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Air Date: 2010-10-21
Longtime Newsweek columnist Jonathan Alter joins us to discuss the latest in politics, the midterm elections and The ...
Air Date: 2010-10-28
P. J. O'Rourke was a political satirist when Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert were still in short pants - and he was a...
Air Date: 2010-11-04
Star food writer Amanda Hesser is a prolific food writer for The NY Times, former food editor of The NY Times Magazin...
Air Date: 2010-11-11
Jim Leach became head of the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2009, after 30 years in Congress. A Republican,...
Air Date: 2010-11-18
The midterms are behind us and a new political landscape is taking shape. Howard Dean, former Vermont governor, 2004 ...
Air Date: 2010-12-02
Sam Tanenhaus is editor of The New York Times Book Review, and his biography of Whittaker Chambers was a finalist for...
Air Date: 2010-12-09
Frazier's varied mix of humorous essays, meticulously reported books of non-fiction, and wide-ranging magazine articl...
Air Date: 2010-12-16
Billy Bradley has been a three-term US Senator, a candidate for the 2000 Democratic nomination, an NBA hall of famer,...
Air Date: 2010-12-23
Author and activist Michael Pollan's work mixes journalism, environmentalism, animal rights, anthropology, and foodin...
Air Date: 2011-01-13
PA Governor Ed Rendell leaves public life this month after 8 years as Governor, a stint as the DNC's head and many ye...
Air Date: 2011-01-20
Douglas Brinkley's books explore U.S. history from old times to new, from one end of the country to the other, throug...
Air Date: 2011-01-27
Lawrence Wright's most recent book, The Looming Tower, won a Pulitzer and set the highest possible bar for reporting ...
Air Date: 2011-02-03
Singer-songwriter Chely Wright has been named Best New Female Vocalist and one of People's 50 Most Beautiful People. ...
Air Date: 2011-02-17
Matthew Dowd has worked at the heart of American politics for more than 25 years, shaping strategies and campaigns fo...
Air Date: 2011-02-24
John Mackey is co-founder & CEO of Whole Foods Market, the largest U.S. natural foods grocer and a growing global pre...
Air Date: 2011-03-10
Lawrence Lessig is a celebrated academic, an acclaimed author, and an energetic activist whose great cause is rights ...
Air Date: 2011-03-17
Bill Paxton is a gifted actor whose credits include One False Move, Weird Science and Apollo 13, but legions of wanna...
Air Date: 2011-03-24
Garrison Keillor is an author, humorist, storyteller and icon of public broadcasting whose weekly radio show, A Prair...
Air Date: 2011-04-07
Wyatt Cenac's reports for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart have introduced his work to a wide audience. But his work r...
Air Date: 2011-04-14
Diane Wood is a Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals judge respected across the political spectrum as an intellectual hea...
Air Date: 2011-04-21
Calvin Trillin has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1963, and over those many years he's written enough pi...
Air Date: 2011-04-28
Gail Collins is a funny and fearless twice-weekly columnist for The New York Times, the first woman ever to serve as ...
Air Date: 2011-05-05
Holland Taylor is an award-winning actress, acclaimed for her work on stage, in film and on television, whose one-wom...
Air Date: 2011-05-12
Wendy Kopp is founder and CEO of Teach for America, which has recruited the best and brightest college students to be...
Air Date: 2011-05-19
Harry Shearer is an Emmy and Grammy-nominated actor and writer whose credits include Spinal Tap, A Mighty Wind, and T...
Air Date: 2011-05-26
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. is a celebrated advocate and activist on behalf of the environment, conservation and responsib...
Air Date: 2011-06-02
Julian Bond is an activist, academic, author and true icon of the civil rights movement. He helped found the SNCC and...