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Gold. It's shiny, it's valuable, and it has a bad habit of making people lose their ever-loving minds. Legends of hidden treasure have fueled obsessions, ruined lives, and probably inspired more than a few bad tattoos. But few lost fortunes have captured imaginations quite like the Lost Dutchman's Mine—a hidden gold stash so rich it could set you up for several lifetimes… if you could ever find it.This week, we're diving deep into the sun-scorched mysteries of Arizona's Superstition Mountains, where one prospector supposedly struck it big and then took the secret to his grave. From cryptic maps and stone-carved clues to murder, curses, and possibly even supernatural guardians, this tale has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster—except this one just might be real. So grab your shovels, keep an eye out for vengeful spirits, and join us as we mine for the truth behind one of America's greatest lost treasures on Hysteria 51!Special thanks to this week's research sources: BooksBicknell, P. "A Mythical Mine–Story of a Lost Claim in the Superstition Mountains–Dutch Jacob'sSecret–Phoenix People Hunting for the Treasure with Prospects of Success." Saturday Review. 17 Nov. 1894: 1. Print.Bicknell, P. "One of Arizona's Lost El Dorados - A Mine in the Superstition Mountains - The Half-told Tale of an Old Miser." San Francisco Chronicle. 13 Jan. 1895, Newspaper: 12.Blair, R. Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman Legend. Tempe: ArizonaHistorical Foundation, 1975.Gentry, Curt. The Killer Mountains, A Search for the Legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. New York: New American Library, 1968.Mell, Eleanor. Hunting Old Snowbeard's Gold: Searches for and Seekers of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012.Kincaid, Matt. Superstition Mountains: The Mountains of Legend, Gold, Mystery, and Death.Maplewood Publishing, 2018.Arnold, Oren. Ghost Gold. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1954.Websiteshttps://www.ajpl.org/the-ghost-of-the-dutchmans-gold-refuses-to-die/Taylor, T., 2008. The Lost Dutchman Mine. [Online]Available at: https://www.prairieghosts.com/dutchman.htmlLegends of America, 2016. The Lost Dutchman Mine. [Online]Available at: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-lostdutchmanWillis, B., 2005. Has the Lost Dutchman Mine Been Found?. [Online]Available at: http://www.truewestmagazine.com/has-the-lost-dutchman-mine-been-found/http://superstitionmountaintomkollenborn.blogspot.com/2013/12/dont-blame-thunder-god.htmlhttp://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore72.htmlhttps://apachejunctionindependent.com/history/military-trail-of-jacob-waltz/http://superstitionmountaintomkollenborn.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-peralta-stone-maps.htmlhttp://superstitionmountainmuseum.org/Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories:weird@hysteria51.com Support the ShowGet exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experienceat https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1 ShopBe the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting!https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoicesSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gold. It's shiny, it's valuable, and it has a bad habit of making people lose their ever-loving minds. Legends of hidden treasure have fueled obsessions, ruined lives, and probably inspired more than a few bad tattoos. But few lost fortunes have captured imaginations quite like the Lost Dutchman's Mine—a hidden gold stash so rich it could set you up for several lifetimes… if you could ever find it. This week, we're diving deep into the sun-scorched mysteries of Arizona's Superstition Mountains, where one prospector supposedly struck it big and then took the secret to his grave. From cryptic maps and stone-carved clues to murder, curses, and possibly even supernatural guardians, this tale has all the makings of a Hollywood blockbuster—except this one just might be real. So grab your shovels, keep an eye out for vengeful spirits, and join us as we mine for the truth behind one of America's greatest lost treasures on Hysteria 51! Special thanks to this week's research sources: Books Bicknell, P. "A Mythical Mine–Story of a Lost Claim in the Superstition Mountains–Dutch Jacob's Secret–Phoenix People Hunting for the Treasure with Prospects of Success." Saturday Review. 17 Nov. 1894: 1. Print. Bicknell, P. "One of Arizona's Lost El Dorados - A Mine in the Superstition Mountains - The Half-told Tale of an Old Miser." San Francisco Chronicle. 13 Jan. 1895, Newspaper: 12. Blair, R. Tales of the Superstitions: The Origins of the Lost Dutchman Legend. Tempe: Arizona Historical Foundation, 1975. Gentry, Curt. The Killer Mountains, A Search for the Legendary Lost Dutchman Mine. New York: New American Library, 1968. Mell, Eleanor. Hunting Old Snowbeard's Gold: Searches for and Seekers of the Lost Dutchman Gold Mine. North Charleston, SC: CreateSpace, 2012. Kincaid, Matt. Superstition Mountains: The Mountains of Legend, Gold, Mystery, and Death. Maplewood Publishing, 2018. Arnold, Oren. Ghost Gold. San Antonio: The Naylor Company, 1954. Websites https://www.ajpl.org/the-ghost-of-the-dutchmans-gold-refuses-to-die/ Taylor, T., 2008. The Lost Dutchman Mine. [Online] Available at: https://www.prairieghosts.com/dutchman.html Legends of America, 2016. The Lost Dutchman Mine. [Online] Available at: http://www.legendsofamerica.com/az-lostdutchman Willis, B., 2005. Has the Lost Dutchman Mine Been Found?. [Online] Available at: http://www.truewestmagazine.com/has-the-lost-dutchman-mine-been-found/ http://superstitionmountaintomkollenborn.blogspot.com/2013/12/dont-blame-thunder-god.html http://www.ilhawaii.net/~stony/lore72.html https://apachejunctionindependent.com/history/military-trail-of-jacob-waltz/ http://superstitionmountaintomkollenborn.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-peralta-stone-maps.html http://superstitionmountainmuseum.org/ Email us your favorite WEIRD news stories: weird@hysteria51.com   Support the Show Get exclusive content & perks as well as an ad and sponsor free experience at https://www.patreon.com/Hysteria51 from just $1   Shop Be the Best Dressed at your Cult Meeting! https://www.teepublic.com/stores/hysteria51?ref_id=9022 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Send us a textComing to Fowl Players Radio 2/10/2025- Author David Finkle!! Fowl Players Radio kicks off Season 12 with an interview with David Finkle- author of “The Great Gatsby Murder Case" David Finkle is a New York-based writer who concentrates on politics and the arts. He writes regularly on theater, books and music for New York Stage Review and The Clyde Fitch Report, where he is chief drama critic. He's contributed to scores of publications, including The New York Times, The Village Voice, The New York Post, The Nation, The New Yorker, New York, Vogue, Mirabella, Harper's Bazaar, Psychology Today, Saturday Review and American Theatre. He is the author of People Tell Me Things, a story collection, The Man With the Overcoat, a novel, Humpty Trumpty Hit a Brick Wall: Donald J. Trump's First Year in Verse and Great Dates With Some Late Greats, a story collection. His websites: www.davidfinkle.com www.davidfinklewrites.com #fowlplayersradio #davidfinkle#thegreatgatsbymurdercase #davidfinkleauthor #michaelspedden#fowlplayersofperryville www.fowlplayersradio.com www.fowlplayersofperryville.comwww.youtube.com/@fowlplayersradiowww.fowlplayersradio.comwww.thefowlplayersofperryville.com#michaelspedden#fowlplayersradio#fowlplayersofperryville@fowl_radio@SpeddenMichaelwww.youtube.com/@fowlplayersradiowww.patreon.com/fowlplayersradiobuymeacoffee.com/fowlplayerw

Phyllis McGinley (March 21, 1905 – February 22, 1978) was an American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life. She won a Pulitzer Prize in 1961.McGinley enjoyed a wide readership in her lifetime, publishing her work in newspapers and women's magazines such as the Ladies Home Journal, as well as in literary periodicals, including The New Yorker, The Saturday Review and The Atlantic. She also held nearly a dozen honorary degrees – "including one from the stronghold of strictly masculine pride, Dartmouth College" (from the dust jacket of Sixpence in Her Shoe (copy 1964)). Time Magazine featured McGinley on its cover on June 18, 1965.-bio via Wikipedia This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

Please note that the accompanying graphic for this episode has not been chosen lightly and is intended in the spirit of historical education, criticism and artistic commentary.  In part 2 of our investigation into the saga of Wake Up and Live, we look at the original 1936 self-help book by Dorothea Brande, the toxic ideas that the book perpetuates and the author's ties to fascism and Nazism. To understand why fascism became popular in the United States during the 1930s is also to understand why Wake Up and Live became a bestseller. This week we take a close look at both, from the infamous 1939 Nazi rally at Madison Square Garden to the publication and editing career of Brande's husband, Seward Collins, before going over the horrible, horrible book in full detail. Selected sources for this episode: "Kendrick v. Drake, Beef of the century?" White People Won't Save You podcast episode, 10 May 2024. A Night at the Garden (2017) Nazi Town USA (2024) (PBS' American Experience, Season 36, Episode 1) Arnie Bernstein - Swastika Nation (2013) Joanna Scutts - "Fascist Sympathies: On Dorothea Brande", The Nation, 13 August 2013 Albert E. Stone Jr. - “Seward Collins and the American Review Experiment in Pro-Fascism, 1933-37”, American Quarterly, Vol. 12, No.1, Spring 1960 John Roy Carlson - Under Cover (1943) Henry Hoke - It's a Secret (1946) Michael Sayers - Sabotage! The Secret War Against America (1942) FBI investigation on Maria Griebl, via FOIA-requested documentation Review of Wake Up and Live in The Saturday Review of Literature, 2 May 1936 Hortense Finch - Classroom report on use of Wake Up and Live, from The English Journal, Vol. 27, No.2, Feb 1938 contact: suddenlypod at gmail dot com website: suddenlypod.gay donate: ko-fi.com/suddenlypod

Rundown -   Intro - 00:35   Henry Weinstein in the Inner Sanctum of Craig's Lawyers' Lounge - 08:23   Troubadour Dave Gunders - 01:16:00   "Goin' Away Blues" by Dave Gunders - 01:19:51   Outro - 01:25:03   Enter the Inner Sanctum of Craig's Lawyers' Lounge with the legendary Henry Weinstein, a newsman, lawyer and law professor whose career is a beacon of inspiration. Weinstein's pivotal role in the LA Times' groundbreaking coverage of the OJ Simpson prosecution was one part of a multi-faceted career. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-09-30-mn-51640-story.html   Numerous timely lessons must be learned from the iconic Simpson trial to the current New York v. Trump case. In our discussion, Professor Weinstein draws insightful parallels and shares unique and valuable lessons. He underscores the importance of this moment for attorneys to champion justice. Weinstein also reveals why he sought the host's commentary during the Simpson trial.   Henry Weinstein, a 1969 Boalt Hall Law School graduate and native Californian, has a career that spans journalism and law. Discover the intriguing path that led him from major American publications to a decades-long tenure as a law school professor at the University of California—Irvine. His journey is a testament to the power of brainpower, passion and perseverance.   Professor Weinstein worked for the LA Times, NY Times, SF Examiner and WSJ and has written over 3,000 stories. He has also written about events and issues in other countries and for various publications, including California Lawyer, Juris Doctor, The Nation, New Times, the Saturday Review of Education and the Saturday Review of Science. https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/weinstein/weinsteinCV.pdf   Learn about Cal—Berkeley in the 1960s, when Weinstein was an undergrad and then a law student. In 1972, Weinstein worked for the George McGovern presidential campaign to beat Richard Nixon. We review the glory days at great newspapers, including the LA Times and working with the late great Jim Murray.   The legal analysis aspect of the OJ Simpson saga is reviewed, including the remarkable LA Times coverage. Find out about Weinstein's visit to Simpson's home for an interview during the civil trial. Discover how big media cases, like the OJ Simpson trial, profoundly impact American history. The wise professor reviews New York v. Trump in some detail.   Troubadour Dave Gunders delivers a great conversation about the end of his JazzFest 2024 experience. He then sings the "Goin' Away Blues," a cover song, in honor of the host taking some time off from America to contemplate her current problems. We need to lead the comeback.

Au moment où j'écris, je tourne et je monte la vidéo que vous êtes en train de voir, j'ai 44 ans. 44 ans. L'âge parfait pour entrer, ou être, en plein dans ce qu'on appelle la crise de la quarantaine. Adhérez à cette chaîne pour obtenir des avantages : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN4TCCaX-gqBNkrUqXdgGRA/join Pour soutenir la chaîne, au choix: 1. Cliquez sur le bouton « Adhérer » sous la vidéo. 2. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/hndl 00:00 Et moi et moi et moi... 03:26 Les origines d'une idée 06:33 Les âges de la vie 09:17 Les délices du sentiment 18:20 Standardisation de la vie 29:37 La vie commence à 40 ans... 38:12 Et après... la crise ? 39:52 Jeune pour toujours   Musique issue du site : epidemicsound.com Images provenant de https://www.storyblocks.com Abonnez-vous à la chaine: https://www.youtube.com/c/LHistoirenousledira Les vidéos sont utilisées à des fins éducatives selon l'article 107 du Copyright Act de 1976 sur le Fair-Use. Sources et pour aller plus loin: M. Jackson, Broken Dreams, An Intimate History of the Midlife Crisis, London, Reaktion Books, 2021. M. Jackson, « Life Begins at 40: the demographic and cultural roots of the midlife crisis », Notes and Record, 74, 2020, p. 345–364 M. Jackson, « Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis » The Royal Society, 15 mai 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSWwIQzKsbY E. Jaques, « Death and the middle crisis (1965) » dans Work, creativity, and social justice, London, Heinemann, 1970, p. 38-63. E. Jaques, « Death and Midlife Crisis », dans International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1963, 46, 502-514 ; traduction française par Didier Anzieu, in Crise, rupture et dépassement, Paris, Dunod, 1979, pp. 277-305. Granville Stanley Hall, Senescence: The Last Half of Life, D. Appleton and Company, 1922. P. Druckerman, « How the Midlife Crisis Came to Be », The Atlantic, May 29, 2018. https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2018/05/the-invention-of-the-midlife-crisis/561203/ P. Druckerman, There Are No Grown-ups: A Midlife Coming-of-Age Story, Penguin Press, 2018. S. Schmidt, Midlife Crisis: The Feminist Origins of a Chauvinist Cliché, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020. A. M. Downham Moore, The French Invention of Menopause dans Medicalisation of Women's Ageing, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023. P. H. Rohmann, « The Gauguin Syndrome » Antioch Review, 13, 1953, p. 341-350. «Elliott Jaques, 86, Scientist Who Coined 'Midlife Crisis' », New York Times, 17 march 2003, https://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/17/us/elliott-jaques-86-scientist-who-coined-midlife-crisis.html M. Anderson, « The emergence of the modern life cycle in Britain », Social History, 10, 1985, p. 69-87. H. P. Chudacoff, How old are you? Age consciousness in American culture, Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1989. S. Sontag, « The Double Standard og Aging », Saturday Review, September 23, 1972. G. Minois, L'Âge d'or. Histoire de la poursuite du bonheur, Paris, Fayard, 2009. E. Bibeau, « Le droit à l'ordinaire », La Presse, 16 octobre 2022. https://www.lapresse.ca/contexte/2022-10-16/carte-blanche-a-emilie-bibeau/le-droit-a-l-ordinaire.php W. Bradford Wilcox, « The Evolution of Divorce », National Affairs, Fall, 2009. https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-evolution-of-divorce J. Truslow Adams, The Epic of America, Little, Brown, and Company, Boston, 1931. E. Bergler, The revolt of the middle-aged man, Bernard Hanison, London, 1958. D. J. Levinson, The Seasons of a Man's Life, New York, Penguin, 1986. Barbara Fried, The Middle-age Crisis, New York, Harper Row, 1967. S. Brandes, Forty: The Age and the Symbol, Knoxville, University of Tennesse Press, 1985. G. Sheehy, Passages: Predictable crisis of adult life, Ballantine Books, New York, 2004 (1974). « Âge de la vie » Wikipédia, https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Âges_de_la_vie « Life expectancy in the USA, 1900-98 men and women ». https://u.demog.berkeley.edu/~andrew/1918/figure2.html M. Zimmerman, « Trouble de la personnalité schizoïde », Le Manuel Merck, Septembre 2022. https://www.merckmanuals.com/fr-ca/professional/troubles-psychiatriques/%EF%BB%BFtroubles-de-la-personnalité/trouble-de-la-personnalité-schizoïde#:~:text=Le%20trouble%20de%20la%20personnalité,émotions%20dans%20les%20relations%20interpersonnelles. B. et K. McKay, « The Seasons of a Man's Life: An Introduction », Get Action, Septembre 7, 2021. https://www.artofmanliness.com/character/advice/the-seasons-of-a-mans-life-an-introduction/ Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2019/05/life-begins-at-40/ Archives video familiales. Autres références disponibles sur demande. #histoire #documentaire #crisedelaquarantaine #midlifecrisis

by Charles Lear, author of “The Flying Saucer Investigators.”On November 9, 1965, a huge portion of the Eastern United States experienced a power outage that began at 5:17 p.m. and lasted until 7:00 a.m. the next day in most areas. According to an article on the New England Historical Society website, it happened because maintenance workers “set a protective relay too low on a power line to Ontario, which then tripped the relay. It then sent power to other lines, overloading them.” At the time, the entire U.S. was in the midst of a UFO flap, and there was speculation that UFOs had something to do with the outage. As far-fetched as that might seem, this was considered seriously by Saturday Review columnist John Fuller in his 1966 book, Incident at Exeter and was discussed in Congress in 1968 during a UFO symposium. A high-strangeness aspect to all this is that Oscar-nominated actor Stuart Whitman, claimed he was given an explanation by the occupants of two UFOs he saw in New York City the night of the blackout. Read more →

On November 9, 1965, a huge portion of the Eastern United States experienced a power outage that began at 5:17 p.m. and lasted until 7:00 a.m. the next day in most areas. According to an article on the New England Historical Society website, it happened because maintenance workers “set a protective relay too low on a power line to Ontario, which then tripped the relay. It then sent power to other lines, overloading them.” At the time, the entire U.S. was in the midst of a UFO flap, and there was speculation that UFOs had something to do with the outage. As far-fetched as that might seem, this was considered seriously by Saturday Review columnist John Fuller in his 1966 book, Incident at Exeter and was discussed in Congress in 1968 during a UFO symposium. A high-strangeness aspect to all this is that Oscar-nominated actor Stuart Whitman, claimed he was given an explanation by the occupants of two UFOs he saw in New York City the night of the blackout. Read more →

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Good morning you lovely lurkers, and welcome to your Saturday Review. Today Willy gets a little excited about Bungie's upcoming games and Destiny updates. Scott is sick of all these live-action remakes. Can Willy convince him it's the future? Tune into this weeks review and hear some of what we've been watching! —Want the YouTube Version: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheresaSubforThat—Follow us online:Twitter: @sub4thatInstagram: @subforthatTikTok: SubforThatPodcastEmail: theres@subforthat.com—Scott on Twitter: @ScottGurrolaWilly on Twitter: @WildMN293Scott Gurrola & Willy Mattson Copyright 2023 All rights reserved.

Clemmie marks International Women's Day 2023 by chatting to Irish-Nigerian academic, broadcaster and bestselling author Emma Dabiri about joy. This week's episode is part of the Power of Women festival based in Thanet, Kent. Check out powthanet.com for the full POW festival line up which runs throughout March. and happy International Women's Month! Emma is the author of two highly acclaimed books and has fronted numerous documentaries, including Hair Power (2020) for Channel 4 which won the Cannes Lion Silver award for entertainment. She co-presents Britain's Lost Masterpieces on BBC 4 and has appeared on Newsnight and Have I Got News for You as well as hosting BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review and Front Row. She is currently working on another book and writing a one-woman play called Throwing Shapes which opens in Dublin in October and at the Soho Theatre in January 2024. You can find Emma on social media @emmadabiri, Clemmie is on Instagram @clemmie_telford, and you can get more podcast content @butwhy_podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Author, screenwriter and journalist, Stephen Rebello, majored in literature and psychology, ultimately earning a master's degree. Subsequently, he became a clinical social worker at a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital in Boston. But it was during a vacation in Los Angeles that Stephen secured an in person interview with legendary director, Alfred Hitchcock. To Stephen, the interview seemed like a natural progression of the telephone calls he'd had with Mr. Hitchcock while growing up. The interview, which turned out to be Hitchcock's last before his 1980 death, was published originally in Boston's The Real Paper, and subsequently syndicated worldwide. That led Stephen to writing for magazines like: American Film, Cinefantastique, Cosmopolitan, GQ, Movieline (where he was Editor at Large), Playboy (where he was Contributing Editor), The Saturday Review, and others.Stephen's book, Reel Art: Great Posters From the Golden Age of the Silver Screen has been honored as one of the best ever written about Hollywood. His second book, Alfred Hitchcock and the Making of Psycho, has been translated into eight languages, and was adapted for the big screen as Hitchcock, starring Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and Scarlett Johansson, for which Stephen did several screenplay rewrites.He's written three "making of" books for Disney Animation, worked on story and screenplay development for various Disney animated projects, and developed for ABC-Disney a live-action musical version of the animated classic Sleeping Beauty.Stephen's critically acclaimed 2020 bestseller, Dolls! Dolls! Dolls! Deep Inside Valley of the Dolls, has been optioned for development for the screen. 

Processos Inconscientes em Relação à Crise Ambiental - Extraído da revista The Psychoanalytic Review (1972), número(59), volume (3) : páginas 361 a 374 Tradução de Josefa Garzillo Harold Searles MD. Muito além da ameaça de guerra nuclear, a crise ecológica é a grande arma para a extinção da humanidade, a psique humana destrutivamente executará essa mórbida tarefa. . Referências Baker, G. L. Environmental Pollution and Mental Health. To be published. Carson, R.Silent Spring. New York: Fawcett World Library, 1962. p. 24. Cotton, S. (Ed.). Earth Day: The Beginning. A Guide for Survival Compiled and Edited by the National Staff of Environmental Action. New York: Arno Press and Bantam Books, 1970. (a) p. 112; (b) pp. 118-119; (c) p. 165; (d) preface; (e) p. 159; (f) p. 205; (g) p. 206; (h) pp. 10-11. Cousins, N. Needed: A New Dream. Saturday Review, June 20, 1970. p. 18. Curtis, R., and E. Hogan. Perils of the Peaceful Atom: The Myth of Safe Nuclear Power Plants. New York: Ballantine Books, 1970. Ehrlich, P. R.The Population Bomb. New York: Ballantine Books, 1968. (a) p. 56; (b) pp. 52-53; (c) pp. 56-57; (d) p. 18; (e) p. 198; (f) p. 37; (g) prologue; (h) p. 133. Freud, S. The Ego and the Id ( 1923). Standard Edition, Vol. 19. London: Hogarth Press, 1961. Hinsie, L. E., and R. J. Campbell. Psychiatric Dictionary. 4th ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. p. 581. Klein, M., P. Heimann, and R. Money-Kyrle (Eds.). New Directions in PsychoAnalysis. New York: Basic Books, 1955. Lens, S.The Military-Industrial Complex. Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970. Martin, P. A.The End of “Our” World. Presented at the meeting of the Michigan Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April 17, 1969. Psychiatry Digest, June, 1970. pp. 10-13. Marx, W.The Frail Ocean. New York: Ballantine Books, 1967. Reston, J. Article on editorial page of The New York Times, Sunday, May 24, 1970. Searles, H. F. The Nonhuman Environment in Normal Development and in Schizophrenia. New York: International Universities Press, 1960. Searles, H. F. Schizophrenia and the Inevitability of Death. Psychoanal. Q., Vol. 35, 1961. pp. 631- 665. Reprinted in Collected Papers on Schizophrenia and Related Subjects. London: Hogarth Press and the Institute of PsychoAnalysis, 1965; and New York: International Universities Press, 1965. pp. 487-520. Searles, H. F. A Case of Borderline Thought Disorder. Int. J. Psycho-Anal., Vol. 50, 1969. pp. 655- 664. Wolfe, T. The Notebooks of Thomas Wolfe. Ralcigh: University of North Carolina Press, 1969. Quote is reprinted in Newsweek, February 23, 1970. pp. 102-103. Wurster, C. F., Jr. DDT Reduces Photosynthesis by Marine Phytoplankton, Science, Vol. 159, 1967. pp. 1474-1475.

Norman Cousins might just be the most important man of the Cold war that many have never heard of before. He was a pacifist who understood when war was the only way; he saw how the use of Atomic weapons would eventually lead to a kind of feeling of political paralysis among nations with access to such weapons; he believed in the power of language and used it to bring his readers into his world through The Saturday Review. Cousins' was often ridiculed for his belief that the greatest weapon the United States could use against The Soviet Union was strong relations. I admit at the beginning of this conversation that I was almost completely ignorant of just how important of a figure Norman Cousins really was to the 20th century. However, I learned a great deal from my guest's book: Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic Age, by Dr. Allen Pietrobon. If you enjoy the conversation and want to support our building of a community of civil discourse, let everyone know by hitting the subscribe/follow button, leaving a kind comment/rating, and sharing the episode with a friend. As always, thank you for taking the time to join us today. // EPISODE LINKS // Dr. Pietrobon's book: Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Norman-Cousins-Peacemaker-Hopkins-Contemporary/dp/1421443708/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=norman+cousins+peacemaker+in+the+atomic+age&qid=1668918008&sprefix=Norman+Cousins%2Caps%2C80&sr=8-1 // EPISODE OUTLINE // 00:00 Teaser 00:41 Introduction 02:47 Start of conversation 09:36 Why was pacifist Cousins moved to bring war on Hitler and the Nazis? 19:11 Oppenheimer and the Manhattan Project scientists lean on Cousins for support 23:16 Are our discussions on artificial intelligence similar to the conversations surrounding atomic weapons in the 60s? 28:23 Can you talk about Cousins' humanitarian efforts after World War II? 37:22 Why did Cousins' program to help Japanese young women not work as successfully as the children adoption program? 41:30 Was there pushback against Cousins' efforts to create better relations with the Soviet Union? 47:22 What were the goals of Cousins' treaty? 54:52 Cousins' meet Albert Schweitzer and a Declaration of Conscience is formed. 1:02:21 Cousins' drive is tested. 1:04:21 Cousins' words in the mouth of President John F. Kennedy at the Commencement Address, June 10, 1963 1:15:52 Closing thoughts // Website // https://theneutralgroundpodcast.com/ Would you like to do your part to help bring civility back to our conversations? We need to get The Neutral Ground message in front of more people, and you can help with just a few keystrokes and some clicks of a mouse. 1) Start by hitting the subscribe button and turning on notifications. 2) Then, hit the like button. 3) Leave a thoughtful/uplifting comment for others to engage with. 4) Watch another video on the channel. 5) Share the channel or a video with someone else on your social media accounts 6) Head over to my website at https://theneutralgroundpodcast.com/ Once on the website, you can actually go to the contact section and leave an audio comment for me to use on the podcast. 7) You can also subscribe to the podcast on any one of the following platforms as well: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Joemeyer.substack.com I realize that you do not have to do any of this. Therefore, even f you do just one of those items listed, I am genuinely grateful. Try to keep one foot firmly planted on the Neutral Ground, and have a great day. #jfk #nuclearwar #sovietunion --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/joemeyer/message

As the editor of the Saturday Review for more than thirty years, Norman Cousins had a powerful platform to shape American public debate during the height of the Cold War. Although he was a low-key, nebbish figure, under Cousins's leadership, the magazine was considered one of the most influential in the literary world and his advocacy on nuclear disarmament affect world politics ( his 1945 anti-nuclear essay “Modern Man is Obsolete” was read by over 40 million).Cousins was respected by both JFK and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev, whom he visited at his vacation home on the Black Sea. As such, he met with both and passed messages between the two, getting involved in several secret citizen diplomacy missions during the height of the Cold War. He even played a major role in getting the Limited Test Ban Treaty signed. He also wrote JFK's famous 1963 American University commencement speech ("not merely peace in our time but peace for all time."Today's guest is Allen Pietrobon, author of Norman Cousins: Peacemaker in the Atomic AgeCousins was much more important than we realize: he may very well have averted nuclear war.

Manion earned his Ph.D in government at Notre Dame University, and taught politics, religion, and international relations at Boston University, Catholic University of America, and Christendom College. In addition to teaching, Manion was the staff director of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on the Western Hemisphere, under Senator Jesse Helms (R-N.C.). He was also a weekly columnist and contributing editor at the The Wanderer newspaper. He continues to be a contributing editor and critic for the Saturday Review and High Fidelity magazines, as well as having appeared in The Wall Street Journal, National Review, The Journal of Economic Development, The National Catholic Register, and Western Horseman with op-eds and book reviews. Manion is currently a member of the boards of the American Foreign Policy Council, the Population Research Institute, and is a founding member of the Universidad Francisco Marroquin in Guatemala. He is a Knight of Magistral Grace in the Sovereign Military Hospitaler Order of St. John of Jerusalem, Rhodes, and Malta.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Senator Joe Manchin has been Congress's largest recipient of money from natural gas pipeline companies. He just reciprocated by gaining Senate support for the Mountain Valley pipeline in West Virginia and expedited approval for pipelines nationwide. Senator Krysten Sinema is among Congress's largest recipients of money from the private-equity industry. She just reciprocated by preserving private-equity's tax loophole in the Inflation Reduction Act. We almost take for granted big corporate money in American politics. But it started with the Powell memo. In 1971, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked Lewis Powell, then an attorney in Richmond, Virginia (and future Supreme Court justice) to report on the political activities of the Left. Richard Nixon was still president, but the Chamber (along with some prominent Republicans like Powell) worried about the Left's effects on “free enterprise.” Powell's memo — distributed widely to Chamber members — argued that the American economic system was “under broad attack” from consumer, labor, and environmental groups. In reality, these groups were doing nothing more than enforcing the implicit social contract that had emerged at the end of World War II — ensuring that corporations were responsive to all their stakeholders, not just their shareholders but also their workers, their consumers, and the environment on which everyone depends. But Powell and the Chamber saw it differently. Powell urged businesses to mobilize for political combat.Business must learn the lesson . . . that political power is necessary; that such power must be assiduously cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination—without embarrassment and without the reluctance which has been so characteristic of American business.He stressed that the critical ingredients for success were organization and funding. Strength lies in … the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations.On August 23, 1971, the Chamber distributed Powell's memo to leading CEOs, large businesses, and trade associations. It had exactly the impact the Chamber sought — galvanizing corporate American into action and releasing a tidal wave of corporate money into American politics. An entire corporate-political industry was born — including tens of thousands of corporate lobbyists, lawyers, political operatives, and public relations flaks. Within a few decades, big corporations would become the largest political force in Washington and most state capitals. Washington went from being a rather sleepy if not seedy town to the glittering center of corporate America — replete with elegant office buildings, fancy restaurants, pricy bistros, five-star hotels, conference centers, beautiful townhouses, and a booming real estate market that pushed Washington's poor out to the margins of the district and made two of Washington's surrounding counties among the wealthiest in the nation. I saw it and lived it. In 1976, I began working at the Federal Trade Commission. Jimmy Carter had appointed consumer advocates to some regulatory positions (several of them influenced by Ralph Nader). My boss at the FTC was Michael Pertschuk, an energetic and charismatic chairman. Joan Claybrook chaired the National Highway Traffic Safety Commission. Other Naderites were spread throughout the Carter administration. All were ready to battle big corporations that for years had been deluding or injuring consumers. Yet almost everything we initiated at the FTC, and just about everything undertaken by these activists elsewhere in the administration, was met by unexpectedly fierce political resistance from Congress. At one point, when the FTC began examining advertising directed at children, Congress stopped funding the FTC altogether, shutting it down for weeks. I was dumbfounded. What had happened? In two words, the Powell memo. The number of corporations with public affairs offices in Washington had ballooned from one hundred in 1968 to over five hundred by the time I joined the FTC in 1976. In 1971, only 175 firms had registered lobbyists in the nation's capital. By 1982, nearly 2,500 had them. The number of corporate Political Action Committees mushroomed from under three hundred in 1976 to over 1,200 by 1980. Between 1974 and 1980, the Chamber of Commerce doubled its membership. (And remember, this was still thirty years before the Supreme Court's infamous Citizen's United decision.) It didn't matter whether a Democrat or Republican occupied the White House. Even after George H.W. Bush became president, the corporate-political industry continued to balloon. By the 1990s, when I was secretary of labor, corporations employed some 61,000 people to lobby for them, including registered lobbyists and lawyers. That came to more than 100 lobbyists for each member of Congress. Corporate money also supported platoons of lawyers who represented corporations and the very rich in court, often outgunning the Justice Department and state attorneys general. Most importantly, corporations began inundating politicians with money for their campaigns. Between the late 1970s and the late 1980s, corporate Political Action Committees increased their expenditures on congressional races nearly fivefold. Labor union PAC spending rose only about half as fast. By the 2106 campaign cycle, corporations and Wall Street contributed $34 for every $1 donated by labor unions and all public interest organizations combined. Wealthy individuals also accounted for a growing share. In 1980, the richest one-hundredth of 1 percent of Americans provided 10 percent of contributions to federal elections. By 2012, they provided 40 percent. Although Republicans mostly benefited from a few large donors and Democrats from a much larger number of small donors (more on this to come), both political parties transformed themselves from state and local organizations that channeled the views of members upward into giant fundraising machines that sucked in money from the top. Never in the history of American politics has one document — the Powell memo — had such nefarious consequences. *****For those of you who'd like to read it — and I recommend doing so, to get a full sense of its scope — I've included it here in its entirety:**CONFIDENTIAL MEMORANDUMAttack on American Free Enterprise SystemDATE: August 23, 1971TO: Mr. Eugene B. Sydnor, Jr., Chairman, Education Committee, U.S. Chamber of CommerceFROM: Lewis F. Powell, Jr.This memorandum is submitted at your request as a basis for the discussion on August 24 with Mr. Booth (executive vice president) and others at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The purpose is to identify the problem, and suggest possible avenues of action for further consideration.Dimensions of the AttackNo thoughtful person can question that the American economic system is under broad attack. This varies in scope, intensity, in the techniques employed, and in the level of visibility.There always have been some who opposed the American system, and preferred socialism or some form of statism (communism or fascism). Also, there always have been critics of the system, whose criticism has been wholesome and constructive so long as the objective was to improve rather than to subvert or destroy.But what now concerns us is quite new in the history of America. We are not dealing with sporadic or isolated attacks from a relatively few extremists or even from the minority socialist cadre. Rather, the assault on the enterprise system is broadly based and consistently pursued. It is gaining momentum and converts.Sources of the AttackThe sources are varied and diffused. They include, not unexpectedly, the Communists, New Leftists and other revolutionaries who would destroy the entire system, both political and economic. These extremists of the left are far more numerous, better financed, and increasingly are more welcomed and encouraged by other elements of society, than ever before in our history. But they remain a small minority, and are not yet the principal cause for concern.The most disquieting voices joining the chorus of criticism come from perfectly respectable elements of society: from the college campus, the pulpit, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, and from politicians. In most of these groups the movement against the system is participated in only by minorities. Yet, these often are the most articulate, the most vocal, the most prolific in their writing and speaking.Moreover, much of the media — for varying motives and in varying degrees — either voluntarily accords unique publicity to these “attackers,” or at least allows them to exploit the media for their purposes. This is especially true of television, which now plays such a predominant role in shaping the thinking, attitudes and emotions of our people.One of the bewildering paradoxes of our time is the extent to which the enterprise system tolerates, if not participates in, its own destruction.The campuses from which much of the criticism emanates are supported by (i) tax funds generated largely from American business, and (ii) contributions from capital funds controlled or generated by American business. The boards of trustees of our universities overwhelmingly are composed of men and women who are leaders in the system.Most of the media, including the national TV systems, are owned and theoretically controlled by corporations which depend upon profits, and the enterprise system to survive.Tone of the AttackThis memorandum is not the place to document in detail the tone, character, or intensity of the attack. The following quotations will suffice to give one a general idea:William Kunstler, warmly welcomed on campuses and listed in a recent student poll as the “American lawyer most admired,” incites audiences as follows:“You must learn to fight in the streets, to revolt, to shoot guns. We will learn to do all of the things that property owners fear.” The New Leftists who heed Kunstler's advice increasingly are beginning to act — not just against military recruiting offices and manufacturers of munitions, but against a variety of businesses: “Since February, 1970, branches (of Bank of America) have been attacked 39 times, 22 times with explosive devices and 17 times with fire bombs or by arsonists.” Although New Leftist spokesmen are succeeding in radicalizing thousands of the young, the greater cause for concern is the hostility of respectable liberals and social reformers. It is the sum total of their views and influence which could indeed fatally weaken or destroy the system.A chilling description of what is being taught on many of our campuses was written by Stewart Alsop:“Yale, like every other major college, is graduating scores of bright young men who are practitioners of ‘the politics of despair.' These young men despise the American political and economic system . . . (their) minds seem to be wholly closed. They live, not by rational discussion, but by mindless slogans.” A recent poll of students on 12 representative campuses reported that: “Almost half the students favored socialization of basic U.S. industries.”A visiting professor from England at Rockford College gave a series of lectures entitled “The Ideological War Against Western Society,” in which he documents the extent to which members of the intellectual community are waging ideological warfare against the enterprise system and the values of western society. In a foreword to these lectures, famed Dr. Milton Friedman of Chicago warned: “It (is) crystal clear that the foundations of our free society are under wide-ranging and powerful attack — not by Communist or any other conspiracy but by misguided individuals parroting one another and unwittingly serving ends they would never intentionally promote.”Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader, who — thanks largely to the media — has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of Americans. A recent article in Fortune speaks of Nader as follows:“The passion that rules in him — and he is a passionate man — is aimed at smashing utterly the target of his hatred, which is corporate power. He thinks, and says quite bluntly, that a great many corporate executives belong in prison — for defrauding the consumer with shoddy merchandise, poisoning the food supply with chemical additives, and willfully manufacturing unsafe products that will maim or kill the buyer. He emphasizes that he is not talking just about ‘fly-by-night hucksters' but the top management of blue chip business.”A frontal assault was made on our government, our system of justice, and the free enterprise system by Yale Professor Charles Reich in his widely publicized book: “The Greening of America,” published last winter.The foregoing references illustrate the broad, shotgun attack on the system itself. There are countless examples of rifle shots which undermine confidence and confuse the public. Favorite current targets are proposals for tax incentives through changes in depreciation rates and investment credits. These are usually described in the media as “tax breaks,” “loop holes” or “tax benefits” for the benefit of business. * As viewed by a columnist in the Post, such tax measures would benefit “only the rich, the owners of big companies.”It is dismaying that many politicians make the same argument that tax measures of this kind benefit only “business,” without benefit to “the poor.” The fact that this is either political demagoguery or economic illiteracy is of slight comfort. This setting of the “rich” against the “poor,” of business against the people, is the cheapest and most dangerous kind of politics.The Apathy and Default of BusinessWhat has been the response of business to this massive assault upon its fundamental economics, upon its philosophy, upon its right to continue to manage its own affairs, and indeed upon its integrity?The painfully sad truth is that business, including the boards of directors' and the top executives of corporations great and small and business organizations at all levels, often have responded — if at all — by appeasement, ineptitude and ignoring the problem. There are, of course, many exceptions to this sweeping generalization. But the net effect of such response as has been made is scarcely visible.In all fairness, it must be recognized that businessmen have not been trained or equipped to conduct guerrilla warfare with those who propagandize against the system, seeking insidiously and constantly to sabotage it. The traditional role of business executives has been to manage, to produce, to sell, to create jobs, to make profits, to improve the standard of living, to be community leaders, to serve on charitable and educational boards, and generally to be good citizens. They have performed these tasks very well indeed.But they have shown little stomach for hard-nose contest with their critics, and little skill in effective intellectual and philosophical debate.A column recently carried by the Wall Street Journal was entitled: “Memo to GM: Why Not Fight Back?” Although addressed to GM by name, the article was a warning to all American business. Columnist St. John said:“General Motors, like American business in general, is ‘plainly in trouble' because intellectual bromides have been substituted for a sound intellectual exposition of its point of view.” Mr. St. John then commented on the tendency of business leaders to compromise with and appease critics. He cited the concessions which Nader wins from management, and spoke of “the fallacious view many businessmen take toward their critics.” He drew a parallel to the mistaken tactics of many college administrators: “College administrators learned too late that such appeasement serves to destroy free speech, academic freedom and genuine scholarship. One campus radical demand was conceded by university heads only to be followed by a fresh crop which soon escalated to what amounted to a demand for outright surrender.”One need not agree entirely with Mr. St. John's analysis. But most observers of the American scene will agree that the essence of his message is sound. American business “plainly in trouble”; the response to the wide range of critics has been ineffective, and has included appeasement; the time has come — indeed, it is long overdue — for the wisdom, ingenuity and resources of American business to be marshaled against those who would destroy it.Responsibility of Business ExecutivesWhat specifically should be done? The first essential — a prerequisite to any effective action — is for businessmen to confront this problem as a primary responsibility of corporate management.The overriding first need is for businessmen to recognize that the ultimate issue may be survival — survival of what we call the free enterprise system, and all that this means for the strength and prosperity of America and the freedom of our people.The day is long past when the chief executive officer of a major corporation discharges his responsibility by maintaining a satisfactory growth of profits, with due regard to the corporation's public and social responsibilities. If our system is to survive, top management must be equally concerned with protecting and preserving the system itself. This involves far more than an increased emphasis on “public relations” or “governmental affairs” — two areas in which corporations long have invested substantial sums.A significant first step by individual corporations could well be the designation of an executive vice president (ranking with other executive VP's) whose responsibility is to counter-on the broadest front-the attack on the enterprise system. The public relations department could be one of the foundations assigned to this executive, but his responsibilities should encompass some of the types of activities referred to subsequently in this memorandum. His budget and staff should be adequate to the task.Possible Role of the Chamber of CommerceBut independent and uncoordinated activity by individual corporations, as important as this is, will not be sufficient. Strength lies in organization, in careful long-range planning and implementation, in consistency of action over an indefinite period of years, in the scale of financing available only through joint effort, and in the political power available only through united action and national organizations.Moreover, there is the quite understandable reluctance on the part of any one corporation to get too far out in front and to make itself too visible a target.The role of the National Chamber of Commerce is therefore vital. Other national organizations (especially those of various industrial and commercial groups) should join in the effort, but no other organizations appear to be as well situated as the Chamber. It enjoys a strategic position, with a fine reputation and a broad base of support. Also — and this is of immeasurable merit — there are hundreds of local Chambers of Commerce which can play a vital supportive role.It hardly need be said that before embarking upon any program, the Chamber should study and analyze possible courses of action and activities, weighing risks against probable effectiveness and feasibility of each. Considerations of cost, the assurance of financial and other support from members, adequacy of staffing and similar problems will all require the most thoughtful consideration.The CampusThe assault on the enterprise system was not mounted in a few months. It has gradually evolved over the past two decades, barely perceptible in its origins and benefiting (sic) from a gradualism that provoked little awareness much less any real reaction.Although origins, sources and causes are complex and interrelated, and obviously difficult to identify without careful qualification, there is reason to believe that the campus is the single most dynamic source. The social science faculties usually include members who are unsympathetic to the enterprise system. They may range from a Herbert Marcuse, Marxist faculty member at the University of California at San Diego, and convinced socialists, to the ambivalent liberal critic who finds more to condemn than to commend. Such faculty members need not be in a majority. They are often personally attractive and magnetic; they are stimulating teachers, and their controversy attracts student following; they are prolific writers and lecturers; they author many of the textbooks, and they exert enormous influence — far out of proportion to their numbers — on their colleagues and in the academic world.Social science faculties (the political scientist, economist, sociologist and many of the historians) tend to be liberally oriented, even when leftists are not present. This is not a criticism per se, as the need for liberal thought is essential to a balanced viewpoint. The difficulty is that “balance” is conspicuous by its absence on many campuses, with relatively few members being of conservatives or moderate persuasion and even the relatively few often being less articulate and aggressive than their crusading colleagues.This situation extending back many years and with the imbalance gradually worsening, has had an enormous impact on millions of young American students. In an article in Barron's Weekly, seeking an answer to why so many young people are disaffected even to the point of being revolutionaries, it was said: “Because they were taught that way.” Or, as noted by columnist Stewart Alsop, writing about his alma mater: “Yale, like every other major college, is graduating scores' of bright young men … who despise the American political and economic system.”As these “bright young men,” from campuses across the country, seek opportunities to change a system which they have been taught to distrust — if not, indeed “despise” — they seek employment in the centers of the real power and influence in our country, namely: (i) with the news media, especially television; (ii) in government, as “staffers” and consultants at various levels; (iii) in elective politics; (iv) as lecturers and writers, and (v) on the faculties at various levels of education.Many do enter the enterprise system — in business and the professions — and for the most part they quickly discover the fallacies of what they have been taught. But those who eschew the mainstream of the system often remain in key positions of influence where they mold public opinion and often shape governmental action. In many instances, these “intellectuals” end up in regulatory agencies or governmental departments with large authority over the business system they do not believe in.If the foregoing analysis is approximately sound, a priority task of business — and organizations such as the Chamber — is to address the campus origin of this hostility. Few things are more sanctified in American life than academic freedom. It would be fatal to attack this as a principle. But if academic freedom is to retain the qualities of “openness,” “fairness” and “balance” — which are essential to its intellectual significance — there is a great opportunity for constructive action. The thrust of such action must be to restore the qualities just mentioned to the academic communities.What Can Be Done About the CampusThe ultimate responsibility for intellectual integrity on the campus must remain on the administrations and faculties of our colleges and universities. But organizations such as the Chamber can assist and activate constructive change in many ways, including the following:Staff of ScholarsThe Chamber should consider establishing a staff of highly qualified scholars in the social sciences who do believe in the system. It should include several of national reputation whose authorship would be widely respected — even when disagreed with.Staff of SpeakersThere also should be a staff of speakers of the highest competency. These might include the scholars, and certainly those who speak for the Chamber would have to articulate the product of the scholars.Speaker's BureauIn addition to full-time staff personnel, the Chamber should have a Speaker's Bureau which should include the ablest and most effective advocates from the top echelons of American business.Evaluation of TextbooksThe staff of scholars (or preferably a panel of independent scholars) should evaluate social science textbooks, especially in economics, political science and sociology. This should be a continuing program.The objective of such evaluation should be oriented toward restoring the balance essential to genuine academic freedom. This would include assurance of fair and factual treatment of our system of government and our enterprise system, its accomplishments, its basic relationship to individual rights and freedoms, and comparisons with the systems of socialism, fascism and communism. Most of the existing textbooks have some sort of comparisons, but many are superficial, biased and unfair.We have seen the civil rights movement insist on re-writing many of the textbooks in our universities and schools. The labor unions likewise insist that textbooks be fair to the viewpoints of organized labor. Other interested citizens groups have not hesitated to review, analyze and criticize textbooks and teaching materials. In a democratic society, this can be a constructive process and should be regarded as an aid to genuine academic freedom and not as an intrusion upon it.If the authors, publishers and users of textbooks know that they will be subjected — honestly, fairly and thoroughly — to review and critique by eminent scholars who believe in the American system, a return to a more rational balance can be expected.Equal Time on the CampusThe Chamber should insist upon equal time on the college speaking circuit. The FBI publishes each year a list of speeches made on college campuses by avowed Communists. The number in 1970 exceeded 100. There were, of course, many hundreds of appearances by leftists and ultra liberals who urge the types of viewpoints indicated earlier in this memorandum. There was no corresponding representation of American business, or indeed by individuals or organizations who appeared in support of the American system of government and business.Every campus has its formal and informal groups which invite speakers. Each law school does the same thing. Many universities and colleges officially sponsor lecture and speaking programs. We all know the inadequacy of the representation of business in the programs.It will be said that few invitations would be extended to Chamber speakers. This undoubtedly would be true unless the Chamber aggressively insisted upon the right to be heard — in effect, insisted upon “equal time.” University administrators and the great majority of student groups and committees would not welcome being put in the position publicly of refusing a forum to diverse views, indeed, this is the classic excuse for allowing Communists to speak.The two essential ingredients are (i) to have attractive, articulate and well-informed speakers; and (ii) to exert whatever degree of pressure — publicly and privately — may be necessary to assure opportunities to speak. The objective always must be to inform and enlighten, and not merely to propagandize.Balancing of FacultiesPerhaps the most fundamental problem is the imbalance of many faculties. Correcting this is indeed a long-range and difficult project. Yet, it should be undertaken as a part of an overall program. This would mean the urging of the need for faculty balance upon university administrators and boards of trustees.The methods to be employed require careful thought, and the obvious pitfalls must be avoided. Improper pressure would be counterproductive. But the basic concepts of balance, fairness and truth are difficult to resist, if properly presented to boards of trustees, by writing and speaking, and by appeals to alumni associations and groups.This is a long road and not one for the fainthearted. But if pursued with integrity and conviction it could lead to a strengthening of both academic freedom on the campus and of the values which have made America the most productive of all societies.Graduate Schools of BusinessThe Chamber should enjoy a particular rapport with the increasingly influential graduate schools of business. Much that has been suggested above applies to such schools.Should not the Chamber also request specific courses in such schools dealing with the entire scope of the problem addressed by this memorandum? This is now essential training for the executives of the future.Secondary EducationWhile the first priority should be at the college level, the trends mentioned above are increasingly evidenced in the high schools. Action programs, tailored to the high schools and similar to those mentioned, should be considered. The implementation thereof could become a major program for local chambers of commerce, although the control and direction — especially the quality control — should be retained by the National Chamber.What Can Be Done About the Public?Reaching the campus and the secondary schools is vital for the long-term. Reaching the public generally may be more important for the shorter term. The first essential is to establish the staffs of eminent scholars, writers and speakers, who will do the thinking, the analysis, the writing and the speaking. It will also be essential to have staff personnel who are thoroughly familiar with the media, and how most effectively to communicate with the public. Among the more obvious means are the following:TelevisionThe national television networks should be monitored in the same way that textbooks should be kept under constant surveillance. This applies not merely to so-called educational programs (such as “Selling of the Pentagon”), but to the daily “news analysis” which so often includes the most insidious type of criticism of the enterprise system. Whether this criticism results from hostility or economic ignorance, the result is the gradual erosion of confidence in “business” and free enterprise.This monitoring, to be effective, would require constant examination of the texts of adequate samples of programs. Complaints — to the media and to the Federal Communications Commission — should be made promptly and strongly when programs are unfair or inaccurate.Equal time should be demanded when appropriate. Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the Today Show, Meet the Press, etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.Other MediaRadio and the press are also important, and every available means should be employed to challenge and refute unfair attacks, as well as to present the affirmative case through these media.The Scholarly JournalsIt is especially important for the Chamber's “faculty of scholars” to publish. One of the keys to the success of the liberal and leftist faculty members has been their passion for “publication” and “lecturing.” A similar passion must exist among the Chamber's scholars.Incentives might be devised to induce more “publishing” by independent scholars who do believe in the system.There should be a fairly steady flow of scholarly articles presented to a broad spectrum of magazines and periodicals — ranging from the popular magazines (Life, Look, Reader's Digest, etc.) to the more intellectual ones (Atlantic, Harper's, Saturday Review, New York, etc.) and to the various professional journals.Books, Paperbacks and PamphletsThe news stands — at airports, drugstores, and elsewhere — are filled with paperbacks and pamphlets advocating everything from revolution to erotic free love. One finds almost no attractive, well-written paperbacks or pamphlets on “our side.” It will be difficult to compete with an Eldridge Cleaver or even a Charles Reich for reader attention, but unless the effort is made — on a large enough scale and with appropriate imagination to assure some success — this opportunity for educating the public will be irretrievably lost.Paid AdvertisementsBusiness pays hundreds of millions of dollars to the media for advertisements. Most of this supports specific products; much of it supports institutional image making; and some fraction of it does support the system. But the latter has been more or less tangential, and rarely part of a sustained, major effort to inform and enlighten the American people.If American business devoted only 10% of its total annual advertising budget to this overall purpose, it would be a statesman-like expenditure.The Neglected Political ArenaIn the final analysis, the payoff — short-of revolution — is what government does. Business has been the favorite whipping-boy of many politicians for many years. But the measure of how far this has gone is perhaps best found in the anti-business views now being expressed by several leading candidates for President of the United States.It is still Marxist doctrine that the “capitalist” countries are controlled by big business. This doctrine, consistently a part of leftist propaganda all over the world, has a wide public following among Americans.Yet, as every business executive knows, few elements of American society today have as little influence in government as the American businessman, the corporation, or even the millions of corporate stockholders. If one doubts this, let him undertake the role of “lobbyist” for the business point of view before Congressional committees. The same situation obtains in the legislative halls of most states and major cities. One does not exaggerate to say that, in terms of political influence with respect to the course of legislation and government action, the American business executive is truly the “forgotten man.”Current examples of the impotency of business, and of the near-contempt with which businessmen's views are held, are the stampedes by politicians to support almost any legislation related to “consumerism” or to the “environment.”Politicians reflect what they believe to be majority views of their constituents. It is thus evident that most politicians are making the judgment that the public has little sympathy for the businessman or his viewpoint.The educational programs suggested above would be designed to enlighten public thinking — not so much about the businessman and his individual role as about the system which he administers, and which provides the goods, services and jobs on which our country depends.But one should not postpone more direct political action, while awaiting the gradual change in public opinion to be effected through education and information. Business must learn the lesson, long ago learned by labor and other self-interest groups. This is the lesson that political power is necessary; that such power must be assidously (sic) cultivated; and that when necessary, it must be used aggressively and with determination — without embarrassment and without the reluctance which has been so characteristic of American business.As unwelcome as it may be to the Chamber, it should consider assuming a broader and more vigorous role in the political arena.Neglected Opportunity in the CourtsAmerican business and the enterprise system have been affected as much by the courts as by the executive and legislative branches of government. Under our constitutional system, especially with an activist-minded Supreme Court, the judiciary may be the most important instrument for social, economic and political change.Other organizations and groups, recognizing this, have been far more astute in exploiting judicial action than American business. Perhaps the most active exploiters of the judicial system have been groups ranging in political orientation from “liberal” to the far left.The American Civil Liberties Union is one example. It initiates or intervenes in scores of cases each year, and it files briefs amicus curiae in the Supreme Court in a number of cases during each term of that court. Labor unions, civil rights groups and now the public interest law firms are extremely active in the judicial arena. Their success, often at business' expense, has not been inconsequential.This is a vast area of opportunity for the Chamber, if it is willing to undertake the role of spokesman for American business and if, in turn, business is willing to provide the funds.As with respect to scholars and speakers, the Chamber would need a highly competent staff of lawyers. In special situations it should be authorized to engage, to appear as counsel amicus in the Supreme Court, lawyers of national standing and reputation. The greatest care should be exercised in selecting the cases in which to participate, or the suits to institute. But the opportunity merits the necessary effort.Neglected Stockholder PowerThe average member of the public thinks of “business” as an impersonal corporate entity, owned by the very rich and managed by over-paid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that “business” actually embraces — in one way or another — most Americans. Those for whom business provides jobs, constitute a fairly obvious class. But the 20 million stockholders — most of whom are of modest means — are the real owners, the real entrepreneurs, the real capitalists under our system. They provide the capital which fuels the economic system which has produced the highest standard of living in all history. Yet, stockholders have been as ineffectual as business executives in promoting a genuine understanding of our system or in exercising political influence.The question which merits the most thorough examination is how can the weight and influence of stockholders — 20 million voters — be mobilized to support (i) an educational program and (ii) a political action program.Individual corporations are now required to make numerous reports to shareholders. Many corporations also have expensive “news” magazines which go to employees and stockholders. These opportunities to communicate can be used far more effectively as educational media.The corporation itself must exercise restraint in undertaking political action and must, of course, comply with applicable laws. But is it not feasible — through an affiliate of the Chamber or otherwise — to establish a national organization of American stockholders and give it enough muscle to be influential?A More Aggressive AttitudeBusiness interests — especially big business and their national trade organizations — have tried to maintain low profiles, especially with respect to political action.As suggested in the Wall Street Journal article, it has been fairly characteristic of the average business executive to be tolerant — at least in public — of those who attack his corporation and the system. Very few businessmen or business organizations respond in kind. There has been a disposition to appease; to regard the opposition as willing to compromise, or as likely to fade away in due time.Business has shunted confrontation politics. Business, quite understandably, has been repelled by the multiplicity of non-negotiable “demands” made constantly by self-interest groups of all kinds.While neither responsible business interests, nor the United States Chamber of Commerce, would engage in the irresponsible tactics of some pressure groups, it is essential that spokesmen for the enterprise system — at all levels and at every opportunity — be far more aggressive than in the past.There should be no hesitation to attack the Naders, the Marcuses and others who openly seek destruction of the system. There should not be the slightest hesitation to press vigorously in all political arenas for support of the enterprise system. Nor should there be reluctance to penalize politically those who oppose it.Lessons can be learned from organized labor in this respect. The head of the AFL-CIO may not appeal to businessmen as the most endearing or public-minded of citizens. Yet, over many years the heads of national labor organizations have done what they were paid to do very effectively. They may not have been beloved, but they have been respected — where it counts the most — by politicians, on the campus, and among the media.It is time for American business — which has demonstrated the greatest capacity in all history to produce and to influence consumer decisions — to apply their great talents vigorously to the preservation of the system itself.The CostThe type of program described above (which includes a broadly based combination of education and political action), if undertaken long term and adequately staffed, would require far more generous financial support from American corporations than the Chamber has ever received in the past. High level management participation in Chamber affairs also would be required.The staff of the Chamber would have to be significantly increased, with the highest quality established and maintained. Salaries would have to be at levels fully comparable to those paid key business executives and the most prestigious faculty members. Professionals of the great skill in advertising and in working with the media, speakers, lawyers and other specialists would have to be recruited.It is possible that the organization of the Chamber itself would benefit from restructuring. For example, as suggested by union experience, the office of President of the Chamber might well be a full-time career position. To assure maximum effectiveness and continuity, the chief executive officer of the Chamber should not be changed each year. The functions now largely performed by the President could be transferred to a Chairman of the Board, annually elected by the membership. The Board, of course, would continue to exercise policy control.Quality Control is EssentialEssential ingredients of the entire program must be responsibility and “quality control.” The publications, the articles, the speeches, the media programs, the advertising, the briefs filed in courts, and the appearances before legislative committees — all must meet the most exacting standards of accuracy and professional excellence. They must merit respect for their level of public responsibility and scholarship, whether one agrees with the viewpoints expressed or not.Relationship to FreedomThe threat to the enterprise system is not merely a matter of economics. It also is a threat to individual freedom.It is this great truth — now so submerged by the rhetoric of the New Left and of many liberals — that must be re-affirmed if this program is to be meaningful.There seems to be little awareness that the only alternatives to free enterprise are varying degrees of bureaucratic regulation of individual freedom — ranging from that under moderate socialism to the iron heel of the leftist or rightist dictatorship.We in America already have moved very far indeed toward some aspects of state socialism, as the needs and complexities of a vast urban society require types of regulation and control that were quite unnecessary in earlier times. In some areas, such regulation and control already have seriously impaired the freedom of both business and labor, and indeed of the public generally. But most of the essential freedoms remain: private ownership, private profit, labor unions, collective bargaining, consumer choice, and a market economy in which competition largely determines price, quality and variety of the goods and services provided the consumer.In addition to the ideological attack on the system itself (discussed in this memorandum), its essentials also are threatened by inequitable taxation, and — more recently — by an inflation which has seemed uncontrollable. But whatever the causes of diminishing economic freedom may be, the truth is that freedom as a concept is indivisible. As the experience of the socialist and totalitarian states demonstrates, the contraction and denial of economic freedom is followed inevitably by governmental restrictions on other cherished rights. It is this message, above all others, that must be carried home to the American people.ConclusionIt hardly need be said that the views expressed above are tentative and suggestive. The first step should be a thorough study. But this would be an exercise in futility unless the Board of Directors of the Chamber accepts the fundamental premise of this paper, namely, that business and the enterprise system are in deep trouble, and the hour is late. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit robertreich.substack.com/subscribe

Join 5x15 for an unmissable live event back at The Tabernacle in London's Notting Hill with the wildly entertaining John Crace, parliamentary sketch writer and political satirist par excellence, in conversation with the one and only Viv Groskop. Throughout another year of bluster and bedlam in Westminster, John's brilliantly acerbic political sketches have once more provided the nation with a much-needed injection of humour. In A Farewell to Calm: The New Normal Survival Guide, Crace introduces an infectiously funny selection of his finest pieces from 2020–21, taking in everything from a summer of unfathomable U-turns to Christmas Covid confusion, and from lockdown-lifting to Brexit blithering. Led by Boris's poundshop Churchill tribute act, and featuring a cast of everyone's least favourite pantomime villains, from Classic Dom Cummings to Door Matt Hancock, the end result is a brilliantly entertaining chronicle of another tumultuous year on these benighted islands. John Crace is the Guardian's parliamentary sketch writer, author of the Digested Read columns and a contributor to GQ. He is also the author of many books including Decline and Fail and I, Maybot. He is an ardent supporter of Tottenham Hotspur FC and has written several books about the club including Vertigo: One Football Fan's Fear of Success and Harry's Games: Inside the Mind of Harry Redknapp. Viv Groskop is a writer, critic, broadcaster and stand-up comedian. She is the author of How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking, also a Top 10 iTunes podcast, now in its 15th series, featuring guests like Hillary Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Nigella Lawson and Julie Andrews. Her latest book is Lift As You Climb: Women, Ambition and How to Change the Story. She has presented Front Row and Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4 and is a regular on BBC1's This Week.

Today we’re exploring the world of childhood, a “protected space in which they [children] can produce new ways of thinking and acting that, for better or worse, are entirely unlike any that we would have anticipated beforehand.” A protected space that exceeds, in length, that of any other species. A space of time that today’s guest has spent her career studying and often refers to as humanity’s R&D department. Alison Gopnik is likely a familiar name to many of you, especially those of you who are parents. Currently a professor of psychology and philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley, Alison has published over 100 research articles and books including critically acclaimed bestsellers such as: The Scientist in the Crib, The Philosophical Baby and The Gardener and the Carpenter. Her public appearances include TED, Talks at Google, the World Economic Forum and even Stephen Colbert’s show. She is also a long-time contributor to the Wall Street Journal’s Saturday Review section. We covered a lot of ground in this episode. How do young children and babies begin to understand the world around them? We will learn about something called, “theory theory,” a process that allows children to develop and test intuitive theories about their world. We’ll see how this process resembles Bayesian probability and how understanding childhood cognitive development may be a key to developing advanced AI. This is also something Alison is researching. No surprise. She lives and works in the Bay area and she is even married to one of the founders of Pixar. Anyway, this is one of our more fascinating episodes. As a father of two young daughters, and a long-time fan of Alison’s work, talking with Alison was a real privilege. With that said, let’s get started.

El cuento de Blagdaross fue publicado por primera vez en la edición del 16 de mayo de 1908 del periódico Saturday Review, y posteriormente reeditado en la antología de 1910: Cuentos de un soñador, una de las compilaciones fantásticas más influyentes del siglo XX, y probablemente una de las obras referenciales, la de Lord Dunsany, que construyó los pilares de la fantasía moderna, predecesor de otros grandes autores del genero, desde Tolkien hasta Lovecraft, Dunsany viajo por las dimensiones desconocidas del sueño y creó junto a dioses y demonios de su propia cosmogonía inabarcable... Blagdaross es sin duda, uno de sus cuentos mas incalificables y evocadores. En el exilio, arrojado a un destino aciago, rodeado de los objetos desheredados del mundo, Blagdaross es un caballito de madera que lamenta su destino y recuerda sus antiguas gestas; los nombres y las batallas que compartió con aquellos que jugaron con él. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

nataliehaynes.com Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster and – according to the Washington Post – a rock star mythologist. Her first novel, The Amber Fury, was published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, her previous book. Her second novel, The Children of Jocasta, was published in 2017. Her retelling of the Trojan War, A Thousand Ships, was published in 2019. It was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction in 2020. It has been translated into multiple languages. Her most recent non-fiction book, Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myth was published in Oct 2020, and Margaret Atwood liked it. She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She writes for the Guardian. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, and banging on about Juvenal whenever she gets the chance. Six series of her show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, have been broadcast on Radio 4: all series are available now on BBC Sounds. BOOKS: Natalie is the author of six books, her novels, A Thousand Ships, The Children of Jocasta, and The Amber Fury, and the non-fiction works, Pandora's Jar, about women in Greek Myth, and The Ancient Guide To Modern Life. These books have been translated into multiple languages and published all over the world. Natalie also wrote a children's book, The Great Escape, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. It won a PETA Proggy award for Best Animal-Friendly Children's Book in 2008 ABOUT "A THOUSAND SHIPS: This is the women's war, just as much as it is the men's. They have waited long enough for their turn . . . This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. A woman's epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world's great tale ever told. @copywrited by Authors on the Air

nataliehaynes.com Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster and – according to the Washington Post – a rock star mythologist. Her first novel, The Amber Fury, was published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, her previous book. Her second novel, The Children of Jocasta, was published in 2017. Her retelling of the Trojan War, A Thousand Ships, was published in 2019. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. It has been translated into multiple languages. Her most recent non-fiction book, Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myth was published in Oct 2020, and Margaret Atwood liked it. She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She writes for the Guardian. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, and banging on about Juvenal whenever she gets the chance. Six series of her show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, have been broadcast on Radio 4: all series are available now on BBC Sounds. BOOKS: Natalie is the author of six books, her novels, A Thousand Ships, The Children of Jocasta, and The Amber Fury, and the non-fiction works, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek Myth, and The Ancient Guide To Modern Life. These books have been translated into multiple languages and published all over the world. Natalie also wrote a children's book, The Great Escape, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. It won a PETA Proggy award for Best Animal-Friendly Children's Book in 2008 ABOUT "A THOUSAND SHIPS: This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their turn . . . This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. A woman’s epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world’s great tale ever told.

nataliehaynes.com Natalie Haynes is a writer and broadcaster and – according to the Washington Post – a rock star mythologist. Her first novel, The Amber Fury, was published to great acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic, as was The Ancient Guide to Modern Life, her previous book. Her second novel, The Children of Jocasta, was published in 2017. Her retelling of the Trojan War, A Thousand Ships, was published in 2019. It was shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2020. It has been translated into multiple languages. Her most recent non-fiction book, Pandora’s Jar: Women in the Greek Myth was published in Oct 2020, and Margaret Atwood liked it. She has spoken on the modern relevance of the classical world on three continents, from Cambridge to Chicago to Auckland. She writes for the Guardian. She is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4: reviewing for Front Row and Saturday Review, appearing as a team captain on three seasons of Wordaholics, and banging on about Juvenal whenever she gets the chance. Six series of her show, Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, have been broadcast on Radio 4: all series are available now on BBC Sounds. BOOKS: Natalie is the author of six books, her novels, A Thousand Ships, The Children of Jocasta, and The Amber Fury, and the non-fiction works, Pandora’s Jar, about women in Greek Myth, and The Ancient Guide To Modern Life. These books have been translated into multiple languages and published all over the world. Natalie also wrote a children's book, The Great Escape, published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. It won a PETA Proggy award for Best Animal-Friendly Children's Book in 2008 ABOUT "A THOUSAND SHIPS: This is the women’s war, just as much as it is the men’s. They have waited long enough for their turn . . . This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . . In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seemingly endless years of conflict between the Greeks and the Trojans are over. Troy has fallen. From the Trojan women whose fates now lie in the hands of the Greeks, to the Amazon princess who fought Achilles on their behalf, to Penelope awaiting the return of Odysseus, to the three goddesses whose feud started it all, these are the stories of the women whose lives, loves, and rivalries were forever altered by this long and tragic war. A woman’s epic, powerfully imbued with new life, A Thousand Ships puts the women, girls and goddesses at the center of the Western world’s great tale ever told. @copywrited by Authors on the Air

"The best non-masterpiece of American cinema." The above quote on THE APARTMENT comes from critic Mark Cousins and NOT the fine gentlemen of OFF SCREEN DEATH. No, we were too busy making fun of Jack Lemmon for trying on that silly hat. Initially divisive (The Saturday Review called it "a dirty fairy tale") it did go on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture of 1960 but has never climbed the lists like some of Billy Wilder's other films like SUNSET BOULEVARD (#12 on AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies) and SOME LIKE IT HOT (#14). However today it receives the honor of being the first selection for a podcast that likely no one is listening to. Justice is served. Enjoy! Subscribe on Apple Podcasts/Spotify Twitter @offscreendeath Instagram @theoffscreendeath Letterboxd: @daveagiannini and @projectingfilm Artwork by Nathan Thomas Milliner Music by Joplin Rice

Jerry Mintz is the Founder and Director of the Alternative Education Resource Organization. He was the first executive director of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS), and was a founding member of the International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC). In addition to several appearances on national radio and TV shows, Jerry's essays, commentaries, and reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and magazines including The New York Times, Newsday, Paths of Learning, Green Money Journal, Communities, Saturday Review, Holistic Education Review as well as the anthology Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal, 2000). Key Takeaways: 00:24 Jerry's Favorite Thing about working with the Young Learners 01:15 Origin Story of Jerry's Journey to Alternative Education 12:06 Options to Alternative Education 19:09 Demand for Alternative Education in this time of Pandemic 23:17 Democratic Process for Learners 33:12 International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC) and Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO) Conference 36:01 Frustrated Parents who wants to start something new 40:00 Metaphor comparing Conventional to Alternative Education 45:53 Requirements for a School to be in AERO Quotes: "So the whole idea is to make a learner centered approach available to students everywhere. And what I mean by learner-centered, is a program that listens to what the students are interested in and build on their interest rather than curriculum-driven, which is an old model, which is just very, very antiquated. It had its purpose at some point, maybe. But this will help you become a lifelong learner." "If kids are natural learners, forcing them to learn things they're not interested in extinguishes their natural ability to learn." "Children are natural learners. If you know that they're the ones who are bringing the curriculum to you, all you have to do is be a good listener." "When you have not stopped kids' ability to learn, they learn at lightning speed. Unbelievable speed." Social Links: Jerry Mintz https://www.educationrevolution.org/store/jerrymintz/ Websites http://educationrevolution.org https://www.aeroconference.org/

Jerry Mintz has been a leading voice in the alternative school movement for over 30 years. In addition to his seventeen years as a public and independent alternative school principal and teacher, he has also helped found more than one hundred public and private alternative schools and organizations. He has lectured and consulted in more than twenty-five countries around the world. In 1989, he founded the Alternative Education Resource Organization and since then has served as it's Director. Jerry was the first executive director of the National Coalition of Alternative Community Schools (NCACS), and was a founding member of the International Democratic Education Conference (IDEC). In addition to several appearances on national radio and TV shows, Jerry's essays, commentaries, and reviews have appeared in numerous newspapers, journals, and magazines including The New York Times, Newsday, Paths of Learning, Green Money Journal, Communities, Saturday Review, Holistic Education Review as well as the anthology Creating Learning Communities (Foundation for Educational Renewal, 2000). Jerry was Editor-in-Chief for the Handbook of Alternative Education (Macmillan, 1994), and the Almanac of Education Choices (Macmillan/Simon & Schuster, 1995). He is the author of School's Over: How to Have Freedom and Democracy in Education (AERO, 2017) and is editor of Turning Points: 35 Visionaries in Education Tell Their Own Story (AERO, 2010). --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/future-school-leaders/message

Russian poetry, fortified wine and improvisation techniques Viv Groskop discusses with Ivan six things which she thinks should be better known. Viv Groskop is a writer, critic, broadcaster and stand-up comedian. She is the author of How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking, also a Top 10 iTunes podcast, now in its 8th series, featuring guests like Hillary Clinton, Margaret Atwood, Nigella Lawson, Julie Andrews, Sarah Hurwitz (Michelle Obama’s speechwriter). Her latest book is Au Revoir Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature. She has presented Front Row and Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4, is a regular on BBC1’s This Week and has hosted book tours for Graham Norton, Jo Brand and Jennifer Saunders. Saturday Night Live's The Californians https://www.dailycal.org/2019/12/06/why-the-californians-skit-from-snl-is-the-best-of-all-time/ The poetry of Anna Akhmatova https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova Lipcote https://www.lipcote.com/ The music of Janis Ian https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QPF-duKQro Vermouth and vermuterias https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/youre-probably-drinking-storing-and-making-cocktails-with-your-vermouth-wrong/ “Yes and” as a verb — the improv concept https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_and... This podcast is powered by ZenCast.fm

In 1850, Father Emmanuel Domenech was given an ancient document, containing many pages of strange drawings and symbols. He became convinced it was a long-lost Native American manuscript. In 1860, he published a lengthy book about it. Unfortunately, he was wrong. Embarrassingly wrong. Support this podcast HISTORICAL REFERENCES: Domenech, Manuscrit Pictographique Americain [American Pictographic Manuscript], (book, 1860). Pletzholdt , Julius, The Hieroglyphic Hoax, The Saturday Review (magazine, Sept. 14, 1861), pp. 278-279. The Domenech Effect, The Galaxy (magazine, March 1871), pp. 472-473 Destiny of a Sensation: Emmanuel Domenech, FamPeople.com (webpage, 2019). The Pictographs of Emmanuel Domenech, The Museum of Hoaxes (webpage, 2015). OUR NEW CO-HOST: Jessica Malone, free-lance voice artist. MISCELLANEOUS: Exit Aphorism (voice) – Kit Caren. Host Intro – Nina Innsted, host of the Already Gone podcast. Exit Aphorism - Source: Cherterton, G.K,, Chaucer (1932), Chapter II - The Age of Chaucer. MUSIC: Kevin MacLeod of Incompetech.com – Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses / by 3.0 At Rest At Rest The Curtain Rises I Knew A Guy Freesound.org: Music Box Theme All Sound Effects Are From Freesound.org. HEY! CONTACT US: E-Mail: ForgottenNewsPodcast@gmail.com Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Forgotten-News-Podcast Twitter: @NewsForgotten @KitCaren @xoxojessicaxoxo

William Sieghart is here with Shahidha Bari to talk about his tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul in The Poetry Pharmacy. William Sieghart is a philanthropist and publisher. He is the founder of National Poetry Day, the Forward Poetry Prize, the Big Arts Week, Bedtime Reading Week and co-founded StreetSmart: Action for the Homeless in 1998. In 2012, he edited a collection of British poems called Winning Words: Inspiring Poems for Everyday Life, to tie in with the London Olympics. The Poetry Pharmacy is William's best selling book bringing together tried-and-true prescriptions for the heart, mind and soul. He has taken his Poetry Pharmacy around the length and breadth of Britain, into the pages of the Guardian, onto BBC Radio 4 and onto the television. His pocket-sized book presents the most essential poems in his dispensary: those which, again and again, have really shown themselves to work, whether you are suffering from loneliness, lack of courage, heartbreak, hopelessness, or even from an excess of ego, there is a poem here to ease your pain. Shahidha Bari is a Professor at University of the Arts London. She works in the fields of poetry, philosophy and visual culture. She is the author of “Keats and Philosophy” (2012) and “Dressed: The Secret Life of Clothes” (2019). Shahidha is the presenter of BBC Radio 3's nightly arts and ideas programme Free Thinking and the occasional host of BBC Radio 4's Front Row and Saturday Review. She writes for The Guardian, Frieze art magazine, The Observer and the TLS among others. In 2011, she was a BBC New Generation Thinker, and in 2016, she was the winner of The Observer Anthony Burgess Arts Journalism Prize. She was Chair of Judges for the Forward Prizes for Poetry in 2019. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

  The first show of 2020 kicks off in style with an in-depth discussion about getting the next generation of comics readers on board. To talk about this, kids comics, educational workshops and more is Tom Sparke (Captain Fishbeard) who does all of that and also joins in with the weekly ACP madness to boot. Theres also more great indie comic recommendations, laughs and thought provoking comic discussion. What better way to start a new decade! Great stuff to check out this week - Tom Sparke, Captain Fishbeard, Spring Heeled Jack, True Believers 2020, Book Sniffer, Saturday Review, John Tucker, The King, Russell Mark Olson, Gateway City, Fantagraphix, Josh Simmonds, House, Sam Davies, KaBoom Comics, Hex Vets: Witches in Training CLICK HERE TO GET COPIES OF OUR ANTHOLOGY - AWESOME COMICS Join the discussion today at our facebook group Awesome Comics Talk Check out the folks who sponsor this lil show - the mighty folks at Comichaus! If you love our Intro/Outro music, then check out the brilliant Chad Fifer and more of his musical badassery at www.chadfifer.bandcamp.com  Let us know what you think! Email: awesomecomicspod@gmail.com 

Find out what Saturday Review listeners chose as their cultural highlights of 2019. We asked what you'd enjoyed this year and you told us about things we'd missed, disagreed about some cultural events we'd reviewed, and let us know about which ones had delighted you too. We'll discuss all the regular genres: films, theatre, exhibitions, books and television. And lots of items which we didn't get a chance to review from the past 12 months. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Tiffany Jenkins and Shahidha Bari as well as lots of listeners on the phone from around the country, telling us what particularly impressed them last year. Producer Oliver Jones

The much-anticipated film of Cats with its stellar and fur-enhanced cast including Judi Dench and Taylor Swift finally reaches the big screen. Catnip or catastrophe? Spooky offerings in the Christmas TV schedule this year include Martin's Close by Mark Gatiss on BBC 4 and Susan Hill's Ghost Story on Channel 5. How shiver-inducing are they? Nora Ephron's collection of essays on ageing and much else - I Feel Bad About My Neck - is being reissued with a new introduction by Dolly Alderton. It's a book that Alderton recommends giving as a present so Saturday Review suggests some other enduring literary choices that work as gifts. And Gypsy starring Ria Jones is on at the Royal Exchange, Manchester in a new production directed by Jo Davies. Do its songs keep our critics smiling in an age of different sexual politics? Rowan Pelling, Linda Grant and Kerry Shale join Tom Sutcliffe. The books recommended as gifts are: The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden Karoo by Steve Tesich The Prince of West End Avenue by Alan Isler Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote Love Lessons by Joan Wyndham The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson This is Pleasure by Mary Gaitskill Haunts of the Black Masseur by Charles Sprawson The Compleet Molesworth by Geoffrey Willans and Ronald Searle This week's podcast choices are: Linda: podcast and Radio 4 programme Fake Heiress Kerry: album If You're Going to the City, a tribute to Mose Allison Rowan: TV series The Young Offenders, BBC3 Tom: TV series Watchmen, HBO

Viv Groskop is a writer, critic, broadcaster and stand-up comedian. She has presented Front Row and Saturday Review on BBC Radio 4, is a regular on BBC1’s This Week and has hosted book tours for Graham Norton, Jo Brand and Jennifer Saunders. Groskop’s books include The Anna Karenina Fix: Life Lessons from Russian Literature, and How to Own the Room: Women and the Art of Brilliant Speaking. She is currently writing a self-help memoir titled Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French Literature due out in 2020. 5x15 brings together five outstanding individuals to tell of their lives, passions and inspirations. There are only two rules - no scripts and only 15 minutes each. Learn more about 5x15 events: www.5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Tom Sutcliffe, journalist and broadcaster, gave his fourteen year-old son a birthday iPod with a quote from Forever Young engraved on it. He swears: “I don’t randomly quote Bob Dylan” and describes Bob’s Bringing It All Back Home as “a cold shower/warm shower of an album”. Concentrating on BIABH, Tom calls Maggie’s Farm “an ordeal” and certain famous lyrics “trite” and “twee”; and admits to an irrational hatred of the tambourine, but praises Gates of Eden as “a great tune”. Tom Sutcliffe studied at Cambridge and joined the BBC soon afterwards. He has presented Radio 4’s weekly Saturday Review arts programme since 1999. He was the first arts editor of The Independent newspaper and has been chairman of Round Britain Quiz since 2007. Saturday Review web page http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/saturdayreview.shtml Trailer Twitter @tds153 Listeners: please subscribe and/or leave a review and a rating. Twitter @isitrollingpod Spotify playlist Recorded 3rd October 2018

Is 2019 the year to try something new? In this alternative edition of Saturday Review presented by Jordan Erica Webber, the panel review a fashion exhibition, a horror podcast, a murder mystery video game, two coming of age graphic novels and try to get out of a World War Two themed escape room. The Return of the Obra Dinn, a video game set in the 1807 in which you take on the role of an insurance adjuster, tasked with investigating a ship that has drifted into harbour after five years lost at sea, and determining the fates of the 60 people aboard. Fashioned from Nature, an exhibition in London’s Victoria and Albert Museum looking at the natural origins to the clothes we wear as well as the fashion industry’s toll on nature. The Horror of Dolores Roach, is a gory podcast drama which updates Sweeney Todd into a contemporary gentrified New York neighbourhood, starring Daphne Rubin-Vega and Bobby Cannavale. Two coming of age graphic novels, Grafity’s Wall by Ram V and My Heroes Have Always Been Junkies from Ed Brubaker. The former is about four young people living in Mumbai, the latter is a pulp-fiction tale about a American teenage girl in a rehabilitation centre. Plus the panel visit an escape room, a physical game which asks players to solves puzzle in order to win their escape from a room within a set time. The Adventure Begins in London, is themed around a World War Two prisoner of war camp, will our panelist make it out in time? Jordan’s guests are Shahidha Bari, Amber Butchart, and Rajan Data. Produced by Kate Bullivant.

Macbeth – A review By Max Beerbohm Narrated by Alan Weyman In 1898, shortly after succeeding George Bernard Shaw as drama critic of the Saturday Review, Beerbohm takes the opportunity in reviewing a production of Macbeth to reflect on Shaw, Shakespeare and Classic Drama. This recording may be freely downloaded and distributed, as long as Voices of Today is credited as the author. It may not be used for commercial purposes or distributed in an edited or remixed form. For further information about Voices of Today or to explore its catalogue please visit: https://www.voicesoftoday.org/

Find out what Saturday Review listeners chose as their cultural highlights of 2018. We'll discuss all the regular genres: films, theatre, exhibitions, books and television. And lots of items which we didn't get a chance to review from the past 12 months. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Tiffany Jenkins and Ekow Eshun and lots of listeners on the phone from around the country, who tell us what particularly impressed them last year. The producer is Oliver Jones Podcast extra recommendations: Ekow: Strange days exhibition Tiffany: pre-sale auction houses Tom; Bill Viola

In 1607, a 15-year-old girl fled her convent in the Basque country, dressed herself as a man, and set out on a series of unlikely adventures across Europe. In time she would distinguish herself fighting as a soldier in Spain's wars of conquest in the New World. In this week's episode of the Futility Closet podcast we'll tell the story of Catalina de Erauso, the lieutenant nun of Renaissance Spain. We'll also hunt for some wallabies and puzzle over a quiet cat. Intro: In 1856 the Saturday Review asked: Why do ghosts wear clothes? Because of the peculiarities of bee reproduction, the population of each generation is a Fibonacci number. Sources for our feature on Catalina de Erauso: Joaquín María de Ferrer, The Autobiography of doña Catalina de Erauso, 1918 (translated by Dan Harvey Pedrick). Heidi Zogbaum, Catalina de Erauso: The Lieutenant Nun and the Conquest of the New World, 2015. Sonia Pérez-Villanueva, The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography, 2014. Eva Mendieta, In Search of Catalina de Erauso: The National and Sexual Identity of the Lieutenant Nun, 2009. Sherry Velasco, The Lieutenant Nun: Transgenderism, Lesbian Desire, and Catalina de Erauso, 2000. Robin Cross and Rosalind Miles, Warrior Women: 3000 Years of Courage and Heroism, 2011. Christel Mouchard, Women Travelers: A Century of Trailblazing Adventures 1850-1950, 2007. Faith S. Harden, "Military Labour and Martial Honour in the Vida de la Monja Alférez, Catalina de Erauso," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 94:2 (2017), 147-162. Madera Gabriela Allan, "'Un Hombre Sin Barbas': The Transgender Protagonist of La Monja Alférez (1626)," Journal of Spanish Cultural Studies 17:2 (June 2016), 119-131. Sonia Pérez Villanueva, "Vida y sucesos de la Monja Alférez: Spanish Dictatorship, Basque Identity, and the Political Tug-of-War Over a Popular Heroine," Bulletin of Hispanic Studies 83:4 (2006), 337-347. Matthew Goldmark, "Reading Habits: Catalina de Erauso and the Subjects of Early Modern Spanish Gender and Sexuality," Colonial Latin American Review 24:2 (June 2015), 215-235. Mary Elizabeth Perry, "The Manly Woman: A Historical Case Study," American Behavioral Scientist 31:1 (September/October 1987), 86. Joy Parks, "Passing Into Legend," The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide 8:6 (Dec. 31, 2001), 41. Benito Quintana, "The Life of Catalina de Erauso, the Lieutenant Nun: An Early Modern Autobiography," Biography 38:3 (2015). Christine Hamelin, "Outrageous Adventurer Risked Her Safety for Freedom," Kingston Whig, May 11, 2002, 6. "The Daring, Dueling 'Lieutenant Nun,'" El Pais, Jan. 31, 2009, 8. Angeline Goreau, "Cross-Dressing for Success," New York Times, March 17, 1996. "Catalina de Erauso's Story; La Nonne Alferez," New York Times, April 21, 1894. Listener mail: "Wallaby on Loose After Filey Park Escape," BBC News, Aug. 21, 2018. "Wallaby Seen Near Wombourne Sainsbury's," BBC News, Aug. 16, 2018. Filey Bird Garden & Animal Park, Facebook, Aug. 27, 2018. "Wallaby Update," Filey Bird Garden & Animal Park, Facebook, Aug. 29, 2018. "Zoo Hunts for 'Friendly' Missing Wallaby Who Was Spotted Sunbathing in Wolverhampton," Sky News, Aug. 16, 2018. WILD Zoological Park, Facebook, Aug. 16, 2018. WILD Zoological Park, Facebook, Aug. 25, 2018. WILD Zoological Park, Facebook, Aug. 29, 2018. Makenzie O'Keefe, "Bear Gets Stuck Inside Truck, Destroys Interior," 4CBS Denver, July 27, 2018. Rob Griffiths, "Life Is Different in Mammoth Lakes," Twitter, Aug. 12, 2018. Ben Hooper, "Bear Visits Tennessee Hotel, Carries Bag of French Toast," UPI, March 22, 2018. Matt Lakin, "Mom's Close Call With Gatlinburg Bear Makes for Viral Video," Knox News, March 22, 2018. "A Bear Had a Scary Good Time After Wandering Into the Shining Hotel in Colorado," Associated Press, Aug. 24, 2018. Amanda Maile, "Black Bear Wanders Around Colorado Hotel Lobby," ABC News, Aug. 24, 2018. Ryan White, "Parks Canada Officials Endorse the Human Voice and Bear Spray Over Bear Bangers and Bells," CTV News Calgary, June 9, 2017. Karin Brulliard, "Bear Breaks Into House, Plays the Piano but Not Very Well," Washington Post, June 8, 2017. This week's lateral thinking puzzle was contributed by listeners Kelly and Cherie Bruce (and Juno). Here's a corroborating link (warning -- this spoils the puzzle). You can listen using the player above, download this episode directly, or subscribe on Google Podcasts, on Apple Podcasts, or via the RSS feed at https://futilitycloset.libsyn.com/rss. Please consider becoming a patron of Futility Closet -- you can choose the amount you want to pledge, and we've set up some rewards to help thank you for your support. You can also make a one-time donation on the Support Us page of the Futility Closet website. Many thanks to Doug Ross for the music in this episode. If you have any questions or comments you can reach us at podcast@futilitycloset.com. Thanks for listening!

Pictured: Kofi Annan Julian Worricker on: Diplomat Kofi Annan, who rose through the ranks of the United Nations, to serve as its secretary-general for nine years.... Janice Tchalenko, a ceramicist, designer and artist, who bridged the gap between art and large-scale production... The botanist, Hugh Synge, voted one of the 20 most influential British conservationists.... One of the finest harp players of her generation - Helen MacLeod - a champion of the music of the West Highlands of Scotland... And Hettie Williams, who at 23, led her class of terrified pupils to safety during the Aberfan disaster. Archive clips from: Night Waves, Radio 3 10/10/2012; Surviving Aberfan, BBC Four 20/10/2016; Saturday Review, BBC TV 02/11/1985; See Hear, BBC TV 01/02/2012.

Today we pledge allegiance to what Ralph Ellison called a sorrowful laughter for all, and we open with “Waitin’ for Benny” a jam session from 1941 featuring jazz and swing guitarist Charlie Christian, an artist who, like Ellison, discovered the New World of Jazz in Oklahoma City. In Ellison’s 1958 Saturday Review essay “The Charlie …

Mark and Jon Hickman are joined by Jon Bounds to work through some more of the L section of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Lazlar Lyricon Lazlar Lyricon is a customiser of space craft to the staggeringly wealthy. He customised the Disaster Area's limo, and is said, by Ford Prefect, to have “no shame”. Lazlar Lyricon also leant its name to a convention of Hitchhiker's fans. The first was in our home city of Birmingham, and there's a link in the show notes to an episode of Saturday Review , which scratches the surface of Adams' move into the world of interactive fiction. Leda and the Octopus Leda and the Octopus is something of which a statue was made. It used to sit in the office of the Guide's editor in chief, but now doesn't. Of course, we all know that this is a play on the artworks based on the Greek myth of Leda, who comes across Zeus disguised as a swan. Leovinus Leovinus is the designer of the Starship Titanic, who fell in love with the computer inside. In the game, you have to assemble all the various parts of the ship that were scattered around it, and build a giant metal woman, at which point you're given a video message from Leovinus, as played by Douglas Adams, in which he gifts you the ship. Life Begins at Five Hundred and Fifty Life Begins at 550 is a book, less popular than the Guide. LifeSupport-o-System The LifeSupport-o-System. It supports life on the Grebulon ship, and it's perhaps the laziest name anyone has ever come up with for a piece of sci-fi. Lintilla Lintilla is an archaeologist with millions of clones. She, and all her clones, were played by Rula Lenska, who later went on to voice the Guide in its bird form. She has millions of clones because of a malfunction which meant the cloning machine got halfway through making one clone before starting the next, so it was impossible to stop it without committing murder. Eventually, the manufacturers concocted a plan to marry all the clones off to some hastily-made male clones, adding a line to the contract that meant they were aggreeing to “cease to be”. Links Lazlar Lyricon 1985 Saturday Review - YouTube Want To Marry Amazon's Alexa? You're Not Alone - Vocativ Follow Jon Hickman on Twitter Follow Jon Bounds on Twitter Follow Mark on Twitter

As the BBC screens its new arts series, Civilisations, one of the presenters, David Olusoga, joins presenter Philip Dodd, anthropologist Kit Davis and the historian Kenan Malik to consider our different notions of world history from the dawn of human civilisation to the present day. David Olusoga is a historian, writer and broadcaster who has presented several TV documentaries including A House Through Time; The World's War: Forgotten Soldiers of Empire and the BAFTA award-winning Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners. His most recent book is Black and British: A Forgotten History.Dr Kit Davis is a lecturer in social anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies who has written about travels across Europe and about Rwanda. She is a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4's Saturday Review. Kenan Malik's books include From Fatwa to Jihad and The Quest for a Moral Compass: A Global History of Ethics. Kenan is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster who presented Nightwaves on BBC Radio 3 and has written and presented radio and TV documentaries including Disunited Kingdom, Are Muslims Hated?, Islam, and Mullahs and the Media.Recorded with an audience at Sage Gateshead as part of BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking Festival.Producer: Fiona McLean

A digital edition of Saturday Review presented by Antonia Quirke. Crown Heights is a new on-demand film based on an episode of NPR's This American Life, telling the true story of Trinidadian teenager Colin Warner's twenty year wrongful incarceration. The Miniaturists takes a long-running short play night and turns it into a podcast with five new short plays from up and coming British playwrights. The reviewers explore the world's greatest and strangest museums, galleries and monuments with Google Cultural Institute. The story of a refugee's journey across the sea is rendered in an interactive graphic novel format in Nam Le & Matt Huynh's The Boat. Antonia's guests are Inua Ellams, Andy Riley and Errollyn Wallen. The producer is Caitlin Benedict.

Blade Runner 2049; 35 years after the original cult film, Denis Villeneuve directs the sequel starring Ryan Gosling. How can anyone follow up such a classic? James Graham's comic play Labour of Love tells the story of The Labour Party over several elections in the same fictional constituency somewhere in the north Midlands. starring Martin Freeman and Tamsin Greig Halloween may be a few weeks away but Saturday Review is getting in early with two books - Eight Ghosts, commissioned by English Heritage (8 short stories by a range of exciting authors set in their properties) AND Ghosts :A Cultural History by Susan Owens Timewasters is a comedy series beginning on ITV in which a bunch of young present day black Britons find a time machine and head back to 1920s London. The British Library has a new exhibition celebrating 140 years of recorded sound Tom Sutcliffe's guests are Charlotte Mendelson, Tracy Chevalier and Christopher Frayling. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Tid utgjør et sentralt element i Virginia Woolfs tekster, både på form- og innholdssiden. Woolf var opptatt av skillet mellom vår oppfattelse av tid, og tid som objektiv størrelse. Hun jobbet utrettelig med å utfordre kronologi og linearitet som grunnleggende prinsipper i litterær fremstillingsmåte. Dessuten hadde hun et uttalt ønske om å endre romanen i sin egen samtid og således skrive seg inn i tiden. Vi bruker tid som nøkkel inn til noen av Woolfs mest sentrale verker. Kvelden vil ha form som et innledende miniforedrag av litteraturviter med bakgrunn i Woolf-studier Siren Hole, etterfulgt av en samtale mellom Hole og forfatter og Woolf-entusiast Vigdis Hjorth. Ordstyrer er Litteratur på Blås Andreas Tandberg. "Mrs Woolf has experimented with time passing in To the Lighthouse and in Orlando. In The Waves she passes beyond experiment to mature accomplishment, so that I venture the verdict that better than any other novelist she has solved one of the major problems of fiction, and has actually given the reader a full realization of the time element. . ." - Earl Daniels, Saturday Review of Literature - 5 December 1931

Roger Bolton looks at the BBC's coverage of Donald Trump, the Dead Ringers team reveal what spurred them on in their latest popular series, and listeners react to the news that Saturday Review has been granted a late reprieve. At a press conference shortly after his inauguration, Donald Trump referred to the BBC's Jon Sopel as "Another beauty". On this week's Feedback, the beauty himself joins Roger to consider listener response to his coverage, how the BBC tries to remain impartial in the face of an unusual presidency and whether the BBC is giving either too much or too little credence to the ongoing allegations of collusion between Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. Many listeners have contacted Feedback to say how much they've enjoyed the latest series of Dead Ringers. So how do they do it? Jan Ravens, Jon Culshaw and Lewis Macleod discuss why breakneck news can make for blistering satire. In April, Radio 4 announced the cancellation of long running arts staple Saturday Review. Feedback listeners were furious - and made their views clear in no uncertain terms. This week, Radio 4 controller Gwyneth Williams announced an abrupt - but possibly temporary - reversal of the decision. Saturday Review enthusiasts respond to the news. Patricia Greene has been on The Archers since the 1950s, playing the much loved Jill Archer. So when the now 86 year old actress was played a clip of herself as Jill from 1959 during an interview on Woman's Hour she barely recognised her own voice. Listeners react to a special radio moment. Producer: Will Yates A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.

A O Scott's book Better Living through Criticism looks at the very stuff of Saturday Review - who needs critics nowadays? Ben Wheatley's film High-Rise is an adaptation ofthe 1972 novel by JG Ballard - an urban dystopia set in a brutalist tower block. Jane Horrocks' newest production is a genre hybrid; "a theatrical experience with music" . If You Kiss Me, Kiss Me at London's Young Vic is her tribute to the music she loved as a teenager Charlotte Bronte came to London from Yorkshire five times in her life. A small exhibition at The John Soane's Museum commemorates her visits. London's National Portrait Gallery has an unprecedented exhibition of Russian works normally displayed at The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. It's part of a cultural exchange between the two museums, both founded 160 years ago. Sarah Crompton's guests are Tiffany Jenkins, Francis Spufford and Louise Doughty. The producer is Oliver Jones.

Dominic West and Janet McTeer star in the first major London production for 30 years of Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Star Wars is back. Unless you've been living in cave, it's been hard to avoid. But is it any good? Last year WBEZ, Chicago Public Radio created the astoundingly successful Serial podcast and now there's a new series unravelling the peculiar story of American soldier Bowe Bergdahl Dickensian is Tony "Eastenders" Jordan's mash-up of several Charles Dickens stories and characters. How well does this TV series capture the spirit of the originals? Penguin publishing is putting out a series of 45 small books, each of which tells the story of a different British monarch. Tom Sutcliffe is joined for the final edition of Saturday Review for 2015 by Timberlake Wertenbaker, Rosie Goldsmith and Patrick Gale. The producer is Oliver Jones.

New Hampshire has always held a fascination for me, but it's not the mountains or the live free or die attitude. It's not the New Hampshire Motor Speedway or Strawberry Banke, either. As a young man from far northern Maine, I took my share of trips out of the state at the rate of about two a year. Each time we drove into New Hampshire, especially at night and we passed the sign that read 'Exeter' I turned my eyes to the skies. You see, in my young imagination, the Granite State's reputation as a UFO hotspot fired my imagination. When I was a kid, I read John G. Fuller's Incident at Exeter (now out of print) and it forever altered my view of UFOs. This year, if you've a mind that turns to wondering about such things, there will be a celebration of sorts in the town of Exeter, New Hampshire. On September 5 and 6, the town is hosting the Exeter UFO Festival, a fundraiser for the local Kiwanis Club and its charitable programs. This is a blend of campy fun and serious ufology studies. With a list of speakers, from physicist Stanton Friedman to political commentator Richard Dolan, visitors will receive more than their fair share of serious investigatory work. Meanwhile, kids can explore a UFO 'Crash Site" in the park, along with extraterrestrial arts and crafts. A fun time is to be had by all. But the best part might be after all of the talks and activities, when the town quiets down and the night skies darken. Then, all you need to do is possibly just look up to be 'entertained.' Of course, those who visit the festival on a lark might find themselves fascinated by two of the most famous UFO stories ever investigated. The famous "Hill Abduction" of 1961 is the more famous of the two cases. It gained attention in the media as the first widely publicized report of an alien abduction in the country. A best-selling book by John G. Fuller, The Interrupted Journey, sold like hotcakes from the bookstore shelves. Even today, Betty and Barney Hill's notes, tapes and other items including the dress she shore during the abduction have been placed in the University of New Hampshire's permanent collection. The state has even marked the site of the alleged abduction with an appropriate historical marker. For readers interested in the Hill Abduction, there are plenty of online resources that detail their story. It is definitely worth the research and reading, but in the end, we only have the words of the couple and Betty's dreams as a kind of remembrance of the events. Later hypnosis seemed to confirm the 'truth' of the events, though hypnosis still must rely solely on subjective testimony. The other famous case concerns events that occurred in nearby Kensington in the early morning of September 3, 1965 and are in the official police records of the Exeter Police At around two in the morning, 18 year old Norman Muscarello was hitchhiking to his parent's home along Highway 150. Having already enlisted in the U.S.Navy, he had been spending time with his girlfriend at her parent's home in Amesbury, Massachusetts. There was little traffic on the road at that time of night and he spent most of his time walking. He noticed five red lights low in the sky, flashing on and off. Later, he would claim that the craft with the lights was as big as a house. According to his story, when the 'thing' moved away from him and began hovering over a nearby farmhouse, Muscarello jumped out of the ditch he had been cowering in and ran to the house, pounding on the door as the lights got lower and closer. Of course, no one was home. He was alone, except for whatever or whoever was behind the mysterious lights. He ran back to the road and thankfully, a passing car stopped to pick him up. He asked to go to the police station in nearby Exeter. As Muscarello reported what he had just witnessed to the policemen in the station, Patrolman Eugene Bertrand must have had a perplexed look on his face. Hours before, while patrolling the roads, he had stopped to help a motorist parked on the Rte. 101 bypass. She was visibly shaken and when the officer inquired why, she explained that she had been followed by a huge glowing object in the sky for the past twelves miles, all the way from Epping. It had red, glowing lights and was as big as a house. At the time, Patrolman Bertrand simply wrote her off as a 'kook' and remained with her long enough for her to resume her journey, about fifteen minutes. It hardly seemed worth mentioning. It is the testimony of Patrolman Bertrand that makes this particular UFO story worth considering. Here was a no-nonsense man of the law, a level-headed, professionally-trained and well-respected member of the law enforcement community who was willing to go back out to the farmhouse Muscarello mentioned to see if there was any evidence of otherworldly visitation or if this young man was possibly under some kind of influence. With Muscarello in the passenger seat, Bertrand drove them back to the site. As they sat in the car, nothing seemed out of place or amiss. Not content with simply investigating from the driver's seat, Bertrand told Muscarello to follow him and that they would have a look around. That's when things got weird. Though there were no people about, some horses in a nearby barn began kicking at their stalls and neighing. Local dogs began barking and howling. Something was causing them concern. That was when they saw an object rising from the edge of the trees at the end of the field. Officer Bertrand unholstered his pistol, withdrew it and fell on one knee, taking aim. For whatever reason, he decided not to squeeze the trigger. Instead, he grabbed the teenager and ran back to the squad car, immediately calling the station, exclaiming, "My God. I see the damned thing myself!" He later described the object as a 'brilliant roundish object, without a sound.' White light filled the area. As they waited for Officer David Hunt to arrive, the two witnesses watched the object about one hundred feet from them and about a hundred feet off the ground pulsate its light from the left to the right and swaying, back and forth. Then, the lights pulsated from the right to the left. Officer Hunt arrived and also witnessed the object and its strange behavior, adding another well-respected and trustworthy witness to the event. Soon enough, the object rose and flew away from them over the trees. When their chief read their reports of the night, he decided to contact authorities at Pease Air Force Base and report the sighting. Major David Griffin and Lieutenant Alan Brandt came to Exeter to interview the three men involved and asked all three of the men not to report their sighting to the press. It was too late for that, however. The Manchester Union-Leader had already spoken to the men. In his report, Major Griffin would write, "At this time I have been unable to arrive at a probable cause of this sighting. The three observers seem to be stable, reliable persons, especially the two patrolmen. I viewed the area of the sighting and found nothing in the area that could be the probable cause. Pease AFB had five B-47 aircraft flying in the area but I do not believe that they had any connection with this sighting." Before it had a chance to be investigated by the official UFO investigatory team of Project Blue Book, the Pentagon issued a statement saying that the men had seen "nothing more than stars and planets twinkling...owing to a temperature inversion." This would become one of the classic explanations for hundreds of alleged UFO encounters, in addition to swamp gas. An Air Force operation, BIG BLAST, begin operations that night, as well and this might have added to the confusion, according to the entry for the incident in Project Blue Book. The three men involved were angry at the Air Force's dismissal of their testimony. In the press and personally, these two officers and the now U.S. serviceman Muscarello involved had nothing good to say about the Air Force's conclusions. In 1966, the Air Force finally relented in a reply to their letters. Lieutenant John Spaulding from the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force wrote to the men, "based on additional information submitted to our UFO investigation office, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, we have been unable to identify the object you observed on September 3, 1965." The story made its way into the mainstream media. First, it was printed in The Saturday Review, then for Look magazine and then for Reader's Digest. John G. Fuller would later write an account of the events entitled Incident at Exeter and it would not only become a New York Times bestseller, but would remain one of the top-selling books on the subject of UFOs for decades. No one knows for certain what was witnessed by Officers Bertrand, Hunt and Mr. Muscarello that night. The Incident at Exeter is only one of thousands of UFO sighting in New England in the early 1960s and remains one of the most famous accounts because of the veracity of the men involved. Left to right: Eighteen-year-old Norman Muscarello, who first spotted the UFO, patrolman David Hunt and Eugene Bertrand and (seated) dispatcher “Scratch” Toland COURTESY OF THE UNION LEADER Sources New Hampshire Magazine, September 2015 Fuller, John G. Incident at Exeter, the Interrupted Journey: Two Landmark Investigations of UFO Encounters Together in One Volume. MJF, 1997. ISBN 1-56731-134-2 Clark, Jerome. The UFO Book: Encyclopedia of the Extraterrestrial. Visible Ink Press, 1998.

Saturday Review comes from the 2014 Edinburgh Festivals: National Theatre of Scotland's production of a new history play looking at the Scottish Stuart kings - we've been to see James II. Front is a multilingual, multi sensory theatrical experience telling the stories of the First World War. Marion Cotillard's new film, directed by The Dardennes brothers is Two Days One Night; in order to try and save her own job, a woman has to persuade her work colleagues to forgo their annual bonus. The shameful history of colonisation and racial exploitation is explored in Exhibit B, a 'show' that has caused consternation and extreme - sometimes physical - reactions amongst those who have visited it. Sarah Waters' new novel The Paying Guests is set in 1920s London when a mother and daughter who find themselves in reduced circumstances, take in tenants leading to complicated repercussions. Tom Sutcliffe's guests this week are Lesley McDowell, Sophie Cooke and Kerry Shale. The producer is Oliver Jones.

It's easy to assume that Sherlock Holmes's powers were something of an anomaly - that Holmes was a superhero with something akin to super powers, and we mere mortals cannot attain the same level of expertise and professionalism. But that assumption would be wrong, as author  has made abundantly clear. In her book , Konnikova, who holds a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University and writes the "" column for Scientific American, deconstructs the process of observation, deduction and self-knowledge. In doing so, she gives the reader concrete examples of how to approach the fabled scientific method, along with the psychology behind the process. While , our conversation with Maria in this episode took personal turns and got us much deeper into the creative process, her inspiration, and even a back story to Holmes that gave him these powers. In addition, we covered topics from the ridiculous to the sublime such as movie trailers and voice overs, storytelling, suggestions for getting your fix of Sherlock Holmes news links and more. We also discussed the need to merge this site and the Baker Street Blog and put out a call for assistance from those with technical programming aptitude to help us with the migration and site upgrade. We also asked for feedback on our process, frequency and topics of the show - we'd love to hear from you! Finally, we concluded with a reading of the Editor's Gas-Lamp, this time choosing the most recent entry from the Summer 2013 (Vol. 63, No. 2). Links:  with director Kurt Mattila  by Maria Konnikova (Amazon) Christopher Morley's "" in the Saturday Review of Literature Fantastic  News links to keep you up to date on all things Sherlock Holmes: the  page and the  Please  and be kind enough to leave a rating or review for the show. Your thoughts on the show? Leave a comment below, send us an email, call us at (774) 221-READ (7323). Connect with us and other interested Sherlockians on  on Google+, ,  and . And above all, please let our sponsors know that you heard us rant and rave about their excellence during the programme:  and .    

We’ve all heard that laughter is the best medicine. If you’re old enough you may recall Norman Cousins 1979 book, Anatomy of An Illness. Norman Cousins was the editor of the Saturday Review magazine and he had come down with a serious, life threatening disease and he decided to treat himself using laughter. I seem […] The post Shrink Rap Radio – Laughter As Medicine appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

By: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) In 1894, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) published two short collections of aphorisms: “A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated”, in the Saturday Review newspaper, and “Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young”, in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon. By turns witty, intellectual, counter-intuitive and obtuse, the collections came to be seen by many as emblematic of Wilde’s style, and countless collections of Wildean aphorisms have since been published. (Summary by Carl Manchester) http://www.audioowl.com/book/aphorisms-by-oscar-wilde

"WHO'S THE GOOD GUY?!"If I were to choose a hymn to go with the Scripture today - Luke18:9-14. in which the hated tax collector is shown mercy and the selfrighteousness religious leader is sent away without any, I would chooseAmazing Grace.Growing up as we do in a tit for tat world, where the good shouldbe rewarded and the bad should be condemned, we just don't understandthe way God does things. God saves those we would damn, and setsfree those we would capture. God restores those whom we might leavebroken. While we set about to be righteous and look down upon thosewho have not climbed to our heights, God is busy blessing the unrighteous,and calling our self righteousness into question. God's Grace IS amazingand downright disgusting - depending upon where we placedourselves in the Scripture. God's Mercy is unfathomable exceptperhaps to those who need it most.The wretched tax collector who collected from his fellow Jewswhat taxes Rome required and a lot more that he could get away with tokeep for himself, finally had his guilt catch up with him, confessed that hewas a wretched sinner - in contrast to a former member of our churchwho would not come to church if we sang Amazing Grace. "I amNOT a wretch!" He would vehemently declare - and he wasn't, he wasa very good guy, but his name did rhyme with Warlock - which I believe isa male witch! (I threw that in, just so you'd know how seasonally relevantI am!) "Amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved aWRETCH like me!"God seems a little prejudiced toward the sinner if the truth betold! In so many of the parables, the supposed "bad guy" is the good guyand the bad guy - the good - thus the sermon title, WHO'S THE GOODGUY?!Today's Scripture Lesson from the Lectionary usually results in uslooking down our noses (we Christians are VERY good at that!) - lookingdown our noses at the self-righteous Pharisee which puts us in the exactcategory we seek to disavow! Oh, ow!Is it possible only to be deemed "good" by being bad? Are wemissing a real opportunity here to live it up? What IS going on with thisScripture?We're not the only ones to wonder. The early disciples who firstheard the words couldn't believe what they were hearing. For them, it isutterly unseemly, almost laughable to think someone who does what thetax collector does would even dare to PRAY for mercy. They found itscandalous that grace is offered to such a scoundrel so easily. Wherewere the works of absolution? Where were the terrible nights of anguishthat prove his remorse is not short-lived? Where were the years of goingabout righting wrongs, returning the extra fees collected that made himrich while he watched his neighbors struggle to survive?What we have to come to is the truth that mercy is at God'sdiscretion, forgiveness is available to all who ask for it and righteousnessis a gift, not an accomplishment.We are imbued with what the theologians call work righteousness.The Apostle Paul tried to warn us to clue us in: "For by grace are wesaved though faith, not works, lest any person should boast." And,he asks a good question, "Shall we sin that grace may abound?!"Now THERE'S an idea! But we won't be practicing THAT any time soon.Essentially, this parable is about judging - or rather, not judging.Let's not cast aspersions on what God wants to do in the forgiving business.We may need some of that blanket forgiveness ourselves at some futuredate.But in the meantime, our job as Christians is not to judge but tojoin those who are recipients of God's Grace - to invite them to join us.They don't need our judgement - they don't need to see us looking downour noses at them - as all the "righteous" people of Jesus time looked atthe tax collector.A few years ago, I decided to be in my office five days a week,not six as I had done for thirty years. Still, I wanted to be of service onthat extra day I now had off - so I went to a Rotary Club - in Ft. Lauderdale,near my home. The president was very welcoming, but I can't say theclub was. They had some get togethers, but no projects where you coulddo what Rotarians do - not in the weeks that I was there. It was a prettyritzy club, meeting in a ritzy environment and I didn't see why I should beexcluded..I had a ritzy house and a ritzy car and I could afford the ritzypriced breakfast. . The fact was it was not about me at all. They werehaving such a good time with the people they already knew and liked, thatalthough I was there, I was there and not there. They didn't see me andfind me wanting, they didn't find me at all - they didn't see me at all. I wasnot a member of their club. I continued to attend for several weekswhen that fact became painfully obvious.I went to the district meeting of Rotary which members of Rotaryclubs all over the district attended. Unfortunately, no one from my RotaryClub of Miami Beach was there so I sat down with my Rotary friendsfrom my "extra day" club. "Sorry," one of them said, "this area isreserved from members of our Club." I went to another table, but Inever went back to THEIR club.Years ago, this church made a decision not to be a Club. It decidedto be welcoming to everyone despite the fact that some of the memberswanted the leadership and membership to be essentially white, anglosaxon,country club people. Those same members, di not want Blacks,Latins, gays or children in the church - i.e. children not white and anglosaxon.The Chairman of the Board, a young man, Doug Bischoff wasadamant that the church should be open and welcoming to all. I rememberhim saying, "It's o.k. for my country club to be a country club, butit's not o.k. for my church to be a country club."Up until that effort began, people in the community believed thatthis church was for the rich only. In fact an outstandingly talented flautistwho played here with the Symphony of the Americas lived in Miami Beachas a child, told of playing jacks on the front steps of the church, wonderingif she would "ever be rich enough to be allowed to go in."It was a club and a clique-y one at that. The problem is, and whatwe are being asked to see is that without meaning to be, we are still TheClub in our own way - we are the Pharisee judging anyone who is differentfrom ourselves.Years ago I read this in the Saturday Review. It shows the dangerin insisting that everyone be just like ourselves.In cobra country, a mongoose was born one day who didn'twant to fight cobras or anything else. The word spread frommongoose to mongoose that there was a mongoose who didn't wantto fight cobras. If he didn't want to fight anything else, it was hisown business, but it was the duty of every mongoose to kill cobrasor be killed by cobras."Why?" asked the peacelike mongoose, and the word wentaround that the strange new mongoose was not only pro-cobra andanti-mongoose but intellectually curious and against the ideals andtraditions of mongooism. "He is crazy" cried the youngmongoose's father. "He is sick," said his mother. He is a coward,"shouted his brothers. "He is a mongoosexual, whispered hissisters.Strangers who had never laid eyes on the peacelikemongoose remembered that they had seen him crawling on hisstomach, or trying on cobra hoods, or plotting the violent overthrowof Mongoosia. "I am trying to use reason and intelligence," saidthe strange new mongoose. "Reason is sex-sevenths of treason,said one of his neighbors. "Intelligence is what the enemy uses, "said another.Finally, the rumor spread that the mongoose had venom inhis sting, like a cobra, and he was tried, convicted by a show ofpaws and condemned to banishment.Moral, Ashes to ashes and clay to clay. If the enemy doesn'tget you your own folks may - those in "The Club" that seek to keepeveryone else out.So here we are on a Sunday - confident in our spirituality, enjoyingthe fellowship of the church - meaning enjoying all the people we alreadyknow and love - and, unfortunately - not seeing, not welcoming thenewcomer, the stranger, the person not yet a part of that fellowship, theperson who is different from us - not like us - but hurting for a word ofwelcome.When we hear about the Pharisee, let us be totally aware of howvery much in danger we are of becoming the very thing we look down ournose at, because of the subtleties by which we can get into that realitybefore we even realize it.It isn't that we're bad or mean, we're simply caught up in theenjoyment of being together with people we know and love. Yet thechurch exists not for the people in it, but for the people not in it yet. That'swhere our focus should be on Saturday morning when we have theopportunity to invite people to come with us on Sunday, and Sunday afterchurch where we can seek out the stranger and the guest.Every member and friend of the church - every regular attendershould be what we call in church growth parlance - a new person spotter- who then becomes a new-person welcomer - otherwise we have heardthe parable but missed the very point that Jesus wanted to make by tellingit.We are not the important, VIP, "Country Club" people - we arethe servants of God intent upon widening the circle of God's House toinclude others than ourselves.We are not to be the Pharissee, who felt that he was better thanothers, nor do we want to be. He went home not right with God. "Peoplewho make themselves important will be made humble, but thosewho make themselves humble will be made important.""There were some people who thought they were very goodand looked down on everyone else. Jesus used this story to teachthem." Once to every man and nations comes the moment to decide, ifwe will learn the lesson or not. WHO'S THE GOOD GUY?!Sermon Notes(Not edited nor proofed)The Rev. Dr. Garth R. Thompson Pastor, M.B. Community ChurchA sermon is a simple truth told by someone whobelieves it to people he knows and loves (Phillips Brooks)October 28, 2007 10:30 a, m. Luke 18:9-14May the words of my mouth and the meditations of our heartsbe acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, our strength and our redeemer.http://feeds.feedburner.com/MiamiBeachCommunityChurch