As The Sea issue comes to a close, we turn the podcast’s attention toward the scientists and experts who can give us the score on the health of our oceans today. In part two, Captain Charles Moore, Nancy Rabalais, Callum Roberts, Jeremy Jackson, Donovan Hohn, Alan Sielen, and Curtis Ebbesmeyer take us to all the dead zones, garbage patches, and other pollution-choked corners of the seas.
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Eric Foner, author of Battles for Freedom: The Use and Abuse of American History. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media—from the Founding Fathers to Fake News. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Mark Kurlansky, author of Paper: Paging Through History. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Being a Human: Adventures in Forty Thousand Years of Consciousness. More
Lewis Lapham talks with historian Richard White about the failures of the companies behind a major alteration of the American West. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick. More
