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(George and Frosty from Wind River Pack Goats in Red Canyon, Lander, Wyoming (Karl Schatz)
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Commentary from the front lines: on Capitol Hill; at a dodgeball tournament for adults; at the Golden Trailer Awards ceremony; and among goats in Cheyenne, Wyoming. On a more serious note, host Dean Olsher considers the cost of war, taking into account the war dead on both sides of the front. Also this week, Dean goes people-watching with illustrator, children’s book author, and designer Maira Kalman.
Dog Comments
Dodge!
From the world of competitive sports, we bring you this report on dodgeball – for grown-ups. Next Big Thing contributor Dave Johns heads to Martin Luther King High School in Manhattan, where participants in the Fourth International Dodgeball Tournament of Champions take the game to a new level. Sort of. ...
Golden Trailer Awards
The Labor of Goats
For those who follow the Chinese calendar, this is the Year of the Monkey. For Karl Schatz and Margaret Hathaway, it’s the Year of the Goat. Last November, the couple left their city jobs to travel across the country visiting places and persons related to goats. We check in with ...
Remembering the Dead
For Memorial Day, we remember those who died in war – our dead. Naturally, the "enemy dead" do not figure into our remembering. Should they? Dean Olsher explores this question with Michael Walzer, a professor at Princeton University’s Institute for Advanced Study who has written extensively about the ethics of ...
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