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Books & Writing episodes of the popular The Creative Process podcast. To listen to ALL arts & creativity episodes of “The Creative Process · Arts, Culture & Society”, you’ll find our main podcast on Apple: tinyurl.com/thecreativepod, Spotify: tinyurl.com/thecreativespotify, or wherever you get your podcasts! Exploring the fascinating minds of creative people. Conversations with writers, artists & creative thinkers across the Arts & STEM. We discuss their life, work & artistic practice. Winners of Pulitzer, Oscar, Emmy, Tony, leaders & public figures share real experiences & offer valuable insights. Notable guests include: Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, George Pelecanos, George Saunders, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Jericho Brown, Joyce Carol Oates, Hilary Mantel, Daniel Handler a.k.a. Lemony Snicket, Siri Hustvedt, Jeffrey Sachs, Jeffrey Rosen (National Constitution Center), Tom Perrotta, Ioannis Trohopoulos (UNESCO World Book Capital), Ana Castillo, David Tomas Martinez, Rebecca Walker, Isabel Allende, Ian Buruma, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Ada Limon, John d’Agata, Rick Moody, Paul Auster, Robert Olen Butler, Yiyun Li, Rob Nixon, Tobias Wolff, Yann Martel, Junot Díaz, Edna O’Brien, Eimear McBride, Jung Chang, Jane Smiley, Marge Piercy, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sara Paretsky, Carmen Maria Machado, Neil Patrick Harris, Jay McInerney, Etgar Keret, DBC Pierre, Adam Alter, Janet Burroway, Geoff Dyer, Jenny Bhatt, Hala Alyan, E.J. Koh, Jeannie Vanasco, Lan Samantha Chang (Iowa Writers Workshop), Alice Fulton, Alice Notley, McKenzie Funk, Emma Walton Hamilton, Krys Lee, Douglas Kennedy, Sam Lipsyte, Charles Baxter, Azby Brown, G. Samantha Rosenthal, Ashley Dawson, Douglas Wolk, Suzanne Simard, Seth Siegel, Richard Wolff, Todd Miller, Giulio Boccaletti, Amy Aniobi, among others. The interviews are hosted by founder and creative educator Mia Funk with the participation of students, universities, and collaborators from around the world. These conversations are also part of our traveling exhibition.
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Episode Date
Happy World Bee Day w/ The Best Bees Company Co-Founder NOAH WILSON-RICH - Highlights
May 20, 2025
Bees on the Brink: How Climate Change, Habitat Loss & Our Choices Shape the Future of Pollinators
May 20, 2025
Building Bridges, Breaking Cycles: Personal Stories of Healing, Social Justice & Activism
May 16, 2025
What would it be like to live 100 milion years? Life in the Deep Subsurface Biosphere - Highlights
May 11, 2025
INTRATERRESTRIALS: Discovering the Strangest Life on Earth with KAREN G. LLOYD
May 08, 2025
Exploring Trauma, Healing & the Creative Process with Author LIZ MOORE - Highlights
May 01, 2025
Family, Addiction & Overcoming Trauma - LIZ MOORE on Long Bright River starring AMANDA SEYFRIED
Apr 30, 2025
PAUL LYNCH discusses Prophet Song, Beyond the Sea & his Creative Process - Highlights
Apr 24, 2025
On Storytelling & The Human Condition with Booker Prize Winner PAUL LYNCH
Apr 23, 2025
OUR PLANET, OUR FUTURE - Environmentalists, Artists, Scientists & Earth Defenders Share their Stories
Apr 22, 2025
Performance, Politics, Art & Society w/ Sociologist RICHARD SENNETT - Highlights
Apr 18, 2025
The Performer: Art, Life, Politics with RICHARD SENNETT, Sociologist & Author
Apr 17, 2025
Exploring the Extremes of the Human Experience with Neurologist DR. GUY LESCHZINER - Highlights
Apr 16, 2025
Sleep, The Nocturnal Brain & The Biology of Being Human w/ DR. GUY LESCHZINER, Neurologist
Apr 16, 2025
ADAM MOSS - Fmr. Editor of New York Magazine, Author, Artist on Creativity as a Process - Highlights
Apr 14, 2025
On Postactivism, Justice & Decolonization with BAYO AKOMOLAFE - Highlights
Apr 11, 2025
The Future of Activism: When Solutions Become Problems w/ BAYO AKOMOLAFE
Apr 11, 2025
KATIE KITAMURA on Language, Identity & the Search for Agency - Highlights
Apr 08, 2025
Art, Performance & the Illusion of Agency - KATIE KITAMURA on her new novel AUDITION
Apr 08, 2025
JARON LANIER on Tech, Music, Creativity & Who Owns the Future - Highlights
Apr 05, 2025
AI, Virtual Reality & Dawn of the New Everything w/ JARON LANIER, Father of VR, Musician, Author
Apr 04, 2025
Why is there so much conflict over people, land and resources? AUDREA LIM - Highlights
Mar 29, 2025
Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy? JAMES FISHKIN - Highlights
Mar 29, 2025
Free the Land: How We Can Fight Poverty & Climate Chaos with AUDREA LIM
Mar 28, 2025
What is Deliberative Democracy & How Can it Serve Society? w/ JAMES S. FISHKIN
Mar 20, 2025
The Imagination Emporium with Fmr. VP of Innovation & Creativity at Disney DUNCAN WARDLE
Mar 17, 2025
Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education with JESSE HAGOPIAN
Mar 17, 2025
Feminism in the 21st Century
Mar 13, 2025
The Hidden Humans Behind Artificial Intelligence & the Sociopathology of Elon Musk
Mar 12, 2025
"Carbon is really a flow that animates everything we love, everything that's alive on this planet." - PAUL HAWKEN - Highlights
Mar 05, 2025
CARBON: The Book of Life with PAUL HAWKEN
Mar 05, 2025
On the Significance of the Recent Elections in Germany: ADRIAN DAUB on Rushing to the Right
Mar 02, 2025
Inside the Mind of PETER WELLER, Actor, Art Historian, Director, Musician, Author - Highlights
Feb 27, 2025
From RoboCop to the Renaissance w/ Actor, Art Historian, Director, Musician, Author PETER WELLER
Feb 27, 2025
A Life in Climbing: ALAIN ROBERT Climbs with No Fear, No Ropes, No Safety Net - Highlights
Feb 24, 2025
Overcoming Your Fears to Achieve the Impossible w/ Free Solo Climber ALAIN ROBERT on Climbing 200+ World’s Tallest Skyscrapers
Feb 21, 2025
TAO LEIGH GOFFE on Poetics, Poesis & Un-making the Climate Crisis
Feb 17, 2025
The Creative Process w/ JULIE ANDREWS, PAUL SCHRADER, JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY, ETGAR KERET, JOY GORMAN WETTELS, CHAYSE IRVIN, MANUEL BILLETER
Feb 14, 2025
The Art of Fiction with Author, Musician, Satirist T.C. BOYLE - Highlights
Feb 13, 2025
A Life in Writing with T.C. BOYLE
Feb 13, 2025
Language, Music, Memory with Writer, Philosopher PATRICK HEALY - Highlights
Feb 10, 2025
Beyond the Pale with Writer, Philosopher PATRCK HEALY
Feb 08, 2025
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition with MAYA SCHENWAR & KIM WILSON
Feb 03, 2025
We Grow the World Together: Parenting Toward Abolition with MAYA SCHENWAR & KIM WILSON
Feb 03, 2025
Relationships, Writing, Dyselxia & The Creative Process w/ Director SOPHIE BROOKS
Jan 31, 2025
Modern Love - Writer, Director SOPHIE BROOKS on her new film OH, HI!
Jan 31, 2025
From Spy Thrillers to Police Dramas w/ Writer, Creator, Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY
Jan 28, 2025
Behind the Scenes of The Rookie & The Recruit w/ Showrunner ALEXI HAWLEY
Jan 28, 2025
Are We Witnessing the Decline of the American Empire? RICHARD D. WOLFF - Highlights
Jan 27, 2025
Understanding Capitalism with RICHARD D. WOLFF - Co-founder of Democracy at Work
Jan 27, 2025
How Art Helps Us Understand the World - Filmmakers, Writers & Artists Share their Stories
Jan 23, 2025
How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together: Conversation w/ DEAN SPADE - Highlights
Jan 10, 2025
LOVE in a F*cked-Up World: DEAN SPADE on How to Build Relationships, Hook Up & Raise Hell Together
Jan 08, 2025
THREE WOMEN starring Shailene Woodley, DeWanda Wise, Betty Gilpin: Conversation w/ LAURA EASON - Highlights
Jan 07, 2025
Female Desire, Sex & Intimacy: Emmy-nominated Producer, Writer, Playwright LAURA EASON on THREE WOMEN
Jan 07, 2025
Building Worlds Beyond Modernity’s Double Fracture: A Discussion with Azucena Castro & Malcom Ferdinand
Jan 06, 2025
How Does Art Shape Our Lives? Musicians, Writers, Filmmakers & Actors Share Their Stories
Jan 03, 2025
Can We Redefine Our Relationship with Nature? Scientists, Writers & Activists Share Solutions
Dec 27, 2024
How Do We Protect Democracy? Writers, Philosophers & Thought Leaders Speak Out
Dec 24, 2024
Palestinian Poetry Reveals the Truth Institutions Silence w/ HUDA FAKHREDDINE & ANTHONY ALESSANDRINI
Dec 23, 2024
Voices for the Planet: Scientists, Activists, Farmers & Filmmakers Speak Out
Dec 16, 2024
Elon Musk, Putin's Russia, Murdoch's Fox News: How Billionaires Shape Our World with DARRYL CUNNINGHAM
Dec 13, 2024
Art, Creativity & Intuition - Filmmakers, Musicians & Artists discuss their Creative Process
Dec 09, 2024
Art & Empathy: Filmmakers, Writers & Artists on Connecting through Creativity
Nov 28, 2024
Technology, AI, Art & Culture - Artists, Philosophers, Economists & Scientists discuss the Future
Nov 26, 2024
The Art of Writing w/ Neil Gaiman, Ada Limón, Jericho Brown, E.J. Koh, Marge Piercy & Max Stossel
Nov 22, 2024
THE DIPLOMAT with DEBORA CAHN - Emmy-winning Showrunner, Exec. Producer - The West Wing, Homeland
Nov 08, 2024
Women, Politics & The Art of Diplomacy w/ DEBORA CAHN - Creator of Netflix’s THE DIPLOMAT starring Keri Russell
Nov 08, 2024
JULIAN LENNON on Art, Empathy & Creativity - Highlights
Nov 07, 2024
Life’s Fragile Moments with JULIAN LENNON - Photographer, Musician, Documentary Filmmaker
Nov 07, 2024
Connecting with the Earth: Changemakers, Scientists, Writers & Educators on Regenerating Earth’s Ecosystems
Nov 04, 2024
Harnessing Creativity to Heal & Unwind the Body & Mind w/ DR. JULIA CHRISTENSEN - Highlights
Oct 29, 2024
The Pathway to Flow with Neuroscientist, Fmr. Dancer DR. JULIA CHRISTENSEN
Oct 28, 2024
What Does It Mean to Live a Good Life? Artists, Writers, Visionaries & Educators Share their Stories
Oct 21, 2024
Navigating Our Environmental Future From Climate Crisis to Urban Revolution
Oct 18, 2024
Democracy & Economic Inequality w/ Philosopher ARASH ABIZADEH - Highlights
Oct 11, 2024
Democracy at a Crossroads: Exploring Modern Political Challenges w/ Philosopher ARASH ABIZADEH
Oct 11, 2024
The Growth Dilemma: Balancing Progress & Sustainability w/ Economist DANIEL SUSSKIND - Highlights
Oct 04, 2024
Growth: A Reckoning with Economist DANIEL SUSSKIND
Oct 04, 2024
Assembling Tomorrow: A Guide to Designing a Thriving Future - SCOTT DOORLEY & CARISSA CARTER - Highlights
Sep 21, 2024
Can Design Save the World? - SCOTT DOORLEY & CARISSA CARTER - Co-authors of Assembling Tomorrow - Directors of Stanford’s d.School
Sep 21, 2024
Tell Me Lies w/ Creator, Writer, Exec. Producer MEAGHAN OPPENHEIMER
Sep 04, 2024
Was Stanford Firing 23 Lecturers in Creative Writing Really Necessary?
Sep 03, 2024
How Toxic Relationships Shape Us - MEAGHAN OPPENHEIMER - Highlights
Aug 30, 2024
How can journalism make people care about crises & create solutions? - Highlights - NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Aug 26, 2024
Chasing Hope: A Reporter's Life w/ Pulitzer Prize-winning Journalist NICHOLAS KRISTOF
Aug 26, 2024
Leaving Eden: To Protect and Manage the Earth w/ Earth Systems Scientist & Author EUAN NISBET
Aug 23, 2024
Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science with RENÉE BERGLAND
Aug 20, 2024
Germany's Postwar Legacy: Lessons for Today's Crises - Highlights - FRANK TRENTMANN
Aug 15, 2024
Out of the Darkness: The Germans 1942 to 2022 with FRANK TRENTMANN
Aug 14, 2024
How Do Utopian Visions Shape Our Reality & Future? - Highlights - S. D. CHROSTOWSA
Jul 25, 2024
Utopia in the Age of Survival with S. D. CHROSTOWSKA
Jul 24, 2024
How can music disrupt oppression & bring about social change? - Highlights - JAKE FERGUSON, ANTHONY JOSEPH & JERMAIN JACKMAN
Jul 22, 2024
The Architecture of Oppression with JAKE FERGUSON, ANTHONY JOSEPH & JERMAIN JACKMAN
Jul 22, 2024
Climate Change, Mental Health & Fighting for a Better Future - Highlights - CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG
Jul 19, 2024
The Mind, Climate Change & Community Resilience with CHARLIE HERTZOG YOUNG
Jul 19, 2024
How and when will we transition to a clean energy future? - Highlights - RICHARD BLACK
Jul 16, 2024
The Future of Energy - RICHARD BLACK - Director, Policy & Strategy, Ember - Fmr. BBC Environment Correspondent
Jul 12, 2024
Resisting Fascism & Ecological Collapse with Writer-Organizer-Activist CHRIS CARLSSON
Jul 10, 2024
What Do the June 2024 Elections in India Mean? with Angana Chatterji & Siddhartha Deb
Jul 01, 2024
PETA Founder INGRID NEWKIRK turns 75: A Lifetime of Animal Advocacy - Author of Animalkind
Jun 21, 2024
How to Fight for Truth & Protect Democracy in A Post-Truth World? - Highlights - LEE McINTYRE
Jun 18, 2024
On Disinformation: How to Fight for Truth & Protect Democracy with LEE McINTYRE
Jun 17, 2024
How will AI Affect Education, the Arts & Society? - Highlights - STEPHEN WOLFRAM
Jun 14, 2024
What Role Do AI & Computational Language Play in Solving Real-World Problems?
Jun 14, 2024
Can we have real conversations with AI? How do illusions help us make sense of the world? - Highlights - KEITH FRANKISH
Jun 10, 2024
Is Consciousness an Illusion? with Philosopher KEITH FRANKISH
Jun 10, 2024
How Can We End the Climate Crisis in One Generation? - Highlights - PAUL HAWKEN
Jun 07, 2024
Regeneration: Ending the Climate Crisis in One Generation with PAUL HAWKEN
Jun 07, 2024
How Will Our Cities, Communities & Country Cope with Climate Migration - Highlights - ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
May 31, 2024
On The Move: The Overheating Earth & the Uprooting of America with ABRAHM LUSTGARTEN
May 31, 2024
Apocalyptic Optimism: How We Can We Save Ourselves from the Climate Crisis? - Highlights - DANA FISHER
May 24, 2024
Saving Ourselves: From Climate Shocks to Climate Action - DANA FISHER
May 24, 2024
Working to Restore: Harnessing the Power of Business to Heal the Earth - Highlights - ESHA CHHABRA
May 20, 2024
How can Regenerative Business Help Heal the Earth? - ESHA CHHABRA
May 20, 2024
How to Protect Bookstores and Why - Highlights - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
May 15, 2024
What Lies Ahead for Bookstores in the Age of Generative AI? - DANNY CAINE, Bookseller, Poet
May 15, 2024
Is understanding AI a bigger question than understanding the origin of the universe? - Highlights, NEIL JOHNSON, Author of Simply Complexity: A Clear Guide to Complexity Theory
May 14, 2024
How can physics help solve real world problems? - NEIL JOHNSON, Head of Dynamic Online Networks Lab
May 14, 2024
Humanity's Deadly Shadow: The Toll on Birds and Wildlife - Highlights - BEN GOLDFARB
May 09, 2024
How Road Ecology is Shaping the Future of Our Planet with BEN GOLDFARB
May 09, 2024
Crisis, Philosophy & the Search for Meaning - ROBERT PIPPIN - Highlights
May 08, 2024
Reflections on Philosophy, Art & Crisis in the 21st Century with ROBERT PIPPIN
May 06, 2024
The Emotional Brain, Music, Consciousness & Memory with JOSEPH LEDOUX - Highlights
May 03, 2024
How does the brain process emotions and music? JOSEPH LEDOUX - Neuroscientist, Author, Musician
May 03, 2024
Remembering PAUL AUSTER - Writer, Director (1947-2024)
May 01, 2024
How to achieve Optimal Well-Being with Emotional Intelligence - Highlights - DANIEL GOLEMAN
Apr 26, 2024
Author of Emotional Intelligence DANIEL GOLEMAN on Focus, Balance & Optimal Living
Apr 26, 2024
Feminism, Resistance & the Global South - Highlights - INTAN PARAMADITHA
Apr 25, 2024
Travel, Literature & Identity with INTAN PARAMADITHA - Author of The Wandering
Apr 25, 2024
Voices of the Earth: Reflections on Nature, Humanity & Climate Change
Apr 24, 2024
How does a changing climate affect our minds, brains & bodies? - Highlights - CLAYTON ALDERN
Apr 16, 2024
How climate change is making us sick, angry & anxious - CLAYTON ALDERN - Neuroscientist turned Eco-Journalist
Apr 16, 2024
DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer with Hoa Xuande, Robert Downey Jr., Park Chan-wook
Apr 15, 2024
There’s another side to every war. Satire, War & Hollywood - Co-creator DON McKELLAR on The Sympathizer
Apr 15, 2024
Do good deeds offset bad deeds? How do our families shape who we become?- Highlights - DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP
Apr 12, 2024
Exploring American Rust: Broken Justice w/ DAN FUTTERMAN & ADAM RAPP - Award-winning Screenwriters/EPs
Apr 12, 2024
How has travel contributed to the ecological degradation of the planet? - Highlights - MICHAEL CRONIN
Apr 02, 2024
Eco-Travel: Journeying in the Age of the Anthropocene w/ MICHAEL CRONIN - Author, Prof. of Culture, Literature & Translation
Apr 02, 2024
How to Live a Good a Life - Stoic Wisdom & the Founding Fathers - Highlights - JEFFREY ROSEN
Mar 26, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness - JEFFREY ROSEN - President & CEO of the National Constitution Center
Mar 26, 2024
What can turtles teach us about time, patience & wisdom? - Highlights - SY MONTGOMERY & MATT PATTERSON
Mar 21, 2024
Of Time and Turtles - Author SY MONTGOMERY & Illustrator MATT PATTERSON
Mar 21, 2024
The Transformative Power of Writing with ANDRE DUBUS III - Highlights
Mar 19, 2024
Exploring Trauma, Healing & Redemption with ANDRE DUBUS III
Mar 19, 2024
Revolutionizing Sustainability: BERTRAND PICCARD's Path to a Cleaner Planet - Highlights
Mar 14, 2024
Beyond the Horizon: Pioneering Green Aviation with BERTRAND PICCARD - Aviator, Author, Environmentalist
Mar 14, 2024
Who were the Neanderthals? - Highlights - DR. LUDOVIC SLIMAK
Mar 12, 2024
Will human efficiency destroy the planet and us? - DR. LUDOVIC SLIMAK - Author of The Naked Neanderthal
Mar 12, 2024
What does it mean to have an ecological mind? - Highlights - PAOLA SPINOZZI
Mar 08, 2024
Literature, Humanities & Sustainability: PAOLA SPINOZZI - Coordinator, Phd Programme, Environmental Sustainability & Wellbeing, UNIFE
Mar 08, 2024
Seeing the Life of Jesus through the eyes of his Mother: MACIEJ HEN - Award-winning Author & Filmmaker
Mar 05, 2024
What does the future hold for our late-stage capitalist society with mega-corps controlling everything? - Highlights - KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI
Feb 27, 2024
Comics, Music, Ethics & AI: KYLE HIGGINS, KARINA MANASHIL & KID CUDI on the Making of Moon Man
Feb 27, 2024
Reshaping Our World: Climate Change, Education, Mental Health & Advocacy for Nature
Feb 26, 2024
Songs of Nature - Musicians, Writers, Ecologists, Philosophers on the Mysteries of the Natural World
Feb 25, 2024
What are we willing to give up to find meaning & a sense of belonging? - TARA ISABELLA BURTON
Feb 23, 2024
Spirituality & Selfhood: TARA ISABELLA BURTON - Author of Here in Avalon, Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World
Feb 23, 2024
How does knowing a second language increase your creativity & humanity? - Highlights - ALAN POUL
Feb 15, 2024
ALAN POUL - Emmy & Golden Globe-winning Producer/Director - Tokyo Vice - Six Feet Under - Tales of the City - My So-Called Life
Feb 15, 2024
Forty Years in Hollywood - Highlights - ED ZWICK
Feb 09, 2024
ED ZWICK - Academy Award-winning Writer, Director & Producer - Glory, The Last Samurai, Shakespeare in Love, Thirtysomething
Feb 09, 2024
How can we improve animal-human relationships? - Highlights - POORVA JOSHIPURA
Feb 07, 2024
POORVA JOSHIPURA - Senior VP, PETA UK - Author of Survival at Stake: How Our Treatment of Animals is Key to Human Existence
Feb 07, 2024
How has our biology shaped world history? - Highlights - LEWIS DARTNELL
Feb 03, 2024
LEWIS DARTNELL - Author of Origins: How the Earth Made Us & Being Human: How Our Biology Shaped World History
Feb 03, 2024
How can enlightened self-interest advance social equity & climate action? - Highlights - DR. SHIV SOMESHWAR
Jan 30, 2024
DR. SHIV SOMESHWAR - Fmr. European Chair for Sustainable Development & Climate Transition - Sciences Po
Jan 30, 2024
From Ancient Wisdom to the Language of the Earth
Jan 25, 2024
Artists, Activists & Anarchists Seize Wetlands from the French Republic: We Learn How
Jan 23, 2024
What can thousand-year-old trees teach us about living sustainably on this planet? - Highlights - DOUG LARSON
Jan 18, 2024
DOUG LARSON - Biologist - Expert on Deforestation - Author of Cliff Ecology - The The Dogma Ate My Homework
Jan 18, 2024
Does having too many choices make us unhappy? - Highlights - DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ
Jan 12, 2024
DR. BARRY SCHWARTZ - Author of The Paradox of Choice & Why We Work
Jan 12, 2024
KOHEI SAITO on Degrowth Communism & the Need for Radical Democracy
Jan 11, 2024
SPEAKING OUT OF PLACE: BEN FRANTA on Weaponizing Economics - Big Oil, Economic Consultants & Climate Policy Delay
Jan 09, 2024
Highlights - How do we navigate ambiguity, uncertainty & move beyond linear thinking? - RUPERT SHELDRAKE
Jan 05, 2024
RUPERT SHELDRAKE - Biologist & Author of The Science Delusion, The Presence of the Past
Jan 05, 2024
Are we living in a Simulated Universe? - Highlights - MELVIN VOPSON
Dec 28, 2023
MELVIN VOPSON - Physicist - Author of Reality Reloaded: The Scientific Case for a Simulated Universe
Dec 27, 2023
What makes a good life? - Highlights - ROBERT WALDINGER, Psychiatrist, Author, Zen Priest
Dec 22, 2023
ROBERT WALDINGER - Co-Author of The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness
Dec 22, 2023
How has jazz been interpreted around the world? Highlights - BERNARDO MOREIRA
Dec 20, 2023
BERNARDO MOREIRA - Portuguese Jazz Musician
Dec 20, 2023
Does privacy exist anymore? Or are humans just sets of data to be traded and sold? - Highlights - WENDY WONG
Dec 15, 2023
WENDY WONG - Author of We, the Data: Human Rights in the Digital Age
Dec 15, 2023
MAX BENNETT - Author of A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains - CEO of Alby
Dec 12, 2023
Highlights - JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Author, Founder of The White Feather Foundation, Doc Filmmaker
Dec 08, 2023
JULIAN LENNON - Singer-songwriter, Author, Doc Filmmaker, Exec. Producer of Common Ground
Dec 08, 2023
DUANE L. CADY - Philosopher, Author of Moral Vision: How Everyday Life Shapes Ethical Thinking & From Warism to Pacifism
Dec 05, 2023
HOWARD GARDNER - Author of A Synthesizing Mind & Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences - Co-director of The Good Project
Nov 29, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: BILL McKIBBEN, Co-Founder of 350.org, Founder Third Act & CAROLINE LEVINE, Author of The Activist Humanist
Nov 27, 2023
GLADYS KALEMA-ZIKUSOKA - Founder/CEO, Conservation Through Public Health - UN Champion of the Earth for Science & Innovation
Nov 24, 2023
MARY HAYASHI - Healthcare Advocate, Former Assemblymember - Author of Women in Politics
Nov 20, 2023
Highlights - LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist: How to Dismantle Systems of Oppression to Protect People + Planet
Nov 13, 2023
LEAH THOMAS - Author of The Intersectional Environmentalist - Founder of IE Platform & @GreenGirlLeah
Nov 13, 2023
Highlights - ANDREW KLAVAN - Journalist, Podcast Host, Author of True Crime - The House of Love and Death - Don’t Say a Word
Nov 11, 2023
ANDREW KLAVAN - Edgar Award-winning Author of The House of Love and Death - True Crime - Don’t Say a Word
Nov 10, 2023
Highlights - MICHAEL S. ROTH - President of Wesleyan University - Author of The Student: A Short History
Nov 10, 2023
MICHAEL S. ROTH - Author of The Student: A Short History - President of Wesleyan University
Nov 08, 2023
Highlights - BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Director of the ASU Threatcasting Lab - Author of The Future You
Nov 04, 2023
BRIAN DAVID JOHNSON - Author of The Future You: How to Create the Life You Always Wanted - Futurist in Residence, ASU’s Center for Science & the Imagination
Nov 03, 2023
Highlights - SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Author of Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Fmr. Distinguished Scholar, US Library of Congress
Oct 31, 2023
SUSAN SCHNEIDER - Director, Center for the Future Mind, FAU, Fmr. NASA Chair at NASA
Oct 31, 2023
AI & THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY
Oct 27, 2023
Highlights - HALA ALYAN - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner - Palestinian-American Poet, Novelist & Clinical Psychologist
Oct 27, 2023
HALA ALYAN - Palestinian-American Poet, Novelist & Clinical Psychologist - Dayton Literary Peace Prize Winner
Oct 27, 2023
THE ART OF WRITING: NEIL GAIMAN, JERICHO BROWN, ADA LIMÓN, MARGE PIERCY, E.J. KOH & MAX STOSSEL
Oct 18, 2023
Highlights - LINDSEY ANDERSON BEER - Writer, Director - Pet Sematary: Bloodlines - Sleepy Hollow
Oct 17, 2023
LINDSEY ANDERSON BEER - Writer, Director, Producer - Pet Sematary: Bloodlines - Sleepy Hollow - Bambi
Oct 17, 2023
Highlights - DEAN SPADE - Professor at SeattleU’s School of Law - Author of Mutual Aid, Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)
Oct 13, 2023
DEAN SPADE - Author of Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law
Oct 13, 2023
Highlights - ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
Oct 06, 2023
ALLEN STEELE - Hugo Award-winning Science Fiction Author of the Coyote Trilogy, Arkwright
Oct 06, 2023
Highlights - RALPH GIBSON - Photographer - Author of Self Exposure, The Somnambulist, Sacred Land: Israel before and after Time
Oct 04, 2023
RALPH GIBSON - Photographer - Author of Self Exposure, The Somnambulist, Sacred Land: Israel before and after Time
Oct 04, 2023
Highlights - IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works - Co-Director, Global Brain Health Institute
Sep 28, 2023
IAN ROBERTSON - Author of How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief - Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute
Sep 28, 2023
Highlights - RICK BASS - Author & Environmentalist - “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Sep 28, 2023
RICK BASS - Environmentalist & Story Prize Award-winning Author of “Why I Came West”, “For a Little While”
Sep 28, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: LIZA FEATHERSTONE on Build Public Renewables Act (BPRA)
Sep 25, 2023
Highlights - JIM SHEPARD - Award-winning Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come, Like You’d Understand, Anyway
Sep 20, 2023
JIM SHEPARD - Author of The Book of Aron, Project X, The World to Come starring Casey Affleck, Vanessa Kirby, Katherine Waterston
Sep 20, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: SARA AHMED discusses The Feminist Killjoy Handbook
Sep 19, 2023
ROB VERCHICK - Leading Climate Change Scholar - Author of The Octopus in the Parking Garage
Sep 11, 2023
Highlights - JAMES BROWNING - Author of The Fracking King - Founder of F Minus Research & Advocacy Group
Sep 05, 2023
JAMES BROWNING - Founder of F Minus: Calling for Divestment from Fossil Fuel Lobbyists
Sep 05, 2023
Highlights - SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Aug 29, 2023
SHEHAN KARUNATILAKA - Booker Prize-winning Author of The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida
Aug 29, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: ANTHONY ARNOVE & HALEY PESSIN discuss Voices of a People’s History of the United States in the 21st Century
Aug 28, 2023
Highlights - STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN - Population & Sustainability Director, Center for Biological Diversity
Aug 22, 2023
STEPHANIE FELDSTEIN - Author of The Animal Lover’s Guide to Changing the World & Take Action: Save Life on Earth

Aug 22, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: SILVIA FEDERICI discusses Re-enchanting the World: Feminism and the Politics of the Commons
Aug 21, 2023
Highlights - SUE INCHES - Fmr. Director, Maine Department of Marine Resources - Fmr. Deputy Director, State Planning Office

Aug 11, 2023
SUE INCHES - Author of Advocating for the Environment: How to Gather Your Power and Take Action
Aug 11, 2023
Highlights - ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
Aug 08, 2023
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER: Athlete, Actor, American, Activist - Conversation with Editor DIAN HANSON
Aug 08, 2023
Highlights - DAVID FENTON - Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
Aug 03, 2023
DAVID FENTON - Founder of Fenton Communications, Author of The Activist’s Media Handbook: Lessons From 50 Years as a Progressive Agitator
Aug 03, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: SUSAN ALBUHAWA discusses “Palestine Writes”
Aug 01, 2023
SIMON DALBY - Author of Pyromania: Fire and Geopolitics in a Climate-Disrupted World
Aug 01, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: JEFF CHANG discusses the Supreme Court’s Recent Decision on Affirmative Action
Jul 28, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: CHING-IN CHEN & KATE HAO discuss the cancellation of the Asian American Literary Festival 2023
Jul 27, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: JENNIFER JACQUET discusses The Playbook: How to Deny Science, Sell Lies, and Make a Killing in the Corporate World
Jul 24, 2023
Highlights - JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill
Jul 21, 2023
JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-winning Poet - Editor of “How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Practice, and Skill”
Jul 21, 2023
Highlights - ERICA BERRY - Author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
Jul 19, 2023
ERICA BERRY - Author of Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear
Jul 19, 2023
Highlights - TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
Jul 14, 2023
TOM LIN - Author of The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu - Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction 2022
Jul 14, 2023
Highlights - MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, UCLondon
Jul 13, 2023
MARK MASLIN - Author of How To Save Our Planet: The Facts - Professor, Earth System Science, University College London
Jul 13, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: CYNTHIA G. FRANKLIN discusses “Narrating Humanity: Life Writing and Movement Politics from Palestine to Mauna Kea”
Jul 10, 2023
Highlights - SERGEI GURIEV - Political Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators
Jul 05, 2023
SERGEI GURIEV - Economist - Provost of SciencesPo - Co-author of Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century
Jul 04, 2023
NICHOLAS ROYLE - Author, Editor, Educator reads “Mother: A Memoir”
Jun 26, 2023
JEFFREY SACHS - Director, Center for Sustainable Development, Columbia - President, UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network
Jun 21, 2023
MARGE PIERCY - NYTimes Bestselling Novelist, Poet & Activist
Jun 16, 2023
Highlights - MARK GOTTLIEB - Vice President & Literary Agent at Trident Media Group
Jun 14, 2023
MARK GOTTLIEB - Vice President & Literary Agent at Trident Media Group
Jun 14, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: DR. JENNIFER M. GÓMEZ discusses “The Cultural Betrayal of Black Women and Girls”
Jun 12, 2023
ALICE NOTLEY - Poet & Artist - Academy of American Poets Award Winner
Jun 10, 2023
ALICE FULTON - Poet - Recipient of MacArthur “Genius”, NEA & Guggenheim Fellowships
Jun 09, 2023
JERICHO BROWN - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet, Author of "The Tradition", "The New Testament"
Jun 09, 2023
E.J. KOH - Award-Winning Memoirist & Poet - “The Magical Language of Others”, “A Lesser Love”
Jun 07, 2023
Highlights - DITTE LYSGAARD VIND - Circular Economy & Design Expert - Founder of The Circular Way
Jun 06, 2023
DITTE LYSGAARD VIND - Circular Economy & Design Expert - Author of Danish Design Heritage & Global Sustainability
Jun 05, 2023
CARL SAFINA - Ecologist - Founding President of Safina Center - NYTimes Bestselling Author
Jun 04, 2023
ANTHONY JOSEPH - T.S. Eliot Award-winning Poet, Novelist & Musician, Lead vocalist of The Spasm Band
Jun 03, 2023
Highlights - HENRIK FEXEUS - Mentalist, Author & TV Host - The Art of Reading Minds, Mind Melt
Jun 02, 2023
HENRIK FEXEUS - Mentalist, Author & TV Host “The Art of Reading Minds”,“Mind Melt”,“Cult”
Jun 02, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: OLIVIA HARRISON discusses “Natives Against Nativism”
Jun 01, 2023
ADA LIMÓN - U.S. Poet Laureate - Host of The Slowdown podcast
May 31, 2023
NEIL GAIMAN - Writer, Producer, Showrunner “The Sandman”, “American Gods”, “Good Omens”, “Coraline”
May 30, 2023
Highlights - BROCK BASTIAN - Author of The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to Living
May 26, 2023
BROCK BASTIAN - Author of The Other Side of Happiness: Embracing a More Fearless Approach to Living
May 26, 2023
Highlights - ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
May 24, 2023
ANDRI SNÆR MAGNASON - Icelandic Writer & Documentary Filmmaker - On Time and Water, The Casket of Time, LoveStar, Not Ok
May 24, 2023
Highlights - MADELEINE WATTS - Author of The Inland Sea
May 16, 2023
MADELEINE WATTS - Author of The Inland Sea - Creative Writing Professor, Columbia University
May 16, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: ADAM ARON discusses “The Climate Crisis: Science, Impacts, Policy, Psychology, Justice, Social Movements”
May 16, 2023
Highlights - Co-director of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science & Canadian Institute for Advanced Research Program on Brain, Mind & Consciousness
May 12, 2023
ANIL SETH - Author of Being You: A New Science of Consciousness - Co-director of Sussex Centre for Consciousness Science
May 12, 2023
Highlights - DAVID J. LINDEN - Professor of Neuroscience - Author of “Unique” “The Accidental Mind” “The Compass of Pleasure” “Touch”
May 09, 2023
DAVID J. LINDEN - Author of “Unique:The New Science of Human Individuality” “The Accidental Mind” “The Compass of Pleasure” “Touch”
May 09, 2023
We All Live on One Planet We Call Home - Part 4 - Environmentalists, Economists, Policymakers & Architects Share their Stories
May 05, 2023
What Kind of World Are We Leaving for Future Generations? - Part 3 - Activists, Environmentalists & Teachers Share their Stories
May 04, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: ASHLEY DAWSON discusses “Environmentalism from Below”
May 03, 2023
Highlights - JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis - Moonstruck
Apr 29, 2023
JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY - Academy Award-winning Writer/Director - Doubt starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams - Moonstruck
Apr 29, 2023
Speaking Out of Place: NAOMI ORESKES discusses “The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government & Love the Free Market”
Apr 27, 2023
EARTH MONTH STORIES - Part 2 - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers Speak Out & Share How We Can Save the Planet
Apr 26, 2023
Highlights - DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner of The Diplomat starring Keri Russell - Exec. Producer Homeland, Grey’s Anatomy
Apr 24, 2023
DEBORA CAHN - Showrunner & Executive Producer of Netflix’s The Diplomat starring Keri Russell & Rufus Sewell

Apr 24, 2023
Special Earth Day Stories - Environmentalists, Artists, Students & Teachers share their Love for the Planet - Part 1
Apr 22, 2023
Highlights - MAX RICHTER - Award-winning Composer inspired by literary sources Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, T.S. Eliot
Apr 22, 2023
MAX RICHTER - Award-winning Composer, Pianist inspired by literary sources Virginia Woolf, Margaret Atwood, T.S. Eliot
Apr 22, 2023
LOVE - What is love? Filmmakers, poets, aviators, musicians, cave divers, environmentalists, writers, and artists explore what love means to them
Apr 15, 2023
Highlights - HENRY SHUE - Author of “The Pivotal Generation” - Snr. Research Fellow, Ctr. for International Studies, Oxford
Apr 12, 2023
HENRY SHUE - Author of “The Pivotal Generation” - Snr. Research Fellow, Centre for International Studies, Oxford
Apr 12, 2023