Joining Michael for this conversation about America’s past, present, and future, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, are David Blight – Yale History Professor and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Frederick Douglass; Peter Baker – Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times; Susan Glasser – Staff Writer at The New Yorker.
Pulitzer winner Liaquat Ahamed (Lords of Finance) on his new book 1873 and why today’s trillion-dollar AI boom may echo the crash that broke the world.
Robert Malley has been a U.S. negotiator in multiple Israeli-Palestinian peace talks, a U.S. Special Envoy to Iran, and a White House point person in the campaign against the Islamic State. He joined me for this insider’s Middle East briefing and a preview of his new book, Tomorrow is Yesterday.
The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos has spent years diving deep into the world of the ultra-rich. His jaw-dropping reporting, in The Haves and Have Yachts, sheds light on why so much wealth in America is concentrated in the hands of so few.
Journalist Julia Ioffe, of Puck.News, began her American journey as a seven-year-old Soviet-Jewish refugee. Now a go-to expert on Russia, she joins me to unmask Vladimir Putin and more
The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood is an intrepid war reporter, a polymath, and a linguist, who goes “where everything’s a mess . . . and things are changing really, really fast.” We begin with him hitchhiking through Iraq
Imani Perry, National Book Award winner and Professor of African American Studies at Harvard, lives and writes at the intersection of dreams deferred and hope. After listening to her, hope prevails.
Sebastian Junger, author of The Perfect Storm, war correspondent, and devoted parent, on his high-risk life journey to “escape the tyranny of self-interest.”