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Janine Zacharia - The Middle East, the Era of Noise and the Future of Journalism

Paul Liberatore - "I look like a rock and roller. I am a rock and roller."

Illiberal Nationalism, What Trump and Putin Share, and the Russia Reset With Former Ambassador Michael McFaul

Sugar Is Toxic and Addictive - Dr. Robert Lustig

Ambassador Dennis Ross - Statecraft 2.0 and the Middle East

Chris Heiser - Inside a Small Press

Scott James - Who Gets 18 Months for Killing 100 People?

Arlie Hochschild - The Other Side of the Cultural Pay Wall

Jeremy Bailenson - Exciting and Immersive Virtual and Augmented Realities

Max Boot - The Greatest Geopolitical Challenge

We Asked Sarah Lacy Are We in an Oligarchy of Tech Bros Under Trump?

NY Times Film Critic Alissa Wilkinson on Villains and Evil in Today's Films and Nickle Boys as the Year's Best

Orville Schell - China and Russia Linked in Grudges

Louis Ferrante - An Offer He Couldn't Refuse

Greg Sarris - Native American Identity

Lisa Krieger - A Deeper Understanding of Bird Flu, COVID, Southern California Fires, and More

Viable Hospitality and Valuable Wisdom from Hotelier Chip Conley

Nicholas Kristof Chases Hope

Stephen Zunes - Middle East Expert on an Imminent Shift There

Adam Hochschild - A Brilliant, Worried but Hopeful Voice from the Left

Cory Doctorow - The Intersection of Storytelling and Technology

Jungian Psychiatrist Tom Singer on Trump's Mental State, Elon Musk, Jung and Freud

Michael Connelly - Over Eighty-Five Million Detective and Crime Fiction Novels Sold Plus Movies and TV

Art Historian and Scholar Alexander Nemerov on the Art of the West and the Greatest American Artwork

Richard Reeves on Boys and Men in Crisis

NPR's Ron Elving on the Upcoming Elections

Felicity Barringer - The West Is a Tortoise on the Environment Ahead of Other Tortoises

Malcolm Gladwell - One of the World's Most Successful Authors and Podcasters

Self Proclaimed Tech Geek Jim Louderback Opines

David M Kennedy on the American West

Elizabeth Farnsworth - A Woman of Distinction

Perry Garfinkel - Gandhi was a Great Marketeer

Journey into Nature and Creativity with Author Amy Tan

Jessica Calarco - Marginalized Groups and the Battle Against Inequities

Fighting Corruption, Waste and Politics to Address Climate Change. Ethan Elkind Explains

Aimee Allison Foresees a Bright Future for an America Full of Women of Color in Power

Matt Abrahams - Think of Your Audience as the North Star of Communication

Kelly Corrigan - It's Hard to Make a Family that Works but not Hard to be Useful

Long-Time Trump Critic and Tax and Economics Expert David Cay Johnston Goes After the GOP Nominee and his Running Mate

Peter Coyote - Most of Us Have a Kind of Merciless Junkyard Dog in Us

Frank Bruni - The End Of Nuanced and Complicated Conversations? A Zero Sum Game Fosters Competition Versus Connection

Self-Driving Cars to Robot Roommates: Robert Scoble Spatial Computing Strategist

Maddy Dychtwald - Women Are Different Than Men!

Bret Stephens - Competition between the Morally Unfit and the Mentally Unfit

Steven Brill - Pallbeaerers for Truth?

I'm Anything but a Luddite: An Hour with Entrepreneur Andrew Keen

Observations and Advice on Children and Teens from Leading Researcher Ellen Galinsky

Mike Elgan - A Cosmopolitan Bon Vivant on being a Gastronomad and Artificial Intelligence

Larry Tye - Jazz - Backdrop to the Civil Rights Movement

More Americans Killed By Cows Than Illegal Border Crossers: A Conversation With Pundit Marc Sandalow

The Passion of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Technologist and CEO Edwin Fu

Amb. Dennis Ross on Israel-Hamas Conflict: Unpacking the Crisis

Jeff Jarvis - The Future of Media and Journalism

Dr. Robert Pearl - Science and Medicine - AI, the Last Possible Hope for American Medicine

Andrew Fraknoi - Science - A Total View of the Total Eclipse

Nicholas Dirks - In Search of a City of Intellect

Rene Ritchie - Sage Advice For YouTube Content Creators

Jane Wales: Politics and Foreign Affairs - Global Hot Spots and a Brief Look at the Future of Philanthropy

Joey Zwillinger - Environment and Climate Change: The Green Trojan Horse

Dr. Nolan Williams - The Brain on Psychedelics

Dr. Kristina Dahl - Climate Change: Suffering Up Ahead But Ways to Mitigate

Louis Ferrante - Reformed Criminal and Former Gambino Mafia Family Member

Daniel Sokatch - Seeds of Hope from 40 Thousand Feet After October 7th and the War in Gaza

Jacques Pepin - Happy Cooking His Way

Helen Blau - Stem Cells, Scientific Advancements and Women In Science

Howard Schatz - Making Rare and Fantastic Photos

Ken Dychtwald - Upsides of Aging and Aging Gracefully

Jason Snell - AI, Digital Divides, and Apple's Challenges

Cuong Do - Slowing Cognitive Decline

Dr. Laura Esserman - Aspiring to Better

Abraham Verghese - Humanizing Healthcare

Tenshin Reb Anderson - The Power of Conversation

Larry Smith & Melanie Abrams - Inhibitions Down. Connections Up.

Lee Child - The Business of Revenge

Amichai Magen - Defeating an Ideology

Iain McCaig - Storytelling from the Chocolate Box

Norman Solomon - Shining Light on Inconvenient Truths

Geraldo Rivera - For the Record

Avi Loeb - The Infinite Sum Game

Sean Walsh - We Must Do Better

Andy Ihnatko - The Balance of Technology

Tiffany Shlain - Lead Not by Fear

Alice Waters - Nourishing All

Jason Del Rey - Winner Sells All

Bruce Cain - Back to Compromise

David Rubenstein - History Through Icons

Brian Lowery - Your Chameleon "You"

Pamela Paul - The Creative Act of... Reading

Frederick Van Johnson - Punishing Pixels for a Better Story

Peter Kramer - Fiction in an Age of Lies

James Fallows - Keeping a Level Head

Ira Steinman - Coherence of the Self

Janine Zacharia - Realpolitik, Media Control and Democracy's Decline

David Spiegel - Managing Our Minds

Jeremiah Owyang - Becoming More Human?

Orville Schell - The Enigma of Xi

iJustine - The Fire and the Tao of Tech

Walter Murch - Nibbling into a Delicious Movie

Michael Ellis - The Miracle of It All

Rick Hanson - Rewiring Our Circuitry