Binah

Rabbi Jill Jacobs, Rabbi Michael Lezak and Dolores Canales discuss issues of injustice in the prison system, including mass incarceration, police reform, and people of color.

Founder of Aftelier Perfumes, Mandy Aftel, makes the profound connection between our sense of smell and the appetites that move us.

On today’s encore edition of Binah , writer Armistead Maupin chronicles his odyssey from the Old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from curious youth to groundbreaking writer and gay rights pioneer, in his memoir Logical Family .

Musician and environmentalist Bernie Krause uses the language of music to make an impassioned case for conserving an overlooked natural resource: the music of the wild.

Food science writer Harold McGee translates the modern science of cooking into immediately useful information for food lovers everywhere.

Indie filmmakers and brothers Mark Duplass and Jay Duplass discuss the secrets of their lifelong partnership, its impact on their personal lives, and the process of separating family from business.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak talks about taking the unprecedented step of proposing a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict—and the lifetime that led up to it. His new memoir is My Country, My Life: Fighting for Israel, Searching for Peace .

Playwright and screenwriter David Mamet shares his new book Chicago , which explores power relationships and corruption in the mobbed-up 1920s.

Historian Steven Zipperstein and civil rights activist and retired judge LaDoris Cordell examine a pogrom in late-Tsarist Russia and how can we understand it in our current political climate. Zipperstein’s new book is Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History .

Behavioral economist and psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses when to trust intuition and how to tap the benefits of slow thinking.