List of Interviews
Investigative journalist and author whose works have focused on organized crime and American politics. In addition to writing about the assassination of Robert Kennedy, the influence of organized crime on professional football, and the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Mr. Moldea is one of the foremost authorities on the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa.
Head of the Religion, Philosophy, & Ethics Department at the Trinity School in New York City, a college preparatory school on the Upper West Side that is frequently ranked as one of the best schools in the United States, and the author of Light Come Shining: The Transformations of Bob Dylan.
Essayist and arts leader. Mr. Shenk is currently artistic and executive director of the Beverly Rogers, Carol C. Harter Black Mountain Institute at UNLV and editor-in-chief of The Believer magazine and author of two critically acclaimed books, Lincoln's Melancholy and Powers of Two.
Author and investigative journalist whose books have included investigations into the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr. (Case Closed and Killing the Dream), a history of the Vatican Bank (God's Bankers), and the relationship between the Saudi ruling family and the United States (Secrets of the Kingdom).
Stanley H. Harris Professor of economics at Northwestern University with a particular interest in unemployment, inflation, and both the long-run and cyclical aspects of labor productivity. His book The Rise and Fall of American Growth argues that the kind of economic growth achieved by the United States in the twentieth century is unlikely to be repeated in the future.
English journalist and chief U.S. national editor and columnist for the Financial Times. In his book The Retreat of Western Liberalism Luce argues that the western liberal order is in grave peril and that for it to continue it must adapt to new realities and find ways to once again achieve broad-based prosperity.
New York City singer and performer. In his first book, Made by Raffi, Pomranz tells the story of Raffi, a boy who pursues his unique talent of knitting a scarf and cape for a school pageant despite other students thinking that doing so is "girly."
A global thought leader on monetary policy and economics. DiMartino Booth spent nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas as Senior Adviser to Richard W. Fisher before founding the economic consultancy Money Strong. She is also a Bloomberg View columnist and frequent contributor to CNBC. In the book Fed Up: An Insider's Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America she argues that tunnel vision and arrogance have led to policies that have been harmful to the average American.
Senior Communications Lead for Population Health for The University of Texas System and writer whose work has appeared in The New York Times and The Atlantic. Mr. Oppenheimer has also made documentary films including Encountering Maslow about the famous psychologist. In his book Exit Right he explores six individuals who established political beliefs on the far left before becoming conservative later in life.
Gary Saul Morson is the Lawrence B. Dumas Professsor of the Arts and Humanities as well as Professor, Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University. Professor Morson’s past research has focused on literary theory and the intersection of literature and philosophy. He has particular expertise in Russian and other Slavic literature. He is the only Northwestern professor to simultaneously hold two endowed chairs: one for research and one for teaching and is a rare individual in excelling at both endeavors.
Morton Schapiro is the President of Northwestern University as well as a Professor of Economics in the Weinburg College of Arts and Sciences. He also teaches courses in the Kellogg School of Management. Before joining Northwestern in 2009, he was the President of Williams College. President Schapiro is one of the nation’s leading experts on the economics of higher education and has testified on the subject of access and affordability in higher education before the United States Congress.
Professor Morson and President Scahpiro collaborated on the book Cents and Sensibility, which discusses how economics can be aided by abosrbing more from the humanities.
Lawrence Krauss is one of the world’s leading theoretical physicists. Among his scientific contributions, he was one of the first physicists to suggest the possibility of dark energy. He is also the only physicist to receive awards from all three United States physics societies: the American Physical Society (2001), the Oersted Medal from the American Association of Physics Teachers (2004), and the Public Service Award from the National Science Board in 2012.
Richard Rothstein
Research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, an independent think-tank examining the consequences of American policies and trends on working people, and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley).
His recent book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America considers how America’s cities were explicitly segregated by government policy in the years during and after the New Deal in an unconstitutional manner, refuting claims that today’s residential segregation was only the result of private choices and decisions by non-government actors.
Research associate of the Economic Policy Institute, an independent think-tank examining the consequences of American policies and trends on working people, and a fellow at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and of the Haas Institute at the University of California (Berkeley).
His recent book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How our Government Segregated America considers how America’s cities were explicitly segregated by government policy in the years during and after the New Deal in an unconstitutional manner, refuting claims that today’s residential segregation was only the result of private choices and decisions by non-government actors.
Physicist and science educator, who taught at the California Institute of Technology and took over teaching Richard Feynman's introductory physics course. Dr. Goodstein was Director and host of The Mechanical Universe, a college-level introduction to the important ideas in physics. He has also written important scientific textbooks and more recently written on the importance of ethics in scientific research and the societal consequences of peak oil production.
David Wolpe
The Max Webb Senior Rabbi of the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in 1906, Sinai Temple was the first Conservative Jewish congregation in Southern California. Wolpe is also the author of numerous books and is frequently sought for his viewpoints by PBS, A&E, and other television networks. Newsweek has named him the most influential Rabbi in the United States.
The Max Webb Senior Rabbi of the Sinai Temple in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in 1906, Sinai Temple was the first Conservative Jewish congregation in Southern California. Wolpe is also the author of numerous books and is frequently sought for his viewpoints by PBS, A&E, and other television networks. Newsweek has named him the most influential Rabbi in the United States.
Assistant Professor of History and African American Studies at Harvard University and one of the leading scholars on the problem of mass incarceration in the United States as well as the related and deep-rooted problems of poverty and racial inequality. Her book From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime argues that the roots of today's mass incarceration go back further than commonly presumed to Lyndon Johnson's War on Poverty.
Cultural historian and Professor of English at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York (CUNY). His book Love and Theft is an examination of the American minstrel show and how its contradictions have been a part of American culture ever since. The book has been named one of the greatest music books of all time by Billboard magazine.
James Kugel
Previously the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University for twenty-one years. He retired from Harvard to become Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel, where he also served as chairman of the Department of Bible.
A specialist in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Kugel is the author of more than eighty research articles and fifteen books. His book The Great Shift asks readers to consider why ancients seemed so comfortable and convinced that God could be encountered and why we no longer speak in such ways.
Previously the Starr Professor of Hebrew Literature at Harvard University for twenty-one years. He retired from Harvard to become Professor of Bible at Bar Ilan University in Israel, where he also served as chairman of the Department of Bible.
A specialist in the Hebrew Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Kugel is the author of more than eighty research articles and fifteen books. His book The Great Shift asks readers to consider why ancients seemed so comfortable and convinced that God could be encountered and why we no longer speak in such ways.
Larry Kudlow
Formerly CNBC's Senior Contributor and Associate Director of Economics at the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan White House, and founder of the economic consultancy Kudlow and Company, LLC.
His book JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity, co-authored with Brian Domitrovic, examines the similarities between the economic programs of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
Following this interview, Mr . Kudlow became the Director of the United States National Economic Council.
Formerly CNBC's Senior Contributor and Associate Director of Economics at the Office of Management and Budget in the Reagan White House, and founder of the economic consultancy Kudlow and Company, LLC.
His book JFK and the Reagan Revolution: A Secret History of American Prosperity, co-authored with Brian Domitrovic, examines the similarities between the economic programs of John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan.
Following this interview, Mr . Kudlow became the Director of the United States National Economic Council.
Harold Holzer
Winner of The 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize and one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. A prolific writer and lecturer, and frequent guest on television, Holzer served for six years (2010–2016) as Chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. For the previous 10 years he co-chaired the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), appointed by President Clinton. President Bush awarded Holzer the National Humanities Medal in 2008. And in 2013, Holzer wrote an essay on Lincoln for the official program at the re-inauguration of President Barack Obama.
Winner of The 2015 Gilder-Lehrman Lincoln Prize and one of the country’s leading authorities on Abraham Lincoln and the political culture of the Civil War era. A prolific writer and lecturer, and frequent guest on television, Holzer served for six years (2010–2016) as Chairman of The Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation. For the previous 10 years he co-chaired the U. S. Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission (ALBC), appointed by President Clinton. President Bush awarded Holzer the National Humanities Medal in 2008. And in 2013, Holzer wrote an essay on Lincoln for the official program at the re-inauguration of President Barack Obama.