In memoriam: Geoff Nunberg
Fresh Air remembers its longtime language commentator, who died on August 11, 2020. He was 75-years-old.
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A Primer on Caetano Veloso
World music critic Milo Miles surveys the work of Caetano Veloso. Miles says that, of the musician's many albums, each features both knockout songs and slow bores. But that doesn't diminish from his cultural impact -- and ever improving output.
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Black Power Scholar Illustrates How MLK And Malcolm X Influenced Each Other
In his book, The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr., Peniel Joseph braids together the lives of the two civil rights leaders. He says that King and Malcolm X had "convergent visions" for Black America — but their strategies for how to reach the goal was informed by their different upbringings.
'Boys State' Helps Teens Learn How Politics Work — Perhaps A Little Too Well
Justin Chang reviews the new documentary that he says is both inspiring and dispiriting about a program that teaches boys about representative democracy.
Veteran GOP Strategist Takes On Trump — And His Party — In 'It Was All A Lie'
In his new book, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump, Stuart Stevens argues that the party's support for Trump isn't just a pragmatic choice. Instead, he says, it reflects the party's complete abandonment of principles it long claimed to embrace, such as fiscal restraint, personal responsibility and family values.
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