Episodes
Thursday Apr 29, 2010
Does Reality Matter
Thursday Apr 29, 2010
Thursday Apr 29, 2010
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Mornings in Jenin
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Monday Apr 26, 2010
Sometimes it is through art and literature that we are better able to understand the complex issues of our time. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in the Middle East, where reality, truth and history are often blurred beyond distinction. A place where over sixty years of conflict have brutalized the human condition. Susan Abulhawa, the founder of Playgrounds for Palestine, and herself the daughter of Palestinian refugees, tells us, in her new novel Mornings in Jenin, the story of one Palestinian family's struggle for survival. It's a story shaped by loss, by fear and ultimately forgiveness. My conversation with Susan Abulhawa
Friday Apr 23, 2010
The Bridge
Friday Apr 23, 2010
Friday Apr 23, 2010
Perhaps only now are we coming to realize that the election of Barack Obama was, to quote Joe Biden "a big F...ing deal." Not only did we elect an African-American President, but for only the second time in the nations history we elected a non Protestant to occupy the office. How did this happen? What nerve did Obama touch in the American psyche. Today, although it might not have been the intent of the Founders, Presidents represent a kind of national Rorschach test, on whom we project our dreams, our fears and our hopes. In our media driven culture, the individual narrative of the candidate becomes the central arc of our politics. David Remnick, the Pulitzer Prize winning editor of The New Yorker, in his new book The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, has deconstructed the Obama narrative and given us a new narrative of the man and the President. My conversation with David Remnick:
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
The Match
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
American Taliban
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
Thursday Apr 22, 2010
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
A really amazing mom
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Wednesday Apr 21, 2010
Tuesday Apr 20, 2010
Roots of Steel
Tuesday Apr 20, 2010
Tuesday Apr 20, 2010
Monday Apr 19, 2010
The Great American University
Monday Apr 19, 2010
Monday Apr 19, 2010
Thursday Apr 15, 2010
Getting organized in a digital era
Thursday Apr 15, 2010
Thursday Apr 15, 2010
Wednesday Apr 14, 2010
Tell Me A Story
Wednesday Apr 14, 2010
Wednesday Apr 14, 2010
Monday Apr 12, 2010
The Pulitzer acknowledges
Monday Apr 12, 2010
Monday Apr 12, 2010
Friday Apr 09, 2010
Is that all there is?
Friday Apr 09, 2010
Friday Apr 09, 2010
Through science, religion and art we have, for centuries, tried to make sense of the universe. In modern times, we've believed that science would answer the great cosmic questions. Relativity and Quantum Mechanics certainly seemed to lead us in that direction. But still physicists have been stymied in trying to find that elusive theory of everything. What if there is no such theory? What if the universe really is random and asymmetric? How does that alter our view of our place in that universe? These are the issues explored by physicist and Dartmouth professor Marcelo Gleiser in his book A Tear at the Edge of Creation: A Radical New Vision for Life in an Imperfect Universe. My conversation with Marcelo Gleiser:
Thursday Apr 08, 2010
A kid with a dream
Thursday Apr 08, 2010
Thursday Apr 08, 2010
Jerry Weintraub has spent more than five decades in show business. As a promoter, manager, movie and Broadway producer, his success has been unparalleled and his judgement uncanny. With great success, show business autobiographies often come with their need to tell others how to succeed. Jerry Weintraub, in his new autobiography, When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man, tells us of the people that have taught him. If ever there were a primer on networking, the power of mentors and chutzpa, this is it. My conversation with Jerry Weintraub:
Wednesday Apr 07, 2010
Tuesday Apr 06, 2010
The Sabbath World
Tuesday Apr 06, 2010
Tuesday Apr 06, 2010
Monday Apr 05, 2010