THE BEAT GOES ON

Heather Cox Richardson, Ph.D.

Professor of History, Boston College and author of Letters from an American, a nightly Substack newsletter.

• Visit Richardson's Boston College faculty page
• Browse the archive of Richardson's Letters from an American Substack newsletter
• Read "Heather Cox Richardson Wants You to Study History," a short profile of Richardson in the Oct. 12, 2023 edition of the New York Times
• Listen to or read a transcript of Richardson's Oct. 6, 2023 appearance on NPR's Morning Edition
• Read an interview/profile of Richardson in the Oct. 7, 2023 edition of The Guardian
• Read a Dec. 27, 2020 New York Times profile of Richardson, "Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working"
• Listen to Richardson's podcast, "Now & Then," co-hosted by Joanne Freeman, Ph.D., of Yale University
• Browse Richardson's YouTube channel

Claire Bond Potter, Ph.D.

Professor of History Emeritus at The New School for Social Research in New York City.

• Visit Potter's website
• Browse the archive of Potter's Why Now? podcast
• Read a 2020 Publishers Weekly review of Potter's most recent book Political Junkies

Lisa M.P. Munoz

Science writer, author, and founder and president of SciComm Services.

• Visit Munoz's website
• Read an Oct. 15, 2023 interview with Munoz posted on the Amgen Biotech Experience website
• Read a short interview with Munoz on Inverse.com
• Read "Computer, Draw a Scientist: Do AI Images Reject or Reflect Gender Stereotypes?," a blog post for All Together

Vanessa Bohns, Ph.D.

Social psychologist, author, professor, and chair of organizational behavior at Cornell University's ILR School.

• Visit Bohns' website
• Read an Oct. 13, 2022 NPR interview with Bohns
• Listen to Bohns' Jan. 25, 2023 appearance on Dan Harris' Ten Percent Happier podcast
• Watch a super-short video of Bohns' appearance on Daniel Pink's (FAN '18, '22) Pinkcast podcast

David Leonhardt

Pulitzer Prize-winning senior writer for The New York Times and writer of the Times' flagship daily newsletter The Morning.

• Browse Leonhardt's New York Times archive
• Read "The Spigot," an excerpt of Ours Was the Shining Future published in the Oct. 22, 2023 edition of the New York Times Magazine
• Read "The Hard Truth About Immigration," an excerpt of Ours Was the Shining Future published in the Oct. 23, 2023 edition of The Atlantic
• Watch Leonhardt's Jan. 26, 2022 FAN event, an interview of Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton and economist Anne Case, Ph.D. about their book Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism
• Watch "How Can We Reinvigorate the American Dream?," Leonhardt in conversation with David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-CEO of The Carlyle Group, at the Aspen Ideas Festical, June 25, 2023
• Read Leonhardt's brief overview of Ours Was a Shining Future published in the Oct. 24, 2023 edition of The Morning, the New York Times daily newsletter that Leonhardt edits
• Watch Leonhardt's Oct. 24, 2023 appearance on CBS News Prime Time
• Read “Life Expectancy, Falling,” a July 22, 2021 New York Times piece by Leonhardt

Matthew Desmond, Ph.D. (FAN '16, '23)

Maurice P. During Professor of Sociology, and the founder and principal investigator of The Eviction Lab at Princeton University.

• Visit Desmond's website
• Watch Desmond's Apr. 12, 2023 Poverty, by America FAN event, an interview with Alex Kotlowitz.
• Watch Desmond's Mar. 15, 2016 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City FAN event.
• Read "Why Poverty Persists in America," an adapted excerpt of Poverty, by America published in the March 9, 2023 edition of The New York Times
• Read or listen to "How America Manufactures Poverty," Margaret Talbot's review of Poverty, by America published in the March 13, 2023 edition of The New Yorker
• Read Desmond's March 16, 2023 Op-Ed essay for The New York Times