THIS WEEK'S SHOW: August 6
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey

A "blockbuster version of Moby-Dick" with "moral qualms about the whaling industry."

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July 17
The World’s Sport

"The common denominator in the world."

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July 9
After the Fireworks

"Our games show us a kind of democracy that our own democratic institutions are not achieving."

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June 18
The Boston Watch Party

"Not only are we the Hollywood of sports, we're the Paris of sports."

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June 11
America’s Orwell

"Nothing worse than violence, I would say."

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May 28
Here Where We Live Is Our Country

"So much of the history of the 20th-century left is the history of Jewish rebels."

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May 14
Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed

"The tech lord still kind of needs the old-fashioned politician."

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April 22
The Pope and the President

"The new pope is a pope of peace."

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April 15
Kings and Pawns

"Asking these black athletes to do something that you're not asking of anybody else."

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April 2
Thoreau Meets ICE

"Can the state put any limits on federal power?"

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March 26
Fear and Fury

"The real rupture moment."

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March 19
Hit-and-Run Belligerence

"Trump's minimal commitments . . . have actually lowered the barriers to war."

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March 10
Sleepwalking into World War III

"We're in the hands of a madman."

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March 5
War with Iran

"This is not Iraq. This is not Libya. This is not Syria."

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February 19
Bernie’s Journey

"A slowly dawning alternative."

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February 5
George Saunders on Life and the Afterlife

"Be more of a person and less of a monolith."

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