Full Broadcast 8/31/18
Boston Public Radio Podcast
English - August 31, 2018 17:07 - 2 hours - 73 MB - ★★★★ - 429 ratingsNews boston politics media news jim braude margery eagan Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The full broadcast from Boston Public Radio from Friday, August 31st, 2018.
This week Boston Public Radio is revisiting some of our favorite conversations. In this episode you'll hear:
We spoke with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about their new book, How Democracies Die.
Michael Norton broke down the correlation between our appetite for risk and our appetite for ordering desert.
Steve Coll discussed his new book, Directorate S: An Account of one of the great tragedies of our age – America’s failing policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert discussed his recipe for a just society. It’s the subject of his new book, The Common Good.
Harvard linguist Steven pinker discussed his latest book, Enlightenment Now.
Meredith Goldstein, the woman behind the Boston Globe’s advice columnist* Love Letters, joined us to talk about her new book, *Can’t Help Myself.