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David Kaiser is the author of The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy.: He is a noted historian and a professor in the Strategy and Policy Department of the Naval War College.; listen to the interview...; 19:27 minutes | 17.8 MB

Michael Levi is the author of On Nuclear Terrorism.: He is a Fellow for Science and Technology at the Council on Foreign Relations, New York; listen to the interview...; 11.10 minutes | 10.2 MB

David Edwards is the author of Artscience: Creativity in the Post-Google Generation.: He is founder of Le Laboratoire, a new artscience center in Paris, and Gordon McKay Professor of the Practice of Biomedical Engineering, Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 17.14 minutes | 15.8 MB

Lisa M. Diamond is the author of Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women's Love and Desire.: She is Associate Professor of Psychology and Gender Studies at the University of Utah.; listen to the interview...; 14.20 minutes | 13.2 MB

Muriel Gillick is the author of The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies.: She is Associate Professor of Ambulatory Care and Prevention at Harvard Medical School. She is a staff physician for Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, and she is also on the medical staff of Brigham and Women's Hospital and Faulkner Hospital.; listen to the interview...; 10.59 minutes | 10.1 MB

Cass Sunstein is the author of Worst-Case Scenarios.: He is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago.; listen to the interview...; 15:23 minutes | 14.1 MB

Helen Vendler is the author of Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form.: She is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 13:24 minutes | 12.3 MB

Jeremi Suri is the author of Henry Kissinger and the American Century.: He is Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.; listen to the interview...; 15:08 minutes | 13.9 MB

Mary Beard is the author of The Roman Triumph.: She has a Chair of Classics at Cambridge and is a Fellow of Newnham College. She is classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and author of the blog A Don's Life.; listen to the interview...; 16:41 minutes | 15.2 MB

Sarah McFarland Taylor is the author of Green Sisters: A Spiritual Ecology.: She is Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Northwestern University; listen to the interview...; 16:41 minutes | 15.2 MB

Tom Griffiths is the author of Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica.: He teaches history and the environment at the Australian National University in Canberra and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.; listen to the interview...; 16:41 minutes | 15.2 MB

James Dawes is the author of That the World May Know: Bearing Witness to Atrocity.: He is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at Macalester College; listen to the interview...; 14:34 minutes | 13.3 MB

Margaret Hogan is the coeditor with C. James Taylor of My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams. She is Managing Editor of the Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society.: listen to the interview...; 11:32 minutes | 10.5 MB

Jon Latimer is the author of 1812: War with America.: He is a guest lecturer at the Joint Services Staff College and a former officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He is also the author of Deception in War and Alamein; listen to the interview...; 15:00 minutes | 13.7 MB

David Kirp is the author of The Sandbox Investment: The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics.: He is Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of fourteen books, including Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education (Harvard); listen to the interview...; 15:29 minutes | 14.2 MB

Donald Critchlow is the author of The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History, forthcoming in November.: He is Professor of History at Saint Louis University.; listen to the interview...; 18:56 minutes | 17.3 MB

Mary Waters is coeditor of with Reed Ueda of The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration since 1965.: She is M. E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University.; listen to the interview...; 10:53 minutes | 9.9 MB

Stephen Mihm is author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States.: He is Assistant Professor of History at University of Georgia.; listen to the interview...; 12:26 minutes | 11.4 MB

Risa Goluboff is author of The Lost Promise of Civil Rights.: She is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia.; listen to the interview...; 12:15 minutes | 11.2 MB

Joan Shelley Rubin is author of Songs of Ourselves: The Uses of Poetry in America: She is Professor of History at the University of Rochester.; listen to the interview...; 10:18 minutes | 9.9 MB

Karen Ordahl Kupperman is author of The Jamestown Project.: She is Silver Professor of History at New York University.; listen to the interview...; 9:53 minutes | 9.02 MB

Michael J. Sandel is author of The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering.: He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Government, Harvard University, and also the author of Public Philosophy: Essays on Morality in Politics and Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.; listen to the interview...; 15:39 minutes | 14.34 MB

Jeffrey A. Engel is the author of Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy.: He is Assistant Professor of History and Public Policy, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University.; listen to the interview...; 10:17 minutes | 9.43 MB

Thomas K. McCraw is the author of Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction.: He is Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and also the author of Creating Modern Capitalism and Prophets of Regulation.; listen to the interview...; 10:06 minutes | 9.26 MB

McKenzie Wark is the author of Gamer Theory.: He is Associate Professor of Cultural and Media Studies at Eugene Lang College and The New School for Social Research and also the author of A Hacker Manifesto (Harvard) and Dispositions (Salt Publishing).; listen to the interview...; 8 minutes | 7.5 MB

Rawi Abdelal is the author of Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance.: He is Associate Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; listen to the interview...; 8:05 minutes | 7.7 MB

Sudhir Alladi Venkatesh is the author of Off the Books: The Underground Economy of the Urban Poor.: He is Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University and also author of American Project: The Rise and Fall of a Modern Ghetto.; listen to the interview...; 13:05 minutes | 12.7 MB

Giles Slade is the author of Made to Beak: Technology and Obsolescence in America.: He is an independent scholar and freelance writer; listen to the interview...; 16:25 minutes | 15 MB

Philip T. Hoffman is an author, along with Gilles Postel-Vinay and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal of Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets.: He is Professor of History and Social Science, California Institute of Technology.; listen to the interview...; 10:05 minutes | 9.26 MB