Bev Stohl - Chomsky’s Assistant
Bev Stohl was formerly the assistant of Noam Chomsky for over 20 years. She recently wrote a book called, Chomsky and Me: A Memoir .
Dec 29, 2022•39 min•Ep. 167
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William Deresiewicz - Death of the Artist?
William Deresiewicz taught English at Yale University and is the author of Death of the Artist: How Creatives are Struggling to Survive in the Age of Billionaires and Big Tech and most recently, The End of Solitude: Selected Essays on Culture and Society .
Dec 12, 2022•56 min•Ep. 166
James S. Curl - Bad Architecture
James Stevens Curl is an architect and historian, and the author of a book about Modern architecture, Making Dystopia: The Strange Rise and Survival of Architectural Barbarism .
Nov 21, 2022•25 min•Ep. 165
Malachi O’Doherty - Troubles in Ireland
Malachi O'Doherty is a journalist in Northern Ireland, and the author of several books, including The Telling Year: Belfast 1972 .
Nov 10, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 164
Marc Levinson - Shipping Containers
Marc Levinson is an economist and author of, "The Box: How Shipping Containers Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger."
Nov 01, 2022•1 hr•Ep. 163
Daniel Mullen - Painter
Daniel Mullen is a Scottish painter based out of Rotterdam.
Oct 17, 2022•55 min•Ep. 162
Hannah Lucinda Smith - Turkish Politics
Hannah Lucinda Smith is a journalist with The Times of London, and the author of Erdoğan Rising: The Battle for the Soul of Turkey .
Oct 10, 2022•56 min•Ep. 161
Jed Rasula - Dada
Jed Rasula is a professor at the University of Georgia, and the author of Destruction Was My Beatrice: Dada and the Unmaking of the Twentieth Century .
Oct 03, 2022•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 160
Joel Whitney - The CIA Vs. Art
Joel Whitney is the author of Finks: How the CIA Tricked the World's Best Writers .
Sep 25, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 159
Alberto Gerosa - Performance Artist
Alberto Gerosa is a performance artist and filmmaker based out of Hong Kong.
Sep 19, 2022•53 min•Ep. 158
Anna Lembke - Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke is a psychiatrist and chief of the Stanford Addiction Medicine Dual Diagnosis Clinic. She is the author of Drug Dealer, MD and Dopamine Nation .
Sep 09, 2022•53 min•Ep. 157
Jhanelle Thomas - Ghosting
Jhanelle Thomas is a psychology researcher and the co-author of, "Disappearing in the Age of Hypervisibility: Definition, Context, and Perceived Psychological Consequences of Social Media Ghosting."
Sep 02, 2022•14 min•Ep. 156
James Curtis - Buster Keaton
James Curtis is a biographer, and the recent author of Buster Keaton: A Filmmaker's Life .
Aug 26, 2022•41 min•Ep. 155
Loren Toussaint - Forgiveness
Loren Toussaint is a professor of psychology at Luther College, and the director of their "Laboratory for the Investigation of Mind, Body, and Spirit." He is also Chair of the Discover Forgiveness advisory council at the Templeton World Charity Foundation, and president of the Forgiveness Foundation.
Aug 19, 2022•1 hr 17 min•Ep. 154
Rosamund Bartlett - Tolstoy
Rosamund Bartlett is an expert on Russian literature, and the author of several books, including, "Tolstoy: A Russian Life."
Aug 12, 2022•59 min•Ep. 153
Jan Swafford - Igor Stravinsky
Jan Swafford is an American composer, as well as a music critic and author of several musical biographies.
Aug 04, 2022•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 152
Jason Lewis - Fmr. US Congressman
Jason Lewis is an American politician, a former talk radio host and represented Minnesota's 2nd Congressional District in the House of Representatives. He is the recent author of "Party Animal: The Truth about President Trump, Power Politics and The Partisan Press," available to purchase here ....
Jul 24, 2022•59 min•Ep. 151
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Jul 05, 2022•53 min•Ep. 150
Richard Davies - Extreme Economies
Richard Davies is an economist at Bristol University and the author of, "Extreme Economies: What Life At The World's Margins Can Teach Us About Our Future."
Jun 29, 2022•50 min•Ep. 149
Meirion Jones - Jimmy Savile
Meirion Jones is a journalist and editor at The Bureau of Investigative Journalism. He has worked on a number of high-profile stories, including exposing the crimes of Jimmy Savile.
Jun 17, 2022•42 min•Ep. 148
James Fallon - Putin’s Brain
James Fallon is a neuroscientist and professor of psychiatry and human behavior at UC Irvine School of Medicine.
Jun 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 147
Chris McNamara - Wingsuit, BASE & More
Chris McNamara is a big wall climber, ex-wingsuit BASE jumper and the author of more than ten books.
May 21, 2022•55 min•Ep. 146
David Vincent - Solitude vs. Loneliness
David Vincent is a social historian at the Open University, and is the author of, "A History of Solitude."
May 13, 2022•35 min•Ep. 145
Daniel K. Richter - Native American History
Daniel K. Richter is a professor of American history at the University of Pennsylvania, and the author of "Facing East from Indian Country."
May 03, 2022•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 144
Ananyo Bhattacharya - John von Neumann
Ananyo Bhattacharya is a correspondent for The Economist , and the author of The Man From The Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann .
Apr 26, 2022•56 min•Ep. 143
Gabriel Licina - Genetic Engineer
Gabriel Licina is a biohacker and the founder of Scihouse, a non-profit bioengineering group.
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 142
Vitali Shkliarov - War in Ukraine
Vitali Shkliarov is an expert in US-Russian relations and worked on the Presidential campaigns of Barack Obama and Bernie Sanders.
Apr 12, 2022•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 141
Timothy Denevi - Hunter S. Thompson
Timothy Denevi is a professor at the MFA program at George Mason University, and is the author of "Hyper" and "Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism."
Apr 04, 2022•48 min•Ep. 140
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst - Charles Dickens
Robert Douglas-Fairhurst is a professor of English at Oxford University, and the author of numerous books, including most recently, "The Turning Point: A Year that Changed Dickens and the World."
Mar 28, 2022•33 min•Ep. 139
Steve Fuller - Transhumanism
Steve Fuller is a philosopher at the University of Warwick and the author of a number of book's including, "Humanity 2.0: What it Means to be Human Past, Present and Future."
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 138
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