Public Intellectuals Radio

Public Intellectuals’ editor Teka Lo and contributor Jack O’Kent discuss Lovecraft Country's final episode. Misha Green told us who she was, so we should have known how it was going to end. We're happy, but of course, like any Monday morning quarterback, we have some comments. 

Public Intellectuals editor Teka Lo and contributor Jack O’Kent discuss Lovecraft Country, Episode 9 “Rewind 1921”

“Where is your fire? I say where is your fire?

Sonia Sanchez

Public Intellectuals' editor Teka Lo and contributor Jack O’Kent discuss Lovecraft Country, Episode 8 “Jiga-Bobo."  

Some of the lowest-paid non-tenured parttime faculty at universities are experiencing hard times. The excuse for cuts currently is COVID-19. In this episode, Public Intellectuals Radio podcast host, Teka Lo speaks with two part-time lecturers in the Rutgers Writing Program and elected union executive board representatives, Howie Swerdloff and Karen Thompson, regarding cuts to the New Brunswick campus.

To support the writing program and other non-tenured faculty in their fight for their jobs at Rutgers, follow them on social media for the next steps:

Twitter: @ruaaup_ptl, Instagram: @ruaaup_ptl, and Facebook: Rutgers PTLFC

Quote from Dr. Holloway senate address obtained from Rutgers Today.

Public Intellectuals editor Teka Lo talks to Brooklyn resident and activist Dulcie Canton about the election, wrong ballots, and options.

Board of Elections is asking every New Yorker who received the envelopes with the wrong name to contact them via Twitter, email, or 1-866-868-3692.

Also, you can vote early from October 24 to November 1.

Public Intellectuals editor Teka Lo and freelance writer Jack O'Kent discuss Lovecraft Country, Episode 7  "I am.” 

Public Intellectuals editor Teka Lo and freelance writer Jack O’Kent discuss the medium essay by Indi Samarajiva “How life goes on, surrounded by death,” dystopian nightmare futures, alternatives to violence, brutal capitalism, and suffering, maybe we don’t have to walk through the desert for 40 years to get to paradise, maybe some dead old white guys are wrong.

Public Intellectuals' editor Teka Lo speaks with longtime organizer  and bicycle goddess Dulcie Canton of Transportation Alternatives. Canton coordinated the unionization of her nonprofit workplace. We talk to her about why she did it, how she did it, and how you can unionize your workplace too!

Public Intellectuals editor Teka Lo and freelance writer Jack O'Kent discuss Lovecraft Country, "Episode 6 Meet Me In Daegu." A tale of tails, because some of the same people who are good are also bad.

Dr. Julian Agyeman on placemaking, a good idea that is often turned into greenlining, what's greenlining, redlining with kale and a tan.