Q&A with Charles Blow
Charles Blow spoke about his career in journalism and his job as the visual Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times. In the interview, he discussed how his unusual job came about and talked …
5,396 viewsCharles Blow spoke about his career in journalism and his job as the visual Op-Ed columnist for the New York Times. In the interview, he discussed how his unusual job came about and talked …
5,396 viewsJill Abramson talked about her new position as the first female executive editor of the New York Times and her new book, The Puppy Diaries: Raising a Dog Named Scout. She discussed her caree…
1,696 viewsEconomics Professor Russ Roberts and filmmaker John Papola spoke about their two rap videos on economics. The most recent was “Fight of the Century.” Their videos cover the contrasting belie…
22,801 viewsMelissa Lee hosts several daily programs for CNBC including "Fast Money", "Fast Money Halftime Report", "Options Actions", and a new program "Money in Motion". She has also produced document…
3,165 viewsCarol Guzy is a Washington Post photographer. She and two other Post colleagues, Nikki Kahn and Ricky Carioti, won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography of the aftermath of t…
2,044 viewsAlyona Minkovski discussed her television program, “The Alyona Show.” Formerly known as Russia Today, RT is a Russian government funded media network. She talked about her program’s goal of …
7,869 viewsSally Jenkins spoke about the business of sports in the U.S. She is sports columnist for the Washington Post. Besides following local and national sports coverage, she also writes about issu…
5,612 viewsA tour of the American bookshop called Shakespeare and Company established in Paris in 1917 by Sylvia Beach. It was a bookstore, a lending library, and centre of activity and contact for Eng…
1,345 viewsJohn Feinstein discussed his memoir, One On One: Behind The Scenes with The Greats In The Game, which chronicles his years of reporting on some the greatest sports figures. He talked about t…
2,350 viewsRichard Norton Smith, Carl Cannon, and Jean Baker participated in a roundtable discussion reflecting on the C-SPAN series, “The Contenders: They Lost the Election But Changed Political Histo…
11,183 viewsMr. Ludwig talked about his book, King of the Mountain: The Nature of Political Leadership, published by the University Press of Kentucky. The book presents the findings of his eighteen-year…
5,476 viewsMajor General Marcia Anderson discussed her life and her career as the highest ranking female African American in the history of the U.S. Army. She described growing up in impoverished East …
1,410 viewsBruce Chadwick talked about his book I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation (Wiley; January 9, 2009). The book is the story of the murder of…
856 viewsDavid Denby talked about his book, "Great Books: My Adventures with Homer, Rousseau, Woolf and Other Indestructible Writers of the Western World". Mr. Denby attended courses on Western civ…
2,940 viewsLauren Whittington, John McArdle, and Emily Yehle talked about the opening of the Capitol Visitor Center. The three reporters covered the planning and building of the Capitol Visitor Center …
358 viewsProfessor Edmundson talks about his book Why Read?, published by Bloomsbury USA. The book is on the relationship between a liberal arts education and literature. The author writes that liter…
8,808 viewsLawrence Lessig talked about his latest book about the influence of money on Congress, in which he argued that large amounts of money, fueled by recent changes in campaign finance rules, can…
5,942 viewsThomas DiLorenzo spoke about his interests in economics and Abraham Lincoln, and his investigations into the two areas through his books, The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His…
6,379 viewsTerence Samuel talked about his new book The Upper House: A Journey Behind the Closed Doors of the U.S. Senate. It looks at the institution of the Senate and some of its members. Mr. Samuel …
2,701 viewsStephen Greenblatt talked about his book Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, published by W.W. Norton and Company. He described England during Shakespeare’s time and discu…
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