Rebecca Solnit is an author, activist, historian, and geographer, among other things. Her books include A Paradise Built in Hell, A Field Guide to Getting…
George Lakoff is one of the most influential living linguists. He has revolutionized how we think about metaphor’s role in cognition, the grounding of metaphor…
Joan Blades is the co-founder of Living Room Conversations, a movement dedicated to fostering meaningful dialogue between Americans of different political ideologies. In addition to…
From The Conversation’s inception, geoengineering—the deliberate manipulation of the climate through technology—has been high on my list of subjects to include in the series. To…
Micah and I have been talking about a new interstitial episode for several weeks but, with the election last night, we decided to pick up…
Cameron Whitten is, in his own words, a “shameless agitator” from Portland, Oregon. He became politically active during the Occupy Portland movement and, at twenty,…
