Bar Crawl Radio

Politics on the UWS is in a liminal place where a new reality is aborning. Of course, this nation exists in “between” places where possible versions of democracy are tried and then abandoned. This week the social democratic version has gained a…

Columbia University’s “College Walk” — on West 116th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam Avenue — became part of the University’s campus in 1953 with the understanding that “College Walk” would remain available to pedestrians. Massive iron gates, put up in 1967,…

In Elon Musk’s “dark MAGA” there is no truth.—which for historian Jill Lepore creates a fear that everything might collapse because everything is so fragile and so fake, so untrustworthy — and so — unreal.    For Lepore — it is a…

Throughout human history, the political dissident has been imprisoned, tortured, and murdered. Today’s dissident opposing the U.S. war machine is silenced by corporate media and punished by U.S. courts. And mostly – unseen. Why do they do it – when…

For many of us, our country is walking a tightrope between democracy and autocracy. I am a US American civilian. I avoided serving in the US military during the Vietnam War. My father and son were in the military – one…

Rebecca McKean and I started this program asking why so many U.S. Americans call Mayor Mamdani a “communist” and then explore the humanist idea that we all live in individual “landscapes” that form our perspectives and emotions — and that…

A conversation with three men who recently traveled to Palestine to witness the state of Palestinian Christian communities living in Israel-occupied West Bank. What they experienced was horrific and hopeful. Horrendous in the brutality of the young Israeli settler gangs…

William Hartung — senior researcher at The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft — reads from his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and talks about The Big Five — the U.S. military industrial complex using American tax dollars to arm the world and make…

Anjali Mehta is a 31 year-old mountain climber challenging the “seven summits” to support international agencies fighting gender-based violence and to bring attention to the rights of transgender girl athletes. In the first part of this two-part BCR program, we…

Anjali Mehta is a 31 year-old mountain climber challenging the “seven summits” to support international agencies fighting gender-based violence and to bring attention to the rights of transgender girl athletes. In this first part of a two-part BCR program, we…