What happened to American colonists who didn’t want to leave the British Empire during the American Revolutionary War? We’ll explore their lives this hour with Harvard associate professor of history, Maya Jasanoff. Her new book is “Liberty’s Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World” (Knopf, 2011).
What does the climate of unrest in the Middle East mean for the United States and its allies in the region? What does it mean for the protesters and the people who live there? We’ll spend this hour with Ambassador Robert Jordan, attorney and Diplomat-In-Residence at the John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies at […]
Is the planet entering a new epoch, one defined by human’s massive impact? Elizabeth Kolbert covers what many scientists are calling the start of the Anthropocene in her current article for National Geographic Magazine. She’ll join us this hour to discuss the piece “Enter the Age of Man.”
We see the headlines and the aftermath of frequent bombings and other attacks, but what is daily life really like for the people who live in cities like Baghdad and Beirut? We’ll talk this hour with cultural journalist and food writer Annia Ciezadlo who has reported from both cities for The Christian Science Monitor and […]
