This edition: Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
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Original tape date: November 4, 2025. First aired: November 24, 2025.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another three Guggenheim Fellows who graduated from the City University of New York. New York Times reporter and City College alum Ralph Blumenthal has covered everything from the Vietnam War to alien encounters. Brooklyn College graduate Gertrude Himmelfarb helped usher in a new era of conservative thought with her passionate defense of old-fashioned morality. And Queens College graduate Stanley Milgram's investigation into the question of human obedience ends with some concerning statistics.
Guest List
Ralph Blumenthal Journalist and Author, Baruch College
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, December 12 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, December 27 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 3 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Saturday, December 13 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Saturday, December 13 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, December 28 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 4 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Sunday, December 14 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Sunday, December 14 - 5:30pm
- Friday, January 2 - 5:30pm
- Friday, January 9 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Monday, December 15 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 17 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, December 23 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, December 25 - 5:00pm
- Monday, December 29 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 31 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, January 6 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 8 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Tuesday, December 16 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, December 18 - 5:00pm
- Monday, December 22 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 24 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, December 30 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 1 - 5:00pm
- Monday, January 5 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, January 7 - 5:00pm
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Friday, December 19 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, December 19 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 3 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 10 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Saturday, December 20 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Saturday, December 20 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 4 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Sunday, December 21 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Sunday, December 21 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, December 28 - 7:30am
- Friday, January 9 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 10 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Friday, December 26 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, December 26 - 5:30pm
- Friday, January 2 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Saturday, December 27 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Friday, December 12 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, December 8 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, December 10 - 5:00pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Sunday, December 7 - 7:30am
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Saturday, December 6 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Friday, December 5 - 7:30am
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Sunday, November 30 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Saturday, November 22 - 7:30am
- Friday, November 28 - 5:30pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, November 21 - 7:30am
- Sunday, November 23 - 5:30pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, November 16 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, November 29 - 7:30am
- Friday, December 5 - 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Sunday, November 16 - 7:30am
- Saturday, November 22 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, December 7 - 5:30pm
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Saturday, November 15 - 5:30pm
- Friday, November 28 - 7:30am
- Sunday, November 30 - 5:30pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Saturday, November 15 - 7:30am
- Friday, November 21 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, December 6 - 5:30pm
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, November 14 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, November 23 - 7:30am
- Saturday, November 29 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Friday, November 14 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Wednesday, November 12 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, November 13 - 5:00pm
- Monday, November 17 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, November 18 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, November 19 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, November 20 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, December 9 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, December 11 - 5:00pm

