Conor Gillies
- Username: Stylus
- PRX Member
- Role: Producer/Reporter: Independent
Recent Pieces from Conor Gillies
What To Do After Paris?
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From: Open Source
With Amb. Chas Freeman, a freethinking veteran of foreign service, and the French journalist Sylvain Cypel, we’re in the Open Source situation room, trying to see the tragic ...
Gunther Schuller, RIP: A Life Inside Music
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From: Open Source
Schuller, who died last week at 89, was a prodigious, captivated, sometimes cantankerous prisoner of every kind of modern music: between Beethoven and Bill Evans, Igor ...
Under The Algerian Sun: Camus and Daoud
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From: Open Source
It’s the rare writer who can pick up where Albert Camus — master of midcentury philosophy and fiction — left off in the modern classic, The Outsider (formerly translated as ...
The Pope and the Planet
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From: Open Source
In an encyclical letter, Pope Francis himself will intervene next week on the global story of climate change, bringing scientific and moral authority into alignment. The Pope ...
Whitman at War
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From: Open Source
The best of American poets and the worst of American wars met head-on 150 years ago this summer in Walt Whitman’s Drum-Taps, his reflections on nursing the wounded and dying ...
What Money Can't Buy
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From: Open Source
Seven years after the credit crunch, we know the markets have rebounded. Executive pay is back up; the public sector’s still shrinking relatively and corporate profits are at ...
The Rebirth of a Nation
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From: Open Source
Both our guests Eric Foner and Heather Cox Richardson want to shout it from the rooftops: the little-known history of Reconstruction is where the story of the Civil War gets ...
TPP on Trial
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From: Open Source
The Democrats’ revolt against President Obama’s Trans Pacific Partnership has everything to do with the “giant sucking sound” of job loss echoing over Baltimore and St. ...
Knausgaard: The New Novel Thing
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From: Open Source
Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle is sweeping the world in six volumes and 3,600 pages. It’s the novelized memory of a mostly ordinary Scandinavian life, a book whose boredom ...
