Aug 30, 2021
Heather Cox Richardson is a professor of 19th Century American History at Boston College and author of the immensely popular and lucrative Substack newsletter, "Letters from An American." On the pod, she talks about how she built up over 1.5 million followers on Facebook, why she chose Substack as her medium, how she...
Aug 24, 2021
One of my favorite non-fiction books of all time is S.C. Gwynne's Empire of the Summer Moon, which tells the dramatic story of Quanah Parker and the Comanches. Quanah was the son of Cynthia Ann Parker, a frontier girl who was kidnapped by the Comanches when she was 9 years old and recaptured by the Texas Rangers when...
Aug 17, 2021
From funk to punk, pop to power ballads, Boy George to breakdancing, the year 1984 is largely regarded as the golden era of music. This week, I welcome Michaelangelo Matos, author of Can't Slow Down, to talk about what made 1984 such an important year in the industry. We discuss artists such as Michael Jackson, Madonna,...
Aug 10, 2021
Do you try hard to be a “good” person? This week’s guest Dolly Chugh says that striving to be “good-ish” may be good enough. Dolly is a social psychologist and Associate Professor at NYU’s Stern School. She is also the author of The Person You Mean To Be, where she mixes science and evidence-based research...
Aug 3, 2021
In 2001, when writer Jill McCabe Johnson heard the details about a newly caught "Green River Killer" named Gary, she thought a few of the details matched a man she met and took home from a country-western bar in Seattle as a young and eager 18 year old girl. However familiar the description was, she shrugged it off...