Forgotten Schools, Limited Vision
While spending some days in Portugal this month I got to enjoy the beauty of spring in the small agricultural villages of my ancestors. Places where social and economic life has slowed down over the…
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Education, Art, and Diversity in Lebanon
Podcast: Download (Duration: 29:42 — 20.5MB) | Embed Over the course of my week in Beirut I had the good fortune of spending time with teacher and performance artist Raghda Mouawad. Through her I learned…
The Promise of Employment
It is a formula that we decided decades ago makes sense and should therefore work. It is a recipe that for many people in the past decades, has worked to provide a decent life and…
ctrp414 Life, Death, and the Unglamorous Era of Ad-Men
Podcast: Download (Duration: 46:20 — 31.9MB) | Embed John Hall remembers the advertizing business in the 50′s, 60′s and 70′s, and there was nothing glamorous about it. His personal policy in the work place was…
Write Our Own Histories
The headlines coming out of Chilé this week echo throughout the world, “government shift in policy regarding learning about Pinochet era in school,” from now on to be described as a “regime”, and not a…