Podcast Episodes

Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Journalist Boyce Upholt talks about the history and geography of the Mississippi River and human attempts to control it going back to the Founding Er…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Pulitzer Prize Author Stacy Schiff on Writing History That Feels Alive

Pulitzer Prize winner Stacy Schiff joins David M. Rubenstein to discuss her biographies of Cleopatra, Benjamin Franklin and Samuel Adams before visit…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

Eric Trump, "Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation"

Eric Trump, executive vice president of the Trump Organization, talked about growing up as a Trump and his family's involvement in business and polit…

6 months, 4 weeks ago

BN+: Geri Spieler, "Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford"

In September 1975, 17 days apart, two women, one in Sacramento and the other in San Francisco, attempted to assassinate President Gerald Ford. The fi…

7 months ago

Q&A: Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood

In his memoir, "Who Knew," media mogul Barry Diller talks about his career in television and Hollywood, and about his personal life and longtime rela…

7 months ago

Justice Amy Coney Barrett on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution"

Supreme Court Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett joins host David M. Rubenstein to discuss her new book, her early life and her view of the Constitu…

7 months ago

Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

Journalist Karen Hao discussed her reporting on OpenAI under the leadership of Sam Altman. The Commonwealth Club of California hosted this event.

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7 months ago

BN+: Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

The book is called "Breakneck: China's Quest to Engineer the Future." Author Dan Wang was born in China in 1992. His parents moved to Canada when he …

7 months, 1 week ago

Q&A: Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin

Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty discusses her life-long interest in Russia, which she first visited in 1969 as an exchange student. A f…

7 months, 1 week ago

From the Library of Congress: John Grisham on Storytelling and Justice

From the Great Hall of the Library of Congress, master of the legal thriller John Grisham joins host David M. Rubenstein to discuss his early life, w…

7 months, 1 week ago