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2x Peabody-nominated podcast hosted by John Biewen @KenanEthics. Season 7: "Capitalism,” on the history of our current economic system and if we can do better.

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20 Dec

When the Trump administration took away her family’s food this summer, Rose Natabo had to choose which of her three sons to care for — who ate and who didn’t.

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3 Dec

Hey, wrote a new newsletter post. "We have to make it socially unacceptable — again? — to behave as a thuggish manchild." (link in comment 👇)

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5 Nov

Thanks for the response, re-upping once more:

Dear educators! We’re creating a curriculum for Scene on Radio Season 7: CAPITALISM.

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24 Oct

Important discussion abt how we might learn to do this from @SceneOnRadio

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22 Oct

In our podcast feed: John Biewen reads a new newsletter essay on his hometown, Mankato, Minn., and on historical maturity vs. cowardice.

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