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 author Adam Hochschild about the struggles of the antiwar movement in World War I–era Britain. More
Lewis H. Lapham talks with Joseph J. Ellis, author of American Dialogue: The Founders and Us. More
Lewis Lapham speaks with Elizabeth Abbott, author of Mistresses: A History of the Other Woman. 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
This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Francine Prose, author of 1974: A Personal History. More
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
