Today, on Leonard Lopate at Large, fresh of the heels of Amazon’s retreat from building a new facility in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens after widespread local opposition, Glenn Greenwald considers the role that the man at the heart of a surveillance scandal has had in funding government efforts on the same front.
“Amazon, the company that has made Jeff Bezos the planet’s richest human being, is a critical partner for the U.S. Government in building an ever-more invasive, militarized and sprawling surveillance state.” Read more in Glenn Greenwald’s latest article for The Intercept, the publication he co-founded.
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Bret Wood, of the film distribution company Kino Lobber, talks about curating a new series at Film Forum...
Today Leonard talks to Elizabeth Anderson In her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It),” Elizabeth...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Lewis H. Lapham discusses the magazine Lapham’s Quarterly , his prodigious career and a new edition of his...