Hackers, Unite!
Is Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto, pitting proletariats against capitalists, a bit outdated for our current structure of the economy? Ten years ago, Eugene Lang College professor of culture and...
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“You know, I can’t really take credit for the idea,” says Simon Collins in the opening seconds of our latest Research Radio podcast. “It’s such an obvious topic, and I’m just the guy who put it...
View ArticleMannes in a New Key
The new century has brought a number of challenges to the classical music industry—a shrinking audience, disappearing recording studios, and a shift away from the success of the soloist. It’s also...
View ArticleThe Universal Language—A Research Radio Podcast
“We all ask philosophical questions, we all read, and we all dance,” says Stefania de Kenessey. “The humanities and the arts are all around us, and we can no more escape them then we can such necessary...
View ArticleSchooling College—a Research Radio Podcast
Recent cautionary headlines, images depicting the Harvard banner burning, and a few not-so-quiet whispers seemingly portray a national higher education system in peril—disconnected from society and...
View ArticleJournalism Meets Design
For years now, media pundits have offered varying opinions on the state of the Fourth Estate ranging from “traditional journalism is dead!” to “there’s never been a more exciting time to be a...
View ArticleClimate Action for the Nonscientist
Even before Rachel Carson’s controversial and illuminating 1962 publication of Silent Spring, the scientific community issued warnings about the havoc being wrecked by industrial companies, big...
View ArticlePeeking into the Kremlin: A Research Radio Podcast
Russia makes no shortage of headlines these days: countless on the situation in Ukraine, several more on the continued reign of Vladimir Putin, and a few—here and there—on the justification of...
View ArticleThe Truth About Divestment
The impact of climate change on global society is no longer in doubt: More treacherous storms, intense cold and heat waves, and serious droughts and flooding are wreaking havoc on our cities. Driven by...
View ArticleIncarceration Nation
The United States leads the world on many fronts, from technology and finance to entertainment and higher education. But there’s another arena in which its leadership is far less flattering:...
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