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2024

• December 4^th Blacksmith House Poetry Series: Carl Phillips and Penelope Pelizzon 0
• November 10^th Kwame Anthony Appiah: the Cosmopolitan Philosopher 1
• October 27^th Tom Perrotta on Flannery O’Connor — a literary affinity 3
• September 3^rd Harvard Critic Helen Vendler on Emily Dickinson 0
• August 8^th Tales from Donegal, told in Kenny’s Bookshop 2
• May 20^th Behind the Scenes at Law and Order 0

2023

• October 30^th Rediscovering James Joyce in Dublin with editor Maurice Earls 0
• October 9^th Charles Simic’s the choice at San Francisco’s Dog Eared Books! 1
• July 18^th The history and future of the New England Forest 0
• April 16^th The End of Our Universe among other timely topics… 7
• January 7^th International news and the American attention span 0

2022

• July 21^st The Mau Mau rebellion — a revisionist history 0
• June 21^st Zen and the Art of Writing – with Natalie Goldberg 12
• March 8^th Dancer, Choreographer Ron Brown 0
• January 10^th The North Atlantic Right Whale: Our Urban Leviathan 0

2021

• October 13^th Women’s Work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts 0
• August 11^th Rebecca Goldstein: the atheist with a soul 1
• May 17^th The Dan Flavin Art Institute 0
• March 3^rd The Peabody Sisters – with biographer Megan Marshall 2

2020

• November 25^th Dinosaurs on Thoughtcast 0
• August 22^nd Poet Robert Pinsky takes on King David 2
• July 4^th Words @ Work: The Origins of “Rock” 2
• April 18^th Buffalo Dance: A Poem for NPR’s Poetry Month 0
• March 13^th Red Hook, Brooklyn, before the Gentrification 0
• January 30^th Alan Dershowitz on Preemption and the Hezbollah 8

2019

• August 19^th “Why Does the World Exist?” with Jim Holt 22
• April 26^th KCRW’s Michael Silverblatt at the LA Times Book Festival 1
• March 16^th Chanticleer Backstage on ThoughtCast! 0

2018

• September 3^rd ThoughtCast Reflects on the Legacy of John McCain 2
• July 15^th John McCain’s Last Stand – on ThoughtCast! 0
• May 2^nd Philip Glass creates an opera – on ThoughtCast! 0
• February 14^th Lydia Ratcliff: Vermont Farmer, Stubborn Survivor 8
• January 15^th Samuel Huntington — on Immigration and the American Identity 20

2017

• November 23^rd Lessons from a Former Failed Bid for the Presidency? 0
• August 6^th Al Gore, Reconsidered 0
• July 14^th Art Therapy: A Place for Self-Expression while in Pain 0
• May 23^rd The Hunt for Art Fakes with Tom Hoving 0
• March 23^rd Revered New York Review editor Robert Silvers, R.I.P. 3

2016

• October 3^rd Paul Pascarella – An Artist of the Mesa and the Mountain 0
• August 28^th Andres Serrano @ The New Museum of Contemporary Art 0
• March 18^th A Prior Republican Presidential Debate 1
• February 25^th A Prior Democratic Presidential Debate 0

2015

• November 29^th Beacon Hill Seminars Writing Workshop 0
• August 31^st Arianna Huffington on Picasso and the Clinton White House 0

2014

• October 29^th Sandra Tsing Loh at the LA Times Book Festival 0
• August 4^th My Ghost Town: A Vanishing Personal History 0
• June 28^th George W. Bush, Beforehand 1
• February 18^th New Writing Group Launched on Beacon Hill 0

2013

• November 7^th Cosmic Evolution’s Predilection for Constant Change 0
• September 17^th Black Bear Orphans and the Man who Reads Their Minds 2
• July 8^th EdX President Anant Agarwal’s Plan to Change the World 0
• May 20^th 20 Rescued Bear Cubs Nursed Back to Health 0

2012

• November 23^rd How to minimize disasters and manage crises – if possible! 1

2011

• October 24^th Louis Menand, John Summers and Dan Aaron take on Dwight MacDonald 0
• August 14^th Is WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange a hero, or a villain? 2
• August 10^th Talks@Harvard Book Store: Sean Dorrance Kelly 0
• July 14^th An Afternoon at the Tufts Wildlife Clinic 1
• July 12^th Honor and Fair Play in Homer’s Iliad 0
• March 27^th James Carroll Takes On Jerusalem 0
• March 5^th Creativity and Madness – with Shelley Carson 1

2010

• December 17^th Faculty Insight: Islam in the West – a clash of civilizations? 0
• October 10^th Boston Book Festival – year two! 0
• September 23^rd Faculty Insight: Nuclear strategy in the post-cold war world 0
• June 5^th Is Addiction a Choice? Harvard’s Gene Heyman says yes! 1
• April 26^th Coral reefs, hermit crabs and tube worms with Randi Rotjan 1
• April 4^th New England Poetry Club Prizewinner Richard Hoffman 1

2009

• December 15^th A Conversation with Los Angeles Impresario Ernest Fleischmann 1
• November 27^th The “New Biology” with Steven Pinker, Noga Arikha & Melvin Konner 1
• October 30^th The Journal of Henry David Thoreau 3
• July 20^th Jonah Lehrer on Emotional Hijacking and “How We Decide” 2
• April 7^th The Dopamine Economy 0
• April 3^rd Turbulent Times for Truth Tellers? Just ask the Nieman Foundation… 2
• March 20^th Architects Nader Tehrani and Robert Campbell @ CCAE 1
• March 6^th Has the Global Economic Crisis – or GEC – got us? 15
• February 23^rd The Economic Pits with James Poterba 0

2008

• December 3^rd Getrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas & Janet Malcolm! 0
• November 7^th Reading List for Obama – your thoughts? 3
• November 2^nd How Fiction Works — with James Wood 2
• October 8^th Public Radio goes Hollywood! 1
• July 23^rd Our American “Empire” with Niall Ferguson 0
• July 19^th “The Future of the Internet – And How to Stop It”!!! 0
• May 25^th To friend or not to friend: Judith Donath on online social status 0
• May 25^th Ethan Zuckerman’s homage to homophily 0
• May 25^th More Neologisms with TPM’s Josh Marshall 0
• May 22^nd Tim Wu’s neologism: Network neutrality! 1
• May 22^nd Jimmy Wales on Wikipedia – the word! 0
• May 22^nd In Search of Neologisms with Esther Dyson 1
• February 21^st The Borromeo String Quartet Meets Steve Reich! 3

2007

• September 2^nd The Future of Europe – with Alberto Alesina 0
• August 1^st Art & Science with Alan Lightman 1
• July 25^th Jack Beatty, Public Intellectual 4
• June 8^th Faith and Philosophy with Harvey Cox and Simon Blackburn 2
• April 28^th Public Media Maverick Jay Allison 3
• April 26^th Astrophysics in Cambridge — at the Planetarium! 2
• April 20^th Marc Hauser on “Moral Minds” 4
• March 8^th Doc Searls! 1
• March 7^th Henry Jenkins@Beyond Broadcast 2007 3
• March 6^th The BBC and CBC weigh in… 5
• February 26^th Doug Kaye at the IMA 0
• February 25^th WNYC’s Bill Swersey on “Open Source” 0
• February 24^th Two Questions: Redux 0
• February 23^rd Two Questions 0
• February 22^nd Integrated Media — are we there yet? 0

2006

• November 19^th Economist Amartya Sen on “Identity and Violence” 7
• September 26^th The Future of Public Radio: Part 5 0
• September 25^th The Future of Public Radio: Part 4 0
• September 24^th The Future of Public Radio: Part 3 0
• September 23^rd The Future of Public Radio: Part 2 0
• September 20^th The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 1
• May 26^th Beyond Broadcast: more state of mind… 0
• May 17^th Beyond Broadcast: the state of mind 1
• May 16^th Dan Gillmor on ThoughtCast 0
• April 11^th Lisa Randall, Harvard physicist 35
• March 20^th Harvard Book Store author talks: Alan Dershowitz 0

2005

• December 12^th Harvard Book Store author talks: Kevin Smokler 0
• December 5^th The Web 2.0 and beyond — a conversation 3
• November 6^th Carol Bundy, Civil War biographer 1
• September 1^st Virgil’s Georgics with award-winning Poet David Ferry 5
• August 1^st Harvard Book Store author talks: Carol Bundy 0
• July 20^th Ilan Stavans: chameleon, critic 2
• June 22^nd Harvard Book Store author talks: David Ferry 2
• June 14^th Stay tuned… 1
• June 14^th Credit Roll Comments Off on Credit Roll