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At semester’s end, students - few for whom English is their first language - perform a full-length Shakespeare play. Learn more: & Transcripts: Brinkley Esquith

Second half: School year opens - here’s my 2005 conversation w Natl Teacher of Year, Rafe Esquith, on a PBS doc re his Hobart Shakespearians. Esquith leads 5th graders at LA’s Hobart Elementary through a challenging curriculum of English, math, geography, and literature.

First half: 20th anni of Hurricane Katrina. Here’s my 2006 conversation w Douglas Brinkley about The Great Deluge. He investigates government failures, and traces the character flaws, inexperience, and ulterior motives that allowed the disaster to devastate the Gulf Coast.

Podcast: 1) DOUGLAS BRINKLEY(2006)-20th anni of Katrina, The Great Deluge 2) RAFE ESQUITH(2005)-Hobart Elementary’s Shakespearians - any time at ApplePodcasts, most podcast sites, & - Sun 8/31 8pPT at ProgressiveVoicesNetwork on TuneIn

I talk with American legal scholar ROBERT POST of Yale Law School about the rule of law, the American legal system, free speech, academic freedom, public morality, and the Supreme Court’s weakness in the age of Trump.

What happens when the President plays mob boss - “How much can I get away with? Who’s going to stop me?” Transcript: You can learn more about Robert Post at

Podcast: The Rule of Law in the Age of Trump-Legal scholar ROBERT POST - Links to podcast and relevant articles: - ApplePodcasts, most podcast sites, & - Sun 8/24 8pPT at ProgressiveVoicesNetwork on TuneIn

I talk with American legal scholar ROBERT POST of Yale Law School about the rule of law, the American legal system, free speech, academic freedom, public morality, and the Supreme Court’s weakness in the age of Trump.

What happens when the President plays mob boss - “How much can I get away with? Who’s going to stop me?” Transcript: - Learn more at

Podcast: The Rule of Law in the Age of Trump-Legal scholar ROBERT POST - Links to podcast and relevant articles: - any time at ApplePodcasts, most podcast sites, & - Sat 8/23 7p PT, Sun 8/24 8pPT ProgressiveVoicesNetwork on TuneIn

In fact, such transformation have often nudged us forward. Faced with today’s news, we could all use a dose of hope. You can learn more at

If a society enters a cataclysm - climate crisis, war, plague, etc. - behaving one way and emerges behaving another, she defines that as an apocalypse. Looking at these situations over time reveals they need not end badly.

In the last two decades, we’ve experienced a global financial crash, a pandemic, multiple wars, and a climate crisis with repeated natural disasters. I talk with LIZZIE WADE about the ideas in APOCALYPSE: How Catastrophe Transformed Our World and Can Forge New Futures.

Podcast: LIZZIE WADE-How APOCALYPSE Has Transformed Our World-Often for the better - Links to podcast and relevant articles: - any time at ApplePodcasts, most podcast sites, &

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Here’s my 2003 conversation with ROBERT FULLER, who crusaded for the dignity of all and against the dismissal of society’s unknowns and underachievers as “nobodies.” We talk about his first book, Somebodies and Nobodies. Transcript:

A bittersweet truth about having recorded these conversations for 25 years is how many of my guests are no longer with us. I went back through my files and found at least 60 - Sixty human beings worthy, willing, and able to share an hour with me.

Podcast: ROBERT FULLER (2003)- advocated dignity for all, fought abuse of rank-died July 15 at 88 - Links to podcast, articles: - ApplePodcasts & - Sun 8/17 8pPT at ProgressiveVoicesNetwork on TuneIn -.