Footnotes: Recent Episodes
Marlon Ettinger
Footnotes explores the minutiae of politics, culture, and art. From interviews with random candidates for political office, to Broadway dance producers, to forgotten scholars cached away in musty stacks of crumbling books, Footnotes looks at the little diversions you can be taken on by reading the footnotes.
On this episode Marlon and Paxton agree that if you're going to do electoral politics, you've got to take an opposition position on everything if you want to build any credibility. Anti-agreementism, capiche?
On this episode Marlon talks with Clyde Lederman, a high school student who spent an interesting summer working on the presidential campaign of Joe Sestak. Sestak is a former congressman and Admiral in the Navy. Clyde tells us about Iowa, Sestak's culture of command, Sestak's singular dining habits, some of the team he worked with, and how the hell he ended up there at his age.
In this episode Marlon talks with our friend Ryan, who's an ESL teacher in Rhode Island public schools. Ryan tells us about the barriers in the system to getting kids learning, including a lack of support staff, and class sizes, which plague all teachers.
Ryan also tells us how he'd reform the education system if he could be in the administration, and we discuss the warm demander style of teaching.
In the second episode of Footnotes, Marlon speaks with Henry Magowan, who he met on the Mike Gravel campaign. Magowan was recently in Iowa canvassing ahead of the caucuses for Bernie Sanders and talked about meeting some people on the campaign and conversations on the doorstep.
In the first episode of Footnotes, co-hosts Marlon and Paxton interview the Managing Editor of Commune Magazine, Jasper Bernes, about the class nature of borders and how to be against open borders is the most elitist, politically correct position there is.