardian, Foreign Affairs and Newsweek. He is ahighly respected journalist and an astute observer and analyst of thewar in Gaza, of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, and the broader politicsof the Middle East.Benn will be in conversation with award winning NPR broadcastjournalist Madeleine Brand.

America at a Crossroads
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser with Madeleine Brand | Election 24: An Analysis By Two Experts

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 26, 2024 59:56


This program features the dynamic duo of two renowned journalistswho have covered national politics, elections and presidencies fordecades. They will be discussing their observations and analysis ofthe 2024 Elections in conversation with Madeleine Brand of NPR'saffiliate KCRW.Peter Baker is the chief White House correspondent for The New YorkTimes and a political analyst for MSNBC Baker has covered fivepresidencies: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald J.Trump and now Joe Biden. There are few reporters who are moreconversant than Peter Baker with presidencies and presidential politicsSusan Glasser has served as the top editor of several Washingtonpublications, including Politico, where she founded the award-winning Politico Magazine, and Foreign Policy, which won three NationalMagazine Awards, among other honors, during her tenure as editor inchief. Previously, she worked at the Washington Post as editor for nationalnews and oversaw coverage of the impeachment of Bill Clinton, served asa reporter covering the intersection of money and politics, spent four yearsas the Post's Moscow co-bureau chief, and covered the wars in Iraq andAfghanistan. She edited Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, early in hercareer.

America at a Crossroads
David Brooks with Madeleine Brand | How to know a person – a heartfelt examination of human connections

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 16, 2023 56:21


America at a Crossroads
Dennis Ross with Madeleine Brand | Crisis in Israel:Special Briefing

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 13, 2023 57:38


America at a Crossroads
David Geren with Madeleine Brand | A Pundit's Pundit Assesses the State of the Union

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 17, 2023 55:39


America at a Crossroads
Anne Applebaum with Madeleine Brand | War in Europe: What Does It Portend?

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2023 55:07


Pulitzer prize winning historian, journalist and author, Anne Applebaum of The Atlantic is the foremost expert on Russia's war in Ukraine.

America at a Crossroads
Sarah Longwell and Michael Steele with Madeleine Brand | The Future of The Republican Party and Conservatism

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 2, 2023 61:15


America at a Crossroads
Peter Baker and Susan Glasser with Madeleine Brand - Divider: Trump in the White House

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 20, 2022 58:55


America at a Crossroads
Kathleen Belew with Madeleine Brand - Extremism, Bigotry, & Hate in America Today: Have They Gone Mainstream?

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 11, 2022 59:35


America at a Crossroads
Peter Baker with Madeleine Brand: Russo-Ukraine War: Where Are We? How Does It End?

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 30, 2022 58:55


Peter Baker, chief White House correspondent for the New York Times, offers his thoughts on Putin's war of aggression in Ukraine, as well as the breaking news coming out of this week's January 6 hearings. KCRW's Madeleine Brand moderates.

America at a Crossroads
Jennifer Rubin with Madeleine Brand - From abortion to January 6th to Ukraine – a pundit's view

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2022 60:37


The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin speaks with KCRW's Madeleine Brand on myriad topics affecting our political climate:  from abortion to January 6th to Ukraine – a pundit's view.

America at a Crossroads
Neal Katyal and Carol D. Leonnig with Madeleine Brand -- Trump and The Law: Are The Chickens Coming Home To Roost?

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2022 56:24


Former US Solicitor General Neal Katyal and The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig analyze cases across the US against former President Trump in a discussion moderated by KCRW's Madeleine Brand.

America at a Crossroads
Barton Gellman with Madeleine Brand: Trump's Next Coup – January 6, 2021 Was Just Practice

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2022 57:52


The Atlantic's Barton Gellman (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist formerly of The Washington Post) speaks with KCRW's Madeleine Brand (host of "Press Play") about Russia's current aggression in Ukraine, Preisdent Biden's and NATO's response, and Trump's plans for a repeat of the January 6 attack on American democracy.

America at a Crossroads
It Could Happen Here: How We Can Stop It featuring ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt with Madeleine Brand

America at a Crossroads

Play Episode Play 32 sec Highlight Listen Later Feb 9, 2022 58:25


Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks frankly with KCRW's Madeleine Brand to break down the Whoopi Goldberg controversy, the banning of Art Spiegelman's "Maus," the alarming rise of anti-semitism in the United States, and how the ADL uses education and prevention to stem the tide of hate in America.

The Legal Eagle Files
Could you sue President Trump if he targeted you on Twitter?

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 2, 2020 28:33


In this episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand and law professor Jessica Levinson discuss some big legal issues related to President Trump's use of Twitter. They also discuss the Supreme Court's answer to a California church that sought  to invalidate Governor Gavin Newsom's restrictions for places of worship.

The Legal Eagle Files
How aggressive can law enforcement be with protesters?

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 1, 2020 13:00


In this special episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand and law professor Jessica Levinson discuss the rights of protestors and duties of law enforcement officers.

The Legal Eagle Files
The Department of Justice or the Department of Trump?

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later May 26, 2020 37:28


In this episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand and law professor Jessica Levinson discuss the politicization of the Department of Justice. Brand and Levinson talk about why the DOJ should be an independent agency, what Attorney General Bill Barr's actions with respect to the stay-at-home orders, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and the Mueller report mean for that independence. 

The Legal Eagle Files
The electoral college, goats gone wild, and Trump's financial records

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later May 19, 2020 33:32


In this episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand and law professor Jessica Levinson discuss two of the biggest cases before the Supreme Court this term. One involves President Trump's financial records and the other addresses members of the Electoral College who go rogue.

The Legal Eagle Files
Shedding light on the Supreme Court, the most private and powerful institution in government

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later May 12, 2020 33:12


In this episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand and law professor Jessica Levinson shed some light on the most private and powerful institution in our government: the Supreme Court. 

The Legal Eagle Files
Voting during a pandemic

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later May 5, 2020 33:27


In this episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand talks with law professor Jessica Levinson about how states can act now to ensure that voters can safely exercise their right to vote in November. They also chat about Madeleine's twin passions: an online spelling-game and an exercise bike.

The Legal Eagle Files
Abortion rights during coronavirus

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2020 41:16


In this episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand talks with law professor Jessica Levinson about why — and how — certain states have tried to use COVID-19 to ban abortions. They also discuss a significant abortion case the Supreme Court is deciding this term. And they discuss their adventures working from home and parenting. 

The Legal Eagle Files
Government power in a global pandemic

The Legal Eagle Files

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2020 47:20


In the debut episode of The Legal Eagle Files, KCRW host and journalist Madeleine Brand talks with law professor Jessica Levinson about how much the government can limit individual rights during a pandemic, and how this might change our relationship with the government.

Zócalo Public Square
What Can the Ancient World Teach Us About Feminism?

Zócalo Public Square

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2019 61:03


We tend to think of women’s liberation as starting in the 19th century and of feminism as originating in the 20th century. But women throughout the ages have found ways to advance themselves and protect their rights even under the most oppressive circumstances. How did women in ancient societies, from Greece to China to the Yucatán Peninsula, carve out roles for themselves, resist misogyny, and defend themselves against discrimination? Which societies, if any, were open to the participation or even the leadership of women in matters of ritual and law, and which societies were the most exclusionary? And what thinkers and leaders from the ancient world proved to be ahead of their time when it came to women’s rights? UC Santa Barbara classicist and scholar of ancient Greek literature Helen Morales, University of Miami archaeologist and editor of Ancient Maya Women Traci Ardren, and Cal State LA historian of premodern China Ping Yao visited Zócalo to consider how ancient women empowered themselves long before contemporary movements. The Zócalo/Getty Villa event, moderated by Madeleine Brand, host of KCRW’s “Press Play,” took place at the Getty Villa in the Pacific Palisades, California.

Breakfast All Day
Episode 034: A La Carte With Madeleine Brand

Breakfast All Day

Play Episode Listen Later May 27, 2019 55:44


One of Christy's favorite jobs of the many jobs she does is going on KCRW’s “Press Play” to talk movies on Friday mornings with the great Madeleine Brand. (Alonso and Matt also have been frequent guests.) This time, she got to turn the tables and ask Madeleine the questions. Eventually they will have a conversation that doesn’t involve mics and headphones! They talk about growing up in Los Angeles, her many years as a reporter and anchor at NPR, how the Trump presidency has changed the way she approaches her show and her activities outside the studio, which include painting. Madeleine is one of the coolest, smartest women we know here at Breakfast All Day, so Christy was thrilled to spend some extra time with her. Hope you enjoy the conversation, too.

Zócalo Public Square
Are American Presidents Above the Law?

Zócalo Public Square

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2019 61:17


The Mueller Report promises to clarify what happened in the 2016 election and its aftermath. But that document may only add to the confusion over a broader question: What does it take to fire an American president? In recent months, critics of Donald Trump have discussed removing the president by impeachment, indictment, and the 25th Amendment. But no president has ever been impeached and convicted by the Senate, and the Department of Justice may preclude a president from being indicted. If impeachment is impossible, what methods exist, legally, for removing a president? Why do we have special prosecutors if they can’t prosecute? Is the American president, for all practical purposes, above the law? UCLA constitutional law scholar Jon D. Michaels, Wake Forest political scientist and author of The Special Prosecutor in American Politics, Katy Harriger, and Joel D. Aberbach, political scientist and former director of the UCLA Center for American Politics and Public Policy, visited Zócalo to examine the historical, customary and legal precedents that protect our presidents. The event, moderated by Madeleine Brand, host of KCRW’s “Press Play,” took place at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy.

New Books in African American Studies
James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood" (Duke UP, 2018)

New Books in African American Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2018 39:17


This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production. The story was written by James Baldwin and illustrated by French artist Yoran Cazac. It was published in 1976 and then went out of print. In this new edition, scholars Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody write the introduction, while Baldwin's nephew and niece, Tejan Karefa-Smart and Aisha Karefa-Smart write the foreword and afterword respectively. In Little Man, Little Man, which Baldwin alternately described as a children's book for adults and an adults' book for children, we see a slice of a Harlem neighborhood through the eyes of young TJ. The story presents a complex and multifaceted vision of black childhood in America and nudges the contemporary reader to think critically about what it means to see through the eyes of a child and to be seen by those in one's world. Nicholas Boggs was an undergraduate at Yale when he discovered James Baldwin's out-of-print "children's book for adults," Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The senior thesis he wrote about it was published in the anthology James Baldwin Now (NYU, 1999). A subsequent essay on Little Man Little Man that draws on his interviews in Paris with the book's illustrator, French artist Yoran Cazac, appears in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin (2015). This research led him to co-edit and write the introduction to a new edition of Little Man, Little Man (Duke UP, 2018), which the New York Times wrote "couldn't be more timely" and Entertainment Weekly hailed as "brilliant, essential." He was interviewed by the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly for their feature articles on Little Man, Little Man and he appeared on Madeleine Brand's Press Play on KCRW , on Black America TV , and on a panel at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture moderated by Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.  The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Camargo Foundation, he is currently at work on a literary biography of Baldwin, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Annette Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her forthcoming book, Reimagined Belongings: Black Women's Decolonial Citizenship in the French Empire examines Caribbean and African women's literary and political contributions to anti-colonial movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-american-studies

New Books in Literature
James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood" (Duke UP, 2018)

New Books in Literature

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2018 39:17


This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production. The story was written by James Baldwin and illustrated by French artist Yoran Cazac. It was published in 1976 and then went out of print. In this new edition, scholars Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody write the introduction, while Baldwin’s nephew and niece, Tejan Karefa-Smart and Aisha Karefa-Smart write the foreword and afterword respectively. In Little Man, Little Man, which Baldwin alternately described as a children’s book for adults and an adults’ book for children, we see a slice of a Harlem neighborhood through the eyes of young TJ. The story presents a complex and multifaceted vision of black childhood in America and nudges the contemporary reader to think critically about what it means to see through the eyes of a child and to be seen by those in one’s world. Nicholas Boggs was an undergraduate at Yale when he discovered James Baldwin's out-of-print "children's book for adults," Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The senior thesis he wrote about it was published in the anthology James Baldwin Now (NYU, 1999). A subsequent essay on Little Man Little Man that draws on his interviews in Paris with the book's illustrator, French artist Yoran Cazac, appears in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin (2015). This research led him to co-edit and write the introduction to a new edition of Little Man, Little Man (Duke UP, 2018), which the New York Times wrote "couldn't be more timely" and Entertainment Weekly hailed as "brilliant, essential." He was interviewed by the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly for their feature articles on Little Man, Little Man and he appeared on Madeleine Brand's Press Play on KCRW , on Black America TV , and on a panel at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture moderated by Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.  The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Camargo Foundation, he is currently at work on a literary biography of Baldwin, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Annette Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her forthcoming book, Reimagined Belongings: Black Women’s Decolonial Citizenship in the French Empire examines Caribbean and African women’s literary and political contributions to anti-colonial movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books Network
James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood" (Duke UP, 2018)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2018 39:17


This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production. The story was written by James Baldwin and illustrated by French artist Yoran Cazac. It was published in 1976 and then went out of print. In this new edition, scholars Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody write the introduction, while Baldwin’s nephew and niece, Tejan Karefa-Smart and Aisha Karefa-Smart write the foreword and afterword respectively. In Little Man, Little Man, which Baldwin alternately described as a children’s book for adults and an adults’ book for children, we see a slice of a Harlem neighborhood through the eyes of young TJ. The story presents a complex and multifaceted vision of black childhood in America and nudges the contemporary reader to think critically about what it means to see through the eyes of a child and to be seen by those in one’s world. Nicholas Boggs was an undergraduate at Yale when he discovered James Baldwin's out-of-print "children's book for adults," Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The senior thesis he wrote about it was published in the anthology James Baldwin Now (NYU, 1999). A subsequent essay on Little Man Little Man that draws on his interviews in Paris with the book's illustrator, French artist Yoran Cazac, appears in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin (2015). This research led him to co-edit and write the introduction to a new edition of Little Man, Little Man (Duke UP, 2018), which the New York Times wrote "couldn't be more timely" and Entertainment Weekly hailed as "brilliant, essential." He was interviewed by the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly for their feature articles on Little Man, Little Man and he appeared on Madeleine Brand's Press Play on KCRW , on Black America TV , and on a panel at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture moderated by Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.  The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Camargo Foundation, he is currently at work on a literary biography of Baldwin, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Annette Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her forthcoming book, Reimagined Belongings: Black Women’s Decolonial Citizenship in the French Empire examines Caribbean and African women’s literary and political contributions to anti-colonial movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Literary Studies
James Baldwin, "Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood" (Duke UP, 2018)

New Books in Literary Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 20, 2018 39:17


This 2018 reprint of Little Man, Little Man exemplifies communal and collaborative textual production. The story was written by James Baldwin and illustrated by French artist Yoran Cazac. It was published in 1976 and then went out of print. In this new edition, scholars Nicholas Boggs and Jennifer DeVere Brody write the introduction, while Baldwin’s nephew and niece, Tejan Karefa-Smart and Aisha Karefa-Smart write the foreword and afterword respectively. In Little Man, Little Man, which Baldwin alternately described as a children’s book for adults and an adults’ book for children, we see a slice of a Harlem neighborhood through the eyes of young TJ. The story presents a complex and multifaceted vision of black childhood in America and nudges the contemporary reader to think critically about what it means to see through the eyes of a child and to be seen by those in one’s world. Nicholas Boggs was an undergraduate at Yale when he discovered James Baldwin's out-of-print "children's book for adults," Little Man, Little Man: A Story of Childhood (1976) at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The senior thesis he wrote about it was published in the anthology James Baldwin Now (NYU, 1999). A subsequent essay on Little Man Little Man that draws on his interviews in Paris with the book's illustrator, French artist Yoran Cazac, appears in The Cambridge Companion to James Baldwin (2015). This research led him to co-edit and write the introduction to a new edition of Little Man, Little Man (Duke UP, 2018), which the New York Times wrote "couldn't be more timely" and Entertainment Weekly hailed as "brilliant, essential." He was interviewed by the New York Times and Publisher's Weekly for their feature articles on Little Man, Little Man and he appeared on Madeleine Brand's Press Play on KCRW , on Black America TV , and on a panel at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture moderated by Jacqueline Woodson, National Ambassador for Young People's Literature.  The recipient of fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, and the Camargo Foundation, he is currently at work on a literary biography of Baldwin, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus, and Giroux. Annette Joseph-Gabriel is an Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her forthcoming book, Reimagined Belongings: Black Women’s Decolonial Citizenship in the French Empire examines Caribbean and African women’s literary and political contributions to anti-colonial movements. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zócalo Public Square
Can Individuals Be Happy in an Unhappy Time?

Zócalo Public Square

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 12, 2018 61:10


The pursuit of happiness is foundational to the United States, and happiness has become an international obsession as nations seek to measure happiness and enact policies to increase it. But this is also an era of disruption, dislocation, and great unhappiness; in the U.S., half of all adults suffer from anxiety, according to some estimates. Are the meanings and measures of happiness changing as the world is transformed by the digital revolution, climate change, and populist politics? Which factors—from job satisfaction and free time, to wealth, personality, and the quality of our relationships—have the biggest impact on our happiness? And what strategies allow us to find happiness even in the midst of uncertainty, conflict, and unwanted change? UCLA Anderson marketing scholar Cassie Mogilner Holmes, UC Riverside social psychologist and author of The How of Happiness Sonja Lyubomirsky, and UCLA Anderson behavioral psychologist Hal Hershfield visited Zócalo to discuss how people can find happiness in difficult times. The occasion was a Zócalo/UCLA Anderson School of Management event, “Can Individuals Be Happy in an Unhappy Time?” The event, moderated by Madeleine Brand, host of KCRW’s “Press Play,” took place at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in Little Tokyo in downtown Los Angeles.

MAEKAN It Up
069: Special episode recap of the Unexpected Connections conference

MAEKAN It Up

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2018 30:59


Unexpected Connections was a conference hosted by Imprint and MAEKAN which happened November 7, 2018 in Long Beach, California. In this episode, Eugene and Charis discuss what went well, what could be improved on, and what lessons they’ve learned. Unexpected connections are the simplest way of describing creativity. In its most basic form, it’s pattern recognition, and at its most complex, it’s a tangled web that humans have become surprisingly great at deconstructing. The conference brought together people from disparate walks of life to speak in conversation with each other on stage. Speakers included John Maeda, Julia Huang, John C Jay, Jason Mayden, Jun Cha, Jennifer Ferro, Lindsay Jang, David Choe, James Bailey, Charis Poon, Eugene Kan, Jeff Staple, Karen Okonkwo, Madeleine Brand, Helen Zia, and Kenya Hara. Links https://unexpectedconnectionsevent.com https://www.instagram.com/unexpectedconnections https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/unexpectedconlb What is MAEKAN? MAEKAN is a membership-based publication and community focused on the sights and sounds of creative culture. We're about learning, participating, and connecting with a global community on a deeper level that social media just doesn't provide. We’re defining the future of creative culture. We don't have all the answers, but our curiosity ensures we never stop looking. Sign-Up Today If you've enjoyed this story from the archives and want to see what else MAEKAN has to offer, sign-up for your membership at MAEKAN.com. You'll unlock all of our stories, be given exclusive member-only-access to our Slack community, and have the opportunity to participate in our monthly digital panel discussions. MAEKAN.com Follow Us instagram.com/maekan facebook.com/storiesforthecurious twitter.com/maekan stories@maekan.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/maekanitup/message

Zócalo Public Square
How Can Americans Defend the 14th Amendment When the Government Won’t?

Zócalo Public Square

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 31, 2018 71:13


Since its adoption in 1868, the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution has inspired advances in legal rights by guaranteeing U.S. citizens and people in the country “the equal protection of the laws.” Except when it hasn’t. From Jim Crow to the World War II-era incarceration of Japanese Americans, from racist police corruption to bans on interracial and same-sex marriages, American governments– federal, state, and local–have repeatedly and systematically discriminated against people despite the amendment’s clear promise of equality. How can we defend equal protection when our governments won’t? What does the Amendment’s “equal protection” really protect us from, when equality remains so elusive? And—as this summer marks the 30-year anniversary of the U.S. government’s “Redress” apology and compensation for the incarceration of Japanese Americans—how can we best remember the lessons of past violations of the 14th? Go for Broke president and CEO Mitchell Maki, Johns Hopkins legal historian Martha S. Jones, National Immigration Forum executive director Ali Noorani, constitutional law scholar Garrett Epps, and moderator Madeleine Brand, host of KCRW’s “Press Play,” took part in a Zócalo/Daniel K. Inouye Institute Event that examined the difficulties of enforcing equal protection. The event, at the National Center for the Preservation of Democracy in downtown L.A.’s Little Tokyo, began with an introduction by Irene Hirano Inouye, reading from U.S. Senator Daniel K. Inouye’s keynote address to the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

SpermCast
Ep 012 - Sperm Contestant #8, Joe DeRosa

SpermCast

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 24, 2018 59:00


Molly's interviewed a bunch of sweet sperm contestants, but never a complete stranger! Today's sperm contestant came through a friend...and he's an absolute peach. Meet Joe DeRosa! Could he have the seed she's looking for? Will he want to donate to her? How old do you have to be to buy condoms?Plus Molly has lots of news to catch you up on. Mostly good...some bad. If you're triggered by talk of panic attacks, you can skip min 27-33.XOXO Molly's segment on Press Play with Madeleine Brand on KCRWSupport this independent podcast at patreon.com/spermcastGot questions? Call or text 323-741-1818 or email Molly at spermcast@gmail.comFollow SpermCast here: Instagram // Twitter // Facebook // SpermCastPod.comFollow Molly here: Instagram // Twitter Follow Joe DeRosa here: Instagram // Twitter Follow Amanda here: Instagram // Twitter // The Big OnesFollow Dr, Marshall Seligmann here: Instagram See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library
Tim Wu and Madeleine Brand | The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads

ALOUD @ Los Angeles Public Library

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 14, 2016 80:33


 In nearly every moment of our waking lives, we face a barrage of advertising enticements, branding efforts, sponsored social media, commercials, and other efforts to harvest our attention. In his new book, The Attention Merchants, Tim Wu, author of the award-winning The Master Switch who coined the phrase “net neutrality,” explores the rise of firms whose business models are the mass capture of attention for resale to advertisers. Wu visits ALOUD for a revelatory look at the cognitive, social, and unimaginable ways that industries feeding on human attention are transforming our society and ourselves.Click here for photos from the program.

Notebook on Cities and Culture
S4E38: East- and West-Coastification with Madeleine Brand

Notebook on Cities and Culture

Play Episode Listen Later May 24, 2014 52:56


Colin Marshall sits down under the cafeteria at Santa Monica College with beloved Los Angeles radio personality Madeleine Brand, now host of Press Play on KCRW, formerly of NPR's Morning Edition, All Things Considered, and Day to Day, KPCC's The Madeleine Brand Show, and KCET's SoCal Connected. They discuss how much easier she has it waking up for noon radio nowadays instead of morning radio; what to call her format, a popular one in Los Angeles, where one host talks to a series of people, each with their own thing going on in the news; the distinctive difficulty of finding subjects that interest a large percentage of Los Angeles; her first decade in Southern California, and her later college years in Northern California as KALX's "Madame Bomb"; Los Angeles' unusually close relationship with the radio; the east-coastification she experienced in her years amid the "visceral humanity" of New York; how the heightening, densifying Los Angeles we see on the way (and imagined in Her) strikes her inner New Yorker; her lingering nostalgia for the sense of "peace, openness, and quiet" that formerly characterized this city; how we might allow Los Angeles to both define itself and not define itself, retaining its borderlessness with the rest of the world; how she's solved part of the hours-in-the-day problem (and the traffic problem) by hiring a driver; the asshole each and every one of us turns into when we get behind the wheel ourselves; what, exactly, makes for a "news story"; her task of making a subject meaningful beyond the first thirty seconds; the grim public radio listener's moment of realization that they're trying to guess what interests you; the mechanics of a five-minute interview (featuring an actual, table-turning five-minute interview); how often complaints come from a legitimate argument, and how often they come from a bad life; how easy Los Angeles makes it to live a bad life; the missing types of public discourse she'd like to hear in Los Angeles; the sorts of problems that public discourse can help to solve, such as school segregation; and whether to call him "Smokey Bear" or "Smokey the Bear."

Linoleum Knife
"Neighbors," "Chef," "Moms' Night Out," "Palo Alto," "Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return" with Madeleine Brand

Linoleum Knife

Play Episode Listen Later May 11, 2014 67:21


KCRW's Madeleine Brand classes up the joint as Dave and Alonso fight off a pancake coma with discussion of harried moms and chubby man-children (on screen, that is.) Subscribe (and review) on iTunes, like our Facebook page, folluw us @linoleumcast (and Madeleine at @TheMadBrand and @KCRWPressPlay) Linoleum Knife is brought to you by THE REEL TRUTH: EVERYTHING YOU DIDN'T KNOW YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MAKING AN INDEPENDENT FILM by Reed Martin. http://amzn.to/1f7rQiZ

To the Point
Beyond Stoli and Snowden: The Rift between Russia and the US

To the Point

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2013 52:52


Guest host Madeleine Brand looks at the frosty relations between the US and Russia. Why are gay activists clamoring for a boycott of the Russian Winter Olympics?

The Dinner Party Download
Episode 161: Gustavo Dudamel, Rob Corddry, and Terms of Service

The Dinner Party Download

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2012 50:55


This week: Classical music superstar Gustavo Dudamel conducts an interview… “Children’s Hospital” creator/star Rob Corddry prescribes etiquette advice… “Schott’s Miscellany” author Ben Schott on food service slang… author John Brandon perks up his wolf ears… “Darth Vader and Son” cartoonist Jeffrey Brown lists some soulful sci-fi… and rocker King Tuff suggests a party playlist. Plus: Debbie Millman on design, Madeleine Brand gets dreamy, and the uplifting history of the escalator.

Complete Liberty Podcast
Episode 58 - US of non-freedom, illusory freedom, statist hypocrisy, non-consent of the governed

Complete Liberty Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 15, 2009 46:32


Mercatus Center at George Mason University - Freedom in the 50 States: An Index of Personal and Economic Freedom by William P. Ruger and Jason Sorens http://www.mercatus.org/PublicationDetails.aspx?id=26154 A coercive State, i.e., government, will never respect people's rights A limited government can't stay limited for long What would happen if Libertarians got elected? What sort of "work" would they be doing? Basically, they would be employees of an unjust organization; case in point: NH legislators have busy schedule for 2009 http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090106-NEWS-901060349 What's the purpose of government if not to govern people! Because government funds itself through extortion, every person who works for it is supporting extortion No product or service should be provided at the barrel of a gun (hat tip to http://marcstevens.net) Civil disobedience, or non-compliance, prevents tyranny from overwhelming a society The media are typically cheerleaders for statism, i.e., tyranny Left/Right distinction is tenuous, but taxation, regulation, and "programs" are always anti-freedom Case in point: Trans Fats Banned in NYC Restaurants https://www.health.harvard.edu/fhg/updates/Trans-fats-banned-in-NYC-restaurants.shtml All of the several American states violate Americans' freedoms Can personal satisfaction and fulfillment occur without freedom? Are our bodies disconnected from our minds? We must beware the mind/body dichotomy concerning pleasure http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/soulbodydichotomy.html You can't be a slave to your job or to money, but you are made a slave by those in "government" If people didn't comply with taxation and regulation, they'd quickly determine how little freedom they have YouTube - 20/20 bailouts and bull http://www.youtube.com/results?search_type=&search_query=20%2F20+bailouts+and+bull&aq=f http://abcnews.go.com/Business/Economy/story?id=7067596&page=1 The Middle Class Is Doing Just Fine, Thank You by John Stossel http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Stossel/story?id=7055599&page=1 The nature of sacrifice http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/sacrifice.html http://www.logicallearning.net/libfreedomethica.html Sacrifice is used as a weapon against individuals to get them to surrender their self-esteem, autonomy, and independence to other people (the selfish ones;) Jesus, making the ultimate sacrifice, promoted the philosophy of death No matter how difficult it is to make money in a mixed economy, an extortion racket will never be charitable or encourage self-responsibility True slavery comes from the guns of government The several states are cannibalizing their own economies What would be the point of moving to a slightly freer US state? Perhaps for organizing and doing smart activism (e.g., http://freekeene.com) DEA to halt medical marijuana raids: Holder confirms states to have final say on use of drug for pain control http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29433708 Medical MJ "reality check" from Mordor: California Medical Marijuana Information http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/ongoing/calimarijuana.html Exactly How Legal Is Medical Marijuana? by Madeleine Brand http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93697469 Liquor and statist hypocrisy; Lew Rockwell interviews Dr. Mark Thornton http://www.lewrockwell.com/podcast/?p=episode&name=2008-12-04_078_75_years_ago_prohibition_was_repealed.mp3 We as a society need to understand and apply a universal code of respectful morality: don't hit people and don't take their stuff; honor persons and property Really the only thing that should be illegal is the initiation of force (via coercion or fraud) Capitalism favors mutually beneficial interaction, which will eventually dissolve all arbitrary statist borders Against the State: An Introduction to Anarchist Political Theory by Crispin Sartwell http://www.amazon.com/Against-State-Introduction-Anarchist-Political/dp/0791474488/reasonmagazineA/ Played this short interview: Anarchist Philosopher Does Not Consent To Be Governed! http://www.reason.tv/video/show/638.html Worth watching: The Reason.tv Talk Show, Episode 3 http://www.reason.tv/video/show/587.html Voting is contrary to the agorist, voluntarist philosophy; might doesn't make right; majority doesn't rule; committees don't determine objective principles If we got rid of the violence that we know (government), will we thereby invite the violence and injustice that we don't know? In short, no, because all unjust violence will be seen as illegitimate and thus targeted for eradication Are you hopeful for the realization of freedom? I am. :) People need to make moral distinctions between wealth and extorted wealth, coercive organizations and the non-coercive marketplace, as well as challenge "authority" bumper music "Chimes Of Freedom" by The Byrds http://www.byrds.com/ to comment, please go to http://completeliberty.com/magazine/category/91697