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Back to SearchMichael Moss: "Hooked"
Episode 478
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Michael Moss joins Michael to unpack his explosive book "Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit O…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
James Fishkin: "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?"
Episode 477
Michael Smerconish speaks with Stanford political scientist Dr. James Fishkin about his groundbreaking book "Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democr…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Tyler Pager: "2024"
Episode 476
Michael welcomes New York Times White House Correspondent Tyler Pager, co-author (with Josh Dawsey and Isaac Arnsdorf) of "2024: How Trump Retook the…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Carter Sherman: "The Second Coming"
Episode 475
Carter Sherman, reproductive health reporter at The Guardian joins Michael with her book "The Second Coming: Sex and the Next Generation’s Fight Over…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
Jim Abbott: "Imperfect"
Episode 474
Watch the "Book Club" special event at Citizen's Bank Park in Philadelphia, PA on June 12, 2012 where Michael and Jim Abbott talk in front of 1,000 p…
8 months, 4 weeks ago
Salena Zito: "Butler"
Episode 473
In this episode, Michael Smerconish talks with journalist and author Salena Zito about her new book "Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassinati…
9 months ago
Kevin Hines: "Cracked, Not Broken"
Episode 472
Kevin Hines attempted suicide in 2000 in San Francisco and fortunately lived to tell about it, and wrote a powerful memoir in 2013. In 2016, there wa…
9 months ago
David Litt: "It's Only Drowning"
Episode 471
Surfing, politics, and...finding common ground! Michael is joined by former Obama speechwriter and author David Litt to discuss his new book "It's On…
9 months, 1 week ago
Sophie Gilbert: "Girl on Girl"
Episode 470
Michael Smerconish is joined by Atlantic staff writer Sophie Gilbert to discuss her new book, "Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of W…
9 months, 1 week ago
Seymour Hersh: "Reporter"
Episode 469
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author and preeminent investigative journalist of our time—a heartfelt, hugely revealing memoir of a de…
9 months, 2 weeks ago