Beneath the Surface features interviews with leading thinkers and activists on the important issues of the day, with a focus on deeper analysis.
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Beneath the Surface features interviews with leading thinkers and activists on the important issues of the day, with a focus on deeper analysis.
Guest: Mike Davis Mike Davis died in 2022, but his work is even more urgent now. As record temperatures, fires, floods and drought shake the planet, we're returning to a prescient 1995 talk by Mike, “Reconceptualizing the Environment.” More than thirty years ago, Mike was already challenging the idea of “natural disaster.” He argued that market-driven development had deliberately put Los Angeles in harm's way—building homes in wildfire corridors, floodplains and other hazardous landscapes while shifting the costs of disaster onto the public and, ultimately, onto the poor. He ranges much furthe
Beneath the Surface features interviews with leading thinkers and activists on the important issues of the day, with a focus on deeper analysis.
Guest: Gabriel Winant, Melissa LaVallee, Teagan Cook, Emma Galvin What happens when a nonprofit hospital network becomes, in the words of Vermont's own regulator, a "corporate shell game"? UVM Medical Center was found to be over-earning by the state board that regulates it. Its response was to cut frontline union jobs — while its 19 top executives split $3 million in bonuses in a single year. Historian Gabriel Winant , author of "The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America," explains how deindustrialization made health care the country's largest employ
Beneath the Surface features interviews with leading thinkers and activists on the important issues of the day, with a focus on deeper analysis.
