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The Interviews Jeff Schechtman Interviews December 1995 to April 2017 2017 Marcus du Soutay 4/10/17 Mark Zupan Inside Job: How Government Insiders Subvert the Public Interest 4/6/17 Johnathan Letham More Alive and Less Lonely: On Books and Writers 4/6/17 Ali Almossawi Bad Choices: How Algorithms Can Help You Think Smarter and Live Happier 4/5/17 Steven Vladick Prof. of Law at UT Austin 3/31/17 Nick Middleton An Atals of Countries that Don’t Exist 3/30/16 Hope Jahren Lab Girl 3/28/17 Mary Otto Theeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality and the Struggle for Oral Health 3/28/17 Lawrence Weschler Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists 3/28/17 Mark Olshaker Deadliest Enemy: Our War Against Killer Germs 3/24/17 Geoffrey Stone Sex and Constitution 3/24/17 Bill Hayes Insomniac City: New York, Oliver and Me 3/21/17 Basharat Peer A Question of Order: India, Turkey and the Return of the Strongmen 3/21/17 Cass Sunstein #Republic: Divided Democracy in the Age of Social Media 3/17/17 Glenn Frankel High Noon: The Hollywood Blacklist and the Making of an American Classic 3/15/17 Sloman & Fernbach The Knowledge Illusion: Why We Think Alone 3/15/17 Subir Chowdhury The Difference: When Good Enough Isn’t Enough 3/14/17 Peter Moskowitz How To Kill A City: Gentrification, Inequality and the Fight for the Neighborhood 3/14/17 Bruce Cannon Gibney A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America 3/10/17 Pam Jenoff The Orphan's Tale: A Novel 3/10/17 L.A. Kauffman Direct Action: Protest and The Reinvention of American Radicalism 3/9/17 Bill Browder Red Notice: A True Story of High Fiance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice 3/8/17 Adam Alter Irresistible: The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked 3/9/17 John Kiriakou CIA Whistleblower - Doing Time Like A Spy 3/8/17 Simon Kuper Financial Time Reporter re Dutch Elections’ 3/8/17 Jonathan White Tides: The Science and Spirit of the Ocean 3/8/17 Alexandra Chasin Assassin of Youth: A Kaleidoscopic History of Harry J. Anslinger’s War on Drugs 3/7/17 David Snyder First Amendment Coalition 3/3/17 Cara Hoffman Running: A Novel 3/3/17 Kevin Davis The Brain Defense: Murder in Manhattan and the Dawn of Neuroscience in the Courtroom 3/1/17 Aravind Adigia Selection Day 3/1/17 !1 Michael Puett The Path: What Chinese Philosophers Can Teach Us About The Good Life 2/14/17 Jennifer Granick American Spies: Modern Surveillance, Why You Should Care, and What To Do About It 2/23/17 Sue Klebold A Mothers Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy 2/23/17 Mary Graham Presidents’ Secrets: The Use and Abuse of Hidden Power 2/22/17 Andrew Rhoades TSA Whistelblower 2/18/17 Leonard Pitts Jr. Columnist: Miami Herald 2/17/17 Ellen Hopkins The You I've Never Known 2/17/17 Kenneth E. Miller War Torn: Stories of Courage, Love and Resilience 2/17/17 Derek Thompson Hit Makers: The Science of Popularity in an Age of Distraction 2/13/17 Anna Potoniack The Futures: A Novel 2/10/17 Jeffrey Isaac Washington Post Op-Ed 2/10/17 McKay Jenkins Food Fight: GMO’s and the Future of The American Diet 2/9/17 Brad Stone The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley…. 2/7/17 Alan Burdick Why Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation 2/3/17 Dr. Rachel Abrams BodyWise 2/3/17 Dr. Sally Parry Sinclair Lewis Society 1/31/17 Sally Krawcheck Own It: The Power of Woman at Work 1/31/17 Ayelet Waldman A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood…. 1/26/17 Jon Else True South: Henry Hampton and Eyes on the Prize 1/25/17 Barrett Brown Jailed Journalist 1/25/17 Dr. Ron Epstein Attedning: Medicine, Mindfulness and Humanity 1/25/17 Shanthi Sekaran Lucky Boy: A Novel 1/24/17 Don Tapscott The Blockchain Revolution 1/24/17 Liz Schwartz Before I Do: A Legal Guide to Marriage, Gay and Otherwise 1/24/17 Mark Sundeen The Unsettler: In Search of the Good Life in Today’s America 1/23/17 Diane Ravitch Re: Betsy DeVoss Hearing 1/18/17 Michael Auslin The End of the Asian Century: War, Stagnation and the Risks of the World’s Most Dynamic.. 1/17/17 Jodi Kantor The Obamas 1/17/17 Gene Stone The Trump Survival Guide 1/12/17 Miko Peled The General’s Son: Journey of an Israeli in Palistine 1/11/17 Rich Cahan Un-American: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans During World War II 1/10/17 2016 Mick LaSalle Movies in the Trump Era 12/21/16 Deborah Rodhe Women in Leadership 12/19/16 Ian Mortimer Millennium: From Religion to Revolution: How Civilization Has Changed Over a Thousand…. 12/19/16 Daniel Amen The Brain Warrior’s Way 12/14/16 Josh Mitchell Sex and Sin in Protestant America 12/13/16 !2 Adrian Goldsworthy Pax Romana: War Pease and Conquest in the Roman World 12/13/16 Lislie Bennetts Last Girl Before Freeway: The Life, Loves, Losses and Liberation of Joan Rivers 12/13/16 Mark Shaw The Reporter Who Knew Too Much: The Mysterious Death of What’s My Line TV Star…. 12/9/16 Dava Sobel The Glass Unviverse 12/7/16 Sarah Jaffe Necessary Trouble: Americans in Revolt 12/6/16 Mac Regan Global Citizen patriots 12/2/16 Anthony Sommers A Matter of Honor: Pearl Harbor: Betrayal, Blame and a Family’s Quest for Jusice 12/2/16 Linda Fairstein Into The Lion’s Den: Devlin Quick Mysteries 12/1/16 William Goldsmith Saving Our Cities: A progressive Plan to Transform America 12/1/16 David Daley Ratfucked: The True Story Behind the Secret Plan to Steal America’s Democracy 12/1/16 Sean Usher Letters of Note2: An Eclectic Collection of Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience 11/30/16 Josua Shapiro Nonstop Metropolis: A New York City Atlas 11/29/16 Connie Hall The natives are Restless: A San Francisco dance master takes hula into the 21s Cent. 11/29/16 Sarah Jones JD Vance, the False Prophet of Blue America 11/25/16 Peter Kornbluh Director of National Security Archives: Re Cuba 11/26/16 George Lakey Viking Economics: How the Scandinavians Got it Right and How We can Too 11/23/16 Eyal Winter Feeling Smart: Why Out Emotions Are More Rational Than We Think 11/23/16 Ruchir Sharma The Rise and Fall of Nations 11/22/16 Robert Groden JFK Assiination 11/19/16 Dave Grossman Assination Generation: Video Games, Aggression and the Psychology of Killing 11/18/16 Steven Johnson Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World 11/17/16 Sarah Kendzior The View from Flyover Country 11/17/16 Peter Carlin Homeward Bound: The Life of Paul Simon 11/16/16 Lisa Napoli Ray & Joan: The Man Who Made the McDonald’s Fortune and the Woman Who Gave…. 11/15/16 Peter Dale Scott 11/11/16 Peter Himmelman Let Me Out: Unlock your Creative Mind 11/11/16 Richard Schweid Invisable Nation: Homelsss families in America 11/11/16 Lord John Browne Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society 11/13/16 Laura Turner On Election Day, No One Can Hear You Scream 11/6/16 Hugh Kennedy Caliphate: The History of an Idea 11/2/16 Joel Achenbach Elon Musk Wants to Go To Mars 11/2/16 Emily Witt Future Sex 10/31/16 Victor Pickard Annenberg School re. 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