Big Citizenship
Alan Khazei, who founded the non-profit City Year with his friend, Michael Brown, talks about national service and social entrepreneurship. In Big Citizenship: How Pragmatic Idealism Can Bring Out the...
View ArticleMy Maasai Life
Robin Wiszowaty talks about how she ended up leaving her middle-class American life to join an impoverished Maasai community in rural Kenya. In My Maasai Life: From Suburbia to Savannah, she explains...
View ArticleThe Warmth of Other Suns
Pulitzer Prize winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of black citizens, who fled the South for northern and western...
View ArticleMartin Fletcher's Walk in Israel
Martin Fletcher, longtime chief of NBC’s Tel Aviv news bureau, discusses walking along the entire coast of Israel, from Lebanon to Gaza, observing facets of the country that are ignored in news...
View ArticlePlease Explain: Tipping
Doling out 15 percent of the check to the waiter is standard, but how much should you tip cab drivers and hairdressers? Today’s Please Explain is all about tipping.Milla Bloch and Diane Gottsman...
View ArticleBackstory: The Ex Gay Movement
Today’s Backstory segment looks at the ex-gay movement, a collection of religious and psychological groups that espouse discredited theories about sexuality and claim to be able to "cure"...
View ArticleArab Roots, American Stories
Alia Malek looks at the last 40-plus years of American history through the eyes of Arab Americans. A Country Called Amreeka: Arab Roots, American Stories includes timeless stories of an immigrant...
View ArticlePlease Explain: Dating Etiquette
If you've ever wondered how long you should wait before asking for a second date, or if it's acceptable to split the check, or whether or not you should declare that you are in a relationship on...
View ArticleEdwidge Danticat on Art and Exile
Edwidge Danticat reflects on art and exile, and discusses what it means to be an immigrant artist from a country in crisis. Her book Create Dangerously: The Immigrant Artist at Work combines memoir and...
View ArticleDick Cavett
Legendary talk show host Dick Cavett host of The Dick Cavett Show, which aired on ABC from 1968 to 1975 and on PBS from 1977 to 1982, discusses the great figures he has known and shares his thoughts on...
View ArticleThere is Power in a Union
Historian Philip Dray gives an account of American labor from the dawn of the industrial age to the present day—from the textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, the first real factories in America, to...
View ArticleThe Liberation of European Jews
Michael Goldfarb discusses the emancipation of Europe’s Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Emancipation: How Liberating Europe's Jews from the Ghetto Led to Revolution and Renaissance...
View ArticleMartin Fletcher on Walking Israel
Martin Fletcher, longtime chief of NBC’s Tel Aviv news bureau, discusses walking along the entire coast of Israel, from Lebanon to Gaza, observing facets of the country that are ignored in news...
View ArticleChasing the Sun
Richard Cohen discusses our relationship with the sun. In Chasing the Sun: The Epic Story of the Star That Gives Us Life, he travels the world to shows that the Sun is present everywhere—in mythology,...
View ArticleCounter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen at MoMA
MoMA curator Juliet Kinchin and Davin Stowell, founder and CEO of the design consultancy Smart Design, discuss the exhibition “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen,” on view at the Museum of...
View ArticleMakeshift Metropolis
Professor and Slate architecture critic Witold Rybczynski discusses how current urban planning ideas have evolved from 20th century movements such as City Beautiful, the Garden City, and the ideas of...
View ArticleA Guide for Holiday Tipping
Peter Post, a director of The Emily Post Institute and author of Essential Manners for Men and The Etiquette Advantage in Business: Personal Skills for Professional Success, among other books; and Jodi...
View ArticleNot Quite Adults
Richard Settersten and Barbara Ray discuss why 20-somethings are delaying adulthood. Not Quite Adults: Why 20-Somethings Are Choosing a Slower Path to Adulthood, and Why It's Good for Everyone draws on...
View ArticleMoney and Debt in America
R. Christopher Whalen discusses the American tendency to overspend in order to sustain a lifestyle that is beyond their means. In Inflated: How Money and Debt Built the American Dream, talks about why...
View ArticleSelf-Control in an Age of Excess
Daniel Akst discusses why a lack of self-control is a central problem of our time—temptations have multiplied and social constraints have eroded. In We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of...
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