With Thanksgiving on the horizon and feasting on our minds, today we spend the hour with professor and food blogger Mary Anne Mohanraj, who recently published A Feast of Serendib, one of the first Sri Lankan American cookbooks. Mary Anne Mohanraj is a clinical assistant professor of literature at the University of Illinois at Chicago, […]
Stay Home for Thanksgiving
In November of 1918, President Woodrow Wilson issued his annual Thanksgiving proclamation. He spoke about the end of the first World War, saying that peace “has not came as a mere cessation of arms, a mere relief from the strain and tragedy of war. It has come as a great triumph of right.” Nowhere, however, […]
Recovering Indigenous Agriculture
In November of 1621, so the story goes, the Wapanoags shared a harvest feast with the English colonists of the Plymouth Plantation in what is now the state of Massachusetts. That event, now etched in our collective minds as the first Thanksgiving, has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. Was that a peaceful sharing […]
Wisconsin Property Tax Policy Perpetuates Historic Racism
Since 1999, the Wisconsin Budget Project, an initiative of Kids Forward, has advocated public spending on projects that benefit low to moderate income families. Recently, the project turned its lens on how the state property tax system favors the wealthy, and perpetuates longstanding racial segregation. Tamarine Cornelius is a policy analyst with Kids Forward, and […]
Tips from a chronically ill person for surviving social distancing wit...
Ellen Samuels is a UW-Madison professor in the English and Gender & Women Studies departments and is a founding member of the UW Disability Studies Initiative(@UWDisStudies). She lives with a disability that makes her days unpredictable and often keeps her housebound, sometimes bed-bound. When the pandemic hit, she saw that we were all facing challenges […]
Slow Book, Long Game: A Fiction Jones Dispatch
For the last year I have been reading The Brothers Karamazov on my radio show, Fiction Jones, an hour of live, complete book readings on the 3rd, 4th and 5th Friday of the month from 11pm to 12 midnight here on WORT. A year of this schedule equals about thirty hours of reading alone in […]
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