California law makes locking up guns easier than locking up possibly dangerous gun owners
Patt Morrison talks with Das Williams, an American politician who currently serves as County Supervisor on the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors.
20 Nov 201816min
Historian Mario T. Garcia: pioneering LA sanctuary priest Luis Olivares is worthy of sainthood
Patt Morrison talks with Mario T. Garcia a professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. Professor Garcia's new biography is about the amazing untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement's champion...
13 Nov 201816min
Harvard's Yochai Benkler: analyzing the "propaganda feedback loop" of rightwing media
Patt Morrison talks with Yochai Benkler an author and the Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.
6 Nov 201818min
Author Leo Braudy charts the family tree of Halloween monsters that we love to scare us
Patt Morrison talks with Leo Braudy about his most recent book Haunted: On Ghosts, Witches, Vampires, Zombies, and Other Monsters of the Natural and Supernatural Worlds. Leo Braudy is a professor at t...
30 Okt 201815min
Starman Neil deGrasse Tyson on the overlap of astrophysics and the military
Patt Morrison talks with Neil deGrasse Tyson an astrophysicist, and the author of "Accessory to War: The Unspoken Alliance Between Astrophysics and the Military", about what role astrophysicists playe...
16 Okt 201821min
Susan Orlean "The Library Book," about the Los Angeles fire that made us love libraries better
Patt Morrison talks with Susan Orlean, author and staff writer for The New Yorker about her book "The Library Book," the story of the Los Angeles Public Library fire, how it started, and how it ended...
9 Okt 201818min
Historian Nicolas Wey-Gomez on how Columbus' exploits inspired early human rights laws
Patt Morrison talks with Caltech History Professor Nicolas Wey-Gomez about the odd legacy of Christopher Columbus. Nicolas Gomez is the author of The Tropics of Empire: Why Columbus Sailed South to th...
2 Okt 201818min
Songwriter Burt Bacharach , at 90 , composes a music video plea to stop school shootings
Patt Morrison talks with Burt Bacharach about and American composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist, and singer. Burt composes a music video plea to stop school shootings. He is considered one o...
25 Sep 201814min
