Sebastian Junger, director of “Restrepo” and author of “The Perfect Storm,” “Fire,” and “A Death In Belmont,” returned to my show to discuss his new book, “Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging.” We talked about the plight of the large number of veterans returning from war who wind up alienated and depressed. Life at home, where […]
A decade and a half ago, a young guy named John Curtis was the engineer for my radio show. After we parted ways, he went on to other jobs, and eventually owned several marijuana dispensaries in Colorado, where it was legal. A year ago, he sold that business to return to St. Louis, where he […]
Dick Guttman has been a Hollywood publicist for over six decades, working with stars like Barbra Streisand, Clint Eastwood, Groucho Marx, Audrey Hepburn, James Mason, Alfred Hitchcock, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s written about his experiences with those stars (and many others) in his book, “Starflacker: Inside The Golden Age Of Hollywood,” which we talked about […]
Here’s my conversation with Rana Foroohar, economic columnist and assistant managing editor for Time magazine, about her book, “Makers and Takers: The Rise Of Finance And The Fall Of American Business.” Among the questions I asked her: What is the “financialization of banking”? Are the big banks still too big to fail? What happened to […]
Wieger Wamelink is a scientist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands, where he has been doing research for the Mars One project. In particular, he’s been trying to figure out if it’s possible to grow food in the Martian soil. After he published some positive results this week, I invited him to discuss them on […]
Here’s my conversation with Ryan Devereaux, one of the investigative reporters at The Intercept who have compiled “The Assassination Complex: Inside The Government’s Secret Drone Warfare Program.” Among the questions I asked him: If the drone program is secret, how do you know about it? Is it helping reduce the numbers of Isis, Al Qaeda, […]