1558 Anya Kamenetz + Headlines & Clips
Stand Up! with Pete Dominick
Pete Dominick
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🗓️ 20 March 2026
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about generational justice; about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is The Golden Hour. She covered education for many years including for NPR, where she co-created the podcast Life Kit: Parenting. Her newest book is The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, And Where We Go Now. Kamenetz is currently an advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network, working on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change.
Anya Kamenetz speaks, writes, and thinks about generational justice; about thriving, and raising thriving kids, on a changing planet. Her newsletter on these topics is The Golden Hour. She covered education as a journalist for many years including for NPR, where she also co-created the podcast Life Kit:Parenting in partnership with Sesame Workshop. Kamenetz is currently an advisor to the Aspen Institute and the Climate Mental Health Network on new initiatives at the intersection of children and climate change.
She's the author of several acclaimed nonfiction books: Generation Debt (Riverhead, 2006); DIY U: Edupunks, Edupreneurs, and the Coming Transformation of Higher Education (Chelsea Green, 2010) ; The Test: Why Our Schools Are Obsessed With Standardized Testing, But You Don't Have To Be (Public Affairs, 2016); The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life (Public Affairs, 2018), and The Stolen Year: How Covid Changed Children's Lives, And Where We Go Now (Public Affairs, 2022).
Kamenetz was named a 2010 Game Changer in Education by the Huffington Post, received 2009, 2010, and 2015 National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, won an Edward R. Murrow Award for innovation in 2017 along with the rest of the NPR Ed team, and the 2022 AERA Excellence in Media Reporting on Education Research Award. She's been a New America fellow, a staff writer for Fast Company Magazine and a columnist for the Village Voice. She's contributed to The New York Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine and Slate, and been featured in documentaries shown on PBS, CNN, HBO and Vice. She frequently speaks on topics related to children, parenting, learning, technology, and climate to audiences including at Google, Apple, and Sesame, Aspen Ideas, SXSW, TEDx, Yale, MIT and Stanford.
Kamenetz grew up in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, in a family of writers and mystics, and graduated from Yale University. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two daughters.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and happy Friday. |
| 0:03.8 | Thank you to everybody who joined us at last night's Hangout. |
| 0:06.9 | We had a great time. |
| 0:07.7 | We're there for about two hours. |
| 0:09.3 | And if you want to listen to it or relive it, you can just go to that same link that I sent or the one I include in today's email. |
| 0:17.2 | I have a great guest joining me today. |
| 0:19.0 | One of my favorites, one of the smartest people I know, follow, read, and support. It's Anya Kamenetz of the golden hour.substack.com. She is a great writer |
| 0:29.2 | and thinker and always a great conversation. If you want to jump to my conversation with |
| 0:33.9 | Anya, it begins at 35 minutes. But I've got your headlines and your clips |
| 0:39.7 | right now here on a Friday. Don't always do it on a Friday, but on this one I do. And don't |
| 0:45.0 | count on me for Monday. I think I'm taking Monday off. I might surprise you and be here. But if I'm not, |
| 0:50.9 | don't be worried. I've got plans. Okay. All right. |
| 0:54.7 | Let's get to what I've got for you from yesterday. |
| 0:58.0 | Man, because there is a lot. |
| 1:01.1 | Let's start with day 21 of dictator Tots war in Iran, the U.S. Israel War, aka against Iran, |
| 1:10.2 | nearing the end of a third week, Israel saying it won't attack |
| 1:13.3 | any more major Iranian energy sites as Tehran's retaliatory strikes on Gulf Nations push global |
| 1:19.0 | oil prices up. Countries around the world as well as the United Nations are working to reopen |
| 1:23.9 | the Strait of Hormuz while Arab and Islamic leaders urge Iran to cease its attacks. |
| 1:29.4 | Meanwhile, back here at home, Mara Lardo, made headlines for downplaying the hefty bill of war costs |
| 1:35.7 | and asking for $200 billion at the same time. Oh, and for cracking a joke about Pearl Harbor |
| 1:40.8 | attack during a summit with Japan's leader. And our Secretary of Defense, |
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