Themes

Non-Fiction Books

Siskel & Ebert: Opposable Thumbs

Our Deadly Streets with Jeff Speck

John Julius Reel with “My Half Orange”

Going Analog with David Sax

Consequential Strangers with Melinda Blau

Belle Gunness: Getting Away with Murder

Danny Nielsen & “Straight Flossin’”

Levi Vonk and “Border Hacker”

Free Speech with Suzanne Nossel

On the Trail of the Jackalope with Michael Branch

“Carefully Taught” by Cary Ginell

Finance / Economics

Brendan Ballou and “Plunder,” Private Equity

Myths of Poverty with Mark Rank

Reimagining Capitalism with Rebecca Henderson

Patriotic Millionaires

How Rules and Laws Pervert Salary Negotiations

Taylorism: What It Means Today

Fiction Books

Saturday Night at the Lakeside Supper Club

People from Bloomington with Tiffany Tsao

The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies

The Great Believers: A Great Book

Sarah Blake and her Novel, Clean Air

The Mean Reds with Dale Bridges

Paddington Bear and Michael Bond

Was Robert Ludlum Consumed by His Own Brand?

Shows

The Walking Dead with Oleg Livits

The Genius of Office Space

Enlightened – Part I

Enlightened – Part 2

Reacher: The Book and the Series

Music

News of Tom Lehrer with Jeff Morris

The Mix Tape with Ben Vaughn

Reflections with Amy Rigby

Michael Nesmith: We’ll Remember You

Rockin’ with Jerry Williams, Jr., aka Swamp Dogg

Webb Wilder & Steve Boyle: Last of the Full Grown Men

Lauren Leigh Martin, San Diego Songbird

Jeff Berkeley Is Back!

Music with the Michiganders

Catching Up with Lisa Sanders

Elini Austin, Music Reviewer

Hanging Out with Ben Vaughn

Christmas Music: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Vampr with Josh Simons

Mad Acts

Shipwrecks! with Charles Beeker

Prankster Alan Abel

Censorship & Obscenities with Michael Adams

How Exercise Helps Your Brain

Rogue Dogs and their Wildlife Detection Work

Thinking Together with Alex Chambers

How Not to Be Mad

Understanding Cast Iron with Ned Adams

LuLaRoe with Lola Geek

Raising the Roof with the Wild Honey Foundation

The Wild World of Music Promotion with Elliot Kendall

How to Publish Your Book (If You’re Not Famous)

Nerding Out with Michael Adams about Dictionaries

Art

Jennifer Jenkins Takes Us Into the Public Domain

Family Circus and Jeff Keane

Animation Resources with Stephen Worth

Trina Robbins, Cartoonist

The Opus of William Stout

Getting Creative with Curio and Co

Episodes on Education

Education in Prison with Peter Fulks

Getting Educated with IU Dean Van Kooten

Teaching with Doug McKee

Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

Schoolhouse Burning: Public Education with Derek Black

Teacher Pay for Performance

All About Charter Schools

Samuel Paty: A Teacher Killed for Doing His Job

School Assessments: A Rigorous Look

Teacher Supply, Qualifications, Impact and Pay

Public School District Financing

Episodes on Journalism

Losing the Local News

Bethany McLean on Enron and Business Reporting

America’s Last Great Newspaper War

The San Diego Union Tribune and the Coronavirus

The Expulsion of Journalists During a Pandemic

Talking Journalism During a Pandemic

The Trade Press and the Keating Five

Epidemic Literature (recorded solo in 2020)

They Came Like Swallows by William Maxwell

Colson Whitehead’s Zone One

Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandel

Have Mercy On Us All by Fred Vargas

The Plague by Albert Camus

Katherine Anne Porter & Her Literary Virus

The Painted Veil: The Book and the Movie

A Couple of Contagions

The End of October by Lawrence Wright

Death in Venice: The Novella, the Film, and the Opera

Mary Shelley and The Last Man

The Female Man, a Gender-Specific Plague

Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake

Greg Bear: Blood Music and Darwin’s Radio

Stephen King’s The Stand

George R. Stewart’s Earth Abides

Andromeda Strain, A Literary Virus

The White Plague by Frank Herbert

Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Fatal Eggs

The Masque of the Red Death by Edgar Allan Poe

The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

Thomas Mann and the Magic Mountain

Did Eyes of Darkness Predict Covid-19?

Typhoid Mary: A Believe-It-Or-Not Story