All Episodes
ThoughtCast® — 54 episodes
Spring Fever
Garibaldi and Meucci: two friends, two very different lives
Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Henri Cole and William Logan
The Legendary Steinway Hall in Midtown Manhattan
Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson
Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Fanny Howe and Haleh Liza Gafori
The Restoration of the Neptune Fountain
Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity
Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Carl Phillips and Penelope Pelizzon
Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Cosmopolitan Philosopher
Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson
Tales from Donegal, told in Kenny’s Bookshop
Behind the Scenes at Law and Order
Rediscovering James Joyce in Dublin with editor Maurice Earls
Charles Simic’s the choice at San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books!
The history and future of the New England Forest
The End of Our Universe among other timely topics…
International news and the American attention span
The Mau Mau rebellion — a revisionist history
Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg
Dancer, Choreographer Ron Brown
The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan
Women’s Work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts
Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul
The Dan Flavin Art Institute
The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall
Dinosaurs on Thoughtcast
Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David
Words @ Work: The Origins of “Rock”
Buffalo Dance: A Poem for NPR’s Poetry Month
Red Hook, Brooklyn, before the Gentrification
Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah
“Why Does the World Exist?” with Jim Holt
KCRW’s Michael Silverblatt at the LA Times Book Festival
Chanticleer Backstage on ThoughtCast!
ThoughtCast Reflects on the Legacy of John McCain
John McCain’s Last Stand – on ThoughtCast!
Philip Glass creates an opera – on ThoughtCast!
Lydia Ratcliff: Vermont Farmer, Stubborn Survivor
Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity
Lessons from a Former Failed Bid for the Presidency?
Al Gore, Reconsidered
Art Therapy: A Place for Self-Expression while in Pain
The Hunt for Art Fakes with Tom Hoving
Revered New York Review editor Robert Silvers, R.I.P.
Paul Pascarella – An Artist of the Mesa and the Mountain
Andres Serrano @ The New Museum of Contemporary Art
Arianna Huffington on Picasso and the Clinton White House
Sandra Tsing Loh at the LA Times Book Festival
Black Bear Orphans and the Man who Reads Their Minds
An Afternoon at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic
In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson
The Borromeo String Quartet Meets Steve Reich!
Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist