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President of Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon and author of The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things; former professor of sociology at the University of Southern California.
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Barry Glassner
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FROM Barry Glassner
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Donald Trump's Acceptance Speech and the Use of Fear as a Tool Donald Trump's acceptance speech at the RNC last night was all about fear. After the attacks in Orlando and Nice, police killings in Dallas and Baton Rouge, Trump made a strong call for law and order. But do politicians create the fear, or does it exist already and it’s just tapped by politicians like Trump?
To the Point
Terrorism and America's Culture of Fear For weeks now, there's been saturation news coverage of violence in the US and around the world -- from Paris, to Colorado Springs to San Bernardino. The results include school closings from Los Angeles to rural Virginia and metal detectors at Disneyland and Universal studios.
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Martini Shot
Storage Wars This is Rob Long and on today’s Martini Shot I clean things out for the new year. Digitally, I mean, Clips and ideas and files from an extremely cluttered Dropbox, iCloud, and Evernote.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
LAUSD teachers strike starts -- how long will it last? Thirty-one thousand LAUSD teachers, nurses, librarians, and counselors went on strike this morning. They want a salary increase, smaller class sizes, and the hiring of more staff. The district says it can’t afford all that. We see what happened on the picket lines.
Opening the Curtain
Sleeping with your son Remember that cool kid in high school? The one with the awesome jacket and that effortless edge. He was something of a rebel: used nasty language in just the right way. Made it all look so easy. Now remember that other kid who tried to copy him? Same jacket, same foul language but he couldn’t quite pull it off?