ThoughtCast

17/08/2025

https://thoughtcast.org/our-american-empire-with-niall-ferguson/

Note: This interview has been picked up by the public radio stations WGBH, in Boston, its affiliates WCAI and WNAN, and WCVE in Richmond, VA. It was originally broadcast in 2008. In some ways, the Scottish historian Niall Ferguson is the Russell Crowe of the academic world: charismatic, unconvention...

27/05/2025

https://thoughtcast.org/blacksmith-house-poetry-series-fanny-howe-and-haleh-liza-gafori/

Poets F***y Howe and Haleh Liza Gafori at the Blacksmith House Poetry Series in Harvard Square

12/02/2025

https://thoughtcast.org/the-restoration-of-the-neptune-fountain/

At the Modern Art Foundry in Astoria Queens, workers restore the Neptune Fountain, which was missing its hands, an arm and a foot.

16/08/2024

https://thoughtcast.org/tales-from-donegal-told-in-kennys-bookshop/

Note: This interview was broadcast on K*T-FM, an NPR station based in Austin, Texas. In 1861 in Clonmany, on the Inishowen peninsula in the far north of County Donegal Ireland, Charles McGlinchy was born. His was a windblown, rough world, wracked with beauty and hardship. A weaver by trade, and a ba...

20/07/2024

https://thoughtcast.org/helen-vendler-on-emily-dickinson/

Sadly, Helen Vendler has just died on April 23, 2024, at ninety years of age. I’m so glad I got a chance to meet her. Note: This interview was broadcast on the WGBH sister stations WCAI/WNAN, Prairie Public Radio, WABE in Atlanta and on K*T in Austin, Texas. When Helen Vendler was only 13, the [.....

20/06/2024

Watch the shooting of the Law and Order episode “Blood Libel” from its 6th season.

Behind the Scenes at Law and Order! Watch the shooting of the episode “Blood Libel” from its 6th season.

20/05/2024

https://thoughtcast.org/in-dublin-with-james-joyce-and-editor-maurice-earls/

Note: This interview was broadcast on K*T-FM, an NPR station based in Austin,Texas. James Joyce was born and raised in Dublin, and it was from Dublin he fled as a young man, to Trieste, in order to write Ulysses, perhaps the key novel of the early 20th century. But before he left, he began to […]

27/12/2023

https://thoughtcast.org/charles-simics-the-choice-at-san-franciscos-dog-eared-books/

Sadly, since this interview was recorded, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic has died at the age of 84. Note: This interview was broadcast on K*T-FM, an NPR station based in Austin, Texas. Kate Rosenberger is one of those rare people who collects independent book stores in San Francisco t...

10/10/2023

https://thoughtcast.org/womens-work-at-the-bronx-museum-of-the-arts/

Women's Work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts

19/07/2023

https://thoughtcast.org/the-history-of-the-new-england-forest/

THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE NEW ENGLAND FOREST

10/01/2023

Does this archival story have anything to teach us about the American media -- and the American public -- in 2023?

International News Coverage in America and the public's attention span

20/10/2022

Want to know how the world is going to end? Just ask Russian cosmologist Alex Vilenkin. On ThoughtCast!

The End of our Universe on ThoughtCast