Podcasts
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• Recorded May 2, 2006For over four decades, Joyce Carol Oates has produced an enormous body of work consisting of novels, short stories, criticism, plays, and poetry. Not a year has gone by since the mid-1960’s in which she has not published at least one book. Among… more
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• Recorded May 2, 2006A practicing psychologist and family therapist in the Philadelphia and South Jersey area for over 35 years, Dr. Dan Gottlieb has hosted Voices in the Family, an award-winning mental health call-in radio show airing on WHYY 91 FM, since 1985. He… more
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J. California Cooper first found acclaim as a playwright. The author of seventeen plays, including Strangers , she was named Black Playwright of the Year in 1978. Her work in the theater caught the attention of Alice Walker, the acclaimed poet and… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2006Ross King is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michaelangelo & the Pope’s Ceiling, as well as the novels Ex-Libris and Domino. The Judgment of Paris chronicles the dramatic decade between two famous exhibitions:… more
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• Recorded Apr 20, 2006Francis Fukuyama is a professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. A former senior staff member of the RAND Corporation, he captured international… more
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Wole Soyinka is the first African recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novels, plays, poems, and essays. He has been a courageous voice for justice, freedom, and human rights around the world. You Must Set Forth at Dawn continues the… more
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As his country was being torn apart by violence during the Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul Rusesabagina refused to bow to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception,… more
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• Recorded Apr 6, 2006New York Times chief military correspondent Michael R. Gordon was the only reporter embedded with the Allied land command in Iraq. As such, he was privy to interactions between General Tommy Franks, Donald Rumsfeld, and the field generals as they… more
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Winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics, Amartya Sen is a Harvard Professor and author of Development as Freedom and The Argumentative Indian. Sen is a highly regarded theorist whose writings have been credited with reintroducing ethics into… more
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• Recorded Mar 28, 2006Irish novelist John Banville is the author of the 2005 Man Booker Prize-winning novel The Sea, the tale of an elderly art historian who loses his wife to cancer and feels compelled to revisit the seaside villa where he spent childhood holidays.… more
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• Recorded Mar 28, 2006One of America’s most respected Jewish peace activists, Rabbi Michael Lerner is the founder and editor of Tikkun magazine, rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco, and holds PhDs in philosophy and clinical psychology. Named one of Utne… more
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• Recorded Mar 23, 2006With his New York Times bestsellers American Dynasty, The Politics of Rich and Poor, and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips, a former Republican strategist, has emerged as a powerful critic of political and economic forces that he claims are… more
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• Recorded Mar 16, 2006Seth Lloyd delves into the mysteries of complex information systems as a professor of mechanical engineering at MIT and a principal investigator at the Research Laboratory of Electronics. He works on problems from the very small-how do atoms… more
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James Srodes’s biography of Benjamin Franklin, Franklin: The Essential Founding Father, was selected as one of the three titles for the 2006 One Book One Philadelphia citywide reading campaign. An author, journalist, and broadcaster, Srodes’s… more
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• Recorded Mar 9, 2006In Gary Berntsen ’s best-selling book Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA's Key Field Commander , the decorated, clandestine officer tells how he coordinated the fight against Taliban forces around… more
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• Recorded Mar 7, 2006A professor at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the University of Pennsylvania, Donald Bogle is the foremost authority on African Americans in film. His books, which include Dorothy Dandridge, Toms, Coons, Mulattoes, Mammies, and… more
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Join us for the launch of best-selling author Lisa Scottoline’s new legal thriller, Dirty Blonde! Ever since Lisa Scottoline burst onto the scene with Everywhere That Mary Went , the legal thriller has never been the same. A former trial lawyer… more
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An international outcry followed the publication of a Danish newspaper cartoon satirirzing the Muslim prophet Mohammed. Did the cartoon cross the line? Join us for a discussion with New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Bob Mankoff , Daily News… more
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• Recorded Feb 23, 2006Elizabeth Gilbert is the author of a story collection, Pilgrims (a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award), a novel, Stern Men , and, most recently, The Last American Man , a finalist for the National Book Award in Nonfiction and the National Book… more
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• Recorded Feb 16, 2006Bernard Henri Lévy moved to the forefront of radical French thought in the mid-1970s with his “New Philosophy, ” a unique world-view, combining pessimism and monotheism that has sparked heated debate in intellectual circles. “I am the bastard… more
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