Podcasts
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During his decades-long career as a columnist for the New York Times , David K. Shipler reported from the battlefields of Vietnam and Lebanon, was the Bureau Chief of both Moscow and Jerusalem, and was the Chief Diplomatic Correspondent in the… more
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“Provocative and compelling” ( New York Newsday ), Jabari Asim is a Guggenheim Fellowship-winning author, poet, playwright, editor, and Emerson College writing professor. A former deputy editor of the book review section at the Washington Post ,… more
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One of America’s most intriguing photographers, Sally Mann’s trademark large black-and-white images of her family and the American South are included in the permanent collections of many of the world’s most prestigious museums, including the… more
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• Recorded May 12, 2015John Palfrey is a leading scholar on the legal issues of emerging media and an authority and advocate for internet freedom, transparency, and accountability. His many books include Born Digital , Access Denied , and Intellectual Property Strategy… more
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Lauded by President Obama for his “deep commitment to resolving conflict and advancing democracy,” former Democratic Senator George Mitchell was one of the main architects of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern Ireland, and the… more
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• Recorded May 7, 2015Evolutionary molecular biologist Beth Shapiro’s meteoric career has centered on the analysis of ancient DNA, genetic material recovered from frozen, mummified, or otherwise preserved animals and plants. A Rhodes Scholar, winner of a MacArthur… more
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• Recorded May 6, 2015Over an illustrious decades-long career, Sandy Tolan has produced hundreds of documentaries and feature stories for National Public Radio and Public Radio International, and has also written for more than 40 newspapers and reported from dozens of… more
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• Recorded May 5, 2015A “clever and insightful inspector of the American scene” ( Wall Street Journal ), David Brooks has written an op-ed column for the New York Times since 2003. Regarded as a moderate and sophisticated conservative who follows his own star, Brooks… more
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• Recorded May 4, 2015A poet of “extraordinary range and ambition” ( New York Times Book Review) , Tracy K. Smith is the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book of poetry Life on Mars . Her other poetry collections include Duende, winner of the James Laughlin Award,… more
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• Recorded May 3, 2015Philadelphia native Andrew Ervin is the author of the “darkly evocative” ( Philadelphia Inquirer ) novel Extraordinary Renditions , a story of tarnished expatriates, Hungarian unrest, and opera. His fiction has been published in the Southern… more
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• Recorded Apr 30, 2015Gretchen Rubin is the bestselling author of The Happiness Project , the “enlightening, laugh-aloud” ( Christian Science Monitor ) account of her year-long experiment with the wisdom, science, and pop culture of happiness. A popular eponymously… more
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One of the world’s most revered writers, the “luminescent” ( Boston Globe ) Toni Morrison is celebrated for her epic, haunting, and poetic depictions of African American culture. The Robert F. Goheen Professor of Humanities Emeritus at Princeton… more
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The author of more than two dozen books for young adults, Jacqueline Woodson has won three Newbery Honors, a Coretta Scott King Award and three Coretta Scott King Honors, as well as the 2014 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. Her… more
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Kate Mulgrew is best known for her roles as Captain Kathryn Janeway on Star Trek: Voyager and Russian gangster Galina “Red” Reznikov on Orange Is the New Black . For these and her other diverse roles in dozens of television, film, and theater… more
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• Recorded Apr 27, 2015Covering politics, Congress, and public policy, Cokie Roberts is a senior news analyst for National Public Radio, a political commentator for ABC News, and co-writes a popular syndicated weekly newspaper with her husband. She is the author of… more
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• Recorded Apr 23, 2015Michelangelo Signorile is famous for his gutsy and outspoken gay rights advocacy. His seminal 1993 manifesto Queer in America examined the political forces responsible for the LGBT closet. He is also the author of three other books, as well as… more
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Embodying “the ideal of the scientist as iconoclast” ( Wired ), Dr. Freeman Dyson is one of the world’s most intriguing and accomplished theoretical physicists and mathematicians, renowned for his work in quantum electrodynamics, solid-state… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2015 Explicit ContentThis podcast contains explicit content. Terrance Hayes won the National Book Award for the 2010 poetry collection Lighthead . Praised for their elegantly evocative imagery and formal versatility, his other collections include Wind in a Box , Hip… more
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• Recorded Apr 19, 2015One of the world’s most accomplished astronauts, Chris Hadfield logged more than 4,000 hours in space and served as commander of the International Space Station. In a stellar 35-year career that included flying fighter jets, experimental… more
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An artist “whose work comes from the painfully familiar” ( Esquire ), Bruce Eric Kaplan, also known as “BEK,” is famous for his dark-humored single-panel New Yorker cartoons. These cartoons have been collected in No One You know , This Is a Bad… more
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