Is Planned Parenthood Too Cautious? Plus: Writing and Politics

Is Planned Parenthood Too Cautious? Plus: Writing and Politics

On this episode of the Start Making Sense podcast, Eyal Press reports on abortion rights organizations, and Adam Shatz talks about politically committed writers.

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Has Planned Parenthood gotten too cautious and too corporate? Are the risk managers running the organization? Eyal Press reports on the courage of independent abortion services, and the failures of Planned Parenthood.

Also on this episode of Start Making Sense: What does it mean to be a politically committed writer? That’s the central question of Adam Shatz’s new book, “Writers and Missionaries: Essays on the Radical imagination.” He joins the podcast to discuss. Shatz is The Nation’s former literary editor and the US editor of the London Review of Books.

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Jon Wiener Jon Wiener is a contributing editor of The Nation and co-author (with Mike Davis) of Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.


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