Episode 27: Best Of

Off-Kilter is on a break this week so we’ve rounded up up some of our favorite conversations to hold you over in the meantime. We’ll be back with new content after labor day. Subscribe to Off-Kilter on iTunes.

It’s not just U.S. politicians considering major cuts to programs that serve struggling families. Rebecca speaks with Mary O’Hara, a columnist with The Guardian, about how austerity is playing out in the United Kingdom. Next, Rebecca’s conversation with Tressie McMillan Cottom about her book, Lower-Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy. Then, Sarah McBride of the Human Rights Campaign, and the first openly transgender speaker at a major party convention, on the fight ahead for the LGBTQ community under Trump — and why she’s managed to remain optimistic. Lastly, Rebecca’s conversation with Greg Berman, the Director of the Center for Court Innovation, on the closure of New York City’s Rikers Island jail and its significance for criminal justice reform.

This week’s guests:

• Tressie McMillan Cottom, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Sarah McBride, Human Rights Campaign
• Mary O’Hara, The Guardian
• Greg Berman, Center for Court Innovation

For more on this week’s topics:

• Lower Ed: The Troubling Rise of For-Profit Colleges in the New Economy in its entirety.
• The op-ed Sarah McBride wrote to tell her college classmates she was trans.
• Mary O’Hara connects the U.K.’s austerity cuts to where the U.S. is headed.
• This article, from the archives, on how Rikers Island contributed to the tragic death of Kalief Browder

This program aired on September 8, 2017.