Here’s my conversation with Cara Drinan, law professor at Catholic University, about her book, “The War On Kids: How American Juvenile Justice Lost Its Way.” Among the topics we discussed: What’s wrong with the way our justice system handles cases involving juveniles? At what age should a teenager be treated as an adult? Were things […]
If you rent a home with AirBnB or get into the back or an Uber or a Lyft or buy something on eBay, there’s a huge element of trust involved. Ironically, we’re doing those things at the same time that trust in traditional institutions like government and business and banks and media is at an […]
This year marks fifty years since the release of “The Graduate,” starring Dustin Hoffman, Anne Bancroft, and Katherine Ross. On its golden anniversary, here’s my conversation with Beverly Gray, author of “Seduced By Mrs. Robinson: How The Graduate Became The Touchstone Of A Generation.” I started our discussion at the end of the movie, when […]
Comedy legend Richard Pryor would be 77 years old today. Here’s a conversation I had several years ago with his daughter, Rain Pryor, when she published her book about him, “Jokes My Father Never Taught Me.” We discussed the N-word controversy that’s still humming after the Michael Richards incident and the reaction of some black […]
David Hepworth is a British journalist who has written about music for four decades. Now he’s published “Uncommon People: The Rise and Fall of the Rock Stars,” and joined me to talk about it. Among the topics we covered: How much of achieving rock stardom comes from hard work, how much from right-place-right-time? If the […]
“American Radical” is the story of Tamer Elnoury, a Muslim FBI agent who went undercover to expose some radical jihadists who were planning to commit mayhem in the US and Canada. Since he has now moved on to other law enforcement business and is unavailable to discuss the book, I spoke with his co-author, Kevin […]