Podcasts
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• Recorded Jun 29, 2022In 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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Meelya 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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• Recorded Jun 23, 2022In 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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• Recorded Jun 16, 2022In 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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• Recorded Jun 14, 2022In 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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• Recorded Jun 2, 2022“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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• Recorded May 24, 2022In 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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• Recorded May 17, 2022In 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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• Recorded Apr 26, 2022In 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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• Recorded Mar 29, 2022In 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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• Recorded Mar 23, 2022A 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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• Recorded Mar 17, 2022In 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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• Recorded Mar 16, 2022The 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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• Recorded Mar 15, 2022In 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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• Recorded Mar 8, 2022Jill 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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In conversation with Cajetan Iheka, Associate Professor of Literature, Yale University, and author of African Ecomedia: Network Forms, Planetary Politics One of Nigeria’s most celebrated authors, Ben Okri is the author of many post-colonial… more
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• Recorded Feb 24, 2022Education historian Erika M. Kitzmiller has conducted research in the city of Philadelphia, its public schools, and the Free Library for nearly two decades. The result of her investigation is The Roots of Educational Inequality , a… more
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• Recorded Feb 23, 2022Barbara Gohn Day Memorial Lecture In conversation with Tracey Matisak, award winning broadcaster and journalist In her 20 years as a columnist and assistant editor at The Times of London , Mary Ann Sieghart won a popular following for her pieces… more
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In conversation with Priya Joshi, Professor of English at Temple University in Philadelphia Economist Amartya Sen received the Nobel Prize for his “fascinating ... eloquent, and probing” ( The New York Times ) work on social choice theory,… more
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• Recorded Feb 2, 2022In conversation with Jonathan Tamari Born in Philadelphia to an immigrant family, Democrat Ro Khanna has served as the U.S. representative for California’s 17th congressional district—better known as Silicon Valley— since 2017. The deputy… more
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