Sep 24, 2020
Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Katherine Stewart @kathsstewart about her book, 'The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism.'
With a sad nation still mourning the tragic loss of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stewart's work takes on new relevance in its opinion that for too long the...
Sep 17, 2020
Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Kyathi Joshi @profkjoshi about her book 'White Christian Privilege: The Illusion of Religious Equality in America.'
The United States is recognized as the most religiously diverse country in the world, and yet its laws and customs, which many have come to see as normal...
Sep 10, 2020
Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with Peter Hessler @peterhessler. @NewYorker
For @KGNU we discuss here what may be learned from how China managed and appears to have controlled #Coronavirus. #COVID19.
Hessler has been teaching and living with his wife, the journalist Leslie T Chang, and their family in Sichuan...
Sep 3, 2020
@claudiacragg speaks here with @motazhmatar about his new book, The Pigeon Whispeer. It is a magical book which, nevertheless, raises such important issues such as hope, hopelessness, belonging, war, migration, love, and loss
Dabbour is a 25-year-old Syrian refuge and introvert and a pigeon herder. He fled with to...
Aug 27, 2020
@claudiacragg speaks here for @KGNU with archeologist Carolyn White who, for over a decade, has been studying The #BurningMan and its California location. Her studies continue this year even though the festival has gone virtual due to #COVID19.
Because the event requires participants to “leave no trace,” the site...