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#1688: Lydia Davis “Essays One” | The Book Show

Davis

This week on The Book Show, we speak with Lydia Davis about her new work Essays One. Davis is a writer whose originality, influence, and wit are beyond compare. Best known for her masterful short stories and translations, Davis’s gifts extend equally to her nonfiction. In Essays One, Davis has for the first time gathered […]

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#1538: Fox News & The Declining Public Interest in COVID-19 | The Media Project

President Trump Post-Presidency

The Media Project is an inside look at media coverage of current events with WAMC’s CEO Alan Chartock; Times Union Editor-at-Large Rex Smith; Judy Patrick, Vice President for Editorial Development for the New York Press Association; and Barbara Lombardo, Journalism Professor at the University at Albany and former Executive Editor of The Saratogian and The […]

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#2047: Pressure On State Legislators & The COVID-19 Vaccine Feud | The Legislative Gazette

COVID-19 Vaccine Feud

The Legislative Gazette is a weekly program about New York State Government and politics. On this week’s Gazette: State Legislative leaders face pressure from a wide range of groups to deal with pandemic related economic issues; our political observer Alan Chartock shares his thoughts on the president’s feud with Governor Cuomo over  a COVID-19 vaccine; […]

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#1574: Study – Gender Bias In Teacher Assistant Assessments | The Best Of Our Knowledge

Gender Bias Teacher Assistant

In the Fall of 2019, a class had two teaching assistants, one male, and one female. At the end of the semester, the students scored the male TA higher on course evaluations, while the female TA got five times as many negative reviews. There’s just one problem…they were the same person, and we will talk […]

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