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View the full archive of Open Source type “The Wire” Rewired “The Wire” was the genius series on HBO that “revealed” Baltimore today (”Bodymore, Murderland”) the way Dickens’ Bleak House and Oliver Twist revealed 19th Century London. It was “reality television,” finally, about no-go America: not just terror-stricken drugged-out public housing but the complexity of human responses inside it. It was the new-media [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ralph Nader’s Flight of Fantasy Ralph Nader has charted a utopian fictional flight out of the dystopia he sees all around him on the ground. In conversation I’m trying to figure whether Ralph has written a happy ending to his career, or a scream of despair. Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Ralph Nader. (39 minutes, 18 [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | How God Came Back: Gordon, Cox and West Click to listen to the “Matters of Faith” conversation with Harvey Cox, Mary Gordon, Cornel West and Chris Lydon. (43 minutes, 20 mb mp3)This is a book-fair exchange that caught fire around a current version of the old graffiti duel: “God is dead,” signed Nietzsche. Then, “Nietzsche is dead,” signed God. How’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Mark Danner: Scoring Assymetrical Warfare If, as guesstimated, Osama Bin Laden spent half a million dollars to recruit, feed and train the perpetrators of 911, and if the US has spent or committed something like $2-trillion on our 8-year response, the asymmetry of costs in this global war on terror is something like 4-million to 1. And that’s just [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Ted Sizer: Performance was the only test Ted Sizer was a master teacher when he first kicked me into shape in the 1950s. He was just out of Yale and the United States Army. I was a driven, impoverished sophomore at the “Marine Corps of the Mind,” as we thought of our venerable, ancient Roxbury Latin School in Boston. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (14): C.D. Wright Prompted by last weekend’s Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going?C.D. Wright speaks of her output as “a few reams of freedom.” Father was an Arkansas judge and a nearsighted bookworm, like herself. Mother was a court reporter. “Of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Chris Hedges: Requiem for the Republic Chris Hedges is “Mr. Bad News” in our time, the obituary writer for our economy, our culture, our democracy, our media. When I got to the New York Times (some years before Chris Hedges) in the late Sixties, Alden Whitman had the bad news moniker, writing obits of great figures for the paper of [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (13): Michael Ansara In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, which pops into full bloom tomorrow (Saturday) in the city of Lowell, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Michael Ansara stands for the poet lurking in every one of us, and in this conversation he instructs us [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (12): Teresa Cader In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Teresa Cader used to think of herself as a child of Europe. Walt Whitman made her a poet and an American. Her father was an immigrant from Poland. Her mother’s side is [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (11): Lloyd Schwartz In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? You can hear it in Lloyd Schwartz’s reading of “Six Words” that he thought of being an actor. “Speech is his muse,” says his friend Robert Pinsky, noting the [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Donald Pease: Obama’s “Transnational” Presidency Herman Melville, C. L. R. James & Donald Pease: deep dreams of America as the utopian world-nation Click to listen to Chris’s conversation with Donald Pease. (49 minutes, 23 mb mp3) Re-read Moby-Dick and be cured of these absurd Nobel blues. The Nobel Peace Prize for Barack Obama underlines the world’s idea of our “transnational” President, our [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (10): Stephen Burt In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Stephen Burt makes you think of Samuel Johnson and also “The Simpsons.” If Harold Bloom were a precocious thirty-something again, if he loved science fiction and underground rock ‘n’ roll, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (9): Sarah Kay In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, the question has been: where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Before she could write, spoken word poet Sarah Kay began dictating poems to her mother. Today, at 21, Sarah has become a successful, artful practitioner of spoken word. Sarah’s [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (8): Rosanna Warren In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Rosanna Warren says it’s a tremendous relief to meet people who know her work and don’t know that she’s the daughter of the triple-threat poet, critic and novelist Robert Penn Warren (1905 – 1989). [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (7): Vendler’s Stevens What is it about Wallace Stevens (1879 – 1955), that such a variety of our contemporaries speak of an attachment that does not hang on “meaning”? Ask who or what drew them to poetry and, over and over, the answer is: Wallace Stevens. Typically it was long before they quite knew what he [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (6): Ron Slate In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Ron Slate is the poet who flies business class. He’s also the corporate strategist of darting eye and allusive readings with nothing of the boardroom or the brochure about himself or his language. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Tracy Kidder: “…faith that looks through death” Tracy Kidder actually finds a needle in the haystack — a kernel of inspiration in a continent of bad news — in his virtually irresistible new saga (with a Wordsworth title) Strength in What Remains. The bad news is the ongoing massacres and underlying misery in East Central Africa – in the neighborhood of Rwanda, [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (5): Jericho Brown In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Jericho Brown was born and raised in Shreveport, but did his growing-up in New Orleans. Library daycare introduced him to Shelley’s love poetry; the black church introduced him to call-and-response testimony and poetic performance. Fresh [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Whose Words These Are (4): Joan Houlihan In anticipation of the 2009 Massachusetts Poetry Festival, where does poetry come from these days? And where is it going? Joan Houlihan has rebuilt a poetry nest in Concord, Massachusetts — home of the “American Renaissance” of Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott & Co. in the 1850s, the town where, in Susan Cheever’s line, “most of American [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | James Morone: What healthcare politics lays bare From FDR to Barack Obama, James Morone’s revelatory history of presidents and healthcare policy lays out some basic rules — the conditions, in short, that Lyndon Johnson met to pass Medicare in 1965, but that asked too much of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton in the losing campaigns of 1977 and 1994 for universal insurance. [...] Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |