Show Summary: What's behind the increasing comparisons of candidate Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, one of the greatest scourges of the modern age? Shouts from within a rowdy crowd are easily dismissed. But Anne Frank's stepsister and multiple prominent international voices - including past and present presidents of Mexico, and an honored Israeli journalist - are now on record with the same warning. Angie hosts a panel to discuss and take questions from the audience.

Show Summary: The latest from award-winning writer Charlie Jane Anders, All the Birds in the Sky, is either about the end of the world, the beginning of our future, or both. The novel’s a darkly comic exploration of love, life, and the apocalypse.

Show Summary: In The Work of the Dead, University of California professor and author Thomas W. Laqueur explores why cultures have never been indifferent to mortal remains. Even in our supposedly disenchanted scientific age, the dead body still matters--for individuals, communities, and nations.

Show Summary: In The Language of Food, Stanford University professor and MacArthur Fellow Dan Jurafsky peels away the mysteries from the foods we think we know. Why do we eat toast for breakfast, and then toast to good health at dinner? What does the turkey we eat on Thanksgiving have to do with the country on the eastern Mediterranean? Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu?

Show Summary: This month, a California court upheld the right of Dignity Health hospitals to withhold health treatments that conflict with its Catholic standards. The ACLU plans to appeal. And Washington state law requiring pharmacists to dispense prescriptions regardless of their personal convictions may be headed to the Supreme Court. What happens when the rights of a patient - usually a woman - conflict with the moral standards of the individual charged with her medical care?

Show Summary: In this land before Gay Pride became almost a national holiday, can a flighty, 112-pound, effeminate Texan transform into one of the few, the proud, the Marines? The Pink Marine: One Boy’s Journey Through Boot Camp to Manhood is the story – full of hilarity and heartbreak – of how a teenage boy who struggles with self-acceptance and sexuality finds self-worth in Marine Corps boot camp.

Show Summary: Recycling is such a norm in some cities it’s easy to think that’s true all over the US. But some cities still don’t have curbside pickup. And for those that do, questions and conflict about. Residents might be surprised to find out how many “recyclables” end up in landfills. Emphatic critics of popular “all in one bin” collection see it as more harmful than helpful. Then there’s the untapped potential of trash-as-resource. Can the tons of refuse produced worldwide realistically be a source of energy or reclaimed resources? Do landfills harbor buried treasure?

Show Summary: Moving beyond familiar accounts of politics, celebrity engineers, and designers, Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Worker’s Oral History by Harvey Schwartz gives the voices of the workers themselves center stage. The survivors vividly recall the hardships, hazards, and victories of constructing the landmark span during the Great Depression.

Show Summary: Some news! KALW-FM in San Francisco has added In Deep to its lineup, broadcasting Tuesday nights at 9PM. For our first show, January 5, 2015, we put together a one-hour “best of” retrospective with highlights from interviews with Julie Lythcott-Haims, Frank Joyce and Judy Gumbo, Dave Malloy, and David Lutkin. 2015 was a great year for us, with many fascinating guests. We hope you enjoy this sample of our 2015 shows.

Show Summary: Award winning science writer Steve Silberman turned his incredibly successful TED talk “The Forgotten History of Autism” into the 2015 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity.