Podcasts
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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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• Recorded Feb 9, 2006Nonagenarian John Hope Franklin has long been a leader in the study of African American life. A pioneer of historical studies on the subject, Franklin’s books include American Book Award winner Black Intellectuals, The Emancipation Proclamation,… more
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• Recorded Feb 7, 2006Mark Taylor , a longtime music journalist , chronicles their rise and fall of one of the great girl groups of Motown in The Original Marvelettes . At a time when most girl groups merely swayed back and forth on the stage, the Marvelettes came out… more
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• Recorded Jan 31, 2006Emmy Award-winning business reporter, business and money management columnist for Newsweek and Goodhousekeeping, Jane Bryant Quinn is the New York Times best-selling author of Making the Most of Your Money.
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• Recorded Jan 24, 2006A journalist and civil-rights activist, Taylor Branch is the author of America in the King Years, athree part biography of Martin Luther King. Considered a “major accomplishment in biography as social history,” the trilogy is composed of Parting… more
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• Recorded Dec 15, 2005More than 50 years ago, C. S. Lewis created a land of wonder and enchantment called Narnia, and since then over 60 million readers have discovered that wondrous world. On December 9, 2005, the major motion picture, The Lion, The Witch and the… more
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David Halberstam is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and one of most distinguished social and political commentators in America. He is the author of War in a Time of Peace and The Best and the Brightest, although five of his fourteen… more
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At Home in Mitford, the first book in Jan Karon’s phenomenally successful Mitford Years series, was nominated for an ABBY by the American Booksellers Association in 1996, 1997, and again in 1998. In Light from Heaven, the long-anticipated final… more
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