In The Tradition – Episode 10
Alan Kaufman
December 1, 2016
Ruth Rappaport joins Ben Wetherbee and Celeste Frey in our studio for an afternoon of tunes, songs and fun.
Focused on you
Focused on you
Ruth Rappaport joins Ben Wetherbee and Celeste Frey in our studio for an afternoon of tunes, songs and fun.
Some two hundred years ago, philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer wrote presciently, “All truth passes through three stages: First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.” Which begs the question: what truths of tomorrow are we currently resisting as blindly ignorant? In this episode, Peter is joined by Dr. Richard Moskowitz, who believes that a healthy skepticism surrounding vaccination is one such truth.
Most parents are well-aware that, for their 14 to 18 year old children, “long-term decisions” are those dealing with the weekend, or maybe the prom and the like. So when military recruiters visit Arlington High School and invite our teens to make the potentially life-and-death decision to join the military, parents should take notice.
The Arlington High School Presidential Debate was Streamed Live from Studio B. on November 2, 2016.
“The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” a Faulkner character famously said. No issue in American life reveals the profound truth of that quote more than race, and no decade in our history so deeply shaped our modern conception of that notion, as well as the direction of a movement around it, as the 1960s.
From its inception, our media has offered both promise and peril. In this encore presentation, Peter joins two previously separate interviews on this common theme.
Joining Peter to discuss such questions of geography is Prof. Rashad Shabazz, associate professor at Arizona State University and author of the book, Spatializing Blackness: Architectures of Confinement and Black Masculinity in Chicago.
Living in the global age that we do, it’s important to be reminded on occasion that we humans are most at home in our local communities–where we both know and are known.
This Community Preservation Committee Public Information Meeting was filmed on September 20th, 2016 in Arlington Town Hall’s Lyon’s Hearing Room.
This School Committee Regular Meeting was filmed on September 22nd, 2016 in the School Committee Room in Arlington High School.
It is clear that our children are inheriting a world very different from the one we older generations came of age in. And while it’s easy to dwell on the serious problems that we’ve handed them, our children fortunately have the benefit of growing up in a richer, more diverse global culture that we could ever have imagined. That gift, however, comes with an inherited set of challenges of its own.
In 1930, Mahatma Gandhi and a handful of supporters marched some 240 miles to the sea to “make salt.” That is to say, they gathered up and thereby claimed that life-sustaining mineral as their birth right, not a commodity controlled exclusively by their British colonizers. For that act of civil disobedience, those Indian Salt Marchers–and the tens of thousands who soon joined them–were arrested en masse.
Focus Media’s coverage of the annual event to raise awareness and funds for cancer research. Participants include survivors and those impacted by cancer. http://relay.acsevents.org/site/PageServer/?pagename=relay