Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchCan Journalism Be Saved?: A Discussion with Nicholas Lemann
Episode 1
There is no better person to start this journey than with journalist Nicholas Lemann, who has been observing the industry, also long-form journalism,…
5 years, 1 month ago
Phillip Lopate, "The Golden Age of the American Essay: 1945-1970" (Anchor Books, 2021)
Episode 964
The three decades that followed World War II were an exceptionally fertile period for American essays. The explosion of journals and magazines, the r…
5 years, 1 month ago
Michela Wrong, "Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad" (PublicAffairs, 2021)
Michela Wrong’s Do Not Disturb: The Story of a Political Murder and an African Regime Gone Bad (PublicAffairs, 2021) is a glorious piece of journalis…
5 years, 1 month ago
Christopher Thaiss, "Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century" (Broadview Press, 2019)
Episode 17
Listen to this interview of Christopher Thaiss, author of Writing Science in the Twenty-First Century (Broadview Press 2019). We talk about the resea…
5 years, 1 month ago
Philip N. Howard, "Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives" (Yale UP, 2020)
Episode 47
Technology is breaking politics - what can be done about it? Artificially intelligent "bot" accounts attack politicians and public figures on social …
5 years, 1 month ago
Michael Rosino, "Debating the Drug War: Race, Politics, and Media in the War on Drugs Debate" (Routledge, 2021)
Episode 28
Since President Nixon coined the phrase, the "War on Drugs" has presented an important change in how people view and discuss criminal justice practic…
5 years, 1 month ago
Rory Kress, "The Doggie in the Window: How One Dog Led Me from the Pet Store to the Factory Farm to Uncover the Truth of Where Puppies Really Come From" (Sourcebooks, 2018)
Episode 23
When journalist Rory Kress met Izzie, she didn’t think twice before bringing her home. She found the twelve-week-old wheaten terrier in a pet shop an…
5 years, 2 months ago
Shannan Clark, "The Making of the American Creative Class: New York's Culture Workers and 20th-Century Consumer Capitalism" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Episode 54
During the middle decades of the twentieth century, the production of America’s consumer culture was centralized in New York to an extent unparallele…
5 years, 2 months ago
Chelsea Stieber, "Haiti's Paper War: Post-Independence Writing, Civil War, and the Making of the Republic, 1804-1954" (NYU Press, 2020)
Episode 71
Picking up where most historians conclude, Chelsea Stieber explores the critical internal challenge to Haiti’s post-independence sovereignty: a civil…
5 years, 2 months ago
Democracy and Truth with Sophia Rosenfeld
Season 2 Episode 41
Sophia Rosenfeld is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Democracy and Truth: A Short His…
5 years, 2 months ago