Can a city have a soul? And if so, is it something solid and fixed for as long as the city survives, putting its stamp on each new generation? Or is the soul of the city a much more ephemeral thing, a transient spirit of the moment, a metaphorical summation of...
Political strategist Bradley Tusk joins the podcast to discuss his philosophy of the city, why he’s opening a bookstore and funding the Gotham Book Prize, why he backed Andrew Yang for mayor, what makes for good and bad business regulations, and what he thinks...
Michael Menser (Brooklyn College, CUNY) joins the podcast to discuss how the logic of the city’s model of development, use of space, circulation of goods and people, and over-burdened ecology are changing what it means to live in New York and how a more...
Linda MartÃn Alcoff joins the podcast to talk to me about the importance of taking seriously Jean Kim’s allegations of sexual assault, of not rushing to condemn Scott Stringer, and how the normative tension between the two are of particular concern to the...
In this episode I speak with the philosopher Samantha Noll about the difference between food security, food sovereignty, and food justice while getting also getting a history lesson about food justice issues in New York City. In the second part of the episode I hear...
