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Back to SearchJonathan Haidt: "The Anxious Generation"
Episode 359
After more than a decade of stability or improvement, the mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self…
2 years ago
Al Gore: "Inconvenient Truth"
Episode 358
Michael had the opportunity to speak with Former Vice President Al Gore on his WPHT radio program in 2006. The interview did not quite go as planned …
2 years ago
Gabriel Sherman: "The Loudest Voice In The Room"
Episode 357
So much has happened in the world surrounding FOX News, Donald Trump, and Roger Ailes since the paperback version of this book by Gabriel Sherman cam…
2 years ago
Nathan Raab: "The Hunt For History"
Episode 356
Nathan Raab, America’s preeminent rare documents dealer, describes his years as the Sherlock Holmes of historical artifacts—questing after precious f…
2 years ago
Nicholas F. Jacobs & Dan Shea: "The Rural Voter"
Episode 355
The widening gulf between rural and urban America is becoming the most serious political divide of our day. Support for Democrats, up and down the ba…
2 years ago
Admiral James Stavridis: "2054"
Episode 354
From the acclaimed authors of the runaway New York Times bestseller "2034" comes another explosive work of speculative fiction set twenty years furth…
2 years ago
David Charter: "Royal Audience"
Episode 353
From the moment she first appeared as a young princess, Queen Elizabeth II fascinated the world. And, the late Queen had a special relationship with …
2 years ago
Richard Clarke: "Warnings"
Episode 352
"Warnings: Finding Cassandras to Stop Catastrophes" is the story of the future of national security, threatening technologies, the U.S. economy, and …
2 years, 1 month ago
Joe Nocera: "Indentured"
Episode 351
“How can the NCAA blithely wreck careers without regard to due process or common fairness? How can it act so ruthlessly to enforce rules that are so …
2 years, 1 month ago
Nick Troiano: "The Primary Solution"
Episode 350
In a divided America, the biggest solvable problem fueling political extremism and dysfunction is hiding in plain sight: party primaries. The Primary…
2 years, 1 month ago