EPISODE · Feb 8, 2025 · 27 MIN

Jelani Cobb

from Person Place Thing with Randy Cohen · host Randy Cohen

Dean of the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and a staff writer for The New Yorker, he says, "When people ask what I think is the foundational institution of democracy, I always say: 'the public library.'" Enjoy it while we've got it. And what's left of our democracy.

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