Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(4/21/2022) Richard Cohen’s forthcoming work MAKING HISTORY.

Poignantly addresses Vladimir Putin’s narratives of Russia and Ukraine that have been a long time in the making… Richard Cohen Ask What other parts of the nation’s history has Putin manipulated?

In MAKING HISTORY Richard Cohen dives into the many schemes of Putin’s political (and cultural) propaganda, summarizing and putting into context the lies he wants the world (or, at least, Russians) to believe. Want to know more? Listen to the next installment of Leonard Lopate at Large coming up at 1pm ET on 99.5FM

World-renowned primatologist Frans de Waal draws on decades of observation and studies of both human and animal behavior in his book “Different: Gender Through the Eyes of a Primatologist”.

He argues that despite the linkage between gender and biological sex, biology does not automatically support the traditional gender roles in human societies. De Waal challenges widely held beliefs about masculinity and femininity, and common assumptions about authority, leadership, cooperation, competition, filial bonds, and sexual behavior.

Frans de Waal will discuss his thought-provoking approach to the long-running debate about the balance between nature and nurture, and where sex and gender roles fit in, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM

Some implode in chaos, others thrive. Morrow thrives. Join us when Composer Charlie Morrow, the writer of the Leonard Lopate at Large theme music, offers fascinating discussion on the phenomena of sound. The project includes experiences recalled during birth. Charlie Morrow’s story begins at birth, a cliché for some, but for him a dearly held fact, because memories of his birth catapulted him into art. He spent over a decade recalling the “physically painful passage through maternal contractions and expulsion into the aerobic world,” he writes his involuntary attention to sound begins at gestation. Discover how Morrow’s early immersive experiences influenced his practice and how they’re mirrored in the work of his collaborator-founder-inventor-colleagues on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

(3/15/2022) Rebroadcast - On April 10, 1977, Leonard Lopate was heard through the airwaves on WBAI for the first time. He was playing gospel records for Easter. With the Easter holiday weekend upon us, we thought the timing couldn’t be better for Leonard to return to his radio roots with another gospel music spectacular. Join us for a Good Friday special featuring classic Easter recordings from Leonard’s personal collection of recordings from the golden age of black gospel music.

(4/14/2022) Join us when Award-winning journalist Mark Follman examines his book TRIGGER POINTS: Inside the Mission to Stop Mass Shootings in America. Mark Follman gained exclusive access to leaders of the FBI’s elite Behavioral Analysis Unit and top mental health experts who pioneered the field, and he immersed in confidential threat-assessment programs nationwide, including a leading model created for K-12 schools after Columbine. Follman says, it’s time to go beyond all the thoughts and prayers, misguided blame on mental illness, and dug-in disputes over the Second Amendment. The emerging field of behavioral threat assessment, with its synergy of mental health and law enforcement expertise, focuses on circumstances and behaviors leading up to planned acts of violence in order to identify warning signs that offer a chance for constructive intervention before it's too late.

4/12/2022)New York Times journalist Keith O'Brien reviews his book Paradise Falls: The True Story of an Environmental Catastrophe. O’Brien uncovers how mothers who loved their neighborhood on the east side of Niagara Falls were exposed to the poisonous secrets buried in their neighborhood.

Join us on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large, when Keith O'Brien examines this staggering story of an unlikely band of mothers in the 1970s who discovered Hooker Chemical's deadly secret of Love Canal—exposing one of America’s most devastating toxic waste disasters and sparking the modern environmental movement as we know it today.

(4-11-2022) In Democracy under Fire, Lawrence Jacobs provides a history of political reforms since the late-eighteenth century that over time weakened democracy, widened political inequality as well as racial disparities, and rewarded toxic political polarization.

Much of the attention paid to Trump's rise to power has focused on his corrosive personality and divisive style of governing. Jacobs will examine the ascendance of Trump which is the culmination of nearly 250 years of political reforms that gradually ceded party nominations to small cliques of ideologically motivated party activists, interest groups, and donors, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

(4/8/22)Philosopher Elizabeth Cripps approaches climate justice not just as an abstract idea but as something that should motivate us all. In her book, What Climate Justice Means and Why We Should Care, Cripps uses irrefutable science and uncontroversial moral rules. By unraveling the legacy of colonialism and entrenched racism she explores our obligations to each other, the non-human world, and makes the case for immediate action, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM

Sally Hayden the Africa correspondent for the Irish Times, based between the UK and Uganda focused on migration, conflict, and humanitarian crises. Hayden sheds light on a human rights disaster of epic proportions in "My Fourth Time, We Drowned: Seeking Refuge on the World's Deadliest Migration Route". It is an intimate portrait of life for detainees, as well as a condemnation of NGOs and the United Nations. But most importantly, My Fourth Time, We Drowned examines the resilience of humans: how refugees and migrants locked up for years fall in love, support each other through the hardest times, and carry out small acts of resistance to survive in a system that wants them to be silent and disappear, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI 99.5FM.

(4/5/22) Before working at WNYC, investigative journalist and regular contributor Bob Hennelly was national affairs correspondent for Pacifica Network News. His written work has appeared in the New York Times, the Village Voice, the Christian Science Monitor, the Miami Herald, the Detroit Free Press along with dozens of other magazines and newspapers. His work has been featured on 60 Minutes and C-Span's America and the Courts. In this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI, Bob weighs in on New York City’s new mayor and the people he is bringing into his administration along with other issues he is currently reporting on in the Tri-State area.