Professor Emeritus Stanley Temple explores Aldo Leopold's pioneering land ethic and shares some of Leopold's little-known radio shows from "College of the Air" from the 1930s. For a story about Leopold's radio talks and the search for his missing recordings, go to https://www.aldoleopold.org/post/still-searching-leopolds-voice/

Free association, transference—the Oedipus Complex. When he invented psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud also developed therapeutic techniques and concepts that, a hundred years later, are still part of our language. His analysis of dreams as wish fulfillment and his studies of repression led him to develop his theory of the unconscious and his concepts of the three-part structure of the human psyche—the id, the ego, and the super-ego. How well do his ideas about sex, compulsion, hate, death and guilt hold up today?

Craig Werner profiles three women who took big risks to become leaders of the Civil Rights Movement.

At the end of World War II, a variety of political and civic virtues helped make it possible for the United States to move decisively in just a few years to turn a defeated Japan into a self-sufficient country compatible with American interests. How much did Japanese civilians know about the outcome of the war and how did the Japanese receive the American occupation forces? And what did they think of the man in charge of the occupation—General Douglas MacArthur? Look at the occupation of Japan from the viewpoint of someone who experienced it firsthand.

Schindler's List, Life is Beautiful, The Diary of Anne Frank, and the operetta Brundibar bring the Holocaust into popular culture, but what do we discover if we scratch beneath the surface of these commercial successes? Rachel Brenner (middle above) and Teryl Dobbs (right above), along with student Jessica Kasinski (left above), explore the relevance of teaching the Holocaust today.

During World War II, academic archeologists were trained to be boots-on-the-ground spies, drawing on these scholars' personal contacts and deep knowledge of local languages and terrain. We talk with the author of "Classical Spies," about the inspiration for this scheme.

Mark Louden, Professor in the German, Nordic, and Slavic Department at the UW-Madison, and an expert in Pennsylvania Dutch culture, will describe the world of the Amish and Mennonites.

We explore haiku, the shortest poetic form in the world. Whether crude, erotic or funny, we examine haiku as a fascinating and complex global phenomenon.

At Ten Chimneys, James Pickering and Iannone will act out two scenes from plays associated with Broadway greats Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. Nate Burger and Laura Rook will share scenes from their American Players Theatre production of the two-actor play "Mary's Wedding." And Florentine Opera director William Florescu will take us behind the scenes for highlights of some of the company's standout performances.

How should privileged, white journalists change the way they cover news stories exposing systemic racism, as with Wisconsin's "Race to Equity" report? We explore personal and professional experiences with racial bias.