July 24, 2025 - Elisa New on Walt Whitman, Robin Givhan on Virgil Abloh, and the legacy of Steve Ross

Elisa New joins The Culture Show to talk about her recent op-ed in the New York Times, “Walt Whitman Would Have Hated This,” a reflection on how the poet would have responded to federal cuts to humanities education.  Elisa New is the Director and Host of the PBS series “Poetry in America,” and she leads the Educational Media Innovation Studio at Arizona State University.From there Robin Givhan joins The Culture Show to talk about her new book “Make it Ours: Crashing the Gates of Culture with Virgil Abloh.” Robin Givhan is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and the Washington Post’s  senior critic-at-large, writing about politics, race and the arts. To learn more about “Make it Ours,” go here.Finally former Boston City Councillor Mike Ross joins The Culture Show to talk about his father, Holocaust survivor Steve Ross, When Steve Ross was 14 years-old he was liberated from the Dachau concentration camp. One of the first people he encountered was Lt. Steve Sattler, an American tank commander.  Lt. Sattler embraced Steve, offered him food, and gave him a small American flag. Now Mike Ross and his sister Julie Ross are donating this flag to the Holocaust Museum Boston.