The greatest winner in the history of team sports, BILL RUSSELL died this week at 88. Russell’s Celtics won 11 NBA championships in his 13 years. He was voted MVP 5 times by his peers, was the first Black head coach in a major US sport, and his legacy as a man of principle may be even greater than as an athlete. Here’s my 2010 conversation with ARAM GOUDSOUZIAN on his book, KING OF THE COURT: BILL RUSSELL AND THE BASKETBALL REVOLUTION. In the second half, you’ll hear my 2009 conversation with CORNEL WEST, teacher, philosopher, author, activist, and public intellectual on his memoir, BROTHER WEST. One of my favorite all-time guests. West entered Harvard College a few months after Russell’s retirement from the NBA.
Episode 492: ARLIE HOCHSCHILD-Strangers in Their Own Land-She’s been talking with “Trumpers” since 2011 - and since election day
Episode 491: HEDRICK SMITH-WHO STOLE THE AMERICAN DREAM? (2012) We need more than Obama 2.0 in 2021.
Episode 490: THOMAS HOMER-DIXON - for the new year - COMMANDING HOPE: The Power to Renew a World in Peril
Episode 489: NEW-Sisters Constance Touey & Jeannette Lucey - DO IT BETTER: How the Kids of St. Francis de Sales Exceeded Everyone’s Expectations
Episode 488: SAM MYERS, PLANETARY HEALTH: Protecting Nature to Protect Ourselves - Exhibit A: the pandemic
Episode 487: REBECCA HENDERSON, REIMAGINING CAPITALISM In a World on Fire
ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Trump’s legal options, How Biden reverses Trump’s orders, and the Supreme Court
MILTON BENNETT-The Cult of Trump -72M Americans voted for four more years
ROB JOHNSON-Relief - but no congratulations. Dems must be bolder.
CHICAGO CONSPIRACY TRIAL - JON WIENER -What does it have to tell us?
BILLY WIMSATT, Movement Voter Project (2018) - Invest in the grassroots to win elections and make change.
ALEX KEYSSAR-Why Do We Still Have the Electoral College?
JON WIENER, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties
Rec. JAN 28, 2017-MARK HERTSGAARD, RICHARD ESKOW, DREW DELLINGER-the Week Trump Took Office
ROBERT FRANK, best-selling economist - UNDER THE INFLUENCE: Putting Peer Pressure to Work
DAVID KIRP, author, KIDS FIRST - We know innovative programs that work - whether kids are in school or not
ELIE MYSTAL of The Nation on Racial Justice and the Trump-Barr Assault on Rule of Law
PAUL HOWARD, director, INFINITE POTENTIAL: Life & Ideas of DAVID BOHM
JEAN GUERRERO, author, HATEMONGER: Stephen Miller, Donald Trump, and the White Nationalist Agenda
CHUCK COLLINS-Inequality is only getting worse during pandemic
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