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Plenty #10: Raising the Stakes of Fossil Fuels at Standing Rock

The human stories connected to social movements are, almost without exception, highly charged with emotion. Details about the violence and intimidation directed at protesters by corporations and law enforcement generate instantaneous, visceral reactions in people with any amount of compassion. The chronicles of the struggle of the Standing Rock Sioux, …

Plenty #09: Christopher Kimball Settles in on Milk Street

In Episode #9, Plenty talks with another icon of the food world, this time pioneer of the culinary airwaves, Christopher Kimball. The founder of Cook’s Illustrated magazine, and instantly recognizable host of the Emmy Award–winning “America’s Test Kitchen” from 2001 through 2016, he is also the author of best-selling titles …

Peter Paul Rubens – Abundance (Abundantia) I cruised southward alone along a curving, coastal dream road in central Maine. I suppose it might have been on the North Shore. It might have been in the Maritimes, though never having been to that region of Canada, I wouldn’t know. The sky …

Plenty #3 — Timothy Snyder Warns of Next Genocide

Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning Timothy Snyder, Housum Professor of History at Yale, and author of “Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning;” photo by Ine Gundersveen, courtesy timothysnyder.org We spoke with Timothy Snyder about his recent work examining two necessary conditions for the Holocaust: disintegration …