Harvard Professor Martin Puchner grew up in Nuremberg where his family spoke an obscure language used by fugitives: Jews, Gypsies, prostitutes, criminals. His research about it unearthed his family’s Nazi past.
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Social psychologist Devon Price exposes the American myth that tells us productivity is the measure of our self-worth; people who live on the margins are lazy losers; and we’re never doing enough.
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At your last check-up, what did your doctor ask about? Weight? Stress? Sex life? Internist Michael Stein asks his patients to talk about being BROKE, the title of his new book, which makes it brutally clear that in the United States your health is determined by your income.
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One of the state’s most successful marijuana entrepreneurs tells us how to make it big selling legalized pot: a business in which you can make a small fortune provided you start with a large one.
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Lewis Black joins us to talk about going nuts during the quarantine and going on vacation in an empty tour bus before going totally batshit on Trump's handling of the pandemic.
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Choreographer Vanessa White talks about her ribald holiday sensation, in which strippers, pole dancers, and ballet divas defy race, gender, genre, and body type as they totally reinterpret Tchaikovsky’s traditional score. It’s like the kinky off-spring of Mark Morris and John Waters.
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In his controversial book The Stop Dwayne Bryant offers a life-saving tool kit for people of color who are pulled over by law enforcement.
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Jeff Foster is the AP Government teacher at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, site of the deadliest high school shooting in US history. Many students credit Mr. Foster as the influence behind their national organizing campaign and he talks to us about moving beyond heartbreak to political action.
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Bestselling author Sarah Smarsh joins Ira to talk about Dolly Parton, the most successful female artist in country music history; a business mogul, a philanthropist, a writer who gives voice to millions of working class women, and a 21st century icon to gays and transgender people all over the world.
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