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Jan 28, 2025

Matt Crawford speaks with photographer and author Benjamin Dimmitt about his book, An Unflinching Look: Elegy for Wetlands. An Unflinching Look is an examination of a unique North American ecosystem in decline, investigated through eighty-five duotone photographs, scientific analysis, and critical interpretation. The...


Jan 23, 2025

Matt Crawford speaks with author Peter Philips about his book, Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity. In Titans of Capital, Peter Phillips, a political sociologist, poses three key research questions: To what extent do the wealthy influence—or even dominate—decision making that affects all of...


Jan 22, 2025

Matt Crawford speaks with author Nancy Reddy about her book, The Good Mother Myth: Unlearning Our Bad Ideas About How to Be a Good Mom. When Reddy had her first child, she found herself suddenly confronted with the ideal of a being a perfect mother, but what is that and who defines it? For answers, Reddy turned to...


Jan 22, 2025

Matt Crawford speaks with author Marcia Peck about her debut novel, Water Music: A Cape Cod Story. This is the story of twelve-year-old Lily Grainger, and the summer of 1956 spent with her family on Cape Cod. That was the summer the Andrea Doria sank, pilot whales stranded, and Lily’s father built a house he...


Jan 21, 2025

Matt Crawford speaks with educator, mathematician and author Frank Lad about his book, Just Plain Wrong: The Dalliance of Quantum Theory with the Defiance of Bell's Inequality. The educated public have long been regaled with "the mysteries of quantum physics", which enshroud far-flung claims about the fundamental nature...