Archives: Episodes
Does money buy happiness? Our guests, Wharton economists BETSEY STEVENSON and JUSTIN WOLFERS argue that money does tend to buy happiness ...
Air Date: September 2, 2008
We talk about the GOP convention including John McCain’s selection of his running mate and what we might expect to see and hear fro ...
Air Date: September 2, 2008
Rebroadcast of our conversation with Stefan Fatsis
Rebroacast — In May 2006, writer STEFAN FATSIS joined the Denver Broncos at pre-season training camp to experience from the inside ...
Air Date: September 1, 2008
Rebroadcast of our conversation with Ta-Nehasi Coates
Rebroadcast — Paul Coates was a black nationalist, a publisher, a Vietnam Vet, and a man who had seven children by four women. He r ...
Air Date: September 1, 2008
Faye Flam – “The Score: How the Quest for Sex has Shaped the Modern Man
(Rebroadcast) In her book, “The Score: How the Quest for Sex has Shaped the Modern Man,” science writer Faye Flam explores ho ...
Air Date: August 29, 2008
Reaction to Barack Obama’s speech
One of the challenges Barack Obama faces tonight is explaining who he is to voters who say they don’t understand him. And, will his ...
Air Date: August 29, 2008
Julia Keller, “Mr. Gatling’s Terrible Marvel
(Rebroadcast) In the 1860s Richard Gatling invented the machine gun believing it would shorten the duration of war of even eliminate war ...
Air Date: August 28, 2008
Hillary and Bill Clinton will have addressed the convention. We talk about what Barack Obama must do to appeal to Hillary Clinton’s ...
Air Date: August 28, 2008
Andre Dubus III, “The Garden of Last Days”
(Rebroadcast) Writer ANDRE DUBUS III’s novel is “The Garden of Last Days.” It follows the lives of four people over the ...
Air Date: August 27, 2008
Small Snakes and Smuggling Reptiles
The world’s smallest snake has been identified on the Caribbean island of Barbados. Penn State University evolutionary biologist BL ...
Air Date: August 27, 2008
Manil Suri, “The Age of Shiva”
(Rebroadcast) MANIL SURI talks about his second novel, “The Age of Shiva.” It tells the story of Meera, a woman living in Bom ...
Air Date: August 26, 2008
Lowering the U.S. National Drinking Age from 21?
Lowering the Drinking Age. The Amethyst Initiative, led by former Middlebury College president, JOHN MCCARDELL, urges a “dispassion ...
Air Date: August 26, 2008
James McBride, “Song Yet Sung”
(Rebroadcast) JAMES McBRIDE’s novel, “Song Yet Sung,” is the story of an escaped female runaway slave in 1850 and her p ...
Air Date: August 25, 2008
With the completion of the 2008 Beijing we ask if the games meet the expectations of NBC, the Chinese government and the athletes. Our gu ...
Air Date: August 25, 2008
(Rebroadcast) According to journalist ROBERT SCHLESINGER, during his presidency, Herbert Hoover made an average of eight public appearanc ...
Air Date: August 22, 2008