Jeff Schechtman Interviews December 1995 to April 2020 2020 Kristin Hoganson The Heartland: An American History 4/30/20 Richard Rushfield The Ankler 4/29/20 Joel Simon Exec. Director: The Committee to Protect Journalists: Press Freedom and Covid-19 21 9/20 Deborah Wiles Kent State 4/28/20 Chad Seales Bono 4/27/20 Alex Gilbert Oil Markets 4/22/20 Betsy Leondar-Wright Staffing the Mission 4/21/20 Jesse Arrequin Mayor of Berkeley 4/16/20 Carl Nolte San Francisco Chronicle columnist 4/10/20 Chuck Collins COVID-19 and Billionaires 4/9/20 Kelsey Freeman No Option But North: The Migrant World and the Perilous Path Across the Border 4/8/20 Augustine Sedgewick Coffeeland: One Man’s Dark Empire and the Making of Our Favorite Drug 4/8/20 Charlotte Dennent The Crash of Flight 3804: A Lost Spy, A Daughter’s Quest and the Deadly Politics of the Game of Oil 4/3/20 Eric Eyre Death in Mud Lick: A coal Country Fight Against the Drug Companies 4/2/20 Randy Shaw Housing in San Francisco 4/2/20 Dr. Jessica Mega Verily / Google re Coronavirus testing 4/1/20 Jim McKelevy The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time 3/26/20 Thomas Kostigen Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us reimagine the Future 3/26/20 Cara Brook Miller Postdoctoral Fellow, UC Berkeley 3/25/20 Katherine Stewart The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism 3/25/20 Dan Walters Cal Matters Columnist 3/24/20 Tim Bakken The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris and Failure in the US Military 3/18/20 Andrea Bernstein American Oligarchs: The Kushners, the Trumps, and the Marriage of Money and Power 3/18/20 Matt Richtel An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System 3/17/20 Nick Lemenn Can Journalism Be Saved 3/16/20 Neil Shubin Some Assembly Required: Decoding Four Billion Years of Life, from Ancient Fossils to DNA 3/16/20 David Plouf A Citizen’s Guide to Beating Donald Trump 3/13/20 Parag Khanna Covid-19 is Traveling Along the New Silk Road 3/9/20 Celia Stahr Frida in America: The Creative Awakening of a Great Artist 3/9/20 Jonathan Hennesey You Don't Understand the Second Amendment 3/6/20 Dallas Hartwig The 4 Season Solution 3/6/20 Adam Cohen Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More Unjust America 3/2/20 David Enrich Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump and an Epic Trail of Destruction 2/28/20 Allan J. Lichtman Repeal the Second Amendment: The Case for a Safer America 2/28/20 Anne Kim Abandoned: America’s Lost Youth and the Crisis of Disconnection 2/27/20 Dani Shapiro Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity and Love 2/25/20 !1 Steve Lopez Los Angeles Times Columnist 2/24/20 Charlotte Alter The Ones We’ve Been Waiting For: How a New Generation of Leaders Will Transform America 2/24/20 Conor Dogherty Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America 2/21/20 Naomi McDougall Jones The Wrong Kind of Women Inside Our Revolution to Dismantle the Gods of Hollywood Jill Tietjen / Barbra Bridges Hollywood: Her Story: An Illustrated History of Woman and the Movie 2/19/20 Jeffrey Wasserstrom Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink 2/14/20 Cedric Alexander In Defense of Public Service: How 22 Million Government Workers Will Save Our Republic 2/13/20 Nicholas Kristoff Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope 2/11/20 Mara Hvistendahl The Scientist and the Spy: A True Story China, the FBI and Industrial Espionage 2/10/20 David Marquet Leadership is Language: The Hidden Power of What You Say 2/7/20 Erica Edelson Beyond Contempt: How Liberals Can Communicate Across the Great Divide 2/6/20 Etan Hersh Politics is for Power: How to Move Beyond Political Hobbyism 2/5/20 Dave Talbot Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of My Stroke 2/4/20 Stanislas Dehaene How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine 2/4/20 Laura Huang Edge: Turning Adversity into Advantage 2/3/20 Peggy Wallace Kennedy The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation 1/31/20 Peggy Ornstein Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity 1/29/20 Scott Wiener State Senator re SB50 1/24/20 William Wheeler State of War: Ms13 and El Salvador’s World of Violence 1/23/20 Gary Sick 1/23/20 Chip Walter Immortality, Inc.: Renegade Science, Silicon Valley Billions and the Quest to Live Forever 1/21/20 Rick Wilson Running Against the Devil: A Plot to Save America from Trump, and the Democrats from Themselves 1/20/20 William Rosenau Tonight We Bombed the US Capitol: The Explosive Story of M19, America’s First Female Terrorist Group 1/17/20 Thomas Wolf 1/16/20 Stephen Kinzer Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control 1/16/20 Judith Crispin 1/15/20 Martin Gurri The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium 1/15/20 Charlie Glass 1/13/20 Stephen Zunes Middle East Expert. University of San Francisco 1/10/20 Inge Hansen The Ethical Sellout: Maintaining Your Integrity in the Age of Compromise 1/9/20 BJ Fogg Tiny Habits 1/7/20 Jennifer Kavanaugh Truth Decay: The Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life 1/7/20 Dylan Howard Dead Men Tell No Tales 1/3/20 2019 Sam Dodge 12/17/19 Peter Bergen Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos 12/17/19 Bill Owens Altamont 1969 12/17/19 Sam Laccardo Mayor of San Jose 12/5/19 Paul Kagaki Behind Barbed Wire: Searching for Japanese Americans Incarcerated During WWII 12/3/19 Jodi Kirshner Broke: Hardship and Resilience in a City of Broken Promises 12/3/19 Robin Cook Genesis: A novel 12/3/19 David Ulin Joan Didion: Collected Writings 11/25/19 Sands Hall Reclaiming My Decade Lost In Scientology 11/21/19 Paul Richter The Ambassadors: America’s Diplomats on the Front Lines 11/21/19 !2 Alberto Cairo How Charts Lie 11/20/19 Olga Kahazan Atlantic Article: The Three Personalities of America 11/20/19 Alejando Frid Changing Tides: An Ecologist’s Journey to Make Peace with the Anthopocene 11/19/19 Malcolm Nance The Plot to Betray America 11/191/19 Adam Minter Secondhand: Travels in the New Global Garage Sale 11/18/19 Yancy Strickler This Could Be Our Future: A Manifesto for a More Generous World 11/15/19 Samuel Shem Man’s 4th Best Hospital 11/14/19 Andrew Roberts Leadership in War: Essential Lessons from those who Made History 11/13/19 Anne Nelson Shadow Networks: Media, Money and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right 11/7/19 John Dunbar League of California Cities 11/6/19 Lydia Pyne Genuine Fakes: How Phony Things Tach Us About Real Stuff 11/5/19 Steve Levinston Barack and Joe: The Making of an Extraordinary Partnership 10/25/19 Paul Theroux On the Plane of Snakes 10/25/19 Holly George Warren JANIS: Her Life and Music 10/24/19 Charles Glass Situation in Syria 10/23/19 James Poniewozik Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the fracturing of America 10/23/19 Allison Stanger Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump 10/23/19 Robert J. Lifton Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry 10/21/19 James Vernini They Will Have to Die Now: Mosul and the Fall of the Califphate 10/18/19 Stewart Russell Human Compatible: AI and the problem of control 10/18/19 James B. Stewart Deep State: Trump, the FBI and the Rule of Law 10/17/19 Lincoln Mitchell San Francisco Year Zero: Political Upheaval, Punk Rock and a Third Place Baseball Team 10/16/19 Doreen Dodgen-Magee Deviced! Balancing Life and Technology in the Digital World 10/15/19 Andrew McAfee More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources… 10/11/19 Willow Bay Dean, Annenberg School of Communicaitons and Journalism at USC 10/10/19 Maria Goodavage Doctor Dogs: How Our Best Friends Are Becoming Our Best Medicine 10/101/9 Robert Greene The Laws of Human Nature 10/10/19 James Zimring What Science Is and How it Really Works 10/9/19 Robert Boyers The Tyranny of Virtue: Identity, the Academy and the Hunt for Political Heresies 10/9/19 Robin Pogrebin The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation 10/7/19 Fatima Bhuto New Kings of the World: Dispatches from Bollywood, Dizi and K-Pop 10/4/19 John Kiriakou Doing Time Like a Spy 10/2/19 Soleil Ho SF Chronicle Food Critic 10/1/19 Marty Makary The Price We Pay: What Broke American Health Care and How to Fix It 10/1/19 Josh Campbell Crossfire Hurricane: Inside Donald Trump’s War on the FBI 9/27/19 Manuel Pastor State of Resistance: What California’s Dizzying Descent and Remarkable Resurgence Mean for the US 9/27/19 Daron Acemoglu The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies and the Fate of Liberty 9/26/19 Stanley Greenberg R.I.P. G.O.P 9/24/19 Joely Proudfit Native American Issues 9/20/19 Rocky Lange/Barb Hall Letters From Hollywood 9/20/19 Dr.