#15: All the Rage

Published: March 17, 2017, 8:11 p.m.

Pankaj Mishra goes back to the Enlightenment to explain our age of anger; Ronald Rael imagines how architecture might dismantle a wall rather than construct it; and our editors offer up their favorite tales from the Emerald Isle. Sláinte!


Episode extras:• Our St. Patrick’s Day Reading list• Martha McPhee on Edna O’Brien
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