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Stephen Greenblatt, the award-winning Shakespeare scholar, has looked once more at the Bard’s works that have inspired him during a time that concerns him.
His new book is “Tyrant.” In it he illuminates the ways in which Shakespeare delves into the lust for absolute power and the catastrophic consequences of its execution.
The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock, Albany Times Union Editor Rex Smith, Cailin Brown, Chair of the Department of Communication at the College of St. Rose, and Barbara Lombardo is a Journalism Professor at the University at Albany and former Executive Editor of The Saratogian and The (Troy) Record. On this week’s Media Project Alan, Cailin, Rex and Barbara talk about a new poll that finds the President labeling the press the enemy of the people is working, what the press can do to fight peoples’ negative perceptions of journalism, a listener letter about Alex Jones being ‘deplatformed,’ and much more.
The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: Governor Andrew Cuomo calls on other states to join him in fighting the NRA, our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on Governor Cuomo and whether his current Democratic Challenger Cynthia Nixon has pushed him to the left, and […]
[Continue reading...] about #1832: Fighting The NRA, New York Style
Living life as a trans-gendered adult carries its own set of issues and challenges, and society seems to slowly be opening up to accommodate and even celebrate these people. But most trans adults were once growing up as a trans child who needed support. Today on the Best of Our Knowledge, we’ll talk about the […]
[Continue reading...] about #1455: “The Trans Generation”WAMC’s Alan Chartock speaks with Zephyr Teachout, Fordham Law Professor and Democrat in the race to become New York State’s next Attorney General.
[Continue reading...] about #1832 – Zephyr Teachout
WAMC’s Alan Chartock in a 2010 encore conversation with the late Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Syndey Schanberg and actor Sam Waterston about the Killing Fields, the movie inspired by Schanberg’s coverage of the civil war in Cambodia during the 1970s. Schanberg was portrayed by the actor Sam Waterston, who earned an Academy Award nomination for the […]
[Continue reading...] about Remembering The Killing Fields
