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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Nicole Dennis-Benn | Patsy with Rebecca Makkai | The Great Believers
• Recorded Jun 6, 2019 Explicit ContentHere Comes the Sun , Nicole Dennis-Benn ’s debut novel about a young Jamaican struggling to protect her sister and village as she experiences feelings for another woman, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the New York… more
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John Waters | Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder
• Recorded May 23, 2019 Explicit ContentIn conversation with Jason Freeman, producer and editor of author events John Waters’s transgressive movies include Pink Flamingos , Hairspray , Cry-Baby , Serial Mom , and Cecil B. Demented . He is also the author of Shock Value , … more
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Richard Blanco made history four times at Barack Obama’s second presidential inauguration: He was the first immigrant, the first Latino, the youngest person, and the first openly gay person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. Exploring heritage and… more
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Pete Buttigieg | Shortest Way Home: One Mayor’s Challenge and a Model for America’s Future
• Recorded Feb 19, 2019In conversation with Tamala Edwards , anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition The multifaceted, 36-year-old progressive mayor of South Bend, Indiana, Pete Buttigieg is a Rhodes Scholar and Harvard graduate. Nearly a decade ago he left a… more
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Feminista Jones | Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World from the Tweets to the Streets with DaMaris B. Hill | A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing
• Recorded Feb 5, 2019Social worker, public speaker, community activist, and blogger Feminista Jones is the author of the novel Push the Button and the poetry collection The Secret of Sugar Water . She was named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Philadelphia (… more
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In conversation with Hannah Gadsby The Emmy and Golden Globe-winning creator of the Amazon series Transparent , Jill Soloway is the director of the feature film Afternoon Delight , creator of the series I Love Dick , and was a writer and… more
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Imani Perry | Looking for Lorraine: The Radiant and Radical Life of Lorraine Hansberry
• Recorded Sep 25, 2018A professor of African American studies, public affairs, and gender and sexuality studies at Princeton University, Dr. Imani Perry is the author of More Beautiful and More Terrible: The Embrace and Transcendence of Racial Inequality in the United… more
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Sarah McBride | Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality
• Recorded Jun 7, 2018In conversation with State Representative Brian K. Sims , former staff counsel for policy and planning at the Philadelphia Bar Association. Sims recently stepped down as both the president of the board of directors of Equality Pennsylvania and as… more
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Peter Carey | A Long Way from Home with Alan Hollinghurst | The Sparsholt Affair
• Recorded Mar 27, 2018A writer who “luxuriates in language” ( San Francisco Chronicle ), Peter Carey is the author of 15 quirky and daring novels, including Parrot and Olivier in America , Bliss , Oscar and Lucinda , and The True History of the Kelly Gang , the latter… more
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“One of those rare historian-humanists who bridge East and West” ( Wall Street Journal ), Ian Buruma is the author of The Missionary and the Libertine; Murder in Amsterdam ; Year Zero: A History of 1945 ; Theater of Cruelty: Art, Film, and the… more
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Watch the video here . Lauded for his “ferocious moral vision and astute intellect” ( New York Times ), educator and philosopher Dr. Cornel West is the author of the National Book Award-winning Race Matters , a sea change discourse on race,… more
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In conversation with Jason Freeman “A greater National Treasure than 90 percent of the people who are given ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ ( The Washington Post ), filmmaker, actor, and writer John Waters was also lovingly described as “The Pope of… more
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Watch the video here . In conversation with Buzz Bissinger , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of four books, including The New York Times bestsellers 3 Nights in August and Friday Night Lights . Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce… more
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Watch the video here . Roxane Gay’s “commanding debut” ( The New Yorker ) novel An Untamed State , the tale of a willful Haitian kidnap victim, was a finalist for the Dayton Literary Prize for Fiction. She is also the author of the acclaimed… more
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Watch the video here . “At once outrageous and compelling, fanatical and brilliant” ( The Washington Post ), Camille Paglia is the author of the 700-page seminal discourse on paganism, sex, and art, Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from… more
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Cory Booker | United: Thoughts on Finding Common Ground and Advancing the Common Good
Recorded Mar 1, 2016The former popular and transformative mayor of Newark, Cory Booker is currently the junior United States senator from New Jersey. During his time as mayor he earned a national reputation for hands-on involvement in public service, foundational… more
Top 10 Podcast Episodes June 2019
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Rick Atkinson
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James Ellroy
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Jacob Shell
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Nicole Dennis-Benn
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James Patterson
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John Waters
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Mark Kram Jr.
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Esi Edugyan
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Frank Langfitt
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Trevor Noah
Top 10 YouTube Videos June 2019
- Pete Buttigieg
- Slavoj Zizek
- Ta-Nehisi Coates
- Ben Macintyre
- James Ellroy
- Lamont "U-God" Hawkins
- Robert A. Caro
- Camille Paglia
- Timothy Snyder
- René Redzepi and David Zilber
