Resources for November 18, 2013

Jay Livingstone for Sociological images provides a look at the critiques of the recent racist comments of Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen: "The New Conventional: Anything Goes."

Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips for Project Censored review the top censored news stories of 2012-2013; discuss with Nolan Higdorn about his new report “Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones’ War on Your Mind”; and play segments from the new Project Censored, The Movie including segments with Howard Zinn: Project Censored - 10/08/13

Charlie Ornstein and Steve Engleberg discuss two reports on the Affordable Care Act for ProPublica: "Why Is Healthcare.gov So Flawed?" and "What Happens to Those Losing Health Coverage Under Obamacare?"

I'm working with a collective of critical criminologists to build a new portal/website - "We are a critical social justice collective dedicated to fostering an appreciation of the dialectics of crime, justice, and social harm. This international multidisciplinary collaborative effort is founded on the radical perspective that altering the social relations of work and learning can generate substantial structural social change. Our goals are to (1) provide our audience with alternative resources regarding criminalization, inequality, and social harm as well as (2) encourage more action-oriented relationships with groups or social phenomena of study. We also come together in attempt to foster social change through critical, creative, and productive resistance.": Uprooting Criminology: A Reasoned Plot

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Interviews conducted by Chris Lydon for Radio Open Source:

Archaeologist Ian Morris: "Ian Morris’s East-West History of an Endangered Species: Us"

Poet C.K. Williams: "C. K. Williams on Whitman’s Music: Whose Words These Are (30)."

Damion Searls: " Rainer Maria Rilke for Beginners: Whose Words These Are (31)."