https://thoughtcast.org
Summary: ThoughtCast is a podcast and public radio interview program on authors, academics and intellectuals. I’m the host, Jenny Attiyeh, and my goal is to offer something that is glaringly absent from the media today: a bridge between the publications and pursuits of the academic world and a curious, informed, mainstream audience. By providing detailed, unhurried conversation with current writers and thinkers, I aim to create a show that is both informative and entertaining – a synergy between the media and the ivory tower. Check out my interview with Samuel Huntington, the provocative political scientist and author of "The Clash of Civilizations." Or listen to my program with Ilan Stavans, the hispanic 'public intellectual', author and and Latino literary critic. He talks about his identity as a Mexican-Jewish-American, about his controversial dictionary, "Spanglish," and his new book, "Dictionary Days." And thanks!
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Behind the scenes at Law and Order: watch the shooting of the episode "Blood Libel" from its 6th season. The post Behind the Scenes at Law and Order appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
Sadly, since this interview was recorded, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has died at the age of 84. Note: This interview was broadcast on KUT-FM, an NPR station based in Austin, Texas. Kate Rosenberger is one of those rare people who collects independent book stores in San Francisco the way the rest of us […] The post Charles Simic’s the choice at San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books! appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
Note: an audio version of this interview was broadcast by the WGBH affiliate WCAI, the Cape and Islands NPR station, and by KPIP in Missouri. The forests of New England are, remarkably, a success story. They’ve recovered from attack after attack. The early settlers hacked them down, by hand, for houses, fences and firewood. Later […] The post The history and future of the New England Forest appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
The End of Our Universe with astrophysicist Alex Vilenkin. On ThoughtCast! The post The End of Our Universe among other timely topics… appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
International News Coverage in America and the public's attention span The post International news and the American attention span appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
NOTE: Caroline Elkins is in the news again, with a new book called Legacy of Violence: A History of the British Empire. In it she continues her searing research into first world abuse and torture of numberless Africans under their colonial control. How does history get rewritten? How do victimizers become victims, and the valiant […] The post The Mau Mau rebellion — a revisionist history appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
Natalie Goldberg, the well-known author and writing teacher, is also a painter and a practitioner of Zen. The post Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
Ron Brown works with his dance company Evidence. The post Dancer, Choreographer Ron Brown appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
Note: This interview was broadcast on WGBH radio, Boston’s NPR station for news and culture, on April 17, 2011! The endangered North Atlantic Right Whale is probably our closest cetacean neighbor. There are only about 350 of them in total, and they live precariously near to shore, along the Eastern seaboard, in a horrendously busy […] The post The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
Division of Labor: Women's Work was an exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1995 The post Women’s Work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
ThoughtCast spoke to author and academic Rebecca Goldstein about her novel "36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction". The post Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
The Dan Flavin Art Institute, overseen by Dia Center for the Arts, is filled with the florescent tubes that made Flavin famous. The post The Dan Flavin Art Institute appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
The three Peabody sisters, Elizabeth, Mary and Sophia, were key players in the founding of the Transcendentalist movement in the 19th century. The post The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
The dinosaurs return to the Museum of Natural History in Manhattan. The post Dinosaurs on Thoughtcast appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
Note: The WGBH sister stations WCAI and WNAN broadcast this interview, and it also received a 5 star review on PRX! Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky tackles King David of the Bible – the shepherd, poet, warrior and adulterer – in his “Life of David.” Is David a legend? A real, flesh and blood warrior […] The post Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David appeared first on https://thoughtcast.org.
