Episode 58: Jason Kelly Johnson
We’ve been away for a long, long time. But now we’re back with the remaining nine episodes of The Conversation. All of these were recorded in 2013 but we don’t feel that they’re remotely dated–this is...
View ArticleEpisode 59: Charles Hugh Smith
Charles Hugh Smith is an economics writer, former builder, and general renaissance man who blogs at oftwominds.com. In 2012 CNBC dubbed Charles as one of their top alternative financial bloggers. I...
View ArticleEpisode 60: George Lakoff
George Lakoff is one of the most influential living linguists. He has revolutionized how we think about metaphor’s role in cognition, the grounding of metaphor in the human body, and the metaphorical...
View ArticleEpisode 61: Rainey Reitman
Rainey Reitman is the Activism Director at the Electronic Frontier Foundation and a co-founder of both the Freedom of the Press Foundation and Chelsea Manning Support Network. My conversation with...
View ArticleEpisode 62: Rebecca Costa
Rebecca Costa is a self-proclaimed sociobiologist, author of The Watchman’s Rattle: A Radical New Theory of Collapse, and host of the radio program The Costa Report. Throughout The Conversation we...
View ArticleEpisode 63: Kim Stanley Robinson
Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the biggest names in current science fiction. His most famous work is, arguably, the Mars Trilogy, but he is the author of seventeen novels and several collections of...
View ArticleEpisode 64: Peter Gleick
Peter Gleick researches water and water policy at the Pacific Institute. In addition to co-founding the Pacific Institute, Gleick is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, has won a MacArthur...
View ArticleEpisode 65: Rebecca Solnit
Rebecca Solnit is an author, activist, historian, and geographer, among other things. Her books include A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting Lost, and Men Explain Things to Me. She’s...
View ArticleEpisode 66: Lisa Gray-Garcia
Lisa “Tiny” Gray-Garcia is a writer, organizer, activist, poet, and self-proclaimed poverty scholar. She is the only interviewee in The Conversation who has spent a good portion of her life houseless...
View ArticleEpisode 67: Aengus Anderson
Finally, formally, this is where The Conversation ends. If you’ve been a contemporaneous listener, thanks for joining on this epic trip. If you’re just discovering The Conversation, welcome! This...
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