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Jim: The Life and Afterlives of Huckleberry Finn's Comrade. Talking with author, Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin.
Season 30 Episode 17
Mark Twain's novel features an enslaved man Jim who teams up with young Huck rafting down the Mississippi to freedom. But Jim has become one of the m…
11 months, 1 week ago
Portal: San Francisco's Ferry Building and the Reinvention of American Cities. Talking with John King, The San Francisco Chronicle's former urban design critic.
Season 30 Episode 16
San Francisco's venerable Ferry Building opened in 1898 but by 1938 with the opening of the Golden Gate and Bay Bridges, the need for commuter ferrie…
11 months, 1 week ago
The Lost and The Found. A True Story of Homelessness, Found Family and Second Chances. Speaking with author Kevin Fagan.,
Season 30 Episode 15
Veteran San Francisco Chronicle journalist Kevin Fagan wrote a 5 part series on homelessness in 2003 called "Shame of the City". Some of the characte…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Canada: A defining moment for our neighbor to the North. Talking to Marci Surkes, former advisor to Justin Trudeau, the outgoing Prime Minister.
Season 30 Episode 14
Canada has a new Prime Minister, Mark Carney, and faces a General Election on April 28, 2025. The key - some would say existential - issues facing Ca…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the new Millennium. Talking with author Martin Gurri.
Season 30 Episode 13
Technology has reversed the information balance of power between the public and the elites .
11 months, 3 weeks ago
The Open Society as an Enemy: How Free Societies turned against themselves. Talking with Professor J. McKenzie Alexander
Season 30 Episode 10
Populist agendas of the Left and Right threaten to undermine fundamental principles that underpin liberal democracies. What can we do to reverse the…
1 year ago
Safe and Sound: a proven program that reduces childhood abuse, neglect and trauma. Talking with Pegah Faed, CEO of Safe and Sound.
Season 30 Episode 12
San Francisco has over 4500 reports of child abuse annually. Safe and Sound for over 50 years has been working with at risk families to deal with the…
1 year ago
The Zodiac Killings: Still Unsolved. Talking with Shaun Chang of the Hill Place Movie and TV Blog.
Season 30 Episode 11
As an example of American True Crime stories, the Zodiac killings in the San Francisco Bay Area during the late 1960s and 1970s, continue to fascinat…
1 year ago
The Science of Weird Shit: Why our minds conjure the Paranormal. Talking with Professor Chris French.
Season 30 Episode 9
Paranormal phenomena are all around us: UFOs, Telepathy, alien abductions. But what is the psychology behind such beliefs ? Anomalistic Psychology se…
1 year ago
In conversation with Dr. Deepak Srivastava, President of the Gladstone Institute.
Season 30 Episode 8
The Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco is an independent biomedical research institution that empowers world class scientists to find new pathways…
1 year ago