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Last week, News Director Max Esslinger sat down for an exclusive KRLX interview with visiting speaker Stephen M. Walt about his work as a celebrated international relations scholar, author, and public intellectual. The transcript of their in-depth conversation, edited for length and clarity, is reproduced below. KRLX: Foreign Policy, to which you contribute, is outspoken in

Tune in, or better yet, come to the Cave at 8PM on Wednesdays this spring for live music, performance poetry, panel discussions, game shows and more! Here’s an episode from this past winter featuring Carleton student band, “SUNSHiP.”  

  Reflections on aspects of a good community featuring vibrant Northfield senior citizens.  About the project: I spent much of the winter of 2014 going around Northfield, Minnesota, by taxi, carrying a voice recorder and a desire to share the opinions and stories of Northfield’s senior citizens. I had heard that Northfield is an excellent place

Two weeks ago, Carls hit the polls to vote on five student-proposed referenda requiring CSA funding, all of which passed. Specifically, these proposals were to expand the CSA senate by four positions, to purchase new furniture for the Bald Spot, to create a Paul Wellstone memorial on campus, to improve lighting options at the Cave,

KRLX board members Max Esslinger and Katie Koza interviewed Public Radio International’s Marco Werman in the record library after his convocation speech. With a great deal of help from programming director Cole Frank, they turned their interview into a documentary film that will be premiering this Wednesday, February 19, at 8PM at the Cave. The

  The civil war brewing within the Republican Party is often framed as a battle between a business-oriented establishment (that is, long-serving Congress members) and younger, ideologically-motivated Tea Party conservatives. In reality, however, the current situation is more of a vast free-for-all than a clear-cut civil war. Party activists all have their own individual messages

 “At some point, your kids or grandkids will come to you and say, what did you know, when?” These words of warning from longtime Minnesota meteorologist Paul Douglass helped kick off the Northfield Climate Summit, a day of environmentally-focused presentations and discussions at St. Olaf College. The goal of the gathering was to create “a