Roughly Speaking

1:32: The weekly book recommendation from Paula Gallagher: A memoir, ----The Glass Eye,---- by Jeannie Vanasco, an assistant professor of English at Towson University.3:56: American culture commentator Sheri Parks discusses GQ's selection of quarterback Colin Kaepernick as the magazine's Citizen of the Year, and the modern meaning of masculinity.17:08: Dan visits the busy kitchen of Gertrude's restaurant in the Baltimore Museum of Art and gets some Thanksgiving recipes from its owner, John Shields.Links:http://www.jeannievanasco.com/author.htmlhttps://www.towson.edu/cla/departments/english/facultystaff/bvanasco.htmlhttps://www.gq.com/story/colin-kaepernick-cover-men-of-the-yearhttp://www.bayweekly.com/articles/cooking/article/chesapeake-thanksgiving

We are at a point where we have to turn back. The people who still care about this city have to draw a line, and say the violence has gone far enough, and we have to do something. It is a huge challenge, because the causes of the crime and violence run so deep. All of this means reaching deeper, trying harder, having empathy, offering a helping hand to people who need to get away from drugs and guns. It means supporting police, of course, and giving the leadership of the city a chance to carry out its strategies. But it also means, for each of us, not giving up. There are many angels across this city, and we have to gather them and build a force for good. It can be done. It has to be done. I don’t think we have any other choice.

4:02: Mayor Catherine Pugh, who last week declared crime out of control in Baltimore, talks about the need for more police on the street and what her administration is doing about that. The mayor objected to the suggestion, in Dan Rodricks' Wednesday column, that she was slow to put together a crime-fight strategy. Today, she talks about her plan to reduce violence across the city. The interview was recorded before the Wednesday afternoon shooting of a city police detective.23:19: Paula Gallagher, Baltimore County librarian and Roughly Speaking book critic, recommends the new novel by Louise Erdrich, ----Future Home of the Living God,---- which, Gallagher says, is bound to invite comparison's with Margaret Atwood's ----The Handmaid's Tale.----27:18: Allison Galbraith wants to be one of the few millennials in Congress, so the 34-year-old Harford County Democrat is running for her party's nomination in Maryland's First congressional district. Galbraith says she's running because of incumbent Republican Andy Harris' ardent opposition to the Affordable Care Act.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-pugh-crime-20171109-story.htmlhttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks-blog/bs-md-rodricks-1115-story.htmlhttps://mayor.baltimorecity.gov/sites/default/files/Violence Reduction Final Draft 081117_1515.pdfhttps://www.harpercollins.com/9780062694058/future-home-of-the-living-godhttps://www.allisonforcongress.com/abouthttp://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bs-md-obamacare-eastern-shore-20170818-story.html

With the White House vowing to roll back government regulation of all sorts of industries, we take a look at how things can go terribly wrong when deregulation trumps worker and food safety. The U.S. poultry industry has been lobbying the Trump administration to allow for faster speeds for the processing of chicken, something the Obama administration’s agriculture department felt was needed to limit injuries to workers and the chances of food contamination. Today, a look back at a horrific industrial disaster in a chicken-processing plant in North Carolina in 1991 with Bryant Simon, a professor of history at Temple University and author of “The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, and Cheap Lives,” published by The New Press.Links:https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/another-obama-decision-reversed-now-it-s-about-food-safety-n810296http://thenewpress.com/books/hamlet-fire

With the White House vowing to roll back government regulation of all sorts of industries, we take a

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference underway in Germany, dire warnings are being issued about the potential that tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis in history. According to The Guardian, US military and security experts say the number of climate refugees will dwarf those that have fled the civil war in Syria, creating huge humanitarian challenges for Europe and the West. In this episode: Dan speaks with the co-authors of “Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century,” published by the Indiana University Press. Denise Robbins is communications director for Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and Jack Wennersten is professor emeritus of environmental history at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and the author of several books about the Chesapeake region.Links:http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-jerry-brown-climate-change-20171108-story.htmlhttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/02/climate-change-will-create-worlds-biggest-refugee-crisishttp://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808357http://chesapeakeclimate.org/author/drobbins/https://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Wennersten/e/B001JRZZEE

In another in a series of interviews with candidates for governor of Maryland, Dan speaks with Democrat Kevin Kamenetz. The 59-year-old Baltimore County executive says Maryland under Gov. Larry Hogan is “standing still” on public education, mass transit and economic development, and needs a more progressive leader. Kamenetz was elected Baltimore County executive in 2010 and re-elected to that office in 2014. He is the current President of the Maryland Association of Counties and is a past president of the Baltimore Metropolitan Council. You can hear earlier interviews with other candidates for governor by visiting a special page of the Roughly Speaking archives. We’ll be interviewing more candidates in the weeks and months ahead. Maryland’s 2018 primary election takes place on June 26.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/dan-rodricks/bal-roughly-speaking-2018-gubernatorial-candidates-storygallery.html

Justin Fenton, the Sun's criminal justice reporter, took a deep look at the Baltimore court where deals are made, breaking through the "white noise" of bench conferences to hear how prosecutors, defense attorneys and a judge work out plea bargains of criminal cases.Our favorite tech-splainer, Sean Gallagher, Baltimore-based IT and national security editor for Ars Technica, is back, this time to explain how Twitter and Facebook were used by Russian operatives in an effort to influence the 2016 presidential election.Links:http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bs-md-ci-baltimore-plea-bargains-peters-20171023-htmlstory.htmlhttps://arstechnica.com/https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/twitter-drops-hammer-and-sickle-on-rt-sputnik-ad-buys-over-election-shenanigans/

With the United Nations Climate Change Conference underway in Germany, dire warnings are being issued about the potential that tens of millions of people will be forced from their homes by climate change in the next decade, creating the biggest refugee crisis in history. According to The Guardian, US military and security experts say the number of climate refugees will dwarf those that have fled the civil war in Syria, creating huge humanitarian challenges for Europe and the West.

In this episode: Dan speaks with the co-authors of “Rising Tides: Climate Refugees in the Twenty-First Century,” published by the Indiana University Press. Denise Robbins is communications director for Chesapeake Climate Action Network, and Jack Wennersten is professor emeritus of environmental history at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore, and the author of several books about the Chesapeake region.

Links:

http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-germany-jerry-brown-climate-change-20171108-story.html

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/02/climate-change-will-create-worlds-biggest-refugee-crisis

http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=808357

http://chesapeakeclimate.org/author/drobbins/

https://www.amazon.com/John-R.-Wennersten/e/B001JRZZEE

Jonathan Eig spent four years researching and writing his 623-page biography of the greatest heavyweight fighter of all time, Muhammad Ali. In today's episode, Eig talks about Ali's private and public struggles, including his willingness to go to prison over his opposition to the Vietnam War, a decision that forced him out of the ring in his prime. Eig also discusses Ali's comeback, his "Rope-A-Dope" boxing strategy, and his legacy. Eig's book is, "Ali: A Life," just published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.Links:http://www.alialife.com/