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 H. Lapham speaks with the co-editor of Who’s Black and Why? A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tyranny of Merit: What’s Become of the Common Good? More
Lewis Lapham talks with author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in World War I–era Britain. More
Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Analogia: The Emergence of Technology Beyond Programmable Control. More
Discovering communities of microbes that exist within us. 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
