The Way We Live Now

By Karen Christensen

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Thinking globally, acting locally: stories, tools, & ideas. Karen Christensen talks with authors, experts, and others to explore ways we can make the world a better place.

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Episode Date
From Serbia to Iowa City, third-place talk is bubbling up
Apr 29, 2026
Let's make leaving home a New Year's resolution
Dec 30, 2025
Career women, wives and mothers, and presidents chosen by God
Dec 16, 2025
What should we call the places we love?
Dec 11, 2025
How Cars Make Life Worse and What to Do about It
Dec 06, 2025
The Missing Chapter
Nov 13, 2025
Last summer's talk by Lake Mansfield
Oct 30, 2025
The secret to great cities and towns
Aug 11, 2025
The imperial banality of biography
Aug 10, 2025
Why Harvard matters: A Cartography of Resistance with Keith Grint
Apr 17, 2025
#Thanksfortyping: The making of Ted Hughes
Mar 25, 2025
Green Party 1990 to Principles First 2025
Feb 10, 2025
A conversation about "schoolishness"
Feb 04, 2025
Desi pubs - a conversation about race, exclusion, and resilience
Jan 30, 2025
Simon Winchester talks about The Man Who Loved China
Jan 30, 2025
From the US Capitol, January 2021
Jan 17, 2025
Restaurateur Mark Firth on hosting, farming, & drinking
Jan 16, 2025
American princess priestess poet
Jan 12, 2025
Joyful reading: a podcast about the novels of Anthony Trollope
Dec 21, 2024
To be a Woman: The Life of Jill Craigie with Carl Rollyson
Dec 15, 2024
The man, and the women, behind the Gaia Theory
Dec 09, 2024
What Starbucks tells us about America, and about ourselves
Nov 30, 2024
The Strongman Problem
Nov 22, 2024
Ray Oldenburg on third places during the pandemic
Nov 07, 2024
Train Time podcast: A tunnel under Long Island Sound?
Oct 01, 2024
The 7 characteristics of a third place
Sep 12, 2024
Politicking in third places
Sep 05, 2024
The power (and joy) of talking to strangers
Aug 13, 2024
"I don't need therapy - I just need to go to Italy"
Jul 31, 2024
The 15-Minute City hosts the global games
Jul 23, 2024
Celebrating a third place: The Star of Greenwich
Jul 13, 2024
Finding the Perfect Book Title
Jun 26, 2024
Poetry in English and Chinese
Jun 09, 2024
A conversation with Antoine Burret
May 13, 2024
Making world history on Earth Day
Apr 19, 2024
McNeill video test to try out Substack video
Feb 07, 2024
Introduction to The Way We Live Now
Jan 01, 2024
Ray Oldenburg talks about third places
Jan 26, 2023
A PS: Virginia Woolf
Jul 08, 2022
What Virginia Woolf said about Putin
Jul 08, 2022
West-East, North-South with Rep Smitty PignatelliWest-East, North-South with Rep Smitty Pignatelli
Dec 01, 2021
Riding the Downeaster with Wayne DavisRiding the Downeaster with Wayne Davis
Nov 19, 2021
Connecting Dots to Connect the LinesConnecting Dots to Connect the Lines
Nov 11, 2021
Kevin Ellis on “The Embarrassment of Amtrak”Kevin Ellis on “The Embarrassment of Amtrak”
Nov 03, 2021
Crossing the Borders, Connecting CommunitiesCrossing the Borders, Connecting Communities
Jun 03, 2021
Moving into the 21st Century: an interview with Luke BroninMoving into the 21st Century: an interview with Luke Bronin
May 03, 2021
Meredith Richards plays a rail long game in VirginiaMeredith Richards plays a rail long game in Virginia
Mar 28, 2021