This...Is Interesting: Recent Episodes
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Matt Miller – Washington Post columnist and Left, Right & Center host – talks to the world's most provocative thinkers. As timely as the week's headlines, yet tackling subjects destined to influence events for years. This...Is Interesting brings to listeners the people and ideas that are shaping our world.
My conversation with Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
My conversation with A. Scott Berg, author of "Wilson,” a new biography of our 28th president.
My conversation with James Barrat, author of “Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence And The End Of The Human Era”.
Special presentation on Friday, December 13 at 7:30pm: Political psychotherapy with Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Righteous Mind."
Behind the behind-the-scene stories of “Double Down: Game Change 2012,” with authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
My talk with Peter Buffett (Warren Buffett's son) about what's wrong with philanthropy.
A conversation with William Haseltine, scientist, biotech entrepreneur, and author of “Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Health Care System”
My conversation with Amanda Ripley, author of the “The Smartest Kids in the World--and How They Got That Way”
Steve Coll, author, New Yorker staff writer, and new dean of the Columbia Journalism School, on the future of journalism.
Was Jesus a political radical? We talk to Reza Aslan about his controversial new book, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth”
A tour of the ways we will soon control computers with our minds, and how this “brain-computer interface” will change society. My guest is Ariel Garten, CEO of the Toronto-based company Interaxon, which is developing such devices.
Poet and essayist Meghan O’Rourke, author of the memoir "The Long Goodbye," discusses the literature of grief and the American style of mourning in the age of self-help.
The American institutions that built the middle class seem to be -- crumbling. Author George Packer traveled the country to find out how we're coping.
As the fight over the future of the GOP takes shape, I ask National Affairs’ Yuval Levin where the GOP’s gone wrong and how conservative ideas can become relevant again.
The Asian middle class will grow from roughly 500 million people today to a staggering 1.75 billion by 2020. Is the world ready?
Matt Miller talks to economist Hernando de Soto about the causes of the Arab Spring, and how not being able to own things can lead to revolution.
Matt Miller talks to two of the top thinkers in the emerging technology arena about what it really means for our economic future.