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Sheerine Alemzadeh--Survivor Genius
Alaska’s very own Sullivangate reminds one listener of the time Libertarians in Illinois considered nominating a man named Jesse White to run for Secretary of State. Ben riffs. Sheerine Alemzadeh talks about rape culture in politics and on campus—Ohio, Cornell, Maine and the White House. Sheerine is co-founder and co-director of Healing in Action and author of a new book, Survivor Genius. Her views are her own.
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Oct. 28, 2026
Fountain Of Youth
In Part Two of my Back Down Memory Lane Road Trip, I venture to Barrington, Rhode Island--a small town outside of Providence, where we used to live long, long ago... First thing I notice as my wife and I turn onto Fountain Avenue is that it's not a…
Oct. 22, 2026
Down On Main Street
It's day one of my Back-Down-Memory-Lane Road Trip... I call it that cause I've traveled across the country to see where it started. For me. In the east. Before my family moved to Evanston in 1966 and my life really got started. I want to see how …
Oct. 20, 2026
The Blue Flame
It feels like I've been enthusiastically reading novels by George Pelecanos since I was born. But, no, I was well past 50 before I'd heard of Pelecanos, much less read one of his novels. This was in 2008 or so when I read a review of his latest. …
Oct. 10, 2026
Country of Lords
Just finished reading Country of Lords, a brilliant account of, well, so many things. First of all, shoutout to Kim Phillips-Fein, the history professor at Columbia University, who wrote it. I learned so much from Country of Lords that I went righ…
Oct. 4, 2026
That’s Your Senator, Missouri
In the category of people who keep claiming the sun rises in the west despite all evidence to the contrary... Senate Republicans held yet another hearing designed to prove Trump won an election everyone knows he lost. It was a Senate Judiciary Com…
Sept. 29, 2026
Remarkably Idiotic Creatures
So, there I was last Saturday afternoon, watching the big game--Texas versus Tennessee--when I saw something I'd never seen in all my years of watching sports. Which is a whole lotta years, let me tell you. This Texas defensive lineman named Colin…
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