Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York
870 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 153 ratingsLeonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is back on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org.
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Laura Pappano on School Moms
January 25, 2024 07:26 - 54 minutes - 91.8 MBLaura Pappano is a veteran journalist who has covered the heated disagreements that surround K-12 education for over thirty years. Yet, today's high stakes battle is unlike anything she's seen before. "It isn't rooted in a passion for the success of all children," she writes. "Rather, it's about the hijacking of public education by a far-right Christian movement and the quest to do away with the community-rooted education enterprise." Parent involvement is no longer about baking treats or d...
Investigative Journalist Robert Hennelly
January 17, 2024 15:38 - 54 minutes - 1.43 MBAccording to Award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Robert Hennelly, most of the labor activists that are reviving the American union movement were not on the planet when Martin Luther King Jr walked the earth. But the torch has been passed and the “dream” endures when ever there’s collective non-violent action that moves US forward. Hennelly, has a passion for uncovering the News behind the News. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he has always had a keen interest in the roles of immig...
Leonard Lopate at Large Call-in
January 17, 2024 14:37 - 53 minutes - 87.5 MBLeonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org. Join us for conversation on current events and call-in into the station to let your voice be heard (212) 209-2877. Listen to past shows: https://soundcloud.com/leonard-lopate Be a Friend: Twitter - https://twitter.com/lopate_leonard Support the Station (select the Leonard Lopate at ...
David Pietrusza on Gangsterland
January 12, 2024 14:21 - 54 minutes - 91.5 MBA site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan—where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night. In Gangsterland, historian David Pietrusza tours the Big Apple’s rotten core. The Roaring Twenties blaze and sparkle with Times Square’s bright lights and showgirls, but its dark shadows mask a web of notorious gangsters ruling New York City.
Nasheet Waits Music Director: The Max Roach Centennial
January 10, 2024 09:42 - 53 minutes - 97.9 MBMax Roach Centennial Celebrations in January Include Film Screening, Panel Discussion and Local NYC-NJ Concerts The revolutionary 1960 album We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite explored issues of social justice and racial inequality through the lens of jazz and poetry. In celebration of the centennial of Max Roach (1924-2007)—drummer, bebop pioneer and civil rights activist—this landmark work is reimagined for today’s world. In affiliation with Jazz at Lincoln Center, this special one-...
Just Action by Richard and Leah Rothstein
January 10, 2024 07:45 - 53 minutes - 90.9 MBRichard Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. Leah Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law that describes how local community groups can redress the wrongs of segregation. Leah has worked on public policy ...
Steven Ujifusa on The Last Ships from Hamburg
December 29, 2023 19:10 - 54 minutes - 103 MBBestselling author and historian Steven Ujifusa tells the largely forgotten, colorful story of three businessmen who, driven by very different motives, made much of this immigration possible and forever changed the fates of millions. The men were Jacob Schiff, the managing partner of an investment bank who used his immense wealth to help Jews to leave Europe; Albert Ballin, managing director of the Hamburg-American Line, who created a transportation network of trains and steamships; and the ...
Leonard Lopate at Large Call-In
December 28, 2023 16:39 - 54 minutes - 89.3 MBWe'd like to hear from you during this Holiday season. How have you been coping with winter, Municipal, State, and Global concerns? Although this is the mos festive time of year it sometimes doesnt feel that way. We would like you to share your remedies on dealing with the winter blues. Call-in in Join the discussion. Listen to past shows: https://soundcloud.com/leonard-lopate Be a Friend: Twitter - https://twitter.com/lopate_leonard Support the Station (select the Leonard Lopate at Larg...
Melissa Goldthwaite on GOOD EATS
December 27, 2023 17:40 - 54 minutes - 95.1 MBEdited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite - Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically features a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, activists, educators, chefs, farmers, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means to eat according to our values. These essays tell the stories of real people—real bellies, real bodies—including the writers themselves, who seek to understand the experiences, families, cultures, histories, and systems th...
Michael Zweig on Class, Race, and Gender
November 26, 2023 23:24 - 55 minutes - 105 MBMichael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such, the book is an urgently needed resource for activists and organizers seeking structural and moral transformation of life in the US. Building on his analysis, Zweig also presents strategies for political action in electoral and movement-buildi...
A Falling-Off Place by Barbara G. Mensch
November 26, 2023 23:05 - 54 minutes - 97.6 MBPhotos from the 1990s present images of floods and fires that paralyzed the area, juxtaposed with continued bulldozing to clear the way for luxury housing. Politics reshaped Manhattan’s skyline by encouraging new commercial shopping, food, and restaurant destinations. This restructuring marked the beginning of the end of downtown’s blue-collar origins and white-collar replacements, challenging us to ask, “What was lost?”
Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski
November 26, 2023 22:38 - 54 minutes - 105 MBCould this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism, Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact―not just talking about it, studying it, or making small steps, but actually ending racism in one generation. Williams and Tygielski draw from a wide array of scientific studies, as well as their practical successes in teaching a multitude of diverse groups across perceived “divide...
Lauren S. Foley on On the Basis of Race
November 17, 2023 16:32 - 54 minutes - 104 MBFrom Brown v. Board of Education in the mid-twentieth century to the current Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Foley explores how organizations have resisted and complied with public policies regarding race. She examines how admissions officers, who have played an important role in the long fight to protect racial diversity in higher education, work around the law to maintain diversity after affirmative action is banned. Foley takes us behi...
Ben Lewin on Inside Science
November 14, 2023 20:28 - 54 minutes - 104 MBLewin brings these general principles to life by considering the history of the genetics revolution, from the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA to the sequencing of the human genome and the possibilities of gene editing today. History shows us that each period of progress in science relied on dogmas that often advanced but sometimes retarded progress, and that views of reality often changed suddenly and dramatically. Join us when Ben Lewin concludes by asking if the reductionis...
Leonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman
November 14, 2023 20:27 - 52 minutes - 99.8 MBLeonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman-Woodward. Freitas is an entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in government relations, international trade, and business development in the United States, as well as emerging markets, with a focus on Latin America and Asia.
Jonathan Taplin on THE END OF REALITY
November 14, 2023 20:27 - 53 minutes - 102 MBIn The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides his perspective into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”) —and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage stagnation, the hollowing out of many American towns, a radical increase in income inequality, and unbounded public acrimony. Meanwhile, the enormous amount of taxpayer money to be funneled into the dystopian ventures of ...
Mike Rothschild on Jewish Space Lasers:
November 14, 2023 20:26 - 54 minutes - 104 MBJewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theoriesis a deeply researched dive into the history of the conspiracy industry around the Rothschild family - from the "pamphlet wars" of Paris in the 1840s to the dankest pits of the internet today. Join us when journalist and conspiracy theory expert Mike Rothschild, who isn't related to the family, sorts out myth from reality to find the truth about these conspiracy theories and their spreaders on this installment of Leonard...
ROLAND RICH on Leviathan
November 14, 2023 20:26 - 54 minutes - 104 MBLeonard talks with ROLAND RICH, the former Australian Ambassador to the UN about his book. Leviathan.
Mary C. Shanklin on American Castle
November 14, 2023 20:26 - 55 minutes - 105 MBAmerican Castle, a Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post’s divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery.
Altagracia Pierre-Outerbridge
November 14, 2023 20:25 - 54 minutes - 104 MBAltagracia Pierre - Outerbridge is the owner of the New York City - based law firm, Outerbridge Law, P.C.. Founded in 2019 after representing clients from - intake through trial with a practice focused on - landlord - tenant litigation and transactional matters, diligently protecting landlords' property rights, and - meticulously defending tenants against - unnecessary evictions and penalties
Marjorie Kelly on Marjorie Kelly
November 14, 2023 20:25 - 54 minutes - 104 MBMarjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, and the author of - Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises (Berrett-Kohler, September 2023) talks today with Leonard on Leonard Lopate at large.
Brian H. Williams on The Bodies Keep Comin
November 14, 2023 20:24 - 54 minutes - 104 MBToday Leonard talks with Brian H. Williams, MD, the author of The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Author Brian H. Williams, MD
Monona Rossol industrial hygienist
November 14, 2023 13:35 - 53 minutes - 102 MBIndustrial hygienist Monona Rossol brings valuable insights of occupational health and safety, which is a crucial aspect of many industries. Whether it's discussing Covid, workplace hazards, air quality, exposure assessments, or safety measures, as an expert in the industrial hygiene Monona provides important information and tips.
J. C. Hallman on Say Anarcha
August 29, 2023 05:10 - 53 minutes - 102 MBFor more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the world’s first celebrity surgeons. Statues were built in his honor, but he wasn’t the hero he had made himself appear to be. Sims’s greatest medical claim was the result of several years of experimental surgeries—without anesthesia—on a young enslaved woman known as Anarcha; hi...
The Codex of the Endangered Species / Lowell E. Baier
August 24, 2023 13:11 - 55 minutes - 106 MBThe Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation’s species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for controversy and conflicts between industry/business and environmentalists. Lowell E. Baier’s intellectual curiosity during his 60-year career has taken him from a practicing attorney, to an entrepreneur, a tireless advocate for natural resources and wildlife ...
We Thought It Would Be Heaven by Blair Sackett and Anette Lareau
August 23, 2023 09:15 - 54 minutes - 104 MBIn these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, “you see the American story.” For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes—food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social supports, escape these traps and take steps toward reaching their dreams. Engaging and eye-opening, We Thought It Would Be Heaven brings readers into the daily lives of Congolese refugees and offers guidance for how activists,...
David Schenck on Into the Field of Suffering
August 19, 2023 14:59 - 54 minutes - 89.4 MBDAVID SCHENCK is the former Director of the Ethics Program, Medical University of South Carolina, and was on the faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A leader on ethics in healthcare and a long-time hospice volunteer, David Schenck is familiar with feeling overwhelmed and helpless while trying to help others. Spurred by the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic on frontline workers, he set out to reframe common ideas about caregiver burnout. T...
John Coates on THE PROBLEM OF TWELVE
August 17, 2023 16:20 - 54 minutes - 96.4 MBA “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation. According to Harvard law professor John Coates, the Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock control more than twenty percent of the votes of S&P 500 companies—a concentration of power that’s unprecedented in America. Then there’s the rise of private equity funds such as the Big Four of Apollo, Blackstone, Car...
Award-winning journalist Bob Hennelly
August 16, 2023 11:42 - 54 minutes - 103 MBAward-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly has a passion for uncovering the News behind the News. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he has always had a keen interest in the roles of immigration, local politics, business, labor unions, real estate ownership, and environmental protection in the evolution of the United States. For more than 30 years, he has reported on a broad spectrum of major public policy questions, ranging from homeland security to the economy, environmental ...
Dr. Walter D. Greason | Danian Darrell Jerry
August 12, 2023 16:39 - 54 minutes - 104 MBAs we celebrate 50 years in Hip Hop, ILLMATIC CONSEQUENCES combines social science and hip-hop studies to address disinformation and propaganda that distorted political discourse after the 2020 election. In this text, scholars and activists come together to clap back on the lies that animated attacks at local school boards and the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. capitol. Following a thematic structure, these contributors address "The Crisis", "The Clapback", and "The Consequences", ...
Alejandra Oliva's RIVERMOUTH
August 11, 2023 14:06 - 55 minutes - 104 MBIn this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she knows all too well the gravity of taking someone's trauma and delivering it to the warped demands of the U.S. immigration system. Oliva recounts the stories of the people she's met through her work, s...
Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible
August 10, 2023 11:50 - 49 minutes - 94.7 MBMore than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. War Made Invisible, by the journalist and political analyst Norman Solomon, exposes how this happened, and what its consequences are, from military and civilian casualties to drained resources at home. Join us when Norman Solomon examines his book War Made Invisible, on this inst...
Altagracia B. Pierre-Outerbridge on Rent Guidelines
August 09, 2023 10:24 - 54 minutes - 103 MBTenants in rent-stabilized apartments will see rent increases in the coming year lower than worst-case scenarios, following a Rent Guidelines Board preliminary this past Spring. Join us when Altagracia Pierre-Outerbridge, founder and owner of New York city-based law firm Outerbridge Law P.C. who’s practice is focused on landlord-tenant litigation and transactional matters examine NY tenants, landlords, and the rent guidelines board on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.
Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Okin on Silent Voices
August 05, 2023 06:44 - 54 minutes - 103 MBWith Homelessness in NYC being such a pervasive issue today's guest, former Commissioner of Mental Health Dr. Robert Okin covers the two years he spent on the street meeting and photographing homeless individuals with mental illness to find answers to many questions such as: How do they end up on the street? How do they survive the stress and privations of such a life? What combination of biological vulnerabilities, childhood traumas, drugs, mental disorders, and financial devastation brought...
Christopher Miller on The War Came To Us
August 04, 2023 12:07 - 55 minutes - 105 MBChristopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and the foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border. But the seeds of Russia's war against Ukraine and the West were sown more than a decade earlier. The War Came To Us is the definitive, inside story of its long fight for freedom. Told through Miller's personal experiences, vivid front-line dispatches and illuminating interview...
Historian Luke Nichter on The Year That Broke Politics
August 03, 2023 06:34 - 54 minutes - 104 MBThe 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between vice president Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and was bitterly divided on the Vietnam War and domestic issues, including civil rights and rising crime. Drawing on previously unexamined archives and numerous interviews, Luke A. Nichter upends the conventional understanding of t...
The Story of Russia / Orlando Fige
July 21, 2023 23:18 - 54 minutes - 91 MBThe Story of Russia is a peek into the thousand years of Russia’s history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No other country has reimagined its own story so often, in a perpetual effort to stay in step with the shifts of ruling ideologies. From the founding of Kievan Rus in the first millennium to Putin’s war against Ukraine, Orlando Figes explores the ideas that have guided Russia’...
David Rothenberg the founder of The Fortune Society
July 20, 2023 10:25 - 54 minutes - 107 MBIn 1967, David Rothenberg produced a play called Fortune and Men’s Eyes that revealed the horrors of life in prison. This inspired him to establish The Fortune Society (Fortune). In its 50 years, Fortune has become one of the leading reentry service organizations in the country, serving nearly 7,000 formerly incarcerated individuals per year, providing a wide range of holistic services to meet their needs. Fortune has also secured a position as a leading advocate in the fight for criminal ju...
Sean Mirski on WE MAY DOMINATE THE WORLD
July 19, 2023 13:27 - 54 minutes - 93.2 MBSean A. Mirski a lawyer and U.S. foreign policy scholar who has worked on national security issues across multiple U.S. presidential administrations ask, What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? He suggest the answer lies in a missing chapter of American foreign policy with stark lessons for today In We May Dominate the World, Sean A. Mirski tells the story of how the United States became a regional hegemon in the century following the Civil War. By turns relucta...
Paul KIx / to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Live
July 18, 2023 00:14 - 54 minutes - 104 MBIt’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis police officer suffocating George Floyd–he kept returning to the other photo taken half a century earlier, haunted by its echoes. What, Kix wondered, was the full legacy of the Birmingham photo? And of the campaign it stemmed from? In You Have To Be Prepar...
Jane M. Spinak on The End of Family Court
July 13, 2023 10:12 - 55 minutes - 105 MBAccording to renowned advocate for children’s welfare and juvenile justice Jane M. Spinak, at the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and a kindly, all-knowing judge would assist children and families. But the dream of a benevolent means of judicial problem-solving was never realized. A century later, children and families continue to be failed by this...
Jeff Goodell on The Heat Will Kill You First
July 12, 2023 07:48 - 55 minutes - 84.9 MBAccording to award-winning journalist Jeff Goodell, the world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica are melting fast. Heat is the first order threat that drives all other impacts of the climate crisis. And as the temperature rises, it is revealing fault lines in our governments, our politics, our economy, and our values. The basic science is not complic...
Rob Eschmann on When the Hood Comes Off
July 08, 2023 07:35 - 55 minutes - 104 MBWriter, educator, filmmaker, and scholar from Chicago - Dr. Rob Eschmann writes on educational inequality, community violence, racism, social media, and youth wellbeing. His research seeks to uncover individual, group, and intuitional-level barriers to racial and economic equity, and he pays special attention to the heroic efforts everyday people make to combat those barriers. From cell phone footage of police killing unarmed Black people to leaked racist messages and even comments from fri...
Matthew J. Clavin on Symbols of Freedom
July 04, 2023 07:43 - 52 minutes - 59.6 MBSymbols of Freedom is the surprising story of how enslaved people and their allies drew inspiration from the language and symbols of American freedom. Interpreting patriotic words, phrases, and iconography literally, they embraced a revolutionary nationalism that not only justified but generated open opposition. Mindful and proud that theirs was a nation born in blood, these disparate patriots fought to fulfill the republic’s promise by waging war against slavery. Join us when Professor of H...
Matthew Dallek on Birchers
July 01, 2023 10:06 - 54 minutes - 103 MBAt the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom. But as historian Matthew Dallek reveals, the Birch Society’s extremism remade American conservatism. Most Birchers were white professionals who were radicalized as growing calls for racial and gender equality appeared to upend America...
GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY
June 30, 2023 07:51 - 54 minutes - 103 MBGender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Rooted in the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini jettison “core gender identity” to propose, instead, that gender is something all subjects acquire -- and that trauma sometimes has a share in that acquisition. Conceptualizing trauma alongside diverse genders and sexualities is thus not about invalid...
Jeffrey Toobin on Home Grown
June 29, 2023 09:46 - 54 minutes - 104 MBNew York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin traces the dramatic history and profound legacy of Timothy McVeigh, who once declared, “I believe there is an army out there, ready to rise up, even though I never found it.” But that doesn’t mean his army wasn’t there. With news-breaking reportage, Toobin details how McVeigh’s principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based o...
Frank Dikötter on China After Mao
June 28, 2023 09:09 - 54 minutes - 103 MBThrough decades of direct experience of the People's Republic combined with extraordinary access to hundreds of hitherto unseen documents in communist party archives, the author of The People's Trilogy offers a riveting account of China's rise from the disaster of the Cultural Revolution. Join us when Frank Dikötter takes us inside the country's unprecedented four-decade economic transformation--from rural villages to industrial metropoles and elite party conclaves--that vaulted the nation fr...
David Neiwert on The Age of Insurrection
June 24, 2023 10:05 - 53 minutes - 102 MBAccording to David Neiwert, from right-wing compounds in the Pacific Northwest in the 1970s, to the shocking January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, America has seen the culmination of a long-building war on democracy being waged by a fundamentally violent and antidemocratic far-right movement that unironically calls itself the "Patriot" movement. Join us when award-winning journalist David Neiwert explores how the movement was built over decades, how it was set aflame by Donald Tr...
Wes Davis on AMERICAN JOURNEY
June 23, 2023 06:17 - 54 minutes - 104 MBIn 1913, an unlikely friendship blossomed between Henry Ford and famed naturalist John Burroughs. When their mutual interest in Ralph Waldo Emerson led them to set out in one of Ford’s Model Ts to explore the Transcendentalist’s New England, the trip would prove to be the first of many excursions that would take Ford and Burroughs, together with an enthusiastic Thomas Edison, across America. These travels profoundly influenced the way Ford, Edison, and Burroughs viewed the world, nudging the...