Donald Morrison

"Don Morrison's 3 Minutes of Madness"

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Funny, often uplifting and mercifully short. Don Morrison is an author ("The Death of French Culture," "How Obama Lost America,") professor (Tsinghua University in Beijing, Sciences Po in Paris), and former editor at Time Magazine. His articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Financial Times, Smithsonian, Le Monde, Le Point, Liberation, Caixin and other leading publications. He is a commentator for NPR's Robin Hood Radio and a columnist for the Berkshire Eagle.

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Latest episode

Feb 14, 2025

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Episodes

The Mother of All Conspiracies 16.11.2023

How JFK's death 60 years ago made the world go insane -- and stay that way. 

Of Laughter and Forgetting 09.11.2023

Our two leading presidential candidates can't seem to remember stuff. Is that such a big deal? 

The Last of the Mohicans 03.11.2023

After centuries of slaughter and dislocation, Native Americans are on the rise

Random Acts of Kindness 26.10.2023

Here's something that might arrest our downward slide into nastiness. 

Fear Itself 20.10.2023

Can humankind survive the weaponization of anxiety?

The Trouble with X 13.10.2023

Israel-Hamas misinformation flourishes on a social media site run by a certain free-speech absolutist.

Tell Me a Story 05.10.2023

Reading to your kids in the age of book banning. 

Georgia on my Mind 27.09.2023

On Russia's southern border, a small nation dreams of the West -- and lives in uncertainty.

The Tooth about Stress 08.09.2023

Why America is suffering an epidemic of tooth-grinding. 

A Night(mare) at the Opera 31.08.2023

Why can't America pay its culture workers what they're worth?

Hard-wired for Hades 24.08.2023

No wonder it's hard to accept the reality of climate change. We're programmed not to. 

Killing the Messengers 18.08.2023

A newspaper is raided, somebody dies, and the American press is suddenly back in 1837. For me, it's personal.

Local Hero 11.08.2023

A small white town sent a smart black boy into the world. More than a century later, he's finally coming home.

When Politicians Get Old 04.08.2023

Our leaders are growing long in the tooth and won't step aside. Here's how to fix that. 

Clusters of Trouble 26.07.2023

The U.S. just gave Ukraine a banned weapon. Should we be alarmed? 

It Did Happen Here 19.07.2023

How America almost dumped democracy in the 1920s. 

Sputnik Moment 07.07.2023

American loves upward mobility. So why have we made college so impossibly expensive?

The Shock of the New 25.06.2023

Why our obsession with the new, the shiny, the technologically advanced is not very smart.

The Chandelier in the Bathroom 16.06.2023

Sloppy document handling earns a former president 37 criminal charges, but a related crime of his is largely ignored.

The Death Limit 25.05.2023

Instead of arguing about federal debt, maybe we should focus on saving taxpayer lives. 

The Song of Lunch 19.05.2023

When the world of work paused to make way for something more important. 

The Center Cannot Hold 10.05.2023

Arguing can be healthy, but the current epidemic of incivility is killing us. Literally. 

Flat-Earthers, Arise! 03.05.2023

How Antarctica became the latest front in the war against truth.

Lookin' for a Home 27.04.2023

Let's make it easier for people to find a better place to live.

A Home Run for Climate Change 18.04.2023

Why baseballs travel farther, and other unexpected consequences of global warming.

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