Summary: <div style="background-color: #eee; float: right; width: 30%; margin: 0px 0px 15px 15px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; font-size: .85em;"> <p><span style="">Relevant Reading:</span></p> <a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/06/03/opera-at-a-distance/"><strong>Opera at a Distance</strong></a><br> Barton Swaim<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Speechwriter-Brief-Education-Politics/dp/1476769923"><strong>The Speechwriter: A Brief Education in Politics</strong></a><br> Barton Swaim<a href="http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/05/27/looking-under-germanys-green-hood/"><strong>Looking Under Germany’s “Green” Hood</strong></a><br> Jamie Horgan </div><p>Good evening, listeners! We have a great episode for you this week as host Richard Aldous talks with author Barton Swaim about remotely viewing opera before speaking with <em>TAI </em>staff writer Jamie Horgan about Germany’ <em>energiewende</em>.</p>First, Barton Swaim discusses the Metropolitan Opera’s Live in HD series of cinema presentations, drawing on his recent moving experience seeing <em>Madama Butterfly</em> with his daughter.Then, Jamie Horgan takes a look under the hood of Germany’s remarkable—and costly—green energy transition, placing what Berlin has done over the past decade in perspective while examining the effects this <em>energiewende </em>has had on German power bills and central European grids.Be sure to <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/american-interest-podcast/id821109533?mt=2">subscribe</a> to the podcast on iTunes where you can also leave a review, and follow Barton Swaim <a href="https://twitter.com/bartonswaim">@bartonswaim</a>, Jamie Horgan <a href="https://twitter.com/JamieHorganAI">@JamieHorganAI</a>, and Richard Aldous <a href="https://twitter.com/rjaldous">@RJAldous</a> on Twitter.
