Tag: American Podium
A New Way to Be Human, tonight on American Podium
Seattle author Robert V. Taylor lives the question of how to integrate personal spirituality with compassionate purpose - and invites others to do the same in his book A New Way to Be Human. From his miraculous physical healing as a teenager in Cape Town, to fighting apartheid alongside Desmond Tutu, to[More]
Posted: May 8th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Robert V. Taylor
Rachel Maddow: Security to the Extreme on American Podium
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow believes our culture has become deeply militarized. Maddow, author of Drift, explores how the national-security sector has shape-shifted and grown—favoring the priorities of the war machine over those of civilian life. Maddow is interviewed at Seattle Town Hall by Pulitzer-winning editorial cartoonist and columnist David Horsey, of the[More]
Posted: April 24th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Military, Rachel Maddow
Jimmy Carter on American Podium
The World Affairs Council, in celebration of its 60th Anniversary, presents a conversation with President Jimmy Carter, including discussion on the work of The Carter Center, and his views towards some of the world's most pressing, yet solvable problems. Premieres Tue., Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Watch American Podiums at www.seattlechannel.org/americanPodium.[More]
Posted: February 14th, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Jimmy Carter, The Carter Center, World Affairs Council
This week on American Podium: Hitchens, Havel, and Kim Jong-il Remembered
Within the space of four days in December, three public figures died. Obituary page proximity aside, Christopher Hitchens, Kim Jong-il, and Václav Havel had nothing particular in common—except they each lived emphatically larger than life on the global stage. Some local luminaries deliver remembrances/assessments of these men and their cultural impact… although[More]
Posted: January 31st, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium
Tonight’s American Podium features Slade Gorton: A Half Century in Politics
Senator Slade Gorton amassed many a nickname during his five terms in the state legislature, with a partial list including Skeletor, Slade the Blade, and the Darth Vader of Northwestern Politics. As the new book Slade Gorton: A Half Century in Politics shows, however, the Senator’s famous poker face is only a[More]
Posted: January 17th, 2012 under City Issues, Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, John Hughes, Slade Gorton
American Podium: Clay Jenkinson as Meriwether Lewis
Clay Jenkinson, an American humanities Rhodes scholar, is co-founder of the modern Chatuauqua movement, a forum for public discussion about the ideas and lives of key figures in American history. Premieres Tues., Jan. 3 at 8 p.m. [More]
Posted: January 3rd, 2012 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Clay Jenkinson, Meriwether Lewis
Watch Maya Enista Smith on American Podium
As the East Coast Coordinator for Rock the Vote at age 17, Maya Enista Smith registered over 30,000 young people to get off the couch and participate in shaping their government. Today, as the CEO of Mobilize.org, she advocates for instilling young people with a knowledge of history, a mission that[More]
Posted: December 13th, 2011 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, Elections, Millennial Generation
Tonight on American Podium: Punishment & Inequality in America
Despite decreases in America’s overall crime rate, imprisonment has skyrocketed at an unprecedented rate—among certain minority demographics, rates of incarceration can reach levels 50 times the national average. Bruce Western, a professor of sociology at Harvard University and author of Punishment and Inequality in America, exposes how mass imprisonment shapes our society[More]
Posted: December 6th, 2011 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium
American Podium: How the World Has Changed
The events of Sept. 11, 2001 changed everything—and not just in America. The University of Washington's Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies presents a diverse group of experts who describe their impressions of this changed world from various perspectives. Panelists include Jackson School professors Anand Yang (South Asia), Dan Chirot (U.S.[More]
Posted: November 22nd, 2011 under Take 21.
Tags: 9/11, American Podium
American Podium features Isabel Wilkerson, author of The Warmth of Other Suns
Journalist Isabel Wilkerson, the first black woman to win a Pulitzer Prize and author of The Warmth of Other Suns, tells the story of the Great Migration through three people who made the journey—and the forces that compelled them to leave. To watch past American Podiums, visit: www.seattlechannel.org/americanPodium. Premieres Tue., Nov. 15,[More]
Posted: November 15th, 2011 under Take 21.
Tags: American Podium, author, history