This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, May 17th, 2021. Later in the program, we have the latest edition of A Few Minutes with the Mayor – a weekly segment where Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton answers listener-posed questions on community issues. That’s coming up in today’s feature reports. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Robert …
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Today’s show is about the life and work of Edward Said, author, literary critic, teacher, musician, public intellectual, and Palestinian American. And all our music today comes from Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, a favorite of Edward Said’s and the subject of several of Said’s essays. Notably, “Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual” and “The Music Itself: Glenn Gould’s Contrapuntal Vision.” …
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Representative (D-MN) Ilhan Omar’s statements about the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee have garnered controversy about the United States’ relationship with Israel. In today’s Voices in the Street, Producer Isaak Gonzalez asks area residents how they feel about the U.S. relationship with Israel.
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Indiana University Economics Professor Martin Spechler and Purdue University American Studies Professor Bill Mullen debate the recent boycott of Israeli universities by the American Studies Association. Mullen is one of eight Indiana professors who signed an editorial supporting the boycott. Spechler has publicly stated his opposition to the boycott in a letter to the editor published in the Herald-Times. Spechler …
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