Bully Pulpit: Recent Episodes
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After nearly four decades of commentary, interviews and storytelling, Bob hangs up his headset. But because he is not yet technically dead, he gets to write his own radio obituary. Like much of his work, it’s a saga, 1400 hours rolled into 80 minutes — some of it kind of dramatic, and some just plain flabbergasting.
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Bob speaks to his youngest daughter about the despair of her generation.
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Bob promised good faith arguments. He promised never to become “a spasm of id.”
Then they massacred the children. Again.
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David Michael Slater has written 22 books without breaking out on the bestseller lists. His next — The Vanishing, out this fall — may increase his visibility.
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We observe in horror and astonishment Putin’s poisonous, preposterous, obvious lies. But we needn’t look eastward for that.
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Journalist Mark Leibovich has a suggestion for the craven Republicans who cower before the domineering ex-president.
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In the second half of their conversation about the origins of tyrants, Bob and Before Evil author Brandon Gauthier consider the immense power of ideas.
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Historian Brandon Gauthier looks at the lives of six murderous dictators to assess the role of childhood trauma on their adult barbarity. But he finds other, surprising influences.
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Bob splices together a soundscape of a society. And just this once, he mostly keeps his mouth shut.
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In its horror and its rage, Western society is lashing out at anything Russian. Bob speaks to Northwestern University Professor Gary Saul Morson about cultural vigilantism.
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Bob continues his conversation with Elizabeth Williamson, author of Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.
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Bob speaks with Elizabeth Williamson, author of Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth.
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Listen now | There was a Great Flood, and he was from St. Louis, but 50 years later could we be in end times?
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Listen now | Can we all be manipulated into being suckered on a mass scale? Yes, naturally.
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Listen now | Just another genius you’ve never heard of.
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Listen now | Exactly who is pillaging the world's wealth and resources, and how can we cut them down to size?
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Listen now | The systematic transfer of wealth out of your pocket and into theirs wasn't an accident.
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Listen now | In our pluralistic society, book banning is an unfortunate ever-present reality.
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Listen now | Zen and the art of disbelieving the obvious.
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Listen now | Bob talks with author Emer Gentway, whose real name is not Emer Gentway, about the benefits of not trusting the reality seemingly arrayed before our eyes.
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Listen now | Are we depriving our heroes of their religious rights? The answer is: no.
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Listen now | Measuring a man's worth to his world.
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Listen now | Establish justice? Insure domestic tranquility? Promote the general welfare? We ask an icon of the American Dream about the broken promises of our democracy.
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Listen now | Jews, Muslims, Satanists and Yuletide Gays are breaching the outer defenses.
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Listen now | How a narcissistic ignoramus stooge of a president animated the final assault on democracy.
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Listen now | The Slow, Steady and Successful Subversion of American Democracy
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A Brave Journey — either happy or hapless — into the Podcast Past.
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Listen now | Trump lackey Chris Christie is selling himself as a savior, and the media are buying.
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Listen now | Are you hearing voices? Are you talking back? Do you have blood in your stool? Beware.
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Listen now | What happens when the scientific method collides with a highly-charged energy field of anti-intellectualism?
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Listen now | A random news item sets Bob off on a journey for the hidden secrets of the universe.
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Listen now | What is more dangerous for democracy: Lethal propaganda and lies? Or diluting the First Amendment?
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Listen now | Is Fox News Channel as advertised, or a continuing criminal enterprise?
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Listen now | Star of stage and screen is HERE, right now, sharing Bob's bully pulpit.
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Listen now | When journalists put it all on the line for people who watch TV.
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Listen now | The all but untold story of Gabby and Brian.
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Listen now | The Deadly False Conflict Between Public Health and American Freedom
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Listen now | On the 20th anniversary of 9/11, what story is being told?
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Listen now | A 12,000-word story depicts a dystopia of devolved humanity, dependent entirely on networked technology. Sound familiar?
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Listen now | Allan M. Brandt is a professor of the history of science at Harvard and author of The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. He discusses the tobacco industry’s 20th-century campaign to make its addictive and deadly product somehow acceptable — and its 21st-century campaign to do it all again.
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Listen now | Philip Morris International wants to get you off of cigarettes — sort of.
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Facebook shuts down independent researchers and falsely blames the government.
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Listen now (24 min) | Vagina comes from the Latin word for "sheath." Author Zoe Mendelson explains how it's so much more than a sword holder.
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Why do we want to be civil with these people?
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Look who’s got a bully pulpit!
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Listen now | Click play to hear the trailer for the new Bully Pulpit, coming soon from Booksmart Studios!
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