Podcast
October 2026 • Podcast
The California Gold Rush
National Book Award winner Nathaniel Philbrick, author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, discusses his new book, The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World.
May 2026 • Podcast
CRISIS OF THE COMMON GOOD
Senator Chris Murphy discusses his latest book, Crisis of the Common Good: The Fight for Meaning and Connection in a Broken America with Heather Cox Richardson.
February 2026 • Podcast
THE MEDICATED APPETITE: How GLP‑1s Are Reshaping the Food System
GLP‑1 medications such as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Mounjaro are reshaping how Americans think about appetite, health, and the food around us. What happens when medication becomes one of the most effective ways to navigate a food system built around overconsumption? How might these drugs change what we eat, how companies design and sell food?
January 2026 • Podcast
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES: WHO IS IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT?
Will driverless technology impact and reshape our identity and urban existence in ways we have not considered? In our car-centric culture, are the promises of convenience and safety of the autonomous car worth the price we may pay in terms of personal privacy?
December 2025 • Podcast
RESISTING ERASURE: The role of Indigenous People in American Identity
Even as Indigenous knowledge and ways of life have been borrowed and celebrated by mainstream culture, Native peoples have faced dispossession, exclusion and erasure. How, despite all efforts to eradicate them over the centuries, have Indigenous communities continued to survive and exercise their sovereignty and sacred cultural ways?
December 2025 • Podcast
WHAT ARE WE UP TO IN SPACE?
Two astrophysicists provide a reality check on our current role in space, to consider what is really motivating our actions, driving our expensive excursions to Mars, and shaping our international satellite placement industry. Have we really considered our role, responsibility, and stewardship in space alongside the potential profits to be made?
November 2024 • Podcast
THE ANXIOUS i-GENERATION
“We are over-protecting children in the real world while under-protecting them online” says Jonathan Haidt, author of The Anxious Generation, who maintains that the environment in which kids grow up today is hostile to human development. Haidt traces the current mental health crisis to the mid-2010s when smartphones and social […]
November 2016 • Podcast
Forever Young
Music and memories from the early days of the Harvard Square folk scene to the current state of the Americana genre.
October 2010 • Arts
Phil Ochs Songs
Sonny Ochs, sister of the songwriter Phil Ochs, brings together a group of musicians, including Fred Small, to perform her brother’s songs and keep his music alive today.