Anya Kamenetz

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Ex-NPR. Writer. New Narratives Fellow, EHRP. Books: Generation Debt, DIY U, The Art of Screen Time, The Test, The Stolen Year, and next up: Falling In Love With The World Again. thegoldenhour.substack.com

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Education expert Anya Kamenetz (@anya1anya.bsky.social) has spent her career exploring learning as a way to prepare for the future.

In this interview, she shares a vision of education that prepares youth by strengthening their capacity to be fully, courageously present in an uncertain time.

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The conventional wisdom in home building was that constructing units that are both energy efficient and powered by renewable energy substantially increases the cost. But two new affordable housing developments in Northfield and Faribault show otherwise.

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This is *the* main continuity between neo-fascism and the 20th Century variety. Erich Fromm argued exactly this in "Escape From Freedom," saying that modernity left many alienated and socially dislocated--and fascist strongmen promised to restore meaning and purpose to their lives.

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I talk to a single mom of two kids in a little town in Indiana who has never, ever, ever stopped fighting for them to get what they deserve--even when the federal government is MIA. Despite being dyslexic herself, she became a parent-activist advising other families from around the country.

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Beth Gellman-Beer shares the inside story of working at the Office for Civil RIghts, defending students--until the day everyone got DOGEd. It happened to be her 50th birthday celebration. In episode 2...

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