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Behind the News: Barbara Ehrenreich Remembered

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Socialism, History, News, Left, Jacobin, Alternative, Socialist, Politics

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

A memorial to Barbara Ehrenreich, who died at 81 on September 1, featuring three Behind the News interviews with her from 2004, 2005, and 2009.


Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive here: https://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html



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Hello and welcome to Behind the News.

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My name is Doug Henrywood.

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Today we will remember Barbara Ann Reich

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by repreasing some of her interviews on this show over the years.

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Barbara Ann Reich died in September 1,

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less than a week after her 81st birthday.

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I've long admired her as one of the finest journalists in the country,

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sharp, stylish, funny, and always on the right side of the class war.

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I have a few words to say about her,

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but for a longer appreciation of her career,

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C. Gabriel Winance SA on the N-plus-1 magazine website.

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Before she turned to writing,

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Barbara got a PhD in cell biology from Rockefeller University,

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something I always admired about her.

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The disciplines rigor clearly left a mark in her thinking,

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and she was always a reliable partisan of science

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in a left that was often indifferent or even hostile to the pursuit.

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Some of her earliest writing was about the US health system,

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