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Handyman ((Melody Christin Gates/flickr))
How many men do you know who can cut metal, solder a circuit board or hammer a nail properly? Blogger Glenn Reynolds thinks it’s a problem that males today aren’t as handy as their fathers and grandfathers. Also, how one group of New York City teens is learning to deal with street harassment, revisiting Harry Potter-mania, and Andrew Keen says the internet is killing our culture.
Guests:
Glenn ReynoldsWhy the Internet is Bad For Us
Andrew Keen, former Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of the new book The Cult of the Amateur: How today's Internet is killing our culture (Currency, 2007), says blogs, wikis and other web 2.0 phenomena do more harm than good.
The Cult of the Amateur is available for ...
The Cult of the Amateur is available for ...
Cat Calls
Brooklyn teens Latosha Belton and Ashley Lewis helped to organize a "Street Harassment Summit" to teach young women how to fight back against cat callers. Along with Maggie Hadleigh-West who made the anti-street harassment film War Zone, they talk about practical strategies to silence harassers.
The Importance of Being Handy
Should men today know how to cut metal, solder circuit boards, or hammer nails? Glenn Reynolds, who writes the blog, Instapundit and is a law professor at the University of Tennessee, thinks they should have the same traditional skills as their fathers. We ask him why it matters.
The Pleasures of Potter
Sarah Vowell, contributing editor to This American Life and author of Assassination Vacation, and Nancy Pearl, librarian and author of Book Crush: For Kids and Teens - Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment and Interest (Sasquatch Books, 2007), provide spoiler-free Potter discussion, as well as suggestions on what ...