His name has become little more than a byword for death and destruction. Yet behind his prophecies was a 16th-century doctor, astrologer, and minor media star. Stéphane Gerson comes on the podcast to talk about his recent Nostradamus biography and to tell the story of this renaissance astrologer and how he became a “prophet of doom.”
Lewis Lapham talks with historian John Julius Norwich about one of the most successful institutions the world has ever known. More
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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 speaks with the author of Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with the author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation. More
