Podcasts
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59 mins • Recorded Sep 27, 2022Posted 3 years agoMeelya Gordon Memorial Lecture “John le Carré’s nonfiction counterpart” ( The New York Times ), Ben Macintyre is the bestselling author of A Spy Among Friends, Agent Zigzag, Operation Mincemeat, and The Spy and the Traitor , among other books.… more
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66 mins • Recorded Sep 22, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Chenjerai Kumanyika Ruth Wilson Gilmore is largely credited with creating carceral geography, the study of how the interplay between space, institutions, and political economies shape modern incarceration. The author of … more
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58 mins • Recorded Sep 20, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Kevin Werbach Acclaimed for their intersectional explorations of cyberculture, religion, currency, and politics, Douglas Rushkoff’s 20 bestselling books include Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Program or Be… more
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57 mins • Recorded Aug 3, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Marc Lamont Hill W. Kamau Bell is the host and executive producer of the Emmy Award–winning CNN docuseries United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell , and also directed and executive produced the recent four-part Showtime… more
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61 mins • Recorded Jul 20, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Renée Chenault Fattah In The XX Edge , Patience Marime-Ball and Ruth Shaber envision a new paradigm of gender-focused investing where more women are placed in decision-making roles and able to optimize their skills across… more
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59 mins • Recorded Jun 29, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Karen Heller, national features writer for The Washington Post, formerly a metro and features columnist for the Philadelphia Inquirer , and a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary. “A master of narrative… more
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Posted 3 years agoMeelya Gordon Memorial Lecture In conversation with Marjorie Margolies, President, Women's Campaign International and author of And How Are the Children?: Timeless Lessons from the Frontlines of Motherhood The younger sister of President Joe… more
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54 mins • Recorded Jun 23, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Sayeeda Rashid, Director of the Center for Gender Resources and Sexual Education at Haverford College Hugh Ryan is the author of When Brooklyn Was Queer , a “boisterous, motley … entertaining and insightful” ( The New York… more
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56 mins • Recorded Jun 16, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Herman Beavers Gene Andrew Jarrett is the author of Representing the Race: A New Political History of African American Literature and Deans and Truants: Race and Realism in African American Literature . He is the editor of an… more
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56 mins • Recorded Jun 14, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Tracey Matisak, award winning broadcaster and journalist A two-time world champion debater and a former coach of the Harvard College Debating Union and the Australian national debating team, Bo Seo has won the World Schools… more
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51 mins • Recorded Jun 2, 2022Posted 3 years ago“The world’s best green journalist” ( TIME ), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about climate change with his 1989 book The End of Nature . His many other bestselling books about the environment include Falter , Deep Economy ,… more
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55 mins • Recorded May 24, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Benjamin Todd Jealous A political enterprise and investigations reporter for The Washington Post since 2011, Robert Samuels has chronicled the impact of national policies and controversies from across the United States. He… more
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60 mins • Recorded May 17, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Ramesh Ponnuru, editor of National Review A senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, Matthew Continetti works in the field of American political thought and history, with an emphasis on the Republican Party and the… more
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55 mins • Recorded Apr 26, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Marc Lamont Hill Addressing social justice issues of policing, state surveillance of families, and science, Dorothy Roberts ’s books include Killing the Black Body , Shattered Bonds , and Fatal Invention . She has also… more
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57 mins • Recorded Mar 29, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with John M. Cooper Historian Neil Lanctot is the author of Campy: The Two Lives of Roy Campanella and Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution , a “prodigiously researched” and “enormously… more
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65 mins • Recorded Mar 23, 2022Posted 3 years agoA Dublin native and a 34-year columnist and drama critic for The Irish Times, Fintan O’Toole is the author of nearly two dozen books, including A History of Ireland in 100 Objects , Enough is Enough: How to Build a Republic , and Heroic… more
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65 mins • Recorded Mar 17, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Michael Kulikowski “A national treasure, and easily the world’s most famous classicist” ( The Guardian ), Mary Beard “radiates authority and expertise” in guiding her readers through the world of Ancient Roman civilization.… more
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60 mins • Recorded Mar 16, 2022Posted 3 years agoThe Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Howard Gardner is the author of 30 books, including A Synthesizing Mind , The App Generation , and Responsibility at Work . He is the… more
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63 mins • Recorded Mar 15, 2022Posted 3 years agoIn conversation with Danielle M. Conway The Nation ’s legal analyst and justice correspondent, Elie Mystal is an Alfred Knobler fellow at the Type Media Center and is the legal editor of More Perfect , Radiolab’s podcast about the U.S. Supreme… more
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52 mins • Recorded Mar 8, 2022Posted 3 years agoJill and Sheldon Bonovitz Endowed Lecture In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Michael Kazin ’s many critically acclaimed books include War Against War: The American Fight for Peace, 1914–1918 , selected… more
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