So what does this all mean then? Does this draw a line under the horrors of the Assad regime or is there more of a reckoning to come? I think there's more of a reckoning to come. I think you can't draw the line under those horrors because obviouslythey're still visible to people. They're still visible both physically, as I'm saying, like in Eastern Gouta, and still visible in the human cost. I mean, you
from abroad either. So those uh wounds are not likely to be healed at any time soon. It is though part of the reckoning , part of the accountability that the new authorities have promised.So in that sense, it's being welcomed and they're saying this is by no means the end of it. When Wasim Alasad was
the next 10 years in part because this has reversed, this pattern has reversed. The reckoning essentially though is the moment when if we have not come to terms with the structural, unsustainable deficit spending that we have now, and it's really not the
work probably have a GPS system in your car. I mean, feedback is absolutely essential. Dead reckoning doesn't work with flying and sailing, and it sure doesn't work in social change. So how do you track in this Philadelphia school example whether we're on the course? Well, we said initially, you know, in order to make this work; teachers need to be trained in assessment. Well, you see whether the teacher show up for training. You may give them little
I think we used to do-- we used to do a couple calculations like that because people would really always bug us about the trees. What we were reckoning on is that we were thinking that whales, if they're restored, could add another 1% to the global mass of phytoplankton, which would be something on the order of 375 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent a year.
There are a lot of them. It's just the reckoning of that pain and this truth.
to the recitation of a single mantra. Because with dead reckoning you're not setting a course and heading in the direction of your compass bearing.
for an opportunity, if they don't have that direct line to the place you're trying to go, chances are they'll know somebody who does. and the massive racial reckoning that followed that, and we-- and here we are this year, seeing
I had to go in my room and grab my guitar and write. And I wrote American Reckoning . So then the album title was no longer the wry, cute bumper sticker, but it had a much different, deeper meaning.
financial institutions accountable to make sure that the flow of capital is balanced because the greatest trade deficit in America is the trade deficit between There's a reckoning . We have to reverse this. We have to understand who we are and what we've done, and we have
But it becomes an allegory for coming out of whatever closet, like people who are reckoning with their sexuality, or people who are reckoning with what they want to do with their life, and like went to college to be a doctor and they just want to be a poet.
Now this meant that in the Greek world, there were innumerable-- basically innumerable calendars that had to be negotiated in some way. But by Roman reckoning , nine days are actually eight days.
the next 10 years in part because this has reversed, this pattern has reversed. that's when the reckoning happens.
But it's exciting how much things have changed. I think there has been a reckoning in Hollywood and in publishing that people do want and are thirsty for authentic stories that they can see themselves in.
And I like to preface that I was gay, but I was not proud yet. So it was like a reckoning with here I am, I'm gay, but gay and proud are two different things, right? Like undoing the shame around your sexual orientation and around your identity took its own process.
and in the US. So we had dramatic racial reckoning that-- if you're concerned, as we all should be, I think, about boys of color, having images of violence against Black men, both the rise but also the backlash to the Black Lives Matter movement in the United States
So currently we have pandemic. We have racial and equity reckoning nationally. We have political upheaval.
I've seen through this racial reckoning that we have in the world right now is that from ally ships standpoint, like
been very present in this racial reckoning that we're seeing across the world. And we've seen really in the racial equity. Siri's is this theme around Hope, and I
I do think we're at a reckoning , and I do feel like we can make some clear and concrete changes
And here's this great reckoning .
So I think it takes a real reckoning with yourself.
where Mitch Easter who produced rm's Reckoning and murmur the first two albums the first two album so that was
Now comes the day of reckoning .
But anything that delays the full reckoning weakens his ultimate position.
have what they call communal reckoning .
I think there's work in remedying it, and that is getting feedback. Oh dear, I don't think Columbus is--so, that's okay. So what Columbus had, you know, Columbus basically relied on a compass and dead reckoning . And we were talking before about flying. If you have ever flown a plane or had gone on a boat, you can start off with a great compass heading. You can even know what the winds are, but if you don't have some other form of feedback, you're going to be off course very soon. After awhile came the sextants and a--actually,
And they should be consistent and there should be a reckoning um for that over time. You go back and say, "Did you
And I think we still haven't really had a reckoning with what went right, what went wrong, what would we do differently,
press tour uh for her memoir called This Is Me: A Reckoning . She was on CBS. She
And so I think this book is that reckoning in the sense of, oh, no, I am made to be an artist.
and the recognition that we have to do a real reckoning and acknowledgment of all of the history.
Thus, in his reckoning , American born Japanese remained, quote, potential enemies at large.
And then Steve is there to have a reckoning with Bill Gates.
true monotheism the the kind of by the standard reckoning of the standard dating of biblical texts and I should
And um I think every woman in the United States is sort of reckoning in their in her own way with the fact that many of
And you don't want to wait until someone forces that day of reckoning on you.
painful as it can be, which is that reckoning of what past harm has happened.
talks about. We need to have a moral reckoning in America and around the world. And he says that muscle has atrophy,
and I know you all are-- we're now having this kind of reckoning , culturally, with the civilizational effect of the work you
You see a culture and a language develop from the child's own reckoning with their experience of learning.
line is you know I think there's going to be uh this period of Reckoning
signaled the other day that they really want to publish a a Reckoning 2. Reckoning did really well; it sold like $1.3 million or something. For a new IP on a brand new engine
Today we're thrilled to host Michael Moran. He's speaking to us today about his book which is called THE RECKONING : Debt, Democracy, and the Future of American Power. He chronicles how debt and political indecision coupled with emerging technologies is shifting the global political landscape.
positive relationship with the group and just did the sleeve notes for their reissue of Reckoning which is such a great record if you get a chance to pick
At that time. I I think there needs to be a full reckoning and transparency afterwards, but I would not want I would
I think we will end up looking back at 2026 as a bit of a year of reckoning for Meta, no matter uh how this works out
So we talk about how our actions are harming the world's ecosystems without really considering or reckoning how we ourselves are not just dependent on those ecosystems
You know, there's always going to be a day of reckoning .
Yeah. A lot of my work historically has been about reckoning with the sort of like classic Western literary canon that I was raised on,