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Radio Free Mike012 Jessa Crispin: What Is Wrong With MenJessa Crispin’s new book, What Is Wrong With Men, studies American masculinity through a close reading of Michael Douglas’ movie roles from the mid-’80s through the late ’90s. The son of Kirk Douglas, who played Spartacus and Ulysses in the mid-20th century, Michael Douglas arguably dramatized the crisis of American men after the Sixties, because his characters are so startled by what they find sitting across from them at the dinner table. Jessa’s a sharp-tongued critic and nonfiction writer who runs the arts & commentary website The Culture We Deserve. She originated one of the first...2025-06-1050 min
Public Intellectual with Jessa Crispin"Healing vs. Getting On With It" (w/ Michael Scott Moore)In 2012, Michael Scott Moore was abducted in Somalia while working as a reporter. Two and a half years later, he was released after a ransom was paid. Now he has published the book, The Desert and the Sea, which is not only a memoir of his experience as a hostage but is also a work of reporting and a history of the situation in Somalia.
I wanted to talk with him, not about his experience as a hostage (you can find that story in his book and in other interviews), but about what happened once he came home.
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