Writer, photographer, and curator Joanna Ebenstein talks about Goth obsessions, memento mori, Santa Muerta, and her extraordinary new illustrated collection Death: A Graveside Companion (Thames & Hudson). Download this episode (right click and save)
All Together Now – 02.04.16
Eleanor LeCain discusses gender equality with two women who helped make Iceland #1 in gender equality – Katrin Anna Gudmundsdottir and Bryndis Isfold – and discusses moving from social justice advocate to mayor with the new mayor of Alexandria, Virginia – Allison Silberberg.
David Morris – Sanding Down the Rough Edges of Capitalism Is Not Enough
The catalyst for a recent column by David Brooks was a speech delivered by his New York Times colleague Anand Giridharadas at the Aspen Action Forum. (Giridharadas writes the Letter from America column for the Global Edition of the Times) Giridharadas questioned the “Aspen Consensus” that the wealthy and powerful, the benefactors of the Aspen Institute, could be asked to …