Podcast Episodes

John Burtka, Executive Director and Acting Editor, The American Conservative

John Burtka, executive director and acting editor of The American Conservative, talks about the special edition of the magazine which examines where …

5 years, 8 months ago

Erin Geiger Smith, Voting in America

Journalist Erin Geiger Smith talks about the history of voting in the United States and some of the issues surrounding voting today, including low vo…

5 years, 8 months ago

Siddhartha Mukherjee, U.S. Response to Covid-19

Physician and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Siddhartha Mukherjee talks about the U.S. response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the medical science that …

5 years, 8 months ago

Elena Conis, "Vaccine Nation"

University of California at Berkeley historian of medicine Elena Conis talks about the development of the polio vaccine in the 1950s.

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5 years, 9 months ago

Peniel Joseph, Professor of History, University of Texas

University of Texas history professor Peniel Joseph talks about the activism and converging ideologies of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., and …

5 years, 9 months ago

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition”

Steve Inskeep, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” discussed his book, Imperfect Union, which chronicles John and Jessie Fremont and their exploration o…

5 years, 9 months ago

Peggy Wallace Kennedy, "The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation"

Peggy Wallace Kennedy talked about her segregationist father’s controversial career as the former four-term Alabama governor and presidential candida…

5 years, 9 months ago

Malcom Gladwell, "Talking to Strangers"

Malcolm Gladwell discussed his new book, Talking to Strangers, about how people make judgments, often inaccurately, about strangers.

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5 years, 9 months ago

Jeff Guinn, "The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip"

Historian Jeff Guinn talked about his book The Vagabonds: The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison’s Ten-Year Road Trip, on the highly-publicized su…

5 years, 10 months ago

Susannah Cahalan, Journalist, "The Great Pretender"

Journalist Susannah Cahalan talked about her book, The Great Pretender: The Undercover Mission That Changed Our Understanding of Madness, about a 197…

5 years, 10 months ago