In This is How They Tell Me the World Ends, Nicole Perlroth, lead digital espionage reporter for the New York Times, explains why the safety of our entire digitized lifestyle is up for sale and at risk.
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In Say the Right Thing, David Glasgow, from the NYU Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging tells us how to talk about the issues that are hardest to talk about and what to do when we screw up.
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In I Saw Death Coming Professor Kidada Williams uses primary sources to prove why everything we were ever taught about the aftermath of America’s Civil War was a lie.
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Reagan, Quayle, Dubya, Palin, Trump. You knew they were stupid. In Profiles in Ignorance, Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker magazine satirist explains why we elected them.
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In The Love You Save, Daily Beast Editor-at-Large and Cable News Commentator Goldie Taylor talks about overcoming racism and poverty in East St. Louis, Illinois.
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In Harvard Square: A Love Story MIT professor Cat Turco tells us why we’re passionate about our local marketplaces—from Bleeker Street to Telegraph Avenue—and why they’re always bound to break our hearts.
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Is Israel an apartheid state? Is all criticism of Israel Anti-Semitic? It’s complicated. But in an extended conversation, we talk with Daniel Sokatch about the one issue nobody seems able to talk about.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning oncologist Siddhartha Mukherjee on the history of cells and how modern medicine has harnessed them to heal cancer, infertility, blood diseases, even mental illness and more.
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Studies show that patients whose doctors are empathetic heal faster. Then why can’t we count on kindness from our docs? Internist Michael Stein says the problem may actually start in med school.
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