Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

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Leonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is back on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org.

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Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York episodes:

01.25.2024
Laura Pappano on School Moms
Laura Pappano is a veteran journalist who has covered the heated disagreements that surround K-12 education for over thirty years. Yet, today's high stakes battle is unlike anything she's seen before. "It isn't rooted in a passion for the...
01.17.2024
Investigative Journalist Robert Hennelly
According to Award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Robert Hennelly, most of the labor activists that are reviving the American union movement were not on the planet when Martin Luther King Jr walked the earth. But the torch has been passed...
01.17.2024
Leonard Lopate at Large Call-in
Leonard Lopate, the Peabody and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster, is on WBAI where he began his radio career. Tune in weekdays from 1-2pm at 99.5fm New York or you can listen to the show live at WBAI.org. Join us for...
01.12.2024
David Pietrusza on Gangsterland
A site by site, crime by crime, outlaw by outlaw walking tour through the seedy underbelly of Roaring Twenties Manhattan—where gamblers and gangsters, crooks and cops, showgirls and speakeasies ruled the day and, always, the night. In Gangsterland, historian David Pietrusza...
01.10.2024
Nasheet Waits Music Director: The Max Roach Centennial
Max Roach Centennial Celebrations in January Include Film Screening, Panel Discussion and Local NYC-NJ Concerts The revolutionary 1960 album We Insist!: Max Roach’s Freedom Now Suite explored issues of social justice and racial inequality through the lens of jazz and poetry....
01.10.2024
Just Action by Richard and Leah Rothstein
Richard Rothstein is the co-author of JUST ACTION: How to Challenge Segregation Enacted Under the Color of Law. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute, and Senior Fellow (Emeritus) of the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP...
12.29.2023
Steven Ujifusa on The Last Ships from Hamburg
Bestselling author and historian Steven Ujifusa tells the largely forgotten, colorful story of three businessmen who, driven by very different motives, made much of this immigration possible and forever changed the fates of millions. The men were Jacob Schiff, the managing...
12.28.2023
Leonard Lopate at Large Call-In
We'd like to hear from you during this Holiday season. How have you been coping with winter, Municipal, State, and Global concerns? Although this is the mos festive time of year it sometimes doesnt feel that way. We would...
12.27.2023
Melissa Goldthwaite on GOOD EATS
Edited by Jennifer Cognard-Black and Melissa A. Goldthwaite - Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically features a highly diverse ensemble of award-winning writers, activists, educators, chefs, farmers, and journalists, Good Eats invites readers to think about what it means...
11.26.2023
Michael Zweig on Class, Race, and Gender
Michael Zweig illuminates all propositions with specific examples from US history, from the first settlement of the New World to current life, including his own lived experiences as an activist, educator, and organizer over the past six decades. As such,...
11.26.2023
A Falling-Off Place by Barbara G. Mensch
Photos from the 1990s present images of floods and fires that paralyzed the area, juxtaposed with continued bulldozing to clear the way for luxury housing. Politics reshaped Manhattan’s skyline by encouraging new commercial shopping, food, and restaurant destinations. This restructuring...
11.26.2023
Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski
Could this really be our future? If so, what has to happen now to achieve such a radical change? In How We Ended Racism, Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski reveal a path for real and lasting global impact―not just...
11.17.2023
Robert Hennelly of Stuck Nation
Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly of Stuck Nation covers topics ranging from homeland security to the economy, environmental contamination to corruption, and occupational safety to homelessness. Joing us when Hennelly touches on the hearing held by Sen. Sanders for his Health, Education,...
11.17.2023
Lauren S. Foley on On the Basis of Race
From Brown v. Board of Education in the mid-twentieth century to the current Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard and University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Foley explores how organizations have resisted and complied with public policies regarding race. She examines how admissions officers, who...
11.14.2023
Ben Lewin on Inside Science
Lewin brings these general principles to life by considering the history of the genetics revolution, from the discovery of the double helical structure of DNA to the sequencing of the human genome and the possibilities of gene editing today. History...
11.14.2023
Leonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman
Leonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman-Woodward. Freitas is an entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in government relations, international trade, and business development in the United States, as well as emerging markets, with a focus...
11.14.2023
Jonathan Taplin on THE END OF REALITY
In The End of Reality¸ Jonathan Taplin provides his perspective into the personal backgrounds and cultural power of these billionaires—Peter Thiel, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Marc Andreesen (“The Four”) —and shows how their tech monopolies have brought middle-class wage...
11.14.2023
Mike Rothschild on Jewish Space Lasers:
Jewish Space Lasers: The Rothschilds and 200 Years of Conspiracy Theoriesis a deeply researched dive into the history of the conspiracy industry around the Rothschild family - from the "pamphlet wars" of Paris in the 1840s to the dankest pits...
11.14.2023
ROLAND RICH on Leviathan
Leonard talks with ROLAND RICH, the former Australian Ambassador to the UN about his book. Leviathan.
11.14.2023
Mary C. Shanklin on American Castle
American Castle, a Pulitzer Prize finalist Mary C. Shanklin reveals a century of controversy, politics, and lifestyles of the super-rich and powerful after Mar-a-Lago became a part-time residence and party place upon Post’s divorce from Hutton over mutual adultery.
11.14.2023
Altagracia Pierre-Outerbridge
Altagracia Pierre - Outerbridge is the owner of the New York City - based law firm, Outerbridge Law, P.C.. Founded in 2019 after representing clients from - intake through trial with a practice focused on - landlord - tenant litigation and transactional matters, diligently protecting...
11.14.2023
Marjorie Kelly on Marjorie Kelly
Marjorie Kelly is Distinguished Senior Fellow with The Democracy Collaborative, and the author of - Wealth Supremacy: How the Extractive Economy and the Biased Rules of Capitalism Drive Today's Crises (Berrett-Kohler, September 2023) talks today with Leonard on Leonard Lopate...
11.14.2023
Brian H. Williams on The Bodies Keep Comin
Today Leonard talks with Brian H. Williams, MD, the author of The Bodies Keep Coming: Dispatches from a Black Trauma Surgeon on Racism, Violence, and How We Heal. Author Brian H. Williams, MD
11.14.2023
Monona Rossol industrial hygienist
Industrial hygienist Monona Rossol brings valuable insights of occupational health and safety, which is a crucial aspect of many industries. Whether it's discussing Covid, workplace hazards, air quality, exposure assessments, or safety measures, as an expert in the industrial hygiene...
08.29.2023
J. C. Hallman on Say Anarcha
For more than a century, Dr. J. Marion Sims was hailed as the “father of modern gynecology.” He founded a hospital in New York City and had a profitable career treating gentry and royalty in Europe, becoming one of the...
08.24.2023
The Codex of the Endangered Species / Lowell E. Baier
The Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) is one of the most cherished and reviled laws ever passed. It mandates protection and preservation of all the nation’s species and biodiversity, whatever the cost. It has been a lightning rod for...
08.23.2023
We Thought It Would Be Heaven by Blair Sackett and Anette Lareau
In these stories of struggle and hope, as one volunteer said, “you see the American story.” For some families, minor mistakes create catastrophes—food stamps cut off, educational opportunities missed, benefits lost. Other families, with the help of volunteers and social...
08.19.2023
David Schenck on Into the Field of Suffering
DAVID SCHENCK is the former Director of the Ethics Program, Medical University of South Carolina, and was on the faculty of the Center for Biomedical Ethics and Society, Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A leader on ethics in healthcare and a long-time...
08.17.2023
John Coates on THE PROBLEM OF TWELVE
A “problem of twelve” arises when a small number of institutions acquire the means to exert outsized influence over the politics and economy of a nation. According to Harvard law professor John Coates, the Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State...
08.16.2023
Award-winning journalist Bob Hennelly
Award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly has a passion for uncovering the News behind the News. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he has always had a keen interest in the roles of immigration, local politics, business, labor unions, real...
08.12.2023
Dr. Walter D. Greason | Danian Darrell Jerry
As we celebrate 50 years in Hip Hop, ILLMATIC CONSEQUENCES combines social science and hip-hop studies to address disinformation and propaganda that distorted political discourse after the 2020 election. In this text, scholars and activists come together to clap back...
08.11.2023
Alejandra Oliva's RIVERMOUTH
In this powerful and deeply felt memoir of translation, storytelling, and borders, Alejandra Oliva, a Mexican-American translator and immigrant justice activist, offers a powerful chronical of her experience interpreting at the US-Mexico border. Having worked with asylum seekers since 2016, she...
08.10.2023
Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible
More than twenty years ago, 9/11 and the war in Afghanistan set into motion a hugely consequential shift in America’s foreign policy: a perpetual state of war that is almost entirely invisible to the American public. War Made Invisible, by...
08.09.2023
Altagracia B. Pierre-Outerbridge on Rent Guidelines
Tenants in rent-stabilized apartments will see rent increases in the coming year lower than worst-case scenarios, following a Rent Guidelines Board preliminary this past Spring. Join us when Altagracia Pierre-Outerbridge, founder and owner of New York city-based law firm Outerbridge Law...
08.05.2023
Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Okin on Silent Voices
With Homelessness in NYC being such a pervasive issue today's guest, former Commissioner of Mental Health Dr. Robert Okin covers the two years he spent on the street meeting and photographing homeless individuals with mental illness to find answers to...
08.04.2023
Christopher Miller on The War Came To Us
Christopher Miller, the Ukraine correspondent for the Financial Times and the foremost journalist covering the country, was there on the ground when the first Russian missiles struck and troops stormed over the border. But the seeds of Russia's war against...
08.03.2023
Historian Luke Nichter on The Year That Broke Politics
The 1968 presidential race was a contentious battle between vice president Hubert Humphrey, Republican Richard Nixon, and former Alabama governor George Wallace. The United States was reeling from the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy and...
07.21.2023
The Story of Russia / Orlando Fige
The Story of Russia is a peek into the thousand years of Russia’s history, concerned as much with the ideas that have shaped how Russians think about their past as it is with the events and personalities comprising it. No...
07.20.2023
David Rothenberg the founder of The Fortune Society
In 1967, David Rothenberg produced a play called Fortune and Men’s Eyes that revealed the horrors of life in prison. This inspired him to establish The Fortune Society (Fortune). In its 50 years, Fortune has become one of the leading...
07.19.2023
Sean Mirski on WE MAY DOMINATE THE WORLD
Sean A. Mirski a lawyer and U.S. foreign policy scholar who has worked on national security issues across multiple U.S. presidential administrations ask, What did it take for the United States to become a global superpower? He suggest the answer...
07.18.2023
Paul KIx / to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Live
It’s one of the iconic photographs of American history: A Black teenager, a policeman and his lunging German Shepherd. Birmingham, Alabama, May of 1963. In May of 2020, as reporter Paul Kix stared at a different photo–that of a Minneapolis...
07.14.2023
Investigative Journalist Bob Hennelly of Stuck Nation
Join us today when award-winning journalist and Regular Contributor Bob Hennelly shares his passion for bringing real news. Born in Paterson, New Jersey, he has always had a keen interest in the roles of immigration, local politics, business, labor unions,...
07.13.2023
Jane M. Spinak on The End of Family Court
According to renowned advocate for children’s welfare and juvenile justice Jane M. Spinak, at the turn of the twentieth century, American social reformers created the first juvenile court. They imagined a therapeutic court where informality, specially trained public servants, and...
07.12.2023
Jeff Goodell on The Heat Will Kill You First
According to award-winning journalist Jeff Goodell, the world is waking up to a new reality: wildfires are now seasonal in California, the Northeast is getting less and less snow each winter, and the ice sheets in the Arctic and Antarctica...
07.08.2023
Rob Eschmann on When the Hood Comes Off
Writer, educator, filmmaker, and scholar from Chicago - Dr. Rob Eschmann writes on educational inequality, community violence, racism, social media, and youth wellbeing. His research seeks to uncover individual, group, and intuitional-level barriers to racial and economic equity, and he pays...
07.07.2023
Pete Muroski on Native Landscapes
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large gardening expert Pete Muroski, founder of Native Landscapes in Pawling, NY returns to share tips and take calls. Pete is a talented landscape designer with a particular affinity toward using material that is indigenous to...
07.04.2023
Matthew J. Clavin on Symbols of Freedom
Symbols of Freedom is the surprising story of how enslaved people and their allies drew inspiration from the language and symbols of American freedom. Interpreting patriotic words, phrases, and iconography literally, they embraced a revolutionary nationalism that not only justified...
07.01.2023
Matthew Dallek on Birchers
At the height of the John Birch Society’s activity in the 1960s, critics dismissed its members as a paranoid fringe. “Birchers” believed that a vast communist conspiracy existed in America and posed an existential threat to Christianity, capitalism, and freedom....
06.30.2023
GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY
Gender Without Identity offers an innovative and at times unsettling theory of gender formation. Rooted in the metapsychology of Jean Laplanche and in conversation with bold work in queer and trans studies, Avgi Saketopoulou and Ann Pellegrini jettison “core gender...
06.29.2023
Jeffrey Toobin on Home Grown
New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Toobin traces the dramatic history and profound legacy of Timothy McVeigh, who once declared, “I believe there is an army out there, ready to rise up, even though I never found it.” But that...

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Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York episodes:

Laura Pappano on School Moms

Investigative Journalist Robert Hennelly

Leonard Lopate at Large Call-in

David Pietrusza on Gangsterland

Nasheet Waits Music Director: The Max Roach Centennial

Just Action by Richard and Leah Rothstein

Steven Ujifusa on The Last Ships from Hamburg

Leonard Lopate at Large Call-In

Melissa Goldthwaite on GOOD EATS

Michael Zweig on Class, Race, and Gender

A Falling-Off Place by Barbara G. Mensch

Justin Michael Williams and Shelly Tygielski

Robert Hennelly of Stuck Nation

Lauren S. Foley on On the Basis of Race

Ben Lewin on Inside Science

Leonardo Freitas is the Chairman and Managing Director of Hayman

Jonathan Taplin on THE END OF REALITY

Mike Rothschild on Jewish Space Lasers:

ROLAND RICH on Leviathan

Mary C. Shanklin on American Castle

Altagracia Pierre-Outerbridge

Marjorie Kelly on Marjorie Kelly

Brian H. Williams on The Bodies Keep Comin

Monona Rossol industrial hygienist

J. C. Hallman on Say Anarcha

The Codex of the Endangered Species / Lowell E. Baier

We Thought It Would Be Heaven by Blair Sackett and Anette Lareau

David Schenck on Into the Field of Suffering

John Coates on THE PROBLEM OF TWELVE

Award-winning journalist Bob Hennelly

Dr. Walter D. Greason | Danian Darrell Jerry

Alejandra Oliva's RIVERMOUTH

Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible

Altagracia B. Pierre-Outerbridge on Rent Guidelines

Psychiatrist Dr. Robert Okin on Silent Voices

Christopher Miller on The War Came To Us

Historian Luke Nichter on The Year That Broke Politics

The Story of Russia / Orlando Fige

David Rothenberg the founder of The Fortune Society

Sean Mirski on WE MAY DOMINATE THE WORLD

Paul KIx / to Be Prepared to Die Before You Can Live

Investigative Journalist Bob Hennelly of Stuck Nation

Jane M. Spinak on The End of Family Court

Jeff Goodell on The Heat Will Kill You First

Rob Eschmann on When the Hood Comes Off

Pete Muroski on Native Landscapes

Matthew J. Clavin on Symbols of Freedom

Matthew Dallek on Birchers

GENDER WITHOUT IDENTITY

Jeffrey Toobin on Home Grown