Hello, everybody. Welcome to It Was Today: revisiting myself on NPR, a new feature of my Substack, Keep the Sabbath With Me. I am Andrei Codrescu. I regularly spoke my mind on national public radio’s All Things Considered from 1983 until 2016. I was never told what to think or say. NPR ID’d me as a poet.
That and my accent protected me. Nobody knows what a poet is and my accent, well, a lot of people weren't sure they heard me right.
Did he really say that?
I will post each Saturday an archival NPR essay with a current view of it from the shipwreck of 2025. If you would like to access It Was Today: Revisiting Myself at NPR (1983-2016), take out a paid subscription. You might get something from it: I will be your madeleine.
Let’s start down the ladder in the pre-pandemic year 2016. Google had just invested in IMPROBABLE, a digital simulation of real cities, economies and biological systems.
