Today we'll investigate why retail discounting comes at a high cost. And historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead on the combined diaries of Marie Antoinette and Madame de la Tour du Pin. Then, the head writer for the The Onion’s entertainment section on his new book The Big Rewind, about how pop culture saved his life. Also, our latest Backstory segment looks at the early political career of State Senator Pedro Espada. Plus, Underreported gives an overview of the world's worst failed states.
Cheap
Ellen Ruppel Shell traces our national obsession with the bargain from the Industrial Revolution to the modern assembly line, and from chain stores to big-box retailers who value convenience and low-prices over quality. In her book Cheap: The High Cost of Discount Culture, she examines our desire for cheap ...
Dancing to the Precipice
Historian and biographer Caroline Moorehead looks at Madam de la Tour du Pin, who was groomed as a lady in waiting to Marie Antoinette and who kept a vivid account of the tumultuous collapse of the French Old Regime in her diaries. Dancing to the Precipice: The Life of ...
The Big Rewind
Nathan Rabin, head writer for A.V. Club, The Onion’s entertainment section, explains how pop culture offered an escape from his troubled childhood and adolescence in his memoir, The Big Rewind.
Event: Nathan Rabin will be reading and signing books
Thursday, July 23, at 7:00 pm
Borders
10 Columbus ...
Backstory: Senator Pedro Espada's Early Political Career
Before he was one of the most powerful people in the New York State Senate, Pedro Espada started his political career with a fringe political group called the New Alliance Party. The NAP has long since disbanded but many of its members are now part of the active New York ...
Underreported: Failed States Index
Many nations that were already on the brink in good times are sliding closer and closer to becoming failed states as the global economic slump continues. Foreign Policy magazine, in conjunction with The Fund for Peace, has compiled a list of the world’s top failed states using 12 indicators ranging ...
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