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Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Mother Jones reporter Julia Lurie details the major health hazards rehab recruiters are exposing recovering addicts to under the guise of trying to help. “The offer was too good to resist: Go to rehab... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Alison Klayman and producer Marie Therese Guirgis discuss their experience making “The Brink” and why they feel it is a film every American needs to see.

“The Brink” is a startling new documentary directed and filmed by Alison Klayman (“Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry,” “Take Your Pills”) that follows former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon as he takes his effort to spread extreme nationalism from the U.S. to the rest of the world.

With unprecedented access, Klayman’s fly-on-the-wall historical document employs a vérité approach that aims to expose Bannon’s tactics, including his relationship with the media.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Alison Klayman and producer Marie Therese Guirgis discuss their experience making “The Brink” and why they feel it is a film every American needs to see. “The Brink” is a startling new documentary directed... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Peter Campus, Cristin Tierney and Noam M. Elcott discuss the rise of video art, and what role Peter has played in its transformation to one of the major artistic disciplines of our time.

Born in 1937 in New York City, Peter Campus is a seminal artist in the fields of new media and video art.

Peter’s work is a part of the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Tate Modern. In his recent digital video work, he transforms footage of landscapes and interiors into painterly scenes, using sophisticated digital techniques.

Cristin Tierney opened her eponymous art gallery in New York City in 2010, following a long career with Christie’s Auction House.

Noam M. Elcott is the chair of art humanities in the art history department at Columbia University and the author of “Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media.”

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Peter Campus, Cristin Tierney and Noam M. Elcott discuss the rise of video art, and what role Peter has played in its transformation to one of the major artistic disciplines of our time. Born... Read More ›

On Leonard Lopate at Large today, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explores a confounding question at the heart of so much systemic gender inequality throughout America and beyond. Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there’s no denying that most of these leaders are men.... Read More ›

On Leonard Lopate at Large today, Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic explores a confounding question at the heart of so much systemic gender inequality throughout America and beyond.

Incompetent leadership is everywhere, and there’s no denying that most of these leaders are men.

In his timely and provocative new book “Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It)” Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic asks two powerful questions: why is it so easy for incompetent men to become leaders and why is it so hard for competent people—especially competent women—to advance?

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Randy Shaw expands on the themes of housing inequity that he explores in his book. In cities across the country, skyrocketing rents and home values are forcing the young, the non-rich, and the non-white... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Randy Shaw expands on the themes of housing inequity that he explores in his book.

In cities across the country, skyrocketing rents and home values are forcing the young, the non-rich, and the non-white out of cities—or pricing them out before they move in—leaving urban America less diverse, less vibrant, and less fair.

In his new book, “Generation Priced Out: Who Gets To Live in the New Urban America,” housing advocate Randy Shaw challenges progressive cities to reverse rising economic and racial inequality and offers specific strategies to do it.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard celebrates the first day of spring by opening the phones for gardening expert Pete Muroski to take your questions on all things botanical.

If you’re the type of person for whom spring is all about flowers blooming and the smell of a healthy topsoil, or you’re simply interested in possibly doing some light gardening in the warmer months, you won’t want to miss it.