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With recent talk about regime change in Iran, it’s easy to forget America’s history with that country and with regime change in general. New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer says Americans would do well to remember. He’s the author of Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. Also: an appreciation of the late Jane Jacobs, the golden game of Larry Silverstein, art that focuses on New York’s post-industrial interstitial spaces and listeners' calls on United 93.
A Tale of Two Cities
Paul Goldberger, dean of Parsons School of Design and architecture critic for the New Yorker
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Martin Filler, architecture critic for House and Garden and the New York Review of Books
-on Jane Jacobs' life and death, Larry Silverstein's resurrection of the World Trade Center and two visions of city planning.
» The New Yorker website
» New York Review of Books
The Space Between Us
Eva Diaz, art historian, critic and co-curator of the Mind the Gap exhibition at Smack Mellon Gallery in DUMBO
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Damon Rich, cofounder and creative director of the Center for Urban Pedagogy (CUP), a nonprofit arts organization
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Rosten Woo, director of projects, Center for Urban Pedagogy
- on public art that engages public issues and "forgotten" urban spaces
» Smack Mellon Gallery
» Center for Urban Pedagogy
Empirical Evidence
Stephen Kinzer, New York Times foreign correspondent and author,
Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq (Times Books, 2006)
- on America's history of overthrowing foreign governments
» Overthrow website (Times Books, 2006)
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Ray Young, the chief financial officer of General Motors, talks about GM’s bankruptcy.
Then, Damon Lester, president of the National Association of Minority Automobile Dealers, and Greg Williams, former owner of the recently closed Huntington Chevrolet in Huntington Station, NY., discusses the effect GM’s bankruptcy has had on dealerships and their employees.- Comments [41]
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Farhad Manjoo, Slate's technology columnist and the author of True Enough: Learning To Live in a Post-Fact Society talks about what Twitter means and how different groups use it.
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Don't Say That, Literally
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John Flansburgh of the band They Might Be Giants discusses the running list the band keeps of "things we can no longer say." (a few examples: "my bad" "don't go there" "one hundred and ten percent" and "voted off the island")
What would be on your list of banned words or phrases? Comment below!- Comments [172]
From Denmark with Love
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Jesper Grunwald, senior managing editor with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, talks about the Danish economy, biking to work, and why the Danes are allegedly the happiest people in the world.
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Squatting, Then and Now
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As former squats in the East Village make the transition to coops, making homes from abandoned housing is again an issue. Andrew Reicher executive director of Urban Homesteading Assistance Board, Frank Morales an Episcopal priest involved in East Village/Lower East Side squatting and homelessness activism since the late '70s, and Rob Robinson, a leader of the Housing Campaign of Picture the Homeless, discuss the return of squatting.
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