Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(11/14/2022) David Fenton has been the driving force behind some of the most important and history-making campaigns of the last 50 years, from the No-Nukes concerts with Bruce Springsteen in 1979, to the campaigns to free Nelson Mandela and end apartheid in the late 1980s, exposing the dangers of toxic chemicals in our food, the long battle to legalize marijuana and end racist drug laws, the misinformation in Washington during the Bush era in the 2000s, and recent campaigns that successfully banned fracking in New York and alerted the public to the climate crisis, including the environmental impact of Bitcoin.

Join us when, David tells the fascinating story of how he developed the strategies and that have made him a successful media agitator and shows how these tools can be used by anyone to advance their cause on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

(11/9/2022) David Dorsen, who first came to national attention in the early 1970s as an Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and Assistant Chief Counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee will examine, his book Judicial Mayhem: How Federal Judges Betrayed Their Public Trust.

Join us when Dorsen gives a 'behind-the-bench' look at how the federal court system can completely malfunction with a never-before-revealed account of this extraordinary miscarriage of justice in a white-collar case on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

November 8th 2022, voters across the state will fill out their ballots in a number of competitive races that have the power to reshape the state’s political future. This marks the time for the general election for federal and statewide offices including U.S. Congress, Governor, ballot proposals, and more.

For more than 30 years, Bob Hennelly has reported on a broad spectrum of major public policy questions. Join us when Robert "Bob" Hennelly an award-winning, print and broadcast journalist examines the midterm elections. Call-in and let your voice be heard with your questions, suggestions, and concerns @ 212.209.2877.

(11/4/2022) In The Rescue Effect, by Michael Mehta Webster reveals the science behind nature’s inherent resilience, through compelling stories of species that are adapting to the changing world—including tigers in the jungles of India, cichlid fish in the great lakes of Africa, and corals in the Caribbean.

Michael Mehta Webster is a Professor of Practice in the Department of Environmental Studies. He earned a Ph.D. in Zoology at Oregon State University, and a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin.

Webster argues that there are good reasons to expect a bright future, because everywhere we look, we can see evidence that nature can rescue many species from extinction; and when nature alone is not up to the task, we can help. Join us when Webster shares rigorous research with gripping storytelling, The Rescue Effect provides the cautious optimism we need to help save life on Earth on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

(11/3/2022) In Picking Presidents, Gautam Mukunda sets his sights on presidential candidates, proposing an objective and tested method to assess whether they will succeed or fail if they win the White House. Combining political science, psychology, organizational behavior, and economics, Picking Presidents will enable every American to cast an informed vote.

Picking Presidents provides analysis of filtered and unfiltered presidents alike, from failed haberdasher and skillful president Harry Truman, to the exceptionally well-qualified—and ultimately reviled—James Buchanan; from Andrew Johnson, who set civil rights back by a century, to Theodore Roosevelt, who evaded party opposition to transform American society.

Join us when Gautam Mukunda examines Picking Presidents, which lays out a clear framework that anyone can use to judge a candidate and answer the all-important question in order to determine if they are they up to the job on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

(11/2/2022) Senior reporter for the Verge and Vox Media site devoted to technology and society, James Vincent finds the correlation from the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, and shares measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In his book Beyond Masure James Vincent dives into its hidden world, taking readers from ancient Egypt, where measuring the annual depth of the Nile was an essential task, to the intellectual origins of the metric system in the French Revolution, and from the surprisingly animated rivalry between metric and imperial, to our current age of the “quantified self.” Join us when Vincent touches on the political consequences of measurement, exploring how it has also been used as a tool for oppression and control on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large. Beyond Measure reveals how measurement is not only deeply entwined with our experience of the world, but also how its history encompasses and shapes the human quest for knowledge.

(10/31/2022) Chemist, artist and industrial hygienist Monona Rossol is the founder of Arts, Crafts and Theater Safety, Inc. A not-for-profit corporation dedicated to providing health and safety services to the arts. She is also the Health and Safety Director for the Local 829 union of the United Scenic Artists International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees. Join us when, Monona addresses concerns of the flu and other infectious health statistics on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM.

(10/28/2022) A white supremacist shooting and an astonishing act of forgiveness. A national reckoning with race and the Confederate flag. The fate of marriage equality and the Affordable Care Act.

Cody Keenan shares his book GRACE, the propulsive story of ten days in June 2015, when Obama and his chief speechwriter Cody Keenan composed a series of high-stakes speeches to meet a succession of stunning developments.

GRACE also delivers a fascinating portrait of White House insiders like Ben Rhodes, Valerie Jarrett, Jen Psaki, and the speechwriting team responsible for pulling it all off during a furious, historic stretch of the Obama presidency

Join us when Cody Keenan takes us inside the craft of speechwriting at the highest level for the most demanding of bosses, the relentlessly poetic and perfectionist Barack Obama, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

(10/27/2022) "The New Yorkers" introduces the first woman to appear nude in a motion picture, becoming the face of Civic Fame as Miss Manhattan; the couple whose soirée ended the Gilded Age with an embarrassing bang; and the husband and wife who invented the modern celebrity talk show.

It reveals the victim of the city's first recorded murder in the seventeenth century and the high school dropout who slashed crime rates in the twentieth. The notorious mobster who was imperiously banished from the city and the woman who successfully sued a bus company for racial discrimination a century before Rosa Parks.

Join us when Sam Roberts, a 50-year veteran of New York journalism, an obituaries reporter and formerly the Urban Affairs correspondent at the New York Times takes us on a pulsating journey history of the world's most exceptional metropolis on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

(10/25/2022) The Russian Revolution of 1917 has long been considered as the radical event that changed 20th century world history and Russian-style Communism as its core. Yet the first social revolution was not in Russia but in Mexico, and it started seven years earlier in 1910.

In the book ARISE!: Global Radicalism in the Era of the Mexican Revolution (October 2022), author Christina Heatherton offers the first book to stake the claim of the Mexican Revolution for the global stage.

Tracing the paths of figures like Black American artist Elizabeth Catlett, Indian anti-colonial activist M.N. Roy, Mexican revolutionary leader Ricardo Flores Magón, Okinawan migrant organizer Paul Shinsei Kōchi, and Soviet feminist Alexandra Kollontai, Arise! reveals how activists around the world found inspiration and solidarity in revolutionary Mexico.

Join us when Christina Heatherton, an American Studies scholar and historian of anti-racist social movements shares her unique vantage point, as she charts the remarkable impact of the Mexican Revolution on this installment on Leonard Lopate at Large.