Culture Insight

Paul Israel On Thomas Alva Edison

Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:26:28 -0400

Paul Israel is an historian of technology who serves as the Directorand General Editor of the multivolume documentary edition of theThomas Edison Papers at Rutgers University

Paul Muldoon on W.B. Yeats

Mon, 5 Oct 2009 22:26:28 -0400

Paul Muldoon is the author of numerous books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Moy Sand and Gravel. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Rebecca Goldstein on Kurt Gödel

Mon, 7 Sep 2009 22:26:28 -0400

Rebecca Goldstein is the author Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel and most recently, Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has received many awards for her fiction and scholarship, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship.

John Heiss on Igor Stravinsky

Fri, 2 Jan 2009 22:26:28 -0400

John Heiss is an active composer, conductor, flutist, and teacher. He is the Director of the Contemporary Ensemble at New England Conservatory, where he teaches in the flute, chamber music, compositio

Alan Lightman on Albert Einstein

Mon, 5 Jan 2009 00:34:02 -0400

Alan Lightman is a novelist, essayist, physicist, and educator. He is Adjunct Professor of Humanities and formerly senior lecturer in Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His novels

Gay Talese on Ernest Hemingway and Writing

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 15:57:48 -0400

American author Gay Talese is the bestselling author of eleven books. He was a reporter for the New York Times from 1956 to 1965, and since then he has written for the Times, Esquire, The New Yorker,

Janna Levin on Kurt Godel

Mon, 2 Mar 2009 20:06:07 -0500

Janna Levin is a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Barnard College of Columbia University. Her scientific research concerns the Early Universe, Chaos, and Black Holes. Her second book a novel,

James Flannery on W.B. Yeats

Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:45:07 -0500

Singer, scholar, stage director, producer, lecturer, teacher and cultural activist, James Flannery is the Winship Professor of Arts and Humanities at Emory University. A specialist in the dramatic wor

Kenneth Frampton on Le Corbusier

Mon, 4 May 2009 13:45:07 -0500

On this program we talk with Kenneth Frampton, Ware Professor of Architecture at Columbia University, and the author of several books including Modern Architecture: A Critical History, Labour, Work an

Frank Wilczek on Albert Einstein

Mon, 1 Jun 2009 13:45:07 -0500

Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Frank Wilczek is a theoretical physicist who won the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for a discovery in the world of quar

Jack Sullivan on Alfred Hitchcock

Mon, 6 Jul 2009 13:45:07 -0500

Jack Sullivan is a literary scholar and professor of English at Rider University. He has published several books including New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music and most re;

John Darnton on Charles Darwin

Mon, 3 Aug 2009 13:45:07 -0500

John Darnton is a Pulitzer prize winning reporter and best selling novelist who has worked for The New York Times for over 40 years. His many books include Neanderthal, The Experiment, Mind Catcher, T