The New Frugality: How to Consume Less, Save More, and Live Better
by Chris Farrell
Chris Farrell doesn’t write about numbers. He writes about living a good life in a decidedly retro way—The New Frugality is a redux of the old frugality. Or as Farrell puts it, “The New Frugality means accepting the wisdom of always managing our finances with a ‘margin of safety.’”
by Ginny Wiehardt
I would like to ask that everyone
from ’94 to ’98
retire their memories of me.
Like the time I ran off to become
As “Countdown to Zero” producer Lawrence Bender discovered, making a movie about nuclear weapons isn’t exactly easy. Most people don’t think about them, and those who do don’t necessarily want to talk, Bender explained. Still, Bender and director Lucy Walker secured commentary from an impressive catalog of world leaders, some of whom had to be booked over a year in advance — from former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf to former Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev to former British Prime Minister Tony Blair. Though they all agreed that the ideal number of nuclear weapons in the world is zero, Bender found, getting to zero is a major political challenge. Bender stopped by Zócalo’s offices before Zócalo and KCRW’s screening of “Countdown to Zero” to talk about why the world is more dangerous today than it was during the Cold War, and what we can do about it.
Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban
by Jere Van Dyk
Last year was a banner one for high-profile American journalists arrested abroad….
Nuclear weapons once preoccupied all Americans. During the Cold War, as the U.S. and the Soviet Union amassed arsenals, aimed them at each other, and held the world in a delicate balance appropriately abbreviated as MAD, world leaders realized the need to control nuclear weaponry even as they sought to attain or expand nuclear capability. Today, more countries are members of the nuclear club, and more non-state actors are trying to join, but awareness about the danger of nuclear weapons seems disproportionately low. Before Zócalo and KCRW present Countdown to Zero, a documentary pressing for global disarmament, we asked four academics, writers, and scientists to explain just how dangerous the world is today, and how we can reign in loose nukes.
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