Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

Have you ever wondered about the correct pronunciation of a word you use all the time. Are there words that you think you’re hearing people mispronounce or misuse all the time? In this installment of “Leonard Lopate at Large” on WBAI, Kathryn and Ross Petras, authors of their New York Times bestseller “You're Saying It Wrong: A Pronunciation Guide to the 150 Most Commonly Mispronounced Words--and Their Tangled Histories of Misuse” and “That Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means: The 150 Most Commonly Misused Words and Their Tangled Histories” take your questions about this crazy thing we call the English language.

David Gessner the Bestselling author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism asks what kind of planet his daughter will inherit in this coast-to-coast guide to navigating climate crisis.

The world is burning and the seas are rising. How do we navigate this new age of extremes? In A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World, David Gessner takes readers on an eye-opening tour of climate hotspots from the Gulf of Mexico to the burning American West to New York City to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas.

Gessner approaches scientists and thinkers with a father’s question: What will the world be like in forty-two years? Gessner was forty-two when his daughter, Hadley, was born. What will the world be like in 2064, when Hadley is his age now? What is the future of weather? The future of heat, storms, and fire? What exactly will our children be facing?

Join us when Gessner tells a story of climate crisis that will both entertain and shake people awake to the necessity of navigating this new age together, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

In the Collaborator Ian Buruma gives an account of three near-mythic figures—a Dutch fixer, a Manchu princess, and Himmler’s masseur—who may have been con artists and collaborators under Japanese and German rule, or true heroes, or something in between. All three figures have been vilified and mythologized, out of a never-ending need, Ian Buruma argues, to see history, and particularly war, and above all World War II, as a neat story of angels and devils.

Ian Buruma is the Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights and Journalism at Bard College. His writing has appeared in the New York Times, New York Review of Books, New Yorker, Harper’s, The Guardian, Times Literary Supplement, NRC Handelsblad, among others. He is a regular columnist for Project Syndicate.

Join us when Ian Buruma examines each character who committed wartime acts that led some to see them as national heroes, and others as villains, on this installment of Leoanrd Lopate at Large.

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, real estate ownership, and environmental protection in the evolution of the United States.

For more than 30 years, he has reported on a broad spectrum of major public policy questions, ranging from homeland security to the economy, environmental contamination to corruption, and occupational safety to homelessness.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large. When Bob Hennelly investigates the story, you're going to get the perspectives popular media won't cover.

In The Watchdog, Steve Drummond draws the reader into the fast-paced story of how Harry Truman, still a newcomer to Washington politics, cobbled together a bipartisan team of men and women that took on powerful corporate entities and the Pentagon, placing Truman in the national spotlight and paving his path to the White House.

Join us for the story of how a little-known junior senator fought wartime corruption and, in the process, set himself up to become vice president and ultimately President Harry Truman, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

If a scientist’s goal is to deliver content and expertise to the people who need it, then other stakeholder groups―the media, the government, industry―need to be considered as partners to collaborate with in order to solve problems.

Written by established scientist Christopher Reddy, who has been on the front lines of several environmental crisis events his new book - Communicating Science in a Crisis - highlights ten specific challenges and reflects on mistakes made and lessons learned.

Reddy’s aim is not to teach scientists how to ace an interview or craft a soundbite, rather, through exploring several high-profile case studies, including the North Cape oil spill, Deepwater Horizon, and the 2021 Sri Lanka shipping disaster, he presents a clear pathway to effective and collaborative communication.

Join us when government policy expert Don Kettl examines the hidden crisis brought on by the end of Title 42

A professor emeritus and former dean in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, shares his perspectives

and why isn’t more being done to help the people streaming across the border? The answers lie in the end of the public health barrier that Title 42 created—and in the role of nongovernmental partners who create public value.

Join us when government policy expert Donald Kettl examines the hidden crisis brought on by the end of Title 42
A professor emeritus and former dean in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland, shares his perspectives
and why isn’t more being done to help the people streaming across the border? The answers lie in the end of the public health barrier that Title 42 created—and in the role of nongovernmental partners who create public value.
on the hidden crisis brought on by the end of Title 42.

In Plunder, Brendan Ballou explains how private equity has reshaped American business by raising prices, reducing quality, cutting jobs, and shifting resources from productive to unproductive parts of the economy. Ballou vividly illustrates how many private equity firms buy up retailers, medical practices, prison services, nursing-home chains, and mobile-home parks, among other businesses, using little of their own money to do it and avoiding debt and liability for their actions. Join us when Ballou explains how companies forced to take on huge debts and pay extractive fees, companies purchased by private equity firms are often left bankrupt, or shells of their former selves, with consequences to communities that long depended on them, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.

White Power and American Neoliberal Culture speaks to the urgency of the present moment by uncovering and examining the ideologies that led us here. This book argues that white extremist worldviews—and the violence they provoke—have converged with a radical economic and social agenda to shape daily life in the United States, especially by enshrining the male-dominated white family as the ideal of national identity. Sources include white terrorist manifestos, white power utopian fiction, neoliberal think tank reports, and neoconservative policy statements,

Join us when authors Patricia Ventura and Edward K. Chan paint a striking portrait of how the forces of white supremacy and racial capitalism enable each other, perpetuating social injustice and inequity, on this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large.