Dr. Brian A. Primack, author of "You are what you click:  How being selective, positive, and creative can transform your social media experience."  Dr. Primack suggests in this book that just as we need to be mindful of what we eat,  we must be similarly mindful of our utilization of social media by constructing a 'technology diet.'  

Conservative columnist George F. Will talks about his newest book (his 16th) - "American Happiness and Discontents: the Unruly Torrent: 2008-2020,"  a generous sampling of the columns he has written for the Washington Post over the past 12 years.  

From 2007-  Louis Cataldie, author of "Coroner's Journal: Forensics and the Art of Stalking Death." 

From 2010 -  Annie Murphy Paul, author of "The Cult of Personality: How Personality Tests are leading us to mis-educate our children, mismanage our companies, and misunderstand ourselves." 

Rich Smith, Managing Artistic Director of the Over our Head Players in Racine,  talks about their production of "Nixon's Nixon," which is performed for the next three weekends.  The play is an imaginative depiction of the conversation between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger the night before Nixon resigned the presidency.  Smith both directs the play and portrays Nixon.  

John Rhodehamel, author of "America's Original Sin: White Supremacy, John Wilkes Booth, and the Lincoln Assassination."  

Dr. James Ripley,  Professor of Music at Carthage College, previews the first band concert of the school year (coming up this Sunday afternoon) - and also talks about Carthage's ongoing efforts to contend with the COVID-19 pandemic.  (Dr. Ripley sits on the school's COVID Coordination Committee which helps to shape the college's COVID policies and protocols.) 

Adam Larson, seasonal park ranger at Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park in Dorchester County, Maryland,  discusses the life and legacy of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.  September is Underground Railroad Month. 

Reid Forgrave, author of "Love, Zac:  Small-Town Football and the Life and Death of an American Boy."   Zac Easter was a young man who loved playing high school football.  Unfortunately, he suffered a series of concussions that ultimately caused him to develop CTE (a serious brain disease) - and at the age o 24, he committed suicide.  He left behind him a revealing journal and other written accounts of his experiences in the hopes that others might benefit from knowing his story.  

Best-selling author William Langewiesche discusses "American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center," a series of three articles for Atlantic Monthly magazine that were eventually gathered into a book of the same name.  Langewiesche was granted unprecedented access to Ground Zero to witness and chronicle the extraordinary recovery and restoration project in which the immense mountain of debris from the collapsed towers was cleared away.