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 the author of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775–1777. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Holger Hoock, author of Scars of Independence: America’s Violent Birth, at a New York Public Library event. More
Lewis Lapham talks with Simon Winchester, author of Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers. 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 Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The People, No. More
