Kathryn and Ross Petras take your calls on the latest language trends
(10/21/21) Sibling language experts and regular contributors to the show Kathryn and Ross Petras are the authors of the New York Times bestseller You'...
Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
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Leonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is back on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org.
Chude Pam Allen & Steven Hiatt on Reluctant Reformers: Racism & Social Reform Movements in the US
(10/19/21) Chude Pam Allen and Robert Allen’s new book Reluctant Reformers: Racism and Social Reform Movements in the United States, an updated editio...
former New York Times food critic Byan J. Miller on his new book Dining in the Dark
(10/15/21) From the early 1980s to the mid-1990s, Bryan Miller was a household name among East Coast foodies as the restaurant critic for the New York...
Jennifer Rubin on Resistance: How Women Saved Democracy from Donald Trump
(10/14/21) From the first Women’s March the day after the 2017 inauguration to the Blue Wave in the 2018 midterms or the flood of female presidential ...
Alec Ross on The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People—and the Fight for Our Future
(10/8/21) Companies hold the power to shape our daily lives, the state holds the power to make them fall in line and the people hold the power to choo...
Diane Coyle on Cogs and Monsters: What Economics Is, and What It Should Be
(10/7/21) Digital technology, big data, big tech, machine learning and AI are revolutionizing both the tools of economics and the phenomena it seeks t...
Ian Buruma on The Colonial Trap
(10/6/21)“Whatever the justification for foreign intervention, the results are the same,” Ian Buruma writes in his Project Syndicate op-ed The Colonia...
Robert J. Davis on Supersized Lies: How Myths about Weight Loss Are Keeping Us Fat
(10/4/21) There’s no shortage of false prophets out there serving up misguided dieting advice. Count calories! Cut carbs! Exercise more! Skip meals! A...
Eyal Press on Dirty Work: Essential Jobs and the Hidden Toll of Inequality in America
(9/30/21) Drone pilots who carry out targeted assassinations, undocumented immigrants who man the kill floors of industrial slaughterhouses, guards wh...
Andrew Cockburn on The Spoils of War: Power, Profit and the American War Machine
(9/28/21) US soldiers are stationed in over 800 locations across the world to enforce our country’s concept of the rule of law. In his new book The Sp...