Dec 30, 2021
John Delmar is a retired lawyer and still-active painter in New York City. Here Metta asks him about his father, the actor Kenny Delmar, whom she recalls as the preposterous character Senator Claghorn. Then John shows some of the paintings he loves, and several of his own, telling a little story about each one. They...
Dec 29, 2021
Hugo Benedetti is a professor of economics at the business school of the University of the Andes in Santiago, Chile. He describes himself as a "centre-rightist," and expresses some apprehension about the economic policies of the new government, which will take office in March. Although he says that life has improved by...
Dec 29, 2021
Erika Simpson and Marianne Larson are both professors as Western University, Leon Kosals at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, and Kekhashan Basu is an undergraduate student at the University of Toronto, and the founder of an organization for youthful activists around the world. We discuss their efforts...
Dec 27, 2021
On the last Sunday of every month activists working against six global threats get together by Zoom to discuss their current concerns. Here we talk about a bill in Quebec that bans the wearing of religious symbols in classrooms; the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and between Poland and Belarus; the desirability...
Dec 24, 2021
John Feffer is editor of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, and now edits our own policy sector on economics for Project Save the World's website and talk shows. Here he discusses the Russian ideas about the Green New Deal proposals with Vasily Yablokov of the Russian Greenpeace organization,...