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Meg Kissinger, "While You Were Out - An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence"
Meg Kissinger spoke about her family's struggle with mental illness and her coverage of mental health care in America as a journalist. She was interv…
2 years, 11 months ago
Loren Grush, "The Six - The Untold Story of America's First Women Astronauts"
Journalist Loren Grush detailed the history & experiences of the six women selected in 1978 to become America's first female astronauts. She was inte…
2 years, 11 months ago
Cara Fitzpatrick, "The Death of Public School"
Chalkbeat editor Cara Fitzpatrick looked at the school choice movement and the future of education in America. She was interviewed by Washington Post…
2 years, 11 months ago
Booknotes+ : Matthew Delmont, "Half American"
The title of Dartmouth history professor Matthew Delmont's latest book is "Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II a…
2 years, 11 months ago
Q&A: Shahan Mufti on the 1977 Siege of Washington, D.C.
Our guest is Shahan Mufti's, who's new book, American Caliph, recounts an event that's been lost to history-- the March 9th, 1977 Hanafi Muslim siege…
3 years ago
Q&A: James Rosen, "Scalia"
By advancing his judicial philosophies of "originalism" and "textualism," Antonin Scalia became one of the 20th century's most influential justices. …
3 years ago
Booknotes+ : Robert Kaplan, "The Tragic Mind"
Robert Kaplan's 21st book, "The Tragic Mind," revolves around what he has learned over the years from Greek philosophers and William Shakespeare. Yal…
3 years ago
Matt Lewis, "Filthy Rich Politicians"
Daily Beast 's Matt Lewis explored how American politics is fueled by wealth & offered reforms on how to hold elected officials more accountable. He …
3 years ago
Judge Amul Thapar, "The People's Justice - Clarence Thomas and the Constitutional Stories that Define Him"
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Amul Thapar discussed the judicial philosophy of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas & recounted some of Thomas's key o…
3 years ago
Wesley Lowery, "American Whitelash - A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress"
Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Wesley Lowery argued that moments of progress in race matters in the U.S. are often met with acts of violence. He w…
3 years, 1 month ago