Episodes

  • AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE

    AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE
    Jul 4 2026
    A special re-release of the 2019 episode “Love’s Labour’s Lit” dedicated to Saul Elkin (1932-2025)
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    Less than 1 minute
  • WE ARE THE CAVALRY with DREW WARSHAW

    WE ARE THE CAVALRY with DREW WARSHAW
    Apr 22 2026
    Peter talks with Drew Warshaw about his campaign for NYS Comptroller, the most powerful office too many of us know nothing about.
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  • HOUSE OF DIGGS with MARION ORR

    HOUSE OF DIGGS with MARION ORR
    Feb 26 2026
    Peter talks with Marion Orr, the Frederick Lippitt Professor of Public Policy at Brown University, about his book House of Diggs: The Rise and Fall of America’s Most Consequential Black Congressman, Charles C. Diggs Jr.
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  • VALENTINE FROM MINNEAPOLIS

    VALENTINE FROM MINNEAPOLIS
    Feb 15 2026
    Peter talks with a friend in Minneapolis about living in his beloved city during a period of state-sponsored terror and what can be learned about pulling the U.S. back from the brink.
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  • COMMIT TO CONNECT: THE PROJECT ON CIVIC DIALOGUE

    COMMIT TO CONNECT: THE PROJECT ON CIVIC DIALOGUE
    Dec 3 2025
    Peter talks with Lara Schwartz, Founding Director of the Project on Civic Dialogue (PCD) in the School of Public Affairs at American University, as well as three PCD facilitators: Grace Manson, Arjun Mishra, and Khushi Ramnani.
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  • DEEP READING with JUSTIN McDANIEL

    DEEP READING with JUSTIN McDANIEL
    Oct 1 2025
    Peter talks with Justin McDaniel about two of the very unusual courses he teaches at Penn.
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  • HUMAN-CENTERED AI IN SCHOOLS with ERIC HUDSON

    HUMAN-CENTERED AI IN SCHOOLS with ERIC HUDSON
    Jul 17 2025
    Peter talks with Eric Hudson about his work in schools on Human-Centered AI.
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  • THE FIRST 100 DAZE with JONATHAN RAUCH

    THE FIRST 100 DAZE with JONATHAN RAUCH
    May 1 2025
    Peter talks with Jonathan Rauch about two of his books, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth and Cross Purposes: Christianity’s Broken Bargain with Democracy.
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    1 hr and 8 mins