In this month’s episode of The Oxford Comment, host Sara Levine chats with William Murphy, author of Political Imprisonment and the Irish, 1912-1921; Fearghal McGarry, author of The Rising (Centenary Edition): Easter 1916; and Robert Schmuhl, author of Ireland’s Exiled Children: American and the Easter Rising. Together, they engage in fascinating conversation about the experience of women during the Easter Rising, the cultural and national identity that was forged between the rebels in prison after the uprising, and the role Americans played as support and inspiration for the Irish.

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In this month’s Oxford Comment, we discuss The Paris Agreement, held from 30 November to 12 December 2015, and since hailed as a “historic turning point” in the battle against global climate change.

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In this month’s episode of The Oxford Comment, Leif Wenar, author of Blood Oil: Tyrants, Violence, and the Rules that Run the World, and Dale Jamieson, author of Reason in a Dark Time: Why the Struggle to Stop Climate Change Failed, explore the unseen costs of consumer demand, corporate conduct, and more.

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In this month’s episode, host Sara Levine chats with Alice Hammel, co-editor of Winding It Back: Teaching to Individual Differences in Music Classroom and Ensemble Settings, Taylor Walkup and Adam Goldberg, two music educators in New York City, and Karmen Ross and Hyacinth Heron Haughton, the parents of special needs students. Together, they engage in fascinating conversation about the role of music in special needs education, illustrating its challenges and—most importantly—its rewards.

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In this month’s episode, Sara Levine, Multimedia Producer, sat down with Katherine Connor Martin, head of US Dictionaries, Allan Metcalf, author of From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations, and Edmund Weiner, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary to solve the season’s most baffling linguistic conundrums.

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