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
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Saturday, September 5 - 7:30am
- Saturday, October 3 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Saturday, September 5 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 6 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Sunday, September 6 - 7:30am
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Monday, September 7 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, September 17 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, September 8 - 5:00pm
- Friday, September 11 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 12 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 13 - 5:30pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Wednesday, September 9 - 5:00pm
- Friday, September 18 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 19 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 20 - 5:30pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Thursday, September 10 - 5:00pm
- Friday, September 25 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, September 26 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, September 27 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Friday, September 11 - 7:30am
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Saturday, September 12 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Sunday, September 13 - 7:30am
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Monday, September 14 - 5:00pm
- Friday, October 2 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, October 3 - 5:30pm
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Tuesday, September 15 - 5:00pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Wednesday, September 16 - 5:00pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Friday, September 18 - 7:30am
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Saturday, September 19 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Sunday, September 20 - 7:30am
- TBA
- Monday, September 21 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 22 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, September 23 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, September 24 - 5:00pm
- Monday, September 28 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 29 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, September 30 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, October 1 - 5:00pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Friday, September 25 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Saturday, September 26 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Sunday, September 27 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Friday, October 2 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, September 4 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Friday, September 4 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Sunday, August 30 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Saturday, August 29 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, August 28 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 29 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 30 - 5:30pm
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Friday, August 28 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Sunday, August 23 - 7:30am
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Saturday, August 22 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, August 21 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 22 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 23 - 5:30pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Friday, August 21 - 7:30am
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, August 17 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 27 - 5:00pm
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Sunday, August 16 - 7:30am
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Saturday, August 15 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, August 14 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 16 - 5:30pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Thursday, August 13 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, August 26 - 5:00pm
- Special: Paule Marshall, Ben Katchor, and Sol Yurick
- Wednesday, August 12 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 14 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 25 - 5:00pm
- Alex Rosenberg, Ruby Cohn, and Selena Kimball
- Sunday, August 9 - 7:30am
- Tuesday, August 11 - 5:00pm
- Monday, August 24 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, September 3 - 5:00pm
- Leonard Herzenberg, Maggie Nelson, and Jeff Talman
- Saturday, August 8 - 7:30am
- Monday, August 10 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 20 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, September 2 - 5:00pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, August 7 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, August 8 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 9 - 5:30pm
- Ira Eduardovna, Edward Grant, and Leonard Kleinrock
- Thursday, August 6 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 7 - 7:30am
- Wednesday, August 19 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, September 1 - 5:00pm
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Wednesday, August 5 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, August 18 - 5:00pm
- Monday, August 31 - 5:00pm
