Preview Mode Links will not work in preview mode

Public Intellectual

Jul 20, 2020

BU Professor Ashley Mears details the leisure of the wealthy in her new book, Very Important People, but also the men and "girls" who live in their periphery. Examining the nightlife of the moneyed, from the ecstatic destruction of wealth to the exclusive locales they circulate around, we discuss the gender of money...


Jul 13, 2020

With all the media struggles lately, a conversation has emerged: should the journalist strive to be an objective observer, or should they be the moral arbiter? Who better to come on to help Jessa figure this out than JoAnn Wypijewski, who has been covering media moral panics for years? Author of the new collection of...


Jul 6, 2020

Somehow, the conversation around historical racism and bigotry and police brutality turned into a series of... resignations by white voice actors in cartoons? Yes, we're talking about representation in film yet again, and Vincent Chabany-Douarre, creator of the new Katharine's Kapital project, comes on to discuss what...