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Readings, debates, lectures and so much more. Hear fascinating talks by authors, intellectuals, officials and regular folks with important stories recorded live all around Seattle.
Episodes
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Raising boys the non-toxic way: a how-to manual
‘I want him to be able to have those qualities that I saw men wanting, but not being able to have. Like being able to cry.’
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A visionary constellation of poetry, five decades in the making
Lyric World presents the celebrated poet Arthur Sze
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Bill Gates is bullish on climate change mitigation, but warns ‘We don’t have time to waste’
How to unmake a man-made global disaster
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Becoming Rebecca Solnit: a room and a life of her own
‘I was trying not to be the subject of someone else’s poetry and not to get killed.’
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Lawrence Wright looks for America through the lens of Covid-19
How the acclaimed writer and investigative journalist saw it coming
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Seattle leaders talk gender inequality, and the ‘glass cliff’ problem
On suffering and surviving the slings and arrows of a woman leader’s fortune
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Essays on life, lineage, and the inheritance of whiteness
White women explore epistemic injustice and healing wisdom
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White advantage. Racialized trauma. Paths forward
‘America doesn’t have a race problem. It has a racism problem.’
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Re: Building Democracy explores ways to mend our political, social, and cultural divides
‘Class blindness is the tendency for people with social class privilege to be unaware or blind to their advantages.’ -Professor Jennifer Sherman
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Lyric World: You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
Poet Yona Harvey on arrivals, departures, and renewals
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Re: Building Democracy explores the state of civic discourse, east of the mountains
‘I think both of us realize that you don’t get anywhere by staying in your corners and being completely polarized. We just know that the more we communicate and talk about things the better it will be, even if we’re not on the same page.’
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Scott Turow reflects on his dual roles as a best-selling fiction author and practicing attorney
‘Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of the grubby bone shop, the odor of the abattoir, emanates from every criminal courtroom.’