Episodes

On today's episode, Catherine Belton, author of Putin's People , discusses how the KGB took a punt on Trump and won. Catherine Belton worked from 2007-2013 as the Moscow correspondent for the Financial Times, and in 2016 as t...

From a live session of How to Fix Democracy, presented by the Bertelsmann Foundation and Humanity in Action, Andrew Keen talks with Timothy Snyder, best selling author of On Tyranny , and Freedom House’s Michael Abramowitz ab...

David S. Reynolds is a Distinguished Professor at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Walt Whitman's America: A Cultural Biography , winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book...

Tony Schwartz is the author of several books, including The Art of the Deal , which he co-authored with Mr. Trump. He also wrote "The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time" (with Jim Loehr) and "The Way We're Wo...

A leading historian of his generation, Alan Mikhail , professor of history and chair of the Department of History at Yale University, has reforged our understandings of the past through his previous three prize-winning books ...

On today's episode, Cynthia Miller-Idriss discusses her new book Hate in the Homeland . Cynthia Miller-Idriss is an award-winning author and scholar of extremism and youth radicalization. She is Professor of Education and Soc...

Michael J. Sandel teaches political philosophy at Harvard University. His books What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets and Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? were international best sellers and have been transl...

On today's episode, John Freeman discusses his book Tales of Two Planets , whether a Green New Deal is possible, and what a Biden presidency would mean for the environment. John Freeman is the editor of Freeman's, a literary ...

On today's episode, Derek W. Black, author of Schoolhouse Burning , discusses why public education as we know it is in trouble. Derek W. Black is a professor at the University of South Carolina Law School where he teaches con...

Clarissa Ward is CNN's chief international correspondent. In her fifteen-year career spanning Fox, CBS, and ABC, Ward has reported from front lines across the world. She has won five Emmy Awards, two George Foster Peabody Awa...

On today's episode, Eleanor Herman,, author of the upcoming book Sex With Presidents: The Ins and Outs of Love and Lust in the White House, discusses the scandals of our recent presidents and why this historically has not aff...

Martin Sandbu has been writing about economics for the Financial Times since 2009. Having started out as the newspaper's economics leader writer, he is currently FT 's European economics commentator and writes its Free Lunch ...

Kerri Arsenault is the Book Review Editor at Orion magazine, and Contributing Editor at Lithub . Arsenault received her MFA in Creative Writing from The New School and studied in Malmö University's Communication for Developme...

On today's episode, Thom Hartmann, author of The Hidden History of Monopolies, discusses the history of monopolies and why this is a "cancer on America." Thom Hartmann is the four-time winner of the Project Censored Award, Ne...

On today's episode, Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling, journalist and author of A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear , discusses what happens when a government disappears into the woods. Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling is a freelance journalist s...

On today's episode, Tom Burgis, Financial Times investigations correspondent and author of Kleptopia , discusses breaking the code of secrecy of money. Tom Burgis is an investigations correspondent at the Financial Times . He...

On today's episode, Vicky Osterweil, author of In Defense of Looting , discusses the controversy of her new book and a real desire for change in the liberation movements. Vicky Osterweil is a writer, editor, and agitator and ...

On today's episode, David Nasaw, author of The Last Million, discusses his eight-year project researching the one million refugees left behind in Germany after WWII. David Nasaw is the author of The Patriarch , selected by th...

On today's episode, Sinan Aral, head of MIT's Social Analytics Lab and author of The Hype Machine: How Social Media Disrupts Our Elections, Our Economy, and Our Health--And How We Must Adapt , discusses Sinan Aral is the Davi...

David Goodhart, author of Head, Hand, Heart: Why Intelligence Is Over-Rewarded, Manual Workers Matter, and Caregivers Deserve More Respect , discusses the narrowing concept of a good life, how pushing higher education led to ...

Vanessa Veselka is the author of the novel Zazen , which won the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize. Her short stories have appeared in Tin House and ZYZZYVA , and her nonfiction in GQ , The Atlantic , Smithsonian , The Atavist , an...

Sir Martin Sorrell is Executive Chairman of S⁴Capital, a new London listed vehicle with the objective of building a new age, new era, digital advertising and marketing services platform for clients. S4Capital has completed th...

JOHN W. DEAN served as White House counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1970 to 1973. During the Watergate scandal, his Congressional testimony helped lead to Nixon's resignation. Dean has written about Watergate in his N...

Jonathan Karl is the chief White House correspondent and chief Washington correspondent for ABC News and the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association (2019-2020). He has reported from the White House during th...