Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchLove, Race & the ‘Mixed Marriage Project’
Almost a decade after her father's death, legal scholar Dorothy Roberts had to confront the 25 boxes of his research collecting dust in her office. R…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Ruby Ridge siege & conspiracy-laced politics in America
We look back at the 1992 siege at Ruby Ridge in Idaho, where gunfire left two civilians and a deputy U.S. Marshal dead. Chris Jennings’ new book expl…
2 months, 1 week ago
Best Of: Fighting for free press in Russia / ‘Fear and Fury’
Julia Loktev’s latest documentary, ‘My Undesirable Friends - Part 1: Last Air in Moscow,’ follows independent Russian journalists in the months leadi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
A 50th anniversary celebration of ‘Taxi Driver’
Martin Scorsese's masterpiece about loneliness, urban decay, and vigilantism is 50 years old this month. We’re revisiting archival interviews about ‘…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Following independent journalists fighting for free press in Russia
Julia Loktev's acclaimed documentary, ‘My Undesirable Friends,’ follows young Russian journalists in the months before and after Putin's invasion of …
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Is America headed toward dictatorship?
Atlantic writer Robert Kagan says as President Trump violates norms, laws and the Constitution, including his call to nationalize elections, we’re on…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How Rupert Murdoch built an empire and broke his family
We go inside the real succession story within the Murdoch family media empire. It includes Fox News, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. I…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Ethan Hawke
"Every now and then you bump up against a part that presses you to the wall of your ability," Hawke says of playing lyricist Lorenz Hart in ‘Blue Moo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Best Of: Novelists Liz Moore & Julian Barnes
Liz Moore’s bestselling book, ‘Long Bright River,’ was set in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood where she’d worked on a photo essay. “My own famil…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Guillermo Del Toro would ‘rather die’ than use generative AI
When Oscar-winning filmmaker Guillermo del Toro was a kid growing up in Guadalajara, Mexico, he would draw monsters all day. His deeply Catholic gran…
2 months, 3 weeks ago