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As seen in: Lost Prophets, The Lost Prophets Podcast (Newsletter), New York Daily News, Aeon, West Virginia MetroNews, Current Affairs, Current Affairs Podcast, The Harvard Law Record
Shows: FestivalPod.org + LostProphets.org | Film: @JoinOrDieFilm | Policy: @DemocracyPolicy | Book: DedicatedBook.org | Newsletter: PeteDavis.substack.com

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Pete Davis’s Journalist Portfolio

The first thing we do is nudge the lawyers - Pete Davis | Aeon Ideas

The first thing we do is nudge the lawyers - Pete Davis | Aeon Ideas

In early 1969, Ralph Nader placed an ad in the Harvard Crimson calling on law students to apply to work with …

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An Open Letter to the Harvard Law Review: Break Open HLS' Inner Ring

An Open Letter to the Harvard Law Review: Break Open HLS' Inner Ring

Dear Editors of the Harvard Law Review, In 1944 at the University of London, C.S. Lewis gave a speech entitle…

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Beyond Josh Lyman Politics: How the West Wing Miseducated My Political Generation

Beyond Josh Lyman Politics: How the West Wing Miseducated My Political Generation

A few years ago, Josh Lyman spoke at Harvard to a packed room of starstruck student politicos. It wasn't the …

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#21. Thomas Merton (ft. Nick Scrimenti)

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By Elias Crim, Pete Davis
| The Lost Prophets Podcast (Newsletter)
[ First, some exciting podcast news. We now have a LOST PROPHETS voicemail line. If you call the number (703) 662-3046, you can leave us a short question, a reflection, an idea — and we may play it on the show!] “The poet turns inward to create; the contemplative turns to God to be created.” Do not depend on the hope of results. You may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect.
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#20. bell hooks (ft. Nadra Nittle)

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By Elias Crim, Pete Davis
| The Lost Prophets Podcast (Newsletter)
“If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t start with feminism. I would start with stripping down to what fundamentally informs my life which is that I’m a seeker on the path. I think of feminism, and I think of anti-racist struggles as part of it.
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#19. William H. Whyte (ft. Alexandra Whyte)

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By Elias Crim, Pete Davis
| The Lost Prophets Podcast (Newsletter)
Who was Holly Whyte? Richard K. Rein’s excellent 2022 biography, American Urbanist: How William H. Whyte’s Unconventional Wisdom Reshaped Public Life, attempts to list his many personae: “magazine editor, author, urbanist, urban anthropologist, filmmaker, pundit, public intellectual, politician (unelected and behind the scenes), consultant, teacher, mentor (to, seemingly, hundreds), as well as husband and father.” Born in 1917, he served in the Second World War at Guadalcanal.
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