All Episodes

ABC: David Rubenstein on the Presidency, Congress & Economy — Interview with Evan Smith at Tulane Book Festival

AW: The Problem with Plastic

BN+: Giles Tremlett, "El Generalísimo"

Q&A: Jennifer Levasseur, Space History Curator Smithsonian Institution's National Air & Space Museum

AW: Reagan's Invasion of Grenada During the Cold War

BN+: Tom Wells, "The Kissinger Tapes"

ABC: Beverly Gage on J. Edgar Hoover Biography & American History Road Trip

Q&A: Lloyd Blankfein on “Streetwise,” Goldman Sachs, and the 2008 Financial Crisis

The Jewish Entrepreneurs Who Created the Toy Industry in America

BN+: Michael Hastings, "The Operators"

Q&A: New York Times Photographer Doug Mills on Covering the White House

AW: The Impact Of Wealth Concentration On Society And Politics

BN+: Investigative Journalist Seth Harp Explores The Fort Bragg Cartel

Q&A: Lee Bollinger Discusses University: A Reckoning and Academic Freedom in America

AW: A Former US Marine's Journey from Russian Prison to the Ukrainian War

BN+: Josh Ireland, "The Death of Trotsky"

Q&A: Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA), "Young Man in a Hurry"

ABC: Journalists Peter Baker & Susan Glasser Discuss Profiling Putin, Trump, and Other Leaders

AW: How AI is Transforming Healthcare

BN+: Richard John Neuhaus, "As I Lay Dying"

Q&A: Steve Israel Explores Espionage and Science in The Einstein Conspiracy

ABC: Pulitzer Winner Rick Atkinson on Revolutionary War and WWII Trilogies with David Rubenstein

AW: America's Black Botanical Legacy

BN+: David Sirota on Master Plan: How Corporate Power Reshaped America

Q&A: Wil Haygood Explores Race, Conflict, and the Vietnam War in The War Within a War

ABC: Linda Chavez: Former Reagan Official and Conservative Commentator

AW: Sam Bankman-Fried, Elite Fraud, and the Cult of Techno-Utopia

BN+: Elliot Williams, "Five Bullets"

Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

AW: The Biggest Stolen Artifacts Case in FBI History

BN+: Candace Rondeaux, "Putin's Sledgehammer"

Q&A: Teasel Muir-Harmony, History of the U.S. Space Program

AW: The State and the Soldier

BN+: Carol Hymowitz on 10 Books That Changed the Way Americans Thought About Work

Q&A: Nicholas Boggs, "Baldwin: A Love Story"

ABC: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Historian Jon Meacham

AW: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary with Stafan Fatsis

BN+: Jonathan Horn, "The Fate of the Generals"

ABC News Journalist Jonathan Karl on Retribution

ABC: Christopher Buckley on Satire, Politics, and Writing Fiction

AW:Dave Barry and Carl Hiaasen Discuss Satire and American Culture

BN+: Anne Marshall, "Cassius Marcellus Clay"

Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

AW: Jonathan Mahler on Power, Politics, and the Making of Modern New York

BN+: Ben Freeman, "The Trillion Dollar War Machine"

Q&A: Gary Walters, "White House Memories 1970-2007"

Cal Ripken Jr.: Baseball Iron Man on 2,632 Consecutive Games and His Hall of Fame Career

AW: Ben Shapiro Argues the World Is Divided Over the Future of Western Civilization

BN+: John Ferling, "Shots Heard Round the World"

Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

AW: Rachel Corbett Explores Online Harassment in Monsters We Make

BN+: Frank McCourt on Angela’s Ashes: Pulitzer Prize–Winning Memoir

Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom Discusses His Memoir and Global Human Rights Advocacy

AW: Bill McKibben on Climate Change: Why Solar and Wind Power Are the Best Path Forward

BN+: Peter Gomes, "The Good Book"

Q&A: Charles Murray, "Taking Religion Seriously"

ABC: Pulitzer Prize Winner Rita Dove on Poetry and American History

AW: Piers Morgan "Woke Is Dead: How Common Sense triumphed in an age of total madness"

BN+: Alexandra Churchill, "Ring of Fire"

Q&A: Charles Ferguson, "Presidential Seclusion"

ABC: Harvard Professor Arthur Brooks Explains What Makes Us Happy

AW: The Art Spy: Michelle Young Chronicles Rose Valland’s WWII Mission

BN+: Kenneth Vogel, "Devils' Advocates"

Q&A: Eugene Kranz, Former NASA Flight Director & Author

ABC: Jodi Picoult on Storytelling, Ethics, and the Power of Fiction

AW: David Gelles on How Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Built a Purpose-Driven Company

BN+: Doug Most, "Launching Liberty"

Q&A: Peter Navarro Reflects on Politics, Prison, and the Trump Presidency

AW: Ken Vogel’s “Devils’ Advocates”: Inside Rudy Giuliani, Hunter Biden, and D.C.’s Hidden Foreign Influence Networks

BN+: Constitutional Scholar Akhil Reed Amar on America’s Equality Story

Q&A: Enes Kanter Freedom, "In the Name of Freedom"

ABC: Chef José Andrés on Food, Humanity, and Global Relief Efforts

AW: Former CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Jill Dougherty on Understanding Today’s Russia

BN+: Kenneth Feinberg, "What is Life Worth?"

Q&A: Rep. James Clyburn on “The First Eight” and the Rise of Black Political Leadership

ABC: Walter Isaacson on the Minds That Shape Our Modern World

After Words: George Selgin, "False Dawn: The Rise and Decline of Bitcoin"

BN+: William Galston, "Anger, Fear, Domination"

Q&A: Stewart McLaurin on The People’s House Miscellany: Stories from the White House

2025 Printers Row Lit Fest: Maureen Dowd on the Culture of Celebrity in America

David Grann on Killers of the Flower Moon and America’s Hidden History

BN+: Peter Henriques Explores George Washington’s Character and Presidency

Boyce Upholt on The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi

Pulitzer Prize Author Stacy Schiff on Writing History That Feels Alive

Eric Trump, "Under Siege: My Family's Fight to Save Our Nation"

BN+: Geri Spieler, "Housewife Assassin: The Woman Who Tried to Kill President Ford"

Q&A: Media Mogul Barry Diller on His Life and Career in Television and Hollywood

Justice Amy Coney Barrett on "Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution"

Empire of AI - Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI

BN+: Dan Wang on Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future

Q&A: Jill Dougherty — My Russia: War or Peace and a Life Covering the Kremlin

From the Library of Congress: John Grisham on Storytelling and Justice

AW: "Rocket Dreams..." C. Davenport, Musk, Bezos and space race

BN+: Jonathan Mahler on The Gods of New York: NYC in the 1980s

AW: Jane Goodall "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink"

BN+: Inside McNamara at War: Philip and William Taubman on Vietnam and U.S. Power

Christopher Scalia, "13 Novels Conservative Will Love (but Probably Haven't Read)"

AW: Trump 2024: Joe Concha on Strategy, Media, and The Greatest Comeback Ever

BN+: Daniel Flynn, "The Man Who Invented Conservatism"

Q&A: Every Screen on the Planet: Emily Baker-White on the Future of Technology and Society