The Nice Thing About Strangers is a collection of very short non-fiction stories from Paige Erickson’s years of travel. Stories about precocious children, four minute bus romances, awkward conversations in broken languages, and myriad ordinary encounters on the sides of interstates and streets populate the pages of this book. A Public Affair host Karma Chavez […]
Former State Senator Tim Cullen on Act 10 Politics
(WORT) — Former State Senator Tim Cullen is out with a new book chronicling his experience during the tumultuous passage of Governor Scott Walker’s Act 10.
No Good Men Among the Living
How did the United States bring the Taliban back from the dead? How did Americans resurrect the insurgency that persists to this day? What is the truth behind out country’s longest war? Listen to this edition of A Public Affair to find out more!
Democracy in the Dark
Did the FBI push MLK to commit suicide? Did the CIA enlist the Mafia to kill Fidel Castro? Did the NSA get copies of all telegrams leaving the country? Listen to this edition of A Public Affair to find out more!
Afterburn: Society Beyond Fossil Fuels
Will we inevitably move away from our profound societal reliance on fossil fuels? How will we do this? What will it look like? Check out this edition of A Public Affair to find out more!
Culture Crash
Is it impossible for creative artists to earn a living in our society? Is there a crisis of the creative class? Is America’s middlebrow culture collapsing? Check out this edition of A Public Affair to find out more.