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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... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, John Murphy and Michael Reitner discuss their important documentary “Agents Unknown.”

John Murphy has a story to tell. An elite adviser, analyst, and operative for the Army, CIA and South Vietnamese intelligence services, John experienced the Vietnam War up close and behind close doors in a way that few people did.

Michael Reitner’s documentary “Agents Unknown” is the first in-depth look into John’s role in this untold bit of US military history. It’s a story of intelligence work at the ground level: espionage, agents and bad information working its way through the war machine, leading to the epic failures of command that made the human cost of the Vietnam War much greater.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, John Murphy and Michael Reitner discuss their important documentary “Agents Unknown.” John Murphy has a story to tell. An elite adviser, analyst, and operative for the Army, CIA and South Vietnamese intelligence services, John... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Hugh Ryan discusses a largely untold history.

Hugh Ryan’s “When Brooklyn Was Queer” is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the queer women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond.

Not only has Brooklyn always lived in the shadow of queer Manhattan neighborhoods like Greenwich Village and Harlem, but there has also been a systematic erasure of its queer history―a great forgetting.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Hugh Ryan discusses a largely untold history. Hugh Ryan’s “When Brooklyn Was Queer” is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up... Read More ›

According to the CDC, between 1999 and 2017 over 218,000 Americans died due to overdoses from prescription opioids–more than 3 times the number of Americans killed in Vietnam. Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, join Leonard for a conversation with Jonathan H. Marks about why this troubling practice needs to stop. 

A current Massachusetts court case alleges that Purdue Pharmaceuticals, the multi-billion dollar company that makes Oxycontin, continued to “turbocharge” sales of the drug while downplaying its extreme danger–for more than a decade after pleading guilty in 2007 to misleading regulators, doctors, and patients about the drug’s risk of addiction and potential for abuse.

And yet in 2017, when the National Institutes of Health held meetings to combat the crisis, they turned to…Purdue executives for advice. This would be darkly comic if so many lives were not at stake—and the practice was not so common.

Building on the ideas in his popular TED talk “In Praise of Conflict,” Jonathan H. Marks examines the widespread practice of public-private partnerships in “The Perils of Partnership: Industry Influence, Institutional Integrity, and Public Health.”

According to the CDC, between 1999 and 2017 over 218,000 Americans died due to overdoses from prescription opioids–more than 3 times the number of Americans killed in Vietnam. Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, join Leonard for a conversation with Jonathan... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Lewis H. Lapham discusses the magazine Lapham’s Quarterly , his prodigious career and a new edition of his 1988 book “Money and Class in America.”

Lewis H. Lapham has been the editor of Lapham’s Quarterly since founding it in 2007. The literary magazine uses material throughout history to explore a different theme in each issue.

The editor of Harper’s Magazine from 1975 to 2006, Lewis is a member of the American Society of Magazine Editors Hall of Fame. He is the author of 14 books, including “Money and Class in America,” “The Wish for Kings,” “Waiting for the Barbarians,” “Theater of War,” and “Age of Folly.” His documentary “The American Ruling Class” has become part of the curriculum in many of the nation’s schools and colleges.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Lewis H. Lapham discusses the magazine Lapham’s Quarterly , his prodigious career and a new edition of his 1988 book “Money and Class in America.” Lewis H. Lapham has been the editor of Lapham’s... Read More ›

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Blake J. Harris discusses the incredible story that inspired him to write “The History of the Future.”

Topics: Blake J. Harris’s 2019 book “The History Of The Future: Oculus, Facebook, and the Revolution That Swept Virtual Reality” takes readers behind the scenes of Oculus, the upstart VR company founded in 2012 that—less than two years later—dazzled Mark Zuckerberg and was bought by Facebook for over $2 billion dollars.

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Blake J. Harris discusses the incredible story that inspired him to write “The History Of The Future.”