Podcasts
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Jason Baumann | The Stonewall Reader with Mark Segal, Karla Jay and Joel Hall
• Recorded Jun 20, 2019On the eve of the 50th anniversary of the riots that started the fight for American LGBTQ+ rights, The Stonewall Reader highlights some of the movement’s most iconic moments and figures in the years before and after those tumultuous events.… more
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Frank Langfitt | The Shanghai Free Taxi: Journeys with the Hustlers and Rebels of the New China
• Recorded Jun 19, 2019In conversation with Bill Marimow As NPR's Correspondent in Shanghai, Frank Langfitt created a free-taxi service where he offered rides in exchange for passenger's stories and candid conversation. He met a motley crew of characters whose lives he… more
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Jacob Shell | Giants of the Monsoon Forest: Living and Working with Elephants
• Recorded Jun 11, 2019In conversation with Nikil Saval, an editor of n+1 and author of Cubed: A Secret History of the Workplace A professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University, Jacob Shell is the author of Transportation and Revolt: Pigeons, Mules,… more
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A “clever and insightful inspector of the American scene” ( Wall Street Journal ), David Brooks has written an op-ed column for The New York Times since 2003. A former editor and columnist at The Weekly Standard , The Washington Times , The Wall… more
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In conversation with Annette John-Hall, cohost and producer of The Why on WHYY A 14-year veteran crime reporter for the Philadelphia Daily News , Nicole Weisensee Egan was the first journalist to delve into Andrea Constand’s 2005 sexual assault… more
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Melinda Gates | The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World
In conversation with John Green• Recorded Apr 25, 2019Ranked by Forbes as the third most powerful woman in the world, Melinda Gates has been on a 20-year mission to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems. Through her work as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation—the world’s… more
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In conversation with Catherine M. Recker. “One of the most intense, visceral” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ) writers of our time, Mark Bowden is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and Vanity Fair and is the author of numerous New York Times… more
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Janny Scott | The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father
• Recorded Apr 22, 2019In conversation with Bruce Weber, former obituary writer for the New York Times and author of the books As They See 'Em: A Fan's Travels in the Land of Umpires and Life is A Wheel: Memoirs of a Bike-Riding Obituarist . Janny Scott, a 15-year… more
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Emily Bazelon | Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration
• Recorded Apr 18, 2019In conversation with State Representative Christopher M. Raab Emily Bazelon is the author of Sticks and Stones , “a humane and closely reported exploration” ( Wall Street Journal ) of school bullying and the empathetic steps students, parents,… more
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“The world’s best green journalist” ( Time ), Bill McKibben gave one of the earliest cautions about global warming with his 1989 book The End of Nature . His many other bestselling books about the environment include Deep Economy , Eaarth , and… more
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“A rollicking adventure into the origins of the apostrophe, the proliferation of profanity in American culture, and everything in between” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Mary Norris’s bestselling Between You and Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen was… more
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In conversation with Chef Elijah Milligan A former Top Chef star, the executive chef at Washington D.C.’s popular Kith and Kin, and a Forbes and Zagat’s 30 Under 30 honoree, Kwame Onwuachi is one of America’s most acclaimed young culinary… more
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In conversation with Dick Polman , "Writer in Residence" at the University of Pennsylvania, national political columnist at WHYY News and contributor to The Atlantic Standing at “the summit of American historical writing” ( Washington Post ),… more
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A 30-year writer at the Miami Herald whose column was syndicated in more than 500 newspapers, humorist Dave Barry won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1988. His more than 30 New York Times bestselling books include I’ll Mature When I’m Dead ,… more
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Michael Dobbs | The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between
• Recorded Apr 4, 2019A longtime foreign correspondent for The Washington Post , Michael Dobbs reported on some of the most important events of our time. His many books include Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire , Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America… more
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Valerie Jarrett | Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward
• Recorded Apr 3, 2019In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition “The ultimate Obama insider” ( New York Times ), Valerie Jarrett was the longest serving advisor in the 44th President’s administration. Born in Iran and raised in… more
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Barry Lopez won the National Book Award for Arctic Dreams , a “rich, abundant, vigorously composed” ( Boston Globe ) meditation on his travels in the barren but beautiful far North. His other work includes Of Wolves and Men , Crow and Weasel ,… more
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Adam Rutherford | Humanimal: How Homo sapiens Became Nature’s Most Paradoxical Creature A New Evolutionary History
• Recorded Mar 21, 2019“A heady amalgam of science, history, a little bit of anthropology and plenty of nuanced, captivating storytelling” ( The New York Times Book Review ), Adam Rutherford’s A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived delves into the ages-spanning… more
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Frans de Waal | Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
• Recorded Mar 14, 2019Esteemed primatologist Frans de Waal is the author of The Bonobo and the Atheist , a “tour de force” ( Nature ) exploration of the biological roots of human morality found in primate social emotions, including empathy, reciprocity, and fairness.… more
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David Treuer | The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee: Native America from 1890 to the Present
• Recorded Mar 7, 2019An Ojibwe from the Leech Lake Reservation in northern Minnesota and an unromantic chronicler of Native American culture and literature, David Treuer is the author of the novels Prudence , Little , The Hiawatha , and The Translation of Dr. Appeles… more
Top 10 Podcast Episodes May 2019
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David Brooks
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Nicole Weisensee Egan
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George Packer
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Susan Choi
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Tyler Kepner
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Susan Hockfield
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Adam Gopnik
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One Book, One Philadelphia
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Eve Ensler
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Lorene Cary
Top 10 YouTube Videos May 2019
- Pete Buttigieg
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Robert Caro
- Lamont "U-God" Hawkins
- Timothy Snyder
- Jeff Tweedy
- Ben Macintyre
- Jon Meacham
- Carolyn Forché
- Brittney Cooper
