A conversation with philosopher Susan Neiman about collective guilt, reparations payments, and her new book: Learning from the Germans: Race and the Memory of Evil (2019).

A conversation with writer Adam Gopnik about ambition, married love, New York City in the 1980s, and his delightful memoir: At the Strangers’ Gate: Arrivals in New York (2018).

A conversation with actress Erika Rosenbaum about moving to L.A. at 19, making it in Hollywood, and surviving Harvey Weinstein.

A conversation with Mike Spencer Bown about his backpacking memoir, The World’s Most Travelled Man: A Twenty-Three-Year Odyssey to and through Every Country on the Planet (2018).

A conversation with Montreal writer Leila Marshy about her debut novel, The Philistine (2018).

A conversation with writer Adam Gopnik about his new book, A Thousand Small Sanities: The Moral Adventure of Liberalism (2019).

A conversation with social psychologist Jonathan Haidt about his 13-year-old bestseller, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006).

A conversation with criminologist Lee Mellor (aka Dr. Murder) about Jim Jones, virtual reality, and the future of education.

A conversation with acclaimed artist Shelley Miller about sugar, her upcoming show, and the 21st-century art world.

A conversation with sociologist and physician Nicholas A. Christakis about his new book, Blueprint: The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society (2019).