Wealthy philanthropists want to disrupt everything - except their own wealth
Like a precocious child, Jeff Bezos recently announced his very first act of philanthropy. Unlike a precocious child, that gift will be two billion dollars to education and homelessness nonprofits.
On today's show:
Winners Take All, September 20th 2018
When you heard about Jeff Bezos’ much-publicized act of generosity, maybe you thought “good for him.” Or maybe you thought “that’s not enough – Jeff Bezos is worth $164 billion.” Anand Giradharadas, author of Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World, wondered something else: why should any one person have $164 billion at all? He joined Bill Radke along with Ben Soskis with the Center on Nonprofits and Philanthropy at the Urban Institute.
DeRay McKesson, September 20th 2018
After police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed unarmed black teenager Michael Brown, Ferguson Missouri erupted into ground zero for Black Lives Matter protests. One of the figures of that movement was DeRay McKesson, whose blue vest and Twitter documentation became touchstones of the Ferguson story. Now Deray has written a book called On the Other Side of Freedom.
Path of the Puma, September 20th 2018
We rarely hear about cougar encounters unless they’ve ended badly, as in a couple recent incidents in the Pacific Northwest. But that’s in part because they’re not interested in humans – and their ability to hide themselves has been a huge part of their North American comeback. Jim Williams is a wildlife biologist who worked with the state of Montana for 27 years. His new book is called Path of the Puma: The Remarkable Resilience of the Mountain Lion.
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Bill Radke
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Bill hosts Week In Review and Words in Review. After starting with KUOW as a University of Washington student in 1985, Bill was KUOW's morning host in the '90s and the creator of past show, Rewind, a news-satire show heard on KUOW and nationwide on NPR. Bill moved away to Southern California to host American Public Media's Weekend America and Marketplace Morning Report and returned to KUOW in 2012.
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