Gender Equality At Work
March 23, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how American women have fought for equal rights in the workforce with the author of “Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women’s Lives at Work.”
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Girls And Autism
March 23, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about how about how girls are being better diagnosed and treated for the condition, the subject of a recent report in Scientific American magazine.
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The Individual Versus The Common Good
March 22, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about individual rights versus the good of the whole with Colin Woodard, author of “American Character: A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good.”
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Friendship From Dorm To City
March 22, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with Hanya Yanagihara about her story of how friends who met in college started a life together in New York City. She writes about what turned their close relationship into something resembling a family in her novel “A Little Life.”
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A World Tour Of Prisons
March 21, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about strategies that prisons on other continents are using to rehabilitate inmates with the author of “Incarceration Nations: A Journey to Justice in Prisons Around the World.”
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All By Myself
March 21, 2016This hour, we’ll talk with Olivia Laing about loneliness, how we connect with other people and the walls we put up to keep others out, the subject of her memoir “The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone.”
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Defending The Ballot Box
March 8, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the evolution of suffrage in the United States – and about efforts to restrict voting rights through the years – with Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law.
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The Fight For Life And Livestock
March 8, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about Wildlife Services, a division of the U.S. Department of Agriculture charged with protecting livestock – a job that means death to millions of native birds and mammals.
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Linking Autism To Child Prodigies
March 7, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about the possibility of a genetic connection between children with autism and child prodigies with Joanne Ruthsatz, co-author of “The Prodigy’s Cousin: The Family Link Between Autism and Extraordinary Talent.”
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Notes On Listening
March 7, 2016This hour, we’ll talk about taking a more holistic approach to listening to music with “New York Times” music critic Ben Ratliff.
