This interview by Brigid Schulte was broadcast by Slate magazine’s Better Life Lab podcast on May 10, 2022. Brigid Schulte: Most of the time, when people talk about social policy and programs, we tend to hear from the advocates and the experts. But part of what we do here at the Better Life Lab podcast is …
This interview by Anne Borden King was broadcast on the Noncompliant podcast on April 17, 2021. Anne Borden King: Welcome to Noncompliant. I’m your host, Anne Borden King. Today I’m speaking with John Summers. John Summers is founder and president of Lingua Franca Media. He has a Ph.D. in intellectual history and has written, taught, …
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These interviews took place in Slovenia and were published in Counterpunch on November 13, 2017. John Summers: Ali Žerdin, 52, is one of Slovenia’s best known and well-traveled journalists. He edits Sobotna priloga, the Saturday supplement of the major daily newspaper Delo. Mr. Žerdin, the signature of political economy in Slovenia has changed: self-management is gone; success …
This conversation with Justin Peters took place at Workbar, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on January 28, 2016. Only the introduction is transcribed below. First, thank you for coming. I assume you are gathered at Workbar because Donald Trump is not in the debate tonight; it starts at 9. The man makes wonders. [Did you see the …
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This lecture took place at the City Club of San Diego on January 18, 2016. I wish to begin by denying that I’m any kind of disreputable, died-in-the-wool East Coast liberal or leftist with an allergy to conservatism. I can’t let you believe it. Because then you wouldn’t know a surprising fact about The Baffler. …
This interview of Edward Mendelson took place over email on January 1 and 2, 2015, and was published several months later in The Baffler, no. 27. John Summers: Lionel Trilling was the first tenured Jewish professor in Columbia’s English Department and a public figure whose literary essays “served as some form of national therapy,” as …
This interview took place in Central Square, Cambridge, MA, and was broadcast over Radio Open Source on November 4, 2015. Christopher Lydon: This is Open Source with the contrarian John Summers. We’re contemplating the sudden embarrassment of development riches in a long-neglected corner of Cambridge, near Central Square. It’s now the Innovation District, filling up …
These interviews of Dan Davies and Evgeny Morozov were published on The Baffler blog on December 7, 2015. John Summers: A little while ago, director Dan Davies of Banyak Films in London materialized in The Baffler’s editorial HQ in Harvard Square with contributing editor Evgeny Morozov in tow, steered him to our admittedly tacky blue …
This interview by Chris Faraone took place in the Boston studio of InDigNation and was broadcast on Dig Radio on September 14, 2014. Chris Faraone: Hey, what’s going on? My name is Chris Faraone. You’re listening to Dig Radio Boston. This show is InDigNation. We come here every Thursday from four to six. We talk …
This interview by Emily Rooney was broadcast on WGBH-TV in Boston on March 6, 2014. Emily Rooney: Back in 2011, Mark Zuckerberg had all of us swooning. The Facebook founder made big news when he visited the People’s Republic of Cambridge to herald the opening of a local office. Most civic leaders called it proof …