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Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:54 — 43.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreIn the liner notes to the album Pithecanthropus Erectus, Charles Mingus calls the title song “his conception of the modern counterpart of the first man to stand erect – how proud he was, considering himself the “first” to ascend from all fours, pounding his chest and preaching …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 58:05 — 42.1MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreJuly 12th marked the 200th anniversary of the birth of Henry David Thoreau. We like anniversaries and birthdays in particular…we like to mark time, to celebrate occasions. And in fact, like most words, “occasion”* holds an etymological tension within it by meaning both a downfall and a …

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:14 — 54.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWhat may seem surprising as you listen is the way in which Thoreau’s understanding of death and life can inform our own considerations of what it means to live by an ethics of inclusion and acceptance of differences and to eschew what is given to us politically …