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Linda Greenhouse, the New York Times contributing op-ed writer, joins fellow Pulitzer Prize winner Anna Quindlen for a deep dive into this moment of extraordinary transition in American journalism.
Just a few years ago, writes Greenhouse in her new book, Just a Journalist, the mainstream press was wrestling with whether labeling waterboarding as torture violated important norms of neutrality and objectivity. Now, major American newspapers regularly call the president of the United States a liar. Clearly, something has changed as the old rules of “balance” and “two sides to every story” have lost their grip. Is the change for the better? Will it last?
For decades, Linda Greenhouse covered the US Supreme Court for The New York Times. Get her perspective on these issues and more, as she and Quindlen explore questions about the role journalists can and should play as citizens, even as participants, in the world around them.
Recorded on November 15, 2017 at the 92nd Street Y. A reading by the Chancellors of the Academy of American Poets: Elizabeth Alexander, Toi Derricotte, Forrest Gander, Linda Gregerson, Terrance Hayes, Brenda Hillman, Jane Hirshfield, Khaled Mattawa, Marilyn Nelson, Alicia Ostriker, Claudia Rankine, Alberto Ríos, David St. John and Arthur Sze. With an introduction by Jen Benka, executive director of the Academy of American Poets. Recorded on October 4, 2017. 
A panel on how to survive and thrive as a feminist in a troubled political climate, featuring (from left to right) Nona Willis Aronowitz, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, and Jill Filipovic. Jill Filipovic’s new book is “The H-Spot: The Feminist Pursuit of Happiness.”
Women have come out in force to protest the Trump administration’s encroachments on women’s rights and human rights at home and abroad. But to successfully oppose Trump, feminists also need to counter his “America First” narrative with one of their own—one that says all human beings are entitled to happiness. What does the feminist pursuit of happiness look like in dark, reactionary times? Three panelists attempt to answer that question.
Jill Filipovic is a journalist and attorney based in Nairobi and New York City. Her new book “The H-Spot” explores how American women exercise their right to “the pursuit of happiness” in light of social expectations and systemic inequalities.
Nona Willis Aronowitz is a writer, editor, author, and features editor at Fusion. She has been a contributing writer for the Washington Post, New York Magazine, Matter, The Guardian, The Atlantic, Playboy, The Nation, and Rookie, among many others.
Samhita Mukhopadhyay is the Senior Editorial Director of Culture and Identities at Mic and author of “Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life.” 
Rob Smith is a gay Iraq war veteran, journalist, and author of "Confessions of a “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Soldier: How a Black, Gay Man Survived the Infantry, Coming Out, and the War in Iraq".
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Rob is a young black man coming to terms with his sexuality amid the backdrop of a sometimes homophobic and hyper-masculine U.S. Army. After surviving the notoriously brutal Infantry basic training, and simultaneously remaining closeted to all but a few of his colleagues at his first duty station, he is thrown into dangerous territory when the United States declares war on Iraq and his unit is one of the first called in. Deftly navigating the intersections of race, sexuality, and public policy, "Confessions of a ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell’ Soldier" is alternately thought-provoking, humorous, and harrowing. Rob's experience offers a ground-level view of life on the front lines of race and sexuality in the United States military, in an unforgettable gay coming-of-age story — with a military twist. "From populist demagogues, we will learn the indispensability of democracy," says novelist Elif Shafak. "From isolationists, we will learn the need for global solidarity. And from tribalists, we will learn the beauty of cosmopolitanism" A native of Turkey, Shafak has experienced firsthand the devastation that a loss of diversity can bring — and she knows the revolutionary power of plurality in response to authoritarianism. In this passionate, personal talk, she reminds us that there are no binaries, in politics, emotions and our identities. "One should never, ever remain silent for fear of complexity," Shafak says.
