Yale researcher Paul Bloom joins us to make the case that empathy actually leads us to terrible decisions in everything from relationships to medical care to criminal justice.
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A Talk With Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston joins us to talk about “Breaking Bad” and “All the Way” – and about his funnier roles on “Seinfeld and “Malcolm in the Middle.”
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A Conversation With Diane Rehm
Diane Rehm joins us to talk about the experience of watching her husband die – and about her plans after retirement.
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The Present As The Past
Chuck Klosterman joins us to talk his new book “But What If We’re Wrong: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past.”
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The Best First Impression
Harvard professor Amy Cuddy joins us to talk about how we can subtly tweak our body language to broadcast the image we want the world to see.
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Life As A Tudor
Historian Ruth Goodman joins us to talk about the ups and downs of English life during the reign of Henry VIII, which she writes about in “How to Be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Tudor Life.”
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The Science Of Whiskey
Firestone and Robertson Distilling Company head distiller Rob Arnold and TCU chemistry professor Eric Simanek join us to talk about how grain and water combine to make bourbon, rye and scotch.
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The Humble Leader
This hour, we’ll talk about the opposite of narcissism – humility – and the role it plays in leadership with Ashley Merryman, who explores the idea in the Washington Post.
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Do Parents Matter?
This hour, we’ll talk with parenting experts Robert and Sarah LeVine about what we can learn from other cultures when it comes to child rearing. They write about their decades of research in “Do Parents Matter? Why Japanese Babies Sleep Soundly, Mexican Siblings Don’t Fight, and American Families Should Just Relax.”
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The Politics Of The White Working Class
This hour, we’ll talk about how many in the white working class have come to feel disenfranchised with George Mason University’s Justin Gest. He’s the author of “The New Minority: White Working Class Politics in an Era of Immigration and Inequality.”
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Navigating Your Office Enemies
This hour, we’ll talk about how to navigate those officemates who complain, undermine and even bully us with the author of “Working with Difficult People, Second Revised Edition: Handling the Ten Types of Problem People Without Losing Your Mind.”
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The National Endowment For The Arts
This hour, we’ll talk with National Endowment for the Arts chair Jane Chu about how her organization distributes its funding and about the intersection of politics and the arts.
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