Wide Angle is a weekly interview show featuring guest authors and activists from the Arlington community and beyond. While we hope to give context to stories you might hear on the news, Wide Angle is by no means a “news show.” And although we explore issues from a political angle on occasion, neither are we a “political show.”
Instead, Wide Angle aspires to offer a quiet place to explore the big ideas not often addressed by our mainstream media: incarceration and income inequality, war and military recruitment, race and Israel/Palestine, as well as issues that underscore our common humanity, such as food, grief and hospice. And we endeavor to leave viewers of every episode with at least two things: energy borne of frustration or illumination, anger or hope, as well as the resources to pursue action and make change.
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Episodes
Wide Angle: Episode 49 – Utopia
Merriam-Webster defines the word ‘utopia’ in two ways: first, as a place of ideal perfection, especially in laws, government and social conditions; and second, as an impractical scheme for social improvement. While this episode’s guest has no doubt received his...Wide Angle PSA
Wide Angle: Episode 48 – Lumbee Indians and the Wider Native American Experience Pt. 2
They were here before the first Europeans landed on these shores over half a millennium ago. Records suggest they typically welcomed the newcomers, even helped the Pilgrims survive that first winter and gain a foothold in this ‘New World.’ Yet Native Americans of the...Wide Angle: Episode 47 – From the Particular to the General: The Lumbee Indians of North Carolina and the Wider Native American Experience
They were here before the first Europeans landed on these shores over half a millennium ago. Records suggest they typically welcomed the newcomers, even helped the Pilgrims survive that first winter and gain a foothold in this ‘New World.’ Yet Native Americans of the...
Wide Angle: Episode 46 – “The Maine Approach”: A New Model of Eldercare – Web Extra
Current costs for institutional eldercare—at assisted living communities and nursing homes—range anywhere from $5,000-$15,000 a month. Yet 40% of elders today have no savings. While the well-heeled may enjoy a gentle slide into their golden years, what about the rest...Wide Angle: Episode 46 – “The Maine Approach”: A New Model of Eldercare
Current costs for institutional eldercare—at assisted living communities and nursing homes—range anywhere from $5,000-$15,000 a month. Yet 40% of elders today have no savings. While the well-heeled may enjoy a gentle slide into their golden years, what about the rest...Wide Angle: Episode 45 – Gross National Happiness – Web Extra
“Happiness,” said Aristotle, “is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.” The notion even made the final edit in one of this country’s founding documents, the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be...