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06 Nov 2020

🎧 Are Young People Losing Faith in Democracy?

Episode summary: David talks to Roberto Foa about his recent report into young people’s attitude to democracy around the world. Why are millennials so much less satisfied with democratic politics than older generations? Can populist politics do anything to alter that? And what does the generation di...

03 Nov 2020

🎧 01. Welcome to Reimagining the Internet

Episode summary:

Having listened to this first episode via Huffduffer, I decided to subscribe to the podcast only to discover (I fear) that my robot doesn’t seem to pick up the details from Overcast. If it had, I would have noted that this is possibly a podcast where good content will outweigh ba...

17 Oct 2020

📖 Delizia! ✍

You might think, what with my interest in food and living in Italy, that I would have devoured this book when it first came out, but I didn’t, and I don’t know why. It is so glorious, in so many respects. Most importantly, it gives the lie to the idea that Italian food is a food of poverty or someho...

29 Aug 2020

📖 All the Light We Cannot See ✍

There isn’t much I can say about this luminous book that has not already been said by people far more accomplished than me. I found it a spell-binding read; the different points of view, the empathy for Marie-Laure and Werner, the timeline weaving back and forth, here and there.

How I came to read...

20 Jul 2020

What could be fairer than a free election?

Lottery balls flying towards the viewer

The old coincidence detector beeped yesterday as I listened to the Reply All podcast Candidate One. It was about an election at Berkeley High School, a hotbed of political activism and its evil twin, political chicanery.

Tl, dr; someone tried to cheat and got caught. Yay democracy and truth.

18 Jun 2020

🎧 S4 E12: More Democracy

Episode summary: What will it take to make the United States a more fully-functioning democracy, and how can we, as citizens, bring about that change? By host and producer John Biewen, with series collaborator Chenjerai Kumanyika. Interviews with Michael Waldman, Jennifer Cohn, and Sanford Levinson....

25 May 2020

🎧 S2: The NRA | EP8: Down to the Studs

Episode summary: A former Ackerman employee explains how expenses were hidden. Leaked audio of Wayne LaPierre lets people know the real damage under his watch. Where will the NRA go from here?

My script was a little flaky in picking up all episodes of this podcast series, but I just wanted to add...

11 May 2020

📖 A Gentleman in Moscow

I’ve just finished the most delightful book I have read in a very long time. A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles is simply breath-taking in the way it spins its magic. I freely confess to being extremely sentimental, easy to tears in a film or even music, but I don’t recall having wept tears of joy...

07 May 2020

Curation matters ✍

Wackos and ZoomGlüts - Not Boring by Packy McCormick

Interesting is such a devalued word. What else to say about this rather fine essay? It explains a lot of things and it explains them well. I particularly sympathised with his experience of the glut of free and wonderful things to do online in th...

03 May 2020

Let’s pretend ✍

Rebecca Solnit: On Letting Go of Certainty in a Story That Never Ends | Literary Hub

Rebecca Solnit reading fairy stories is not something I’m sure I want to listen to. Rebecca Solnit writing about reading fairy stories is something else again. Full of wonderful insights, this latest essay takes t...

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