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 Lapham talks with Kory Stamper, lexicographer at Merriam-Webster and the author of Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Nancy Isenberg about the language of poverty and American myths about class, work, and equality. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands: The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865–1896. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks to Erica Benner, author of Be Like the Fox: Machiavelli in His World. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of WASPS: The Splendors and Miseries of an American Aristocracy. More
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