August 4, 2022
Lenny at 100
July 28, 2022
Van Morrison’s Cosmic Accident
This show first aired on March 29, 2018. In the annals of rock music albums, Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks is one of a kind. In...| More
July 21, 2022
Walden & the Natural World of Transcendentalism
This show originally aired on July 6, 2017. Henry David Thoreau, our specimen of American genius in nature, wrote famously short, and long. “Simplify,” in...| More
July 14, 2022
Write Like the Russians
This episode was first broadcast on February 18, 2021. The invitation this hour, or maybe the dream, is to learn how to write short stories...| More
July 7, 2022
The Joy and Genius of Erroll Garner
This show first aired on December 17, 2020. Erroll Garner, the jazz pianist, is undergoing an upward revaluation of the sort that artists dream of:...| More
June 30, 2022
Hail to Thee, Blyth Spirit
Mark Blyth, the people’s economist, to the rescue. We’ve got tribulations of money and power to be decoded, in what can feel like wartime. Sanctions...| More
June 23, 2022
Stopping the War
Four months into the war in Ukraine, 20 weeks of radio talk about it, feels like time for a deep breath: an hour to look...| More
June 16, 2022
Unofficial China
Between the US and China, you can feel that the chill is on among the chieftains, spoiling for a fight over Taiwan or trade or...| More
June 9, 2022
Who’s Number One?
The United States and China are both working on something like a separation agreement. It’s the end of something like a marriage over the last...| More
June 2, 2022
Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?
A moral philosopher and a walking trove of literature’s wisdom walk into a radio conversation together. The question for one hour is the bleak time...| More
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