Trump concedes. Fake news?
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For the last episode of Reckonings, none other than: Donald Trump.
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#29 || DEEP RECKONINGS
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If Brett Kavanaugh, Alex Jones, and Mark Zuckerberg had a reckoning, what would they say? Reckonings presents Deep Reckonings — a project that uses deepfakes to take Reckonings in a *fictional* direction, and imagine public figures having a reckoning. Watch the full series and learn more about the project: deepreckonings.com
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#28 || How To Tackle Trump's Lies
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How do we cover the communications of a president who lies, especially when those lies can be fatal? The traditional rituals of journalism don't quite work with a president who doesn't tell the truth, so what can we do instead? Reckonings presents Infinite Lunchbox on the topic of how to tackle Trump's lies — aka *post-truth jujitsu*.
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#27 || How do people change?
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How do we change our hearts and minds? What moves us to shift our political worldviews, transcend extremism, and make other kinds of transformative change? That's the $64 million dollar question that gave birth to Reckonings. And that's the question I explore with lessons learned *from* Reckonings -- in this bonus episode with Inflection Point's Lauren Schiller.
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#26 || Biden, #MeToo, and Growing in Public
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Joe Biden stands accused of sexual assault. And the Democratic Party leadership, which had been loud in its support for #MeToo, is suddenly.....silent.
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#25 || Beyond Goliath
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He built Facebook’s business model. Then he went on to become the President of Pinterest. And then he realized: he was addicted to his phone. And later: he was complicit in his own – and all of our – addictive relationships with technology.
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#24 || How to turn a monster into an apologist
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Reckonings brings you Inflection Point’s conversation with Eve Ensler about her recent *masterpiece* of a book, The Apology. In it, Ensler imagines the apology her father never gave her for the abuse he inflicted on her as a child.
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#23.5 || Where is Reckonings going?
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Let's take a quick peek behind the curtain on a few things, including the question: where is Reckonings going?
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#23 || An uncommon conversation about clergy sex abuse
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She was sexually abused by her Catholic school teacher, a former nun. As a young priest, he sexually abused boys in his parish. Buckle your seat belts for an *uncommon conversation* about clergy sex abuse. Enormous gratitude to the National Association of Community and Restorative Justice (https://nacrj.org), and to The Gilead Project (https://gileadproject.org) -- a 501(c)3 devoted to healing and preventing sexual abuse.
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#22 || An imaginary reckoning with Pope Francis
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If the Pope had a reckoning, what would it sound like?
info_outline'What I regret is not being aware of the extent to which what I was pronouncing as right or wrong for the world was motivated by my own personal issues.' So admits Glenn Loury, prominent academic economist and one of the nation's foremost black intellectuals. Loury's story is expansive, involving drugs, sex, politics, and religion. Most distinctly of all, it's an odyssey of worldview transformation, swinging from the staunch neoconservative right to a more nuanced, progressive position on the left. As a public intellectual who influenced US economic policy, Loury is reckoning with the impact of his early views — not only because he now opposes them, but because he endorsed them for strikingly personal reasons.
Our conversation is split into two parts: Part 1 dives into Loury's early neoconservative views, cocaine addiction and recovery, adultery, and spiritual rebirth. This is part 2, which explores his worldview transformation and the impact of his former views.