Nathalia Holt joins us to talk about Disney’s Golden Age and the women who fought gender discrimination behind the scenes.
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All She Wanted Was To Be A Single Black Mother
Nefertiti Austin joins us to talk about what that painstaking process taught her about how America thinks of single, black motherhood.
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The Nerdy Brilliance Of Comedian Hari Kondabolu
Comic Hari Kondabolu joins us to talk about his comedy style, his Netflix special, and that graduate degree in human rights he earned from the London School of Economics.
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‘Undone’: The Story Behind Amazon’s Coolest Series
Kate Purdy, co-creator, producer and writer of “Undone,” joins us to talk about her drama, which uses Rotoscope animation to bridge the worlds of the living and the dead.
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Frauds And Fakers And Counterfeit Makers
Lydia Pyne, visiting researcher at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, joins us to talk about the value of the right kind of fakes and which ones still take us for a ride.
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Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan on Recent Rate Cuts
Robert S. Kaplan of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, joins us to talk about the outlook for the economy going forward.
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YouTube and the Next Generation of Celebrity
Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair joins us to profile these internet celebs, who are devoted to digital clicks and the fickle tastes of their audiences.
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Why The Lovelist Treasures Are Cultivated By Pain
Writer and editor Katy Kelleher joins us to pull back the curtain on the luxuries we long for.
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Modern Man Vs Cave Man: Why We Might Be Losing That Battle
Christopher Ryan joins us to talk about how our ancestors might not have enjoyed some of the perks of the 21st Century, but they also didn’t have some of the worries that we do today.
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Who’s A Good Dog?
Alexandra Horowitz, who runs Barnard College’s Dog Cognition Lab, joins us to talk about our continued canine obsession.
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How We Captured Saddam and Killed Bin Laden
Retired Admiral William McRaven joins us to talk about his involvement in the capture of Saddam Hussein and killing of Osama Bin Laden.
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Why Is It So Difficult To Treat Pain
Travis Rieder joins us to talk about how his addiction to pain medication taught him about how we address the current opioid crisis.
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