Berkshire Eagle Podcasts

In these politically polarized times, Don Morrison proposes a cure for overheated rhetoric: Bring back dueling.

About this Podcast: Don Morrison is an author, lecturer, member of The Berkshire Eagle's Advisory Board, commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio, European editor of the British magazine Port, ex-Time Magazine editor, and a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires.

Spring will soon be sprung. / The grass will soon be green. / What, Don Morrison asks, / does this week really mean?

About this Podcast: Don Morrison is an author, lecturer, member of The Berkshire Eagle's Advisory Board, commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio, European editor of the British magazine Port, ex-Time Magazine editor, and a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires.

Instead of propping up troubled industries and launching trade wars, Don Morrison suggests we start investing in the future.

About this Podcast: Don Morrison is an author, lecturer, member of The Berkshire Eagle's Advisory Board, commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio, European editor of the British magazine Port, ex-Time Magazine editor, and a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires.

High school students from Pittsfield have joined with students from across the country in demonstrating against gun violence in schools following the killing of 17 students and staff at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Students from Pittsfield High School and Taconic High School recently staged walkouts in solidarity with fellow students in Parkland, while also raising concerns about security in their own schools.

In this edition of the Berkshire Eagle podcast, host Mark Mills speaks with Jenn Smith, community engagement editor and education reporter for the Eagle; Patricia LeBeouf, investigative reporter for the Eagle Eye Team; and Bill Everhart, the Eagle editorial page editor. Comments from two local high school students are included in the discussion.

The podcast explores the local and national issues raised by the mass shooting in Florida, with a focus on whether student activism in the wake of the Parkland massacre will lead to concrete reform when so many other horrific shootings have failed to result in any significant gun regulation.

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Gun massacres have brought calls for reform but meager results. But now some kids have taken up the cause, says Don Morrison, and things may never be the same.

About this Podcast: Don Morrison is an author, lecturer, member of The Berkshire Eagle's Advisory Board, commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio, European editor of the British magazine Port, ex-Time Magazine editor, and a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires.

Want to reduce mass shootings? Don Morrison suggests a closer look at the Barbie Doll of battlefield weapons.

About this Podcast: Don Morrison is an author, lecturer, member of The Berkshire Eagle's Advisory Board, commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio, European editor of the British magazine Port, ex-Time Magazine editor, and a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires.

Are TV, the internet and social media changing the way our brains work? Don Morrison examines the apparent effects on the cranium of our Tweeter-in-Chief.

About this Podcast: Don Morrison is an author, lecturer, member of The Berkshire Eagle's Advisory Board, commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio, European editor of the British magazine Port, ex-Time Magazine editor, and a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires.

After intervening in the Berkshire Museum’s planned sale of $60-million worth of art works, including paintings by Norman Rockwell, the Massachusetts Attorney General reached a settlement with the museum that allows for the potential sale of all 40 works included in the institution’s original plans.

Meanwhile opponents of the museum’s sale are weighing their options and considering further legal action.

In this edition of the Berkshire Eagle podcast, host Mark Mills speaks with Eagle reporter Larry Parnass about the agreement between the museum and the attorney general, issues that have been raised by the controversy and the museum’s evolving mission, which is to be financed by proceeds from the art sale.

"You are entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts."

In this week's commentary, Don Morrison explains how the president's more than 2,000 misstatements in the past year and the belief in these alternate facts make him a postmodern president.

Feeling a bit stressed by social and technological upheaval? Don Morrison describes how -- and why -- some old ways are making a comeback.

About this Podcast: Don Morrison is an author, lecturer, member of The Berkshire Eagle's Advisory Board, commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio, European editor of the British magazine Port, ex-Time Magazine editor, and a longtime part-time resident of the Berkshires.