June 10, 2021
Extraterrestrial Encounters
June 3, 2021
Yo-Yo Ma’s Bach
This show first aired on May 21, 2020. The force of art to rescue a world breaking down; the power of music in particular to...| More
May 20, 2021
The Sackler Empire
The opioid epidemic, still rampant, still deadly, turns out to be a family story at its root. Empire of Pain is Patrick Radden Keefe’s account...| More
May 13, 2021
Pandemic Premonitions
A year and a half into the COVID story, notice the many unknowns, and one big known. Even now, nobody can tell you absolutely whether...| More
May 6, 2021
COVID in India
The humbling of India, the torment of India, is full of messages for the rest of us. Beware the second wave of the pandemic: that’s...| More
April 29, 2021
Armenia in History and the Heart
Where is Armenia, the place, the idea? Where then? Where now? And how come the delight on top of the darkness in saying “I am...| More
April 22, 2021
The Free World
Recovery and renewal arrived on a flood tide that lifted all kinds of production—culture above all. This was the era that gave the world a...| More
April 15, 2021
Bidenomics
Bidenomics is different, we are beginning to notice. Just keeping score in the trillions of dollars takes some getting used to. But some key rules...| More
April 8, 2021
The Life of Roth
Philip Roth, the late novelist, may hold the record for “most ways to tell his own story,” in fiction and fact; in his psychiatric farce...| More
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