Richard Heffner's Open Mind Archive | THIRTEEN artwork

Richard Heffner's Open Mind Archive | THIRTEEN

124 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 10 years ago -

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Episodes

Television’s Man For All Seasons

September 03, 2011 15:00 - 26 minutes - 13.9 MB

Norman Lear discusses contemporary media.

Doctors in America: “Professionals” or “Providers”

August 27, 2011 15:00 - 27 minutes - 14.2 MB

Dr. Richard P. Cohen discusses the medical profession.

A Nation Working Longer… Perhaps Doing Better

August 20, 2011 15:00 - 26 minutes - 13.9 MB

Richard W. Johnson discusses the trend of extended working ages in America.

Talk Therapy Vs. Fewer Dollars and Less Time

July 30, 2011 15:01 - 27 minutes - 14.1 MB

Professor of Medicine Dr. Robert Michels discusses trends in psychiatry.

Joe Nocera’s “Good Guys & Bad Guys”

July 25, 2011 16:13 - 26 minutes - 14.1 MB

Writer Joe Nocera discusses "The Saints and Scoundrels of American Business."

Bill Moyers Journal… The Conversation Continues, Part II

July 16, 2011 15:00 - 26 minutes - 14.2 MB

Richard Heffner speaks with one of his favorite journalists, Bill Moyers.

Bill Moyers Journal… The Conversation Continues

July 11, 2011 14:13 - 26 minutes - 14.8 MB

Richard Heffner speaks with one of his favorite journalists.

Howard Gardner on Truth, Beauty and Goodness

July 02, 2011 15:00 - 26 minutes - 14.3 MB

Howard Gardner discusses educating for the virtues in the 21st century.

Memories of a Newsman

June 25, 2011 15:00 - 26 minutes - 13.9 MB

Richard Heffner speaks with the New York Times' John Darnton, a newsman's newsman.

For the Old Men of the Class of ’46

June 18, 2011 15:05 - 27 minutes - 14.4 MB

Columbia College Dean Dr. Michele Moody-Adams discusses liberal arts education.

In Memoriam: Fred Plum, MD 1924-2010

June 02, 2011 18:06 - 26 minutes - 13.2 MB

Richard Heffner's Open Mind celebrates Dr. Fred Plum.

There are not all that many people who can really move the needle: Sir Paul Nurse

May 21, 2011 14:59 - 26 minutes - 14.2 MB

Medicine Nobel Laureate Sir Paul Nurse discusses notions of scientific elitism.

Have Scientists Earned the Trust of their Paymasters… the Public?

May 14, 2011 15:00 - 26 minutes - 13.8 MB

Sir Paul Nurse discusses the relationship between scientists and the public.

Farewell to Gutenberg?

May 13, 2011 15:06 - 26 minutes - 14.9 MB

Historian Michael Korda discusses the history and trajectory of publishing.

Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama

May 12, 2011 19:33 - 26 minutes - 13.3 MB

Writer Will Bunch discusses his new book on "paranoid politics."

Peculiar Institution: America’s Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition

April 16, 2011 14:57 - 25 minutes - 13.5 MB

Law professor David Garland discusses his book on capital punishment in America.

Medicalizing Poor Political Leadership, Part II

April 02, 2011 15:32 - 26 minutes - 13.4 MB

Lord David Owen continues discussing illness in heads of government.

Medicalizing Poor Political Leadership, Part I

March 26, 2011 15:22 - 26 minutes - 13.7 MB

Lord David Owen discusses illness and heads of state.

Palliative Medicine: Care versus Cure?

February 26, 2011 15:17 - 27 minutes - 13 MB

Dr. Diane Meier discusses her new book on dealing with serious illness.

The Obama Agenda… for a New Deal, Part II

February 19, 2011 16:30 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MB

Sociologist Theda Skocpol continues her discussion of contemporary politics.

The Obama Agenda… for a New Deal

February 12, 2011 16:51 - 27 minutes - 12.6 MB

Theda Skocpol discusses current trends in U.S. politics.

The Bully Pulpit

February 07, 2011 19:45

Speechwriter Michael Waldman discusses his new book "My Fellow Americans."

The Bully Pulpit

February 07, 2011 19:45 - 26 minutes - 12.4 MB

Speechwriter Michael Waldman discusses his new book "My Fellow Americans."

The Historian as Public Intellectual

January 29, 2011 16:22 - 27 minutes - 12.7 MB

Eric Foner discusses the role of the historian.

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