Podcast Episodes

Cape Fear Won’t Die

Our What Happens Next Culture Critic Darren Schwartz will be leading us in conversation. We also have a special guest my good friend Ethan Holland wh…

15 hours ago

Can Evolution Explain Our Feelings?

Our speaker is Rob Kurzban who is the author of a new book entitled All the Feels: The Evolved Function of Every Human Emotion and Sensation.

I want t…

1 week ago

I Love Your Accent

Our speaker is Valerie Fridland who is a Professor of Linguistics at the University of Nevada at Reno. She is the author of the new book entitled Why…

2 weeks ago

Unsafe at MIT

Our speaker is Yossi Sheffi who is a Professor of Engineering at MIT and is a leading scholar in supply chain management. He is the author of a new b…

3 weeks ago

Appreciating George Orwell

Our speaker is Robert Colls who is the author of the Orwell biography entitled George Orwell: Life and Legacy.

You know his novels 1984 and Animal Far…

4 weeks ago

Is Nolan’s Odyssey a Masterpiece?

This episode is -- Is Nolan’s Odyssey a Masterpiece?

Our speakers are Scott Turow the author of Presumed Innocent and Darren Schwartz the What Happens…

1 month ago

Would You Have Been a Loyalist or a Patriot?

Our speaker to day is Patrick Allitt who is a Professor of History at Emory where he teaches courses in the American Revolution and the Industrial Re…

1 month, 1 week ago

Why George Washington was the Unanimous Choice

Our speaker is H.W. Brands who is a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and the author of the biography American Patriarch: The…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Rocky at 50

The original Rocky film was released 50 years ago, and today we are going to review the entire Rocky series. Our discussion will be led by the What H…

1 month, 3 weeks ago

A Breakthrough in Restoring Memory

Our speaker is Michael Kahana who is one of the world’s leading experts on memory. He is a former Professor of Psychology at Penn, and he is now the …

2 months ago