Matt Miller – author, Washington Post columnist and Left, Right & Center host – turns his curiosity and wit to deeper encounters with the world's most provocative thinkers and newsmakers. As timely as the week's headlines, yet tackling subjects destined to influence events for years to come. This...Is Interesting brings to listeners the people and ideas that are shaping our world.
The State of the American Worker
My conversation with Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU).
1/29/2014 • 29 minutes, 38 seconds
The Wondrous Woodrow Wilson
My conversation with A. Scott Berg, author of "Wilson,” a new biography of our 28th president.
1/15/2014 • 36 minutes, 35 seconds
Our Final Invention?
My conversation with James Barrat, author of “Our Final Invention: Artificial Intelligence And The End Of The Human Era”.
12/18/2013 • 41 minutes, 31 seconds
The Deep Roots of Our Political Divide
Special presentation on Friday, December 13 at 7:30pm: Political psychotherapy with Jonathan Haidt, author of "The Righteous Mind."
12/14/2013 • 30 minutes, 25 seconds
Doubling Down on Campaign 2012
Behind the behind-the-scene stories of “Double Down: Game Change 2012,” with authors Mark Halperin and John Heilemann.
11/20/2013 • 29 minutes, 21 seconds
The Charitable Industrial Complex
My talk with Peter Buffett (Warren Buffett's son) about what's wrong with philanthropy.
11/6/2013 • 27 minutes, 48 seconds
Art as Therapy
My conversation with Alain de Botton, author of the new book, "Art as Therapy"
10/23/2013 • 30 minutes, 49 seconds
The Tea Party View
A conversation with Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, a leader of the Tea Party caucus.
10/8/2013 • 31 minutes, 11 seconds
Singapore’s 4 Percent Health Care Solution
A conversation with William Haseltine, scientist, biotech entrepreneur, and author of “Affordable Excellence: The Singapore Health Care System”
9/25/2013 • 26 minutes, 49 seconds
The Smartest Kids in the World Are Not in the U.S.
My conversation with Amanda Ripley, author of the “The Smartest Kids in the World--and How They Got That Way”
9/11/2013 • 30 minutes, 39 seconds
Quality Journalism: Dead? Or Being Painfully Reborn?
Steve Coll, author, New Yorker staff writer, and new dean of the Columbia Journalism School, on the future of journalism.
8/29/2013 • 28 minutes, 48 seconds
The Historical Jesus
Was Jesus a political radical? We talk to Reza Aslan about his controversial new book, “Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth”
8/17/2013 • 30 minutes
Thought-Controlled Computing
A tour of the ways we will soon control computers with our minds, and how this “brain-computer interface” will change society. My guest is Ariel Garten, CEO of the Toronto-based company Interaxon, which is developing such devices.
8/1/2013 • 28 minutes, 24 seconds
Can America Deal With Dying?
Poet and essayist Meghan O’Rourke, author of the memoir "The Long Goodbye," discusses the literature of grief and the American style of mourning in the age of self-help.
7/20/2013 • 28 minutes, 1 second
The Great Unwinding
The American institutions that built the middle class seem to be -- crumbling. Author George Packer traveled the country to find out how we're coping.
7/13/2013 • 32 minutes, 49 seconds
The Republicans' Secret Weapon?
As the fight over the future of the GOP takes shape, I ask National Affairs’ Yuval Levin where the GOP’s gone wrong and how conservative ideas can become relevant again.
7/3/2013 • 35 minutes, 35 seconds
Will Google and Facebook Destroy the Middle Class?
Could the Internet defy our greatest hopes and actually be a drag on the middle class?
6/5/2013 • 34 minutes, 54 seconds
The 88 Percent
The Asian middle class will grow from roughly 500 million people today to a staggering 1.75 billion by 2020. Is the world ready?
5/22/2013 • 23 minutes, 58 seconds
The Arab Spring: Have We Missed the Real Story?
Matt Miller talks to economist Hernando de Soto about the causes of the Arab Spring, and how not being able to own things can lead to revolution.
5/8/2013 • 15 minutes, 58 seconds
The Robots Are Coming!
Matt Miller talks to two of the top thinkers in the emerging technology arena about what it really means for our economic future.
