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Dorothy's Place
by Elias Crim
A conversation about rebuilding community and creating a moral economy. Catholic-flavored but ecumenical, kinda radical, lots of books mentioned. My friend Pete Davis and I direct the show. solidarityhall.substack.com
Episodes
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The Power of Neighborhood Economics
About two years ago, I attended a conference with the intriguing title “Neighborhood Economics.” The event turned out to be a national meetup of practitioners, funders, and advocates, among them the three folks I interviewed for this conversation. Best of all, over the three days, I met three of...
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A Chat with Nathan Schneider
For well over a decade, Nathan Schneider has been as perceptive a journalist-observer of the intersections between politics, digital life and media culture as you could hope to find. At just under 200 pages, his new book, Governable Spaces: Democratic Design for Online Life, is brief but packed...
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Episode #33: Jamie Price on Sargent Shriver's Politics of Conscience
Guest host Joe Waters (co-founder and CEO of Capita) joins Elias for a conversation with James R. Price, co-author with Kenneth R. Melchin of a new biography of the founder of the Peace Corps and head of Lyndon Johnson's War of Poverty in the 1960s. The focus is on the way Shriver (1915-2011)...
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Episode #32: D.L. Mayfield on Discovering Dorothy Day in Her Humanity
Pete and I talk to D.L. Mayfield, author of Unruly Saint, Dorothy Day's Radical Vision and Its Challenge for Our Times. This new biography puts a special focus on Dorothy as a mother and on the Depression-era launch of the Catholic Worker newspaper. Mayfield captures the charmed chaos of Catholic...
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Episode #31: Josh Corey on Arendt, Heidegger, Poetry and the Novel
A conversation with our first creative writer on the podcast, Evanston-based Joshua Corey, a poet, novelist, translator and critic. We talk about his remarkable longform poem, Hannah and the Master (a kind of dreamscape reflection on the intertwined lives of Hannah Arendt, Martin Heidegger…
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Episode #30: The Saintly Mayor: Giorgio La Pira of Florence
For this conversation, we join Joe Waters (of Capita)to talk to Mario Primicerio, now president of the La Pira Foundation, about his long friendship with fellow Florentine mayor, the late Giorgio La Pira. La Pira is remembered as being a bridge builder, working with Catholics and Communists in…
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Episode #29: Michael Budde on Whether American Empire Will Take Down American Christianity With It
Pete and I talk to Mike Budde about his new book, Foolishness to Gentiles, a collection of powerful essays asking how Christians can justify killing so many other Christians (Ukraine as only the latest instance), whether Dorothy Day is best understood as an anarchist, and how the Church could...
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Episode #28: Pete talks about Pragmatism
Pete describes himself as a capital P pragmatist (and a small D democrat) and offers us his take on this school of thought. In this chat we take a quick tour starting (naturally) with William James before getting to two of Pete's former teachers, both pragmatists: Cornel West and Roberto…
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Episode #27: Arizmendi's Reflections and the Making of Mondragon
A conversation about Solidarity Hall's new translation of the Reflections of Fr. Josemaria Arizmendi, the founder of the Mondragon cooperatives. Elias and Pete talk about the nature of Arizmendi's social vision, the power of cooperative culture, and the workplace as a center of social...
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Episode #26: Pete Davis on his new book Dedicated
We talk with Pete about his law school graduation address that went crazy viral and led to his new book about the nature of "long-haul" commitment. And about remarkable people with remarkable accomplishments who show us how to make those choices to stick with a vision. Get full access to…
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Episode #25: Bob Elder on Calhoun: American Heretic
Pete and I talk with Bob Elder about his new biography of the infamous John C. Calhoun, the spiritual founder of the Southern Confederacy and its economic foundation in slavery. We explore the range of Calhoun's ideas and why some of them--such as his views on secession--are not (like Calhoun...
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Episode #24: Daphna Levit on Wrestling with Zionism
Pete and I talk to Israeli-born Canadian author and activist Daphna Levit about her new book of essays recovering the wide spectrum of dissenting Jewish ideas about Zionism. Beginning with founding figures like Theodor Herzl and Ahad Ha'am, she highlights voices and views of Albert Einstein…
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Episode #22: Nate Tinner-Williams on Black Catholicism
This country's 3 million Black Catholics in the U.S. recently got the news that Archbishop Wilton Gregory (Washington DC) has become the first African American cardinal. Why then have the U.S. bishops not publicly acknowledged the Black Lives Matters movement? We talk to Black Catholic seminarian...
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Episode #21: Fred Dewey on Recovering Public Life
Pete's back and he joins Elias in interviewing Fred Dewey, author of The School of Public Life and a political/cultural activist. In the aftermath of the Rodney King riots, Fred helped lead a decade-long effort to establish neighborhood councils, now about one hundred, for the City of Los…
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Episode #20: Dan Walden on the Joys of Classical Greek
Why has the literature of ancient Greece always cast such a spell over modern readers? I dust off my own rusty skills in Greek with Dan Walden, a member of the classics department at the University of Michigan, as we discuss the Iliad, Sappho's poetry, and Plato’s Symposium—and why we share an...
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Episode #19: Novelist Cadwell Turnbull on his widely-acclaimed The Lesson
A conversation about Cadwell's debut novel, The Lesson, a post-colonial vision of an alien invasion of the U.S. Virgin Islands (in a blue-white seashell-shaped craft) with a series of wonderfully bizarre twists. We also talk about growing up in the islands, the importance of creating a culture of...
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Episode #18: Scott Beauchamp on his Iraq memoir, Did You Kill Anyone?
The subtitle of the latest book from the wonderfully literate Scott Beauchamp is "Reunderstanding My Military Experience as a Critique of Modern Culture." In this conversation, Scott and I talk about boredom, ritual, community, honor, and the symbolism of cigarettes. Other topics are the war…
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Episode #17: Andres Bernal on Working with AOC and the Green New Deal
A conversation about Andres' friendship with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, his experiences as part of her winning 2018 campaign, the Green New Deal initiative, and (with Pete's help) how to deconstruct "The Lion King." Get full access to Solidarity Hall at www.solidarityhall.org/subscribe
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Episode #16: Mike Strode on the Solidarity Economy
Chicago not only has a new mayor but new politics, including grassroots initiatives such as the Kola Nut Collaborative, a hybrid of timebanking and community organizing. Pete and I get a read on all these things from Mike Strode, the founder of the KNC, about his path to the cooperative movement...
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Episode #15: Eric Miller on Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry
Pete and I talk to Eric Miller of Geneva College about why Christopher Lasch still matters and what we saw at the recent Front Porch Republic conference featuring Wendell Berry. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at www.solidarityhall.org/subscribe
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Episode #14: Samantha Hill on Hannah Arendt's Relevance at this moment
The election of Donald Trump in 2016 brought new readers to Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism (published in 1951). Pete and I talk to Samantha Hill, assistant director of Bard College's Arendt Center for Politics and the Humanities, about the insights Arendt's thought offers us today.…
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Episode #13: Adam K. Webb on Deep Cosmopolitanism
Amidst a global culture war between the forces of neoliberal atomization and incorrigible fundamentalists, Adam Webb is proposing the creation of a deep cosmopolis, a global alliance of tradition-minded defenders of the poor. His own international background (UK, Spain, Peru, China)gives Webb...
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Episode #12: Brianna Rennix on the ongoing U.S. border tragedy
A senior editor with Current Affairs, Brianna Rennix's day job is as an asylum attorney stationed just north of Laredo/Nuevo Laredo. We talk about her recent columns ("This Week in Terrible Immigration News") on topics such as what it's like to interview women with children fleeing violence and...
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Episode #11: Jim Walker on placekeeping over placemaking
Back on the air, Pete and Elias talk to the founder of Big Car (Indianapolis), Jim Walker, about his group's amazing track record using social practice art in Rust Belt placemaking and (even better) in "placekeeping." Also discussed: ideas of mercy in Fr. James Keenan and Isaac Bashevis Singer....
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Episode #8: Elias and Pete talk about law and insurgent cities
Pete talks about his newly-published critique of the state of the legal profession (Bicentennial Crisis), aimed partly at his own Harvard Law School's practices. We also take up public service anthropology, explain what a stroad is, and ponder the Right to the City. Get full access to Solidarity...
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Episode #7: Karol Soltan on co-creating your community
What if ordinary citizens stopped thinking of themselves as mere consumers and began acting as co-creators of their communities? Pete and I interview Karol Soltan, one of the founders of the Civic Studies movement, along with some talk about the Boston-based anti-eviction group called Urban...
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Episode #6: Matt Bruenig and the People's Policy Project
Pete and I interview Matt Bruenig, founder of the People's Policy Project, a think tank which hopes to avoid corporate capture by using crowd-funding for support. We gab about stuff like universal basic income, social wealth funds, and why libertarianism seems cool when you're in high school.…
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Episode #5: Rosalie Riegle on the Catholic Worker movement
An oral historian in the tradition of Studs Terkel, Rosalie Riegle has written books on the history of the Catholic Worker movement, the non-violence movement and women's history. Before our interview with Rosalie (starting 13:15 mark), Pete and I talk about the organizational lessons of the AA...
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Episode #4: Nathan Schneider on fixing the digital economy
We talk about a wonderful essay collection by localist Bill Kaufmann called Look Homeward, America and the neighborhood microfunding project called Detroit Soup before talking to Nathan Schneider about his days caught up in the middle of the Occupy encampment in NYC, platform cooperativism, and...
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Episode #3: Whatever Happened to Polish Solidarity?
A quick chat about the most successful world-changing non-violent movement in modern history. Talk about your solidarity. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at www.solidarityhall.org/subscribe
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Episode #2: Elizabeth Bruenig and the Christian Left
We chat with Liz Bruenig about the religious left, the "dirtbag" left, St. Augustine, the "nones", the trouble with meritocracy, Gar Alperovitz's Next System, and a great new book called Ours to Hack and to Own. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at www.solidarityhall.org/subscribe
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Episode #1: Matthew Loftus on radical healthcare
Our debut effort, talking with Matthew Loftus (of the Doctors Without Boredom blog) about from everything from healthcare in East Africa to Japanese social coops to a book on how this country's old system of federated organizations used to work. Get full access to Solidarity Hall at...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
A conversation about rebuilding community and creating a moral economy. Catholic-flavored but ecumenical, kinda radical, lots of books mentioned. My friend Pete Davis and I direct the show.
solidarityhall.substack.com
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Elias Crim
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