Richard D. Heffner
Appearances on CUNY TV
The Open Mind
- Bringing Palliative Care into Mainstream American Medicine, Part 1
February 9, 2014 - News in bits and bytes…how will the kids know what's going on?
October 27, 2013 - The Art of Controversy
October 20, 2013 - Fighting For The Press
October 13, 2013 - Floyd Abrams, "Friend Of The Court"
October 6, 2013 - Up to Date with a PR Guru
September 15, 2013 - FDR and The Jews
September 8, 2013 - Religion And Social Activism In Modern America
September 1, 2013 - History As "An Act Of Faith"... Or As "Bunk" Pt. 2
August 25, 2013 - History As "An Act Of Faith"... Or As "Bunk" Pt. 1
August 18, 2013 - The Election Of 1940 - FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh and Hitler
July 28, 2013 - To Be A Journalist, Part 2 of 2
July 21, 2013 - To Be A Journalist, Part 1 of 2
July 14, 2013 - Too Big to Jail, Part 2 of 2
July 7, 2013 - Too Big to Jail, Part 1 of 2
June 30, 2013 - Does Media Violence Contribute to Real Life Violence?
June 23, 2013 - Bill Keller, Man for All Times, Part 2 of 2
May 26, 2013 - Bill Keller, Man for All Times, Part 1 of 2.
May 19, 2013 - Steven Brill on the American Medical Marketplace
May 12, 2013 - In Memoriam: Mike Wallace ... 1918-2012
May 5, 2013 - In Memoriam: Tom Wicker ... 1926-2011
April 28, 2013 - The Good Girls Revolt
April 21, 2013 - Washington's Culture of Secrets, Sources and Leaks
April 7, 2013 - Dr. Elaine Heffner: "goodenoughmothering: The Best of the Blog"
April 7, 2013 - Achieving a Civil Society - John Sexton
March 31, 2013 - Baseball as a Road to God - John Sexton
March 24, 2013 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, Part 3 of 3.
February 24, 2013 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, Part 1 of 3.
February 10, 2013 - The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Passage of Power, Part 2 of 3.
February 10, 2013 - In Memoriam: Edward I. Koch "On Intimations of Mortality"
February 4, 2013 - The Future of American Medicine, with Dr. Herbert Pardes.
February 3, 2013 - Open Heart, with Elie Wiesel
January 28, 2013 - Doctor and Patient - Dr. Pauline W. Chen
January 20, 2013 - Final Exam: A Surgeon's Reflections on Mortality - Dr. Pauline W. Chen
January 13, 2013 - The Price of Everything - Eduardo Porter
January 6, 2013 - Does the Doctor Know Best? - Dr. Peter Bach
December 23, 2012 - In the Name of the Law - Mark C. Zauderer
December 23, 2012 - Successful Aging - John Rowe
December 16, 2012 - Public Broadcasting in the Public Interest, Pt 1
December 2, 2012 - Lincoln Center's Mr. President - Reynold Levy
November 18, 2012 - A Guide for the Alzheimer's Caregiver - Dr. Ruth Westheimer
November 11, 2012 - An Extraordinary Woman - Dr. Ruth Westheimer
November 4, 2012 - Young American Voters and the Coming Presidential Election Part 2
October 29, 2012 - Serious Evil, Serious Injury and Citizens United
October 21, 2012 - The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
October 14, 2012 - Americans' Health Care -- Seen With 20/20 Vision, Pt. 2
October 4, 2012 - A Nation Working Longer... Perhaps Doing Better, Pt. II
September 30, 2012 - Americans' Health Care -- Seen With 20/20 Vision, Pt. 1
September 30, 2012 - A Nation Working Longer... Perhaps Doing Better, Pt. III
September 30, 2012 - Once Again … in Conversation with Elie Wiesel
September 23, 2012 - The Great Emancipator - Harold Holzer
September 16, 2012 - The Lemon of Illness and the Demand for Lemonade - Dr. Jessie Gruman
August 26, 2012 - A New York Times Editorial, 5/7/12: The Cautionary Tale of Dewey & LeBoeuf
August 19, 2012 - Immortal Bird - Doron Weber
August 12, 2012 - Top Cop - Ray Kelly
August 5, 2012 - Public Broadcasting in the Public Interest, Part 2 of 2
July 29, 2012 - Rule and Ruin - Sam Tanenhaus
July 15, 2012 - Will the Tea Get Cold? - Sam Tanenhaus
July 8, 2012 - Living Better... and Longer... Thanks to Jane Brody
June 17, 2012 - Robber Barons... or Industrial Giants? - David Nasaw
June 10, 2012 - In the Land of Books - Sam Tanenhaus
June 3, 2012 - The Deaths of Others
May 27, 2012 - Do We 'Waste' Money on Terminal Patients?, Pt. 2 - Dr. Peter Bach
May 20, 2012 - Do We 'Waste' Money on Terminal Patients?, Pt. 1 - Dr. Peter Bach
May 13, 2012 - Broadcasting in America... in the Public Interest, Part 2 of 2
May 6, 2012 - Broadcasting in America... in the Public Interest, Part 1 of 2
April 29, 2012 - In Conversation with a Reporter - David Segal
April 22, 2012 - The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal - Kim Phillips-Fein
April 15, 2012 - Back at the New Yorker, with Hendrik Hertzberg AND a 'National Popular Vote,'" Part 2 of 2
March 18, 2012 - In Search of Leadership - Frances Hesselbein
March 4, 2012 - Young American Voters and the Coming Presidential Election Part 1 - Alexander Heffner
February 26, 2012 - A Critic at Large, Part 1
February 12, 2012 - A Critic at Large, Part 2
February 12, 2012 - The 'Vast Wasteland'... A Half Century Later
February 5, 2012 - At Yale: The Floyd Abrams Institute for Freedom of Expression
January 29, 2012 - In Memoriam: Andy Rooney, 1919-2011
January 22, 2012 - The Idea and the Uses of Foundation, Part 2 of 2
January 15, 2012 - The Idea and the Uses of Foundation, Part 1 of 2
January 8, 2012 - Mario Cuomo on the Death Penalty... and more
December 18, 2011 - Franklin D. Roosevelt and his Four Freedoms…70 Years Later - Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel
December 11, 2011 - The Curse of 'Short-termism' in America, Part 2 of 2
December 4, 2011 - The Curse of 'Short-termism' in America, Part 1 of 2
November 27, 2011 - The Legal Brain-Scape: Neuroscience and the Law
November 20, 2011 - Sam Tanenhaus, Pt. 2 of 2: More about print -- books and newspapers
November 13, 2011 - Sam Tanenhaus, Pt. 1 of 2: Truth and Accuracy in Books... Whose Responsibility?
November 6, 2011 - What is News? - Robert Darnton
October 30, 2011 - Google's Loss: The Public's Gain - Robert Darnton
October 23, 2011 - Julie Salamon and The Uncommon Life of Wendy Wasserstein
October 16, 2011 - Back at the New Yorker, with Hendrik Hertzberg (Pt. 1 of 2)
October 12, 2011 - Television's Man for All Seasons, Part 2 of 2
October 2, 2011 - Television's Man for All Seasons, Part 1 of 2
September 25, 2011 - Doctors in America: 'Professionals' or 'Providers'
September 18, 2011 - A Nation Working Longer... Perhaps Doing Better, Pt. 1
September 11, 2011 - Talk Therapy vs. Fewer Dollars and Less Time
August 21, 2011 - Joe Nocera's Good Guys & Bad Guys
August 14, 2011 - Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, Pt. 2 of 2
August 1, 2011 - Bill Moyers Journal: The Conversation Continues, Pt. 1 of 2
July 31, 2011 - Howard Gardner on Truth, Beauty and Goodness
July 24, 2011 - Memories of a Newsman - John Darnton
July 17, 2011 - For the Old Men of the Class of '46, Michele Moody-Adams, Dean of Columbia College
July 10, 2011 - Eric Foner, Pt. 1: "The Great Emancipator"
February 13, 2011 - The Times, Its Readers, and Their Advocate, Chapter 3, Part 1 of 2
January 30, 2011 - Palliative Medicine: Care vs. Cure?
January 23, 2011 - Growing up Digital...Good for the Kids, or Bad?
January 20, 2011 - Sir Paul Nurse, Pt. 2 of 2: There Are Not All That Many People Who Can Really Move the Needle Guest
January 20, 2011 - Sir Paul Nurse, Pt. 1 of 2: Have Scientists Earned the Trust of Their Paymasters... the Public?
January 20, 2011 - Big Money, Low Politics and the High Court... and Exchange of Views, Part 2 of 2
January 9, 2011 - Big Money, Low Politics and the High Court... and Exchange of Views, Part 1 of 2
January 2, 2011 - Peculiar Institution: America's Death Penalty in an Age of Abolition
December 16, 2010 - The Obama Agenda... for a new New Deal, Part 2 of 2
December 16, 2010 - The Obama Agenda... for a new New Deal, Part 2 of 2
December 16, 2010 - The Bully Pulpit
December 16, 2010 - Michael Korda, author of "Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia."
December 12, 2010 - A Society with many more seniors with walkers than youngsters in strollers, Pt. 4 of 4
December 5, 2010 - A Society with many more seniors with walkers than youngsters in strollers, Pt. 3 of 4
November 29, 2010 - A Society with many more seniors with walkers than youngsters in strollers, Pt. 2 of 4
November 21, 2010 - Eric Foner, Pt. 2: "The Historian as Public Intellectual"
November 18, 2010 - Medicalizing Poor Political Leadership, Part 1 of 2
November 8, 2010 - The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America
November 8, 2010 - Medicalizing Poor Political Leadership, Part 2 of 2
November 8, 2010 - Paranoid Politics in the Age of Obama
October 18, 2010 - A Society with many more seniors with walkers than youngsters in strollers, Pt. 1 of 4
October 11, 2010 - The Times, Its Readers, and Their Advocate, Chapter 3, Part 2 of 2
October 7, 2010 - Charlie and 'Doc': Goodbye Mr. Chips
September 27, 2010 - Nine Old (and Young) Men (and Women), Pt. 1 of 2
September 27, 2010 - Nine Old (and Young) Men (and Women), Pt. 2 of 2
September 27, 2010 - The Web Means the End of Forgetting, Pt. 2 of 2
September 20, 2010 - Farewell to Gutenberg?
September 20, 2010 - The Web Means the End of Forgetting, Pt. 1 of 2
September 20, 2010 - The War Lovers, Part 1 of 2
June 18, 2010 - The War Lovers, Part 2 of 2
June 18, 2010 - Money Talks... But Can It Claim The Right Of Free Speech? Pt. 3 of 3
May 24, 2010 - Democracy in America
May 24, 2010 - Media Matters
May 24, 2010 - Money Talks... But Can It Claim The Right Of Free Speech? Pt. 2 of 3
May 6, 2010 - Leon Botstein… the Bard at Bard
May 6, 2010 - Money Talks... But Can It Claim The Right Of Free Speech? Pt. 1 or 3
May 6, 2010 - In the Public Interest
May 6, 2010 - On Lawyers, Judges and Justice in America
April 12, 2010 - Food, Drugs, Medical Devices and the Public Interest
April 12, 2010 - On the Banks of the Old Raritan
April 12, 2010 - Denialism, by Michael Specter
January 11, 2010 - A Newer Look at Cameras in the Courts
January 11, 2010 - Dr. Lawrence Aber on "Children, Political Power and Poverty"
January 11, 2010 - Howard Rubenstein: "Our Annual Conversation with a PR Guru, Part IV"
December 16, 2009 - Edward I. Koch, former 3-term Mayor of New York City
December 16, 2009 - My Friend, Dr. Ruth
December 16, 2009 - Your Personal Health… with Jane Brody
December 16, 2009 - Health Care Reform and Personal Privacy
November 18, 2009 - Elie Wiesel: "Whoever Knew Truth Put to the Worse in a Free and Open Encounter?"
November 18, 2009 - End-of-Life Care
November 18, 2009 - Still on the Job. But at Half the Pay
November 18, 2009 - Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of the the World
October 21, 2009 - Road Kill/Tobacco Kill
October 21, 2009 - Public Broadcasting: An American Challenge
October 21, 2009 - Sesame Street: The Show that Counts
October 7, 2009 - A Global University for the Future, Pt. 2
October 7, 2009 - Reality-Based Health Care for Americans, Pt. 2
October 7, 2009 - A Global University for the Future, Pt. 1
October 7, 2009 - Reality-Based Health Care for Americans, Pt. 1
October 7, 2009 - Unlimited Free Speech When Money Talks?
September 23, 2009 - The Longevity Revolution
September 23, 2009 - ProPublica, Journalism in the Public Interest-An Appraisal
September 23, 2009 - The Experience of the American Patient
September 23, 2009 - Medical Costs, Medical Care and Medical Ethics
September 23, 2009 - The Death of Conservatism, Pt. 1 of 2
May 27, 2009 - On History, Biography, Literature... and Robert Caro, Part 2 of 2
May 27, 2009 - On History, Biography, Literature... and Robert Caro, Part 1 of 2
May 27, 2009 - Capitalists Who Could Wreck Capitalism, Part 2
May 27, 2009 - The Death of Conservatism, Pt. 2 of 2
May 27, 2009 - The Higher Education Investment Act
May 21, 2009 - Losing the News, Pt. 2 of 3
May 21, 2009 - Losing the News, Pt. 3 of 3
May 21, 2009 - Losing the News, Pt. 1 of 3
May 21, 2009 - As Ever: A Man for All Intellectual Seasons
May 21, 2009 - From the Bench to the Blog, Pt. 2
May 7, 2009 - From the Bench to the Blog, Pt. 1
May 7, 2009 - Art for OUR Sake
April 14, 2009 - The Art and Politics of Science, Pt. 2 of 2
April 14, 2009 - The Art and Politics of Science, Pt. 1 of 2
April 14, 2009 - Our Courts and Our Congress
April 14, 2009 - Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses...
April 14, 2009 - Can Genocide be Prevented?
April 2, 2009 - The Op-Ed-Page
January 22, 2009 - Mario Cuomo: "Words That Make Our History"
January 22, 2009 - Single Sex Education: A Challenge or A Boon to Equality?
January 12, 2009 - The MacArthur Foundation: In Bad Times as Well as Good, Part 1 of 2
January 6, 2009 - The MacArthur Foundation: In Bad Times as Well as Good, Part 2 of 2
January 6, 2009 - A Court System for the 21st Century
December 8, 2008 - Leading with Kindness
December 8, 2008 - An Annual Conversation with a PR Guru, Part 3
December 8, 2008 - Never Was So Much Owed by So Many To So Few
December 8, 2008 - Barack Obama and Abraham Lincoln as Presidents-Elect
November 7, 2008 - No More 'Running on Empty'
November 7, 2008 - A Call to Alms
October 20, 2008 - Why Democracies Need An Unlovable Press, Pt. 2 of 2
October 20, 2008 - Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press, Pt. 1 of 2
October 20, 2008 - Branding and Totalitarianism - Steven Heller
October 20, 2008 - Honoring Public Broadcasting, Part II
October 18, 2008 - More on the Art and Science of Medicine
September 15, 2008 - "The Dumbest Generation"
September 15, 2008 - The Law: Fitting A Profession Into 'The Business Model'
September 15, 2008 - Americans' Health Care and the Presidential Election
September 15, 2008 - Sean Wilentz, Pt. 2: "History as an 'Act of Faith"
September 4, 2008 - Sean Wilentz, Pt. 1: "The Age of Reagan."
September 4, 2008 - Julie Salamon's 'Hospital'
July 21, 2008 - Undocumented Dreams
July 21, 2008 - Who's Responsible for Book Content?
June 11, 2008 - The Wealth of Nations
June 11, 2008 - Just How Stupid Are We?
June 11, 2008 - The New Gilded Age
June 11, 2008 - Howard Gardner and his 'Multiple Intelligences', Part 1 of 2
May 8, 2008 - Teacher, Teacher... with Randi Weingarten, pres. of the United Federation of Teachers
May 8, 2008 - Howard Gardner and his 'Multiple Intelligences', Part 2 of 2
May 8, 2008 - The "Dumbing Down" of America
May 8, 2008 - Learning Begets Learning
April 7, 2008 - A Conversation with Elie Wiesel
April 7, 2008 - Not In My Backyard
April 7, 2008 - The Matter of Tenure
March 5, 2008 - Teach Goodness and Knowledge...
January 24, 2008 - The Politics of Immigration
January 24, 2008 - The Presidential Election and Americans' Health Care
January 24, 2008 - Non-Partisanship, Presidential Politics and Celebrity
January 24, 2008 - An Ordinary Spy
January 17, 2008 - Freedom for the Thought that We Hate, Part 1
January 17, 2008 - Communication Unlimited...Blessing or Curse? Pt. 2 of 2
January 17, 2008 - Journalism in the Public Interest
December 11, 2007 - The Small Private College in America
December 11, 2007 - Legislative Intent vs. Executive Inaction
December 6, 2007 - Communication Unlimited...Blessing or Curse? Pt. 1 of 2
December 6, 2007 - A further conversation with a PR Guru
December 6, 2007 - Of Books and Ideas, Part 1
December 6, 2007 - Of Books and Ideas, Part 2
December 6, 2007 - James MacGregor Burns ... An American Icon, Pt. 2 of 2
October 18, 2007 - Honoring Public Broadcasting, Part 1
October 18, 2007 - James MacGregor Burns ... An American Icon, Pt. 1 of 2
October 18, 2007 - The Conscience of a Liberal
October 8, 2007 - The Problem with Books
October 1, 2007 - Health Care And The Marketplace, Pt. 1 of 2
October 1, 2007 - An Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine
October 1, 2007 - A Global Network University
October 1, 2007 - Health Care And The Marketplace, Pt. 2 of 2
October 1, 2007 - On Urban Higher Education
June 26, 2007 - The Public Editor chronicles of The New York Times - Chapter 2, Part 2 of 2
June 26, 2007 - The Public Editor chronicles of The New York Times - Chapter 2, Part 1 of 2
June 26, 2007 - The World's Most Durable Ideology
June 18, 2007 - The Idea of a University in 21st Century America
June 18, 2007 - Shake Them Bones
June 18, 2007 - A Vital Dialogue: Science and its Paymasters
June 18, 2007 - The GoodWork Projects: An Overview
May 1, 2007 - Social Science for What?
May 1, 2007 - Howard Gardner's 'Five Minds for the Future'
May 1, 2007 - Our Crossover Culture - From Where to Where?
May 1, 2007 - Encouraging the Nation's Best and Brightest to be Teachers
March 5, 2007 - Reflections on Encounters with Three Cultures, Pt. 2 of 2
March 5, 2007 - Mario Cuomo on America's Choice in 2008
March 5, 2007 - What to Do When You Get a Devastating Diagnosis
March 5, 2007 - Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America
January 25, 2007 - Company vs. Country: Do Corporate Interests Conflict with the National Interest?
January 22, 2007 - Alan Alda on Celebrity and Its Discontents
January 22, 2007 - Company vs. Country: Do Corporate Interests Conflict with the National Interest?
January 22, 2007 - Forcing lawyers to Retire: An Age-Old, or Just an Old Age Problem?
January 22, 2007 - "My Father's Secret War"
January 9, 2007 - Who are 'We' ... As in 'The Editorial We'
January 9, 2007 - Americans and the Greater Good
January 9, 2007 - Reflections on Encounters with Three Cultures, Pt. 1 of 2
January 9, 2007 - The Further Education of a Journalist, Pt. 2 of 2
December 14, 2006 - The Further Education of a Journalist, Pt. 1 of 2
December 14, 2006 - Sally L. Satel, Politically Incorrect MD, Part 2 of 2
December 14, 2006 - Sally L. Satel, Politically Incorrect MD, Part 1 of 2
December 14, 2006 - Does American Democracy Still Work?
December 7, 2006 - Not Quite the Oldest Profession, but...
December 7, 2006 - Some Thoughts about Privileges and the Press
December 7, 2006 - Inequality and Democracy
November 9, 2006 - Reconciling Public Health and Personal Privacy
November 9, 2006 - Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
November 9, 2006 - Will Psychiatry Survive?
October 23, 2006 - What Would The Founders Do?
October 23, 2006 - "Storm from the East" author Milton Viorst
October 23, 2006 - The New York Times Book Review, Part 2
October 23, 2006 - The New York Times Book Review, Part 1
October 23, 2006 - Special Episode: Fred W. Friendly in Memoriam
August 7, 2006 - Kenneth Clark and Brown v. Board of Education
July 26, 2006 - David Brown's "Guide to the Good Life"
July 6, 2006 - The American Dream vs. The Gospel of Wealth
July 6, 2006 - The Open Mind at 50 - Bill Baker interviews Richard Heffner
July 6, 2006 - The Disposable American...That Could Mean YOU
June 22, 2006 - Rx... Must it Be Cure vs. Care?, Pt. 2 of 2
June 22, 2006 - Betty Friedan: From "The Feminine Mystique" to "The Fountain of Age"
June 22, 2006 - Two Giants of the Press... on the Press
June 22, 2006 - Rx... Must it Be Cure vs. Care?, Pt. 1 of 2
June 22, 2006 - The Most Democratic Branch?
June 22, 2006 - Daniel Yankelovich author, "Profit WITH Honor: The New Stage of Market Capitalism"
May 22, 2006 - R.D. Laing: Wisdom, Madness and Folly
May 22, 2006 - Jonas Salk… A Wise and Good Ancestor
May 22, 2006 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan and the World Outside
May 22, 2006 - Corporate Governance: A Decade Later
April 20, 2006 - An Unquiet Life
April 20, 2006 - The Closing of the American Mind
April 20, 2006 - A Life Devoted to Excellence and Self-Renewal
April 20, 2006 - Richard Helms, former Director of the C.I.A.
April 20, 2006 - The American Presidency - A Half Century Later
April 20, 2006 - One Nation Indivisible
January 24, 2006 - In Memoriam: Richard D. Heffner "The Open Mind...at 50"
January 24, 2006 - Money and Medicine, Pt. 1 of 2
January 24, 2006 - Money and Medicine, Pt. 2 of 2
January 24, 2006 - The Open Mind … at 50
January 24, 2006 - Are Scientists Keeping the Trust of the Public?
January 20, 2006 - On Teaching Civics and Civic Virtues
January 20, 2006 - Active Liberty by Justice Breyer, Pt. 2 of 2
December 12, 2005 - Active Liberty by Justice Breyer, Pt. 1 of 2
December 12, 2005 - The Culture of Dying in America, Part 2
December 5, 2005 - The Press: Power AND Responsibility
December 5, 2005 - Dogmatism vs. Civil Discourse
November 17, 2005 - American Doctors and Their Education
November 7, 2005 - Restoring the Vital Center to American Democracy
November 7, 2005 - McCarthyism on Terrorism
November 7, 2005 - Toward a High Performance Health System
October 31, 2005 - Should the Press be Privileged?
October 17, 2005 - Good Night and Good Luck - Neal Gabler
October 17, 2005 - I shall adopt new views so fast as they appear to be true views … A. Lincoln
October 17, 2005 - The Politics of Public Television
September 19, 2005 - The Jury System on Trial...
September 19, 2005 - The Press in a Free Society
September 19, 2005 - The Campaign for Educational Equity
September 19, 2005 - Susan Lacy, an 'American Master'
June 23, 2005 - A Matter of Opinion, Pt. 1 of 2
June 23, 2005 - Forget the Founding Fathers...
June 23, 2005 - More About Inequality in America
June 23, 2005 - A Matter of Opinion, Pt. 2 of 2
June 23, 2005 - America's Failure to Educate Educational Leadership
June 3, 2005 - A White Kid Growing Up in Black and Brown Spanish Harlem
June 3, 2005 - Needed... A Social Contract for Working People
June 3, 2005 - The New York Times and its First Public Editor
May 11, 2005 - In the Footsteps of Tocqueville...
May 11, 2005 - Reinventing Yourself Through Mindful Creativity
May 11, 2005 - Eli Wallach's "The Good, the Bad and Me"
April 21, 2005 - Integrating Western and Traditional Chinese Medicine
April 21, 2005 - Women as Change Agents in America, Pt. 2 of 2
March 4, 2005 - Mario Cuomo on Values and Politics
January 12, 2005 - Speaking Freely...with Floyd Abrams, Pt. 2 of 2
January 12, 2005 - Speaking Freely...with Floyd Abrams, Pt. 1 of 2
January 12, 2005 - Women as Change Agents in America, Pt. 1 of 2
January 12, 2005 - Don't Revert to the Days of Dred Scott
December 3, 2004 - A Man For All Seasons - Dr. Harold Varmus
December 3, 2004 - Chasing the Dragon
December 3, 2004 - Religion, Politics and the 21st Century
December 3, 2004 - Higher Education and the Bottom Line
October 22, 2004 - Rx for Health Policy and Practice, Pt. 1 of 2
October 22, 2004 - Rx for Health Policy and Practice, Pt. 2 of 2
October 22, 2004 - Intellectual Freedom and America's Libraries
October 22, 2004 - Maureen Dowd's "Bushworld"
October 5, 2004 - Hendrik Hertzberg's "Politics"
October 5, 2004 - A Rendezvous with History, Pt. 1 of 2
September 30, 2004 - Inequality in America
September 30, 2004 - Anti-Semitism: The World's Most Durable Ideology
September 8, 2004 - No Child Left Behind...Fact or Fiction?
September 8, 2004 - FDR's Unfinished Revolution ... The Second Bill of Rights
September 8, 2004 - Running on Empty...on the Road to Bankruptcy
September 8, 2004 - The Sheriff of Wall Street
July 13, 2004 - Economic Policy and the National Interest
July 7, 2004 - Learning to Live Together..., Pt. 2 of 2
July 7, 2004 - Raymond W. Kelly: "Terrorism and The Top Cop"
June 21, 2004 - The Art and Science of Changing Minds
June 17, 2004 - David Brooks in Paradise, Pt. 2 of 2
June 9, 2004 - David Brooks in Paradise, Pt. 1 of 2
June 9, 2004 - Learning to Live Together..., Pt. 1 of 2
June 9, 2004 - Why Lincoln Matters... Now More Than Ever
May 26, 2004 - From Culture to Chaos
May 26, 2004 - More Thoughts about the Unthinkable, Part 1
April 22, 2004 - A Man For All Seasons, Pt. 1 of 2
April 22, 2004 - More Thoughts about the Unthinkable, Part 3
April 22, 2004 - The Art and Science of Medicine
January 29, 2004 - Seductress
January 29, 2004 - Our Cheating Culture
January 29, 2004 - Your Doctor's Drug Problem
January 29, 2004 - What Price Better Health?
January 22, 2004 - The University As Sacred Space, Part 1
January 22, 2004 - The World Outside
January 22, 2004 - The University As Sacred Space, Part 2
January 22, 2004 - We Can Take It...the Truth, That Is, Pt. 1 of 2
January 12, 2004 - Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age, Pt. 2 of 2
December 10, 2003 - Never Get into a Pissing Contest with a Skunk
December 10, 2003 - Look Who's Trashing the First Amendment ... Redux
December 10, 2003 - In Praise of Nepotism
December 10, 2003 - Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age, Pt. 1 of 2
December 10, 2003 - Back at "The New Yorker" Part 1 of 2
December 3, 2003 - Andy Rooney on Andy Rooney
November 13, 2003 - New at the Times, Part 1 of 2
October 1, 2003 - The Quality of American Health Care
September 26, 2003 - Death and Diplomacy
September 26, 2003 - It is Necessary To Give
July 21, 2003 - Sex and the Single Girl...Again!
June 25, 2003 - The Education of a Journalist, Part I
June 25, 2003 - Project Pericles...'that a man might benefit his country'
June 25, 2003 - The Death Penalty
May 22, 2003 - Thinking The Unthinkable...In Order To Deal With It
April 10, 2003 - Hospice: The 'Gold Standard' of End-Of-Life-Care
April 10, 2003 - Doctors and Patients
April 10, 2003 - How Much Freedom is Too Much?
April 10, 2003 - The Public's Interests vs. the Public Interest
March 12, 2003 - From Journalism to 'Informed Dialogue', Pt. 1 of 2
March 12, 2003 - From Journalism to 'Informed Dialogue', Pt. 2 of 2
March 12, 2003 - More on the Principles of Governance
March 12, 2003 - Child Rearing in America
March 12, 2003 - Another Look at Who Really Won the Civil War
January 23, 2003 - Another Look at Who Really Won the Civil War
January 23, 2003 - The Press and the People
January 23, 2003 - Fact + Fiction = Faction
January 23, 2003 - A Clash of Cultures
January 23, 2003 - Paul Krugman "Op-Ed", (Pt. 2 of 2)
December 3, 2002 - The Performing Arts in America
December 3, 2002 - Paul Krugman, "Op-Ed", (Pt. 1 of 2)
December 3, 2002 - Talking To The Doctor, Listening To The Patient, Pt. 1 of 2
December 3, 2002 - Caring for Our Elders
November 16, 2002 - Germs, Biological Weapons and America's Secret Wars
November 6, 2002 - Doing Good and Doing Well
November 6, 2002 - Raymond Kelly, NYPD Commisioner
October 28, 2002 - The Constitution Is What The Judges Say It Is (Pt. 1)
September 26, 2002 - Turning Intellect into Influence
September 26, 2002 - Under Siege: The Rule of Law
September 26, 2002 - The Atlantic Monthly...American Ground
September 26, 2002 - 9/11 and American Education
September 13, 2002 - Anti-Semitism Redux
June 26, 2002 - Hollywood USA
June 26, 2002 - The University as Enterprise, Part 2 of 2
May 10, 2002 - Silicon Valley's Spy Game
May 10, 2002 - The University as "Enterprise", Part 1 of 2
May 10, 2002 - Justice and the Courts, with Judith Kaye
May 10, 2002 - Youth, Pornography and the Internet
May 9, 2002 - Money Talks... But Must It Enjoy Free Speech?, (Pt. 1)
April 26, 2002 - Death Suicide... and Palliative Care in America, (Pt. 2 of 2)
April 26, 2002 - The Case Against Assisted Suicide (Pt. 1 of 2)
April 26, 2002 - A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
April 11, 2002 - Some Thoughts on Aging...and Other Medical Matters (Pt. 1)
April 11, 2002 - From "Windows On The World" to "Windows of Hope"
April 9, 2002 - No More Killing Fields, Part 2 of 2
April 9, 2002 - No More Killing Fields, Part 1 of 2
April 9, 2002 - A Further Look at Democracy in America
April 9, 2002 - There at "The New Yorker" Part 1
March 11, 2002 - Here Comes The Judge, Part 1
March 11, 2002 - Medical Scientist and the Marketplace
January 30, 2002 - Physician...Prepare Thyself
January 30, 2002 - Lyndon Johnson - 'Master of the Senate'
January 30, 2002 - Mr. District Attorney
January 6, 2002 - It's Been Dark Before, Part 1
December 6, 2001 - It's Been Dark Before, Part 2
December 6, 2001 - When the Bough Breaks... (Pt. 1 of 2)
December 5, 2001 - The Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism.
December 5, 2001 - When the Bough Breaks... (Pt. 2 of 2)
December 5, 2001 - The Faith Factor.
December 5, 2001 - The Art of Philanthropy
November 14, 2001 - A New Age of Surveillance
November 13, 2001 - The Big Apple..Now and Then
November 13, 2001 - March 4th, 1933: An Open Mind' Special
November 12, 2001 - Conversations with Elie Wiesel
October 26, 2001 - Happy Fourth of July, Mr. Jefferson
September 7, 2001 - Loosening Lawyers' Lips
September 7, 2001 - The West Wing
September 7, 2001 - Serving America's Medical Needs
September 7, 2001 - The Roosevelts: Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor
September 6, 2001 - Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. / "A Life In The 20th Century" (continued)
September 6, 2001 - Lawyers of the Future
September 6, 2001 - Tell Me A Story: In 60 Minutes, Part 2
May 22, 2001 - Tell Me a Story: In 60 Minutes, Part 1
May 22, 2001 - Facing the Wind, An American Tragedy
May 22, 2001 - Bombingham, Revisited
May 22, 2001 - Improving Our Health Care, Part 2
May 16, 2001 - Not In Front of the Children
May 16, 2001 - Improving Our Health Care, Part 1
May 16, 2001 - Survival of the Kindest
May 11, 2001 - Joseph Lieberman (D, Conn.)
May 11, 2001 - The Idea of a University
April 11, 2001 - Casting & Counting Our Votes More Fairly
April 11, 2001 - George Gerbner: Full-Time Agitator
April 11, 2001 - How Well Are You?
April 11, 2001 - Religion in America
March 14, 2001 - A 20/20 Vision for Health Care, Part 2
December 20, 2000 - How To Make Right What's Wrong With Education, Part 1
December 20, 2000 - Ed Koch … Forever Hizzoner, The Mayor
December 20, 2000 - A 20-20 Vision For Health Care, Part 1
December 20, 2000 - How to Make Right What's Wrong with Education
December 20, 2000 - A Man for all Journalistic Seasons
December 8, 2000 - A Life in the 20th Century, Part 1
December 8, 2000 - The Children Are Watching
December 8, 2000 - News Matters
December 7, 2000 - Dr. Ruth Goes To College
December 7, 2000 - A Digital Gift to the Nation
December 7, 2000 - The Trouble with Government, Part 1
December 7, 2000 - The Margaret Mead Centennial, Part 2 of 2
November 9, 2000 - Democracy in America
November 9, 2000 - The Margaret Mead Centennial, Part 1 of 2
November 9, 2000 - Judy Blume, Author
October 20, 2000 - Ethics & the Movies
October 20, 2000 - Power Money Fame Sex
October 20, 2000 - The Challenge of Urban Higher Education
September 22, 2000 - My Love Affair with America
September 21, 2000 - A Modern Medical Metaphor: Rehabilitation, Restoration and Reality
September 21, 2000 - The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce
September 21, 2000 - The Business of Books
September 21, 2000 - Full Circles, Overlapping Lives
June 11, 2000 - The Destruction of Privacy in America
June 2, 2000 - The Destruction of Privacy in America, Part 2
June 2, 2000 - Daniel Callahan, Pt. 2: The Ethics of Ethics
June 2, 2000 - The Destruction of Privacy in America, Part 1
June 2, 2000 - Daniel Callahan, Pt 1: Death & The Research Imperative
June 2, 2000 - American Journalism: A Critique
June 1, 2000 - American Journalism: A Critique, Part 2
June 1, 2000 - The Subversion of American Democracy
June 1, 2000 - Talk is Not Enough
April 14, 2000 - The Conversation of Democracy
April 14, 2000 - Bill Moyers on "The Conversation of Democracy"
April 14, 2000 - A Bill of Rights for Libraries
April 13, 2000 - The Sex Lives of Your Kids
April 13, 2000 - The American Prospect
April 13, 2000 - I'm Wild Again...Helen Gurley Brown
December 15, 1999 - The Influence of Violent Entertainment Material on Kids
December 15, 1999 - The Law and the World Outside
December 15, 1999 - Why Treating Children as Children as Small Adults Endangers their Future
December 15, 1999 - I'm Wild Again
December 15, 1999 - First, Do No Harm
December 14, 1999 - First Let's Kill All the Lawyers...But Start with Counsel for the Defense
December 14, 1999 - The Changing Nature of American Philanthropy
November 4, 1999 - How the Past Can Improve Our Future
November 4, 1999 - Dead Center
November 4, 1999 - The American Meritocracy
November 4, 1999 - Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Part 2
November 3, 1999 - For a Sleep-Sick Society:The Promise of Sleep
November 3, 1999 - Rich Media, Poor Democracy, Part 1
November 3, 1999 - There Seems to be No End to the Way the Press Misinterprets...
September 22, 1999 - Work and Narcissism
September 22, 1999 - The Media: Is Anyone Ever Off-Limits
September 22, 1999 - The Decline of Males
September 22, 1999 - Can We Have Smaller Classes & Better Teachers?
September 21, 1999 - Violence in America Schools
September 21, 1999 - The Challenge of Urban Higher Education: Wide Access/High Standards
September 21, 1999 - The Magic of Dialogue
September 21, 1999 - Death and Dying in America
September 7, 1999 - The Disciplined Mind, Part 1
May 26, 1999 - The Disciplined Mind, Part 2
May 26, 1999 - Must the Past Be Prologue
May 26, 1999 - Machiavelli on Modern Leadership
May 26, 1999 - The Medic: A Power to Motivate or Manipulate
March 11, 1999 - The Mote That is in Your Neighbor's Eye
March 11, 1999 - Lawyering for a New Age
March 11, 1999 - Stanley Crouch... The Real Deal
March 11, 1999 - Handbook for Mortals, Part 2
March 9, 1999 - The Limits of Privacy
March 9, 1999 - Ex-Friends
March 9, 1999 - Law and Order
March 9, 1999 - The Irony of Free Speech, Part 2 of 2
February 28, 1999 - Harold J. Rothmax
February 28, 1999 - Life the Movie ... Starring Everyone
January 12, 1999 - A Historian's 'Story of American Freedom', Part 1
January 12, 1999 - A Historian's 'Story of American Freedom', Part 2
January 12, 1999 - The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the South
January 12, 1999 - Communitarism and "Partnership Government"
January 11, 1999 - Ex-Friends
January 11, 1999 - Children, School & Inequality
January 11, 1999 - Movies & Money
December 3, 1998 - Where Do You Draw The Line
November 18, 1998 - The American Century
November 18, 1998 - Happy Birthday, Big Bird
November 18, 1998 - Psychoanalysis and its Discontents
November 17, 1998 - Fifty Years...and Running
November 17, 1998 - On Getting Older in America
November 17, 1998 - The Claims of Memory
November 17, 1998 - Guilty By Reason of Insanity
September 15, 1998 - Dr. Ruth on "Grandparenthood"
September 15, 1998 - How Do We Bring Our Students Up to Speed?
September 15, 1998 - War Crimes: How Much Do We Care about Them
September 6, 1998 - Stephen Carter, Pt. 2: The Dissent of the Governed
July 10, 1998 - The Impact of Entertainment Violence on our Youngsters
June 30, 1998 - Stephen Carter, Pt. 1: On Civility and the Etiquette of Democracy
June 30, 1998 - Joy Dryfoos
June 30, 1998 - The Free Enterprise System's 'Dirty Dance with the State'
May 27, 1998 - Free Speech of America
May 27, 1998 - The Actor... as Citizen
April 21, 1998 - Imaging Education: The Media and Schools in America
April 20, 1998 - Here Come the TV Judges
April 20, 1998 - Edward I. Koch & Judith Sheindlin
April 20, 1998 - Mayhem - Violence as Public Entertainment
March 4, 1998 - Lou Reed - Rock-and-Roll Heart - An American Masters Special
March 3, 1998 - The Human Potential: From Mindlessness to Mindfulness
December 4, 1997 - George Soros On Giving Rather Than Getting
December 4, 1997 - A Capitalist on the Capitalist Threat - George Soros
December 4, 1997 - The Human Potential: From Mindlessness to Mindfulness, Part 2
December 4, 1997 - First Amendment
December 3, 1997 - Going After the Media
December 3, 1997 - Cameras in the Court
December 3, 1997 - Some Webbies Think the Internet Can Do No Wrong - That's Not Right!
December 3, 1997 - Time and Again
October 8, 1997 - HMOs and Responsible Psychiatry, Part 2
October 8, 1997 - A Judge Speaks Out, Part 2
October 8, 1997 - Publish and Perish
October 8, 1997 - HMOs and Responsible Psychiatry, Part 1
October 8, 1997 - A Judge Speaks Out, Part 1
October 8, 1997 - Should You Leave?
September 10, 1997 - Listening to Prozac … And Hearing More
September 10, 1997 - Listening To Prozac and Hearing Move
September 10, 1997 - Why the Past Does Not Predict the Future, Part 1
September 10, 1997 - The Heart of the Matter
September 9, 1997 - What's Fit to Print
September 9, 1997 - The Gift of Fear
September 9, 1997 - Mr. District Attorney: Robert M. Morgenthau
April 8, 1997 - Free Markets, Free Speech & Social Justice, Part 1
April 8, 1997 - Helping People Die - Forcing People to Live
April 8, 1997 - Free Markets, Free Speech & Social Justice, Part 2
April 8, 1997 - One Man's America
March 4, 1997 - Everything for Sale, Part 1
March 4, 1997 - Growing Up Female in America, Part 2
March 4, 1997 - Growing Up Female in America, Part 1
March 4, 1997 - The Idea of a University: Vassar
March 4, 1997 - Crime & Punishment, Part 2
January 16, 1997 - On the Responsibilities of Philanthropy, Part 1
January 16, 1997 - On the Responsibilities of Philanthropy, Part 2
January 16, 1997 - Free Speech and Due Process, Part 2
January 16, 1997 - Free Speech and Due Process, Part 3
January 16, 1997 - Free Speech and Due Process, Part 1
January 16, 1997 - Crime & Punishment, Part 1
January 16, 1997 - The Cosmo Girl, Part 1 of 2
December 4, 1996 - The Cosmo Girl, Part 2 or 2
December 4, 1996 - Director Professionalism
December 4, 1996 - Guilty: The Collapse of Criminal Justice
December 4, 1996 - The Top Cop...On Legalizing Drugs
December 4, 1996 - Language, Sex, and Power
October 30, 1996 - Language, Sex, & Power, Part 2
October 30, 1996 - More About Hitler's Willing Executioners
October 30, 1996 - The Future of Health Care in America, Part 2
October 30, 1996 - The Troubles, with William Flynn
October 30, 1996 - Language, Sex and Power, Part 1
October 30, 1996 - Reshaping Democracy in the Information Age
October 30, 1996 - Anything Goes
October 2, 1996 - The Irony of Free Speech, Part 1 of 2
October 2, 1996 - Healing At Home
October 2, 1996 - The Idea of a University: NYU
October 2, 1996 - On Legalizing Drugs … With William F. Buckley
August 6, 1996 - Viewing Violence
August 6, 1996 - Buckley on Buckley
August 6, 1996 - Great Books, Great Ideas - David Denby
August 6, 1996 - Hitler's Willing Executioners, Part 1
July 9, 1996 - Hitler's Willing Executioners, Part 2
July 9, 1996 - The Perversion of Autonomy, Part 1 of 2
July 9, 1996 - The Perversion of Autonomy, Part 2 of 2
July 9, 1996 - Ethical Dilemmas in Communication
February 13, 1996 - Transforming the Culture of Dying, Part 2
September 26, 1995 - Transforming The Culture of Dying, Part 3
September 26, 1995 - Transforming the Culture of Dying, Part 1
September 26, 1995 - Death and Dying in America, Part 3
September 26, 1995 - The Law... A Profession Betrayed
January 13, 1995 - Life as a Radical Lawyer
October 13, 1994 - James Farmer
July 21, 1994 - In Memoriam: Dr. Fred Plum, 1924-2010
January 11, 1994 - 60 Minutes... with Don Hewitt, Pt. 2
November 13, 1992 - 60 Minutes... with Don Hewitt, Pt. 1
November 13, 1992 - Means of Ascent, (Pt. 1 of 2)
September 3, 1990 - Means of Ascent, (Pt. 2 of 2)
September 3, 1990 - In Memoriam: David Brown (1916-2010)
March 25, 1990 - America As A Civilization
January 2, 1988 - Rabi: Scientist and Citizen
April 12, 1987 - Good Night and Good Luck
June 7, 1986 - We Are in Love with the Word - Norman Mailer
February 1, 1986 - Are We Amusing Ourselves To Death? Pt. 1
December 14, 1985 - Wisdom, Madness and Folly
December 6, 1985 - Race Relations in America: An 'Open Mind' Special Part 2 of 2
June 12, 1963 - Race Relations in America: An 'Open Mind' Special, Part 1 of 2
June 12, 1963 - Special Archive Episode: "The New Negro"
February 10, 1957 - Weekend Com. Break
- The Power Broker
- Avalanche of Crud
- In Memoriam: Neil Postman
- Deborah Tannen
- tba
- The University and Civil Discourse, Part 2 of 2
- Hitler's Courts: The Betrayal of the Rule of Law in Nazi Germany
- Dr. Daniel Callahan
- The Death of Commom Sense
- The University and Civil Discourse, Part 1 of 2
- Everything For Sale, Part 2
- Daniel Callahan
- The Medicine Man
- Kenneth Conboy
- In Memoriam: Arnold Forster (1912-2010)
