Jun 14, 2023
Matt Crawford speaks with author Neil King Jr. about his book, American Ramble: A Walk of Memory and Renewal. A desire to walk from Washington D.C, to New York City began as a whim and then quickly formed into an obsession for King. By the spring of 2021 amongst the backdrop of one of the most pivotal years in...
Dec 8, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with Rita Katz about her book, Saints and Soldiers. More than a decade ago, counterterrorism expert Rita Katz began browsing white supremacist and neo-Nazi forums. Immediately Katz recognized the pattern of recruitment and radicalization used by jihadist militants and the danger it posed, but law...
Dec 7, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with author Andrew Wehrman about his book: The Contagion of Liberty. At the height of The Revolutionary War a smallpox epidemic broke out and in response General Washington ordered the inoculation of the Continental Army. If not for that we may not exist as the nation we are. Washington however was...
Nov 1, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with author Elsa Sjunneson about her book, Being Seen. As a Deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa lives between blindness and sight, hearing and deafness. While she has adapted and leads a full life, ableism and stigma have proved harder to combat. Elsa also...
Apr 12, 2022
Matt Crawford speaks with author Michael Meyer about his book, Benjamin Franklin's Last Bet. At the end of his life, Benjamin Franklin gifted Philadelphia and Boston 2000 pounds to be lend out to tradesmen over the next 2 centuries. Each loan was to be repaid with interest over 10 years and the eventual windfall to be...