CUNY Podcasts

Before advertising’s creative revolution in the late 1950s and 60s, the TV commercial landscape was filled with dull, repetitive images " like dancing cigarettes " lacking wit and originality. “People were bored and sick of the jingles,” says Andrew Cracknell, author of The Real Mad Men: The R...

Progressives tend to see the Great Recession as the result of the untrammeled free market. Tea Party conservatives argue that government gone wild is the real story. Who’s right? Listen as Peter Beinart of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism joined by Richard Lowry, editor of the conservative N...

Although the financial sector in New York is becoming more racially diverse, white males remain far ahead in compensation, according to a report, “The Progress and Pitfalls of Diversity on Wall Street,” by CUNY’s Center for Urban Research. The latest census data shows that the workforce of whi...

Lightning-rod defense attorney, Harvard law professor, author and commentator Alan Dershowitz embodies “chutzpah” " Yiddish for audacity, gall and nerviness, and one of his book titles. He’s never avoided controversy, and he’s never forgotten where he comes from. That’s why he chose Brookl...

The Search for Education, Elevation and Knowledge program, also known as SEEK, has been renamed in honor of the late Percy E. Sutton, a prominent black political and business leader. Sutton, from Harlem, served as Manhattan borough president from 1966 to 1977, and also as a New York State Assemblyma...

Journalist Pete Hamill believes that the craft of writing is an act of self-discovery. “By the time I went to the New York Post, I actually knew more about writing than any formal education had taught me,” says Hamill, whose prominent career as a newspaperman spans five decades. “You educate y...

Poet Camonghne Felix, a sophomore at Hostos Community College, was named “New York City Youth Poet of the Year" in 2010 by the famed Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Ka'mone (her pen name) is now organizing a Hostos slam team for the national competition in the College Unions Poetry Slam Invitational in Cali...

Carol Willis discusses the creation of the skyscraper and the making of modern New York City in her lecture, “New York, New York: Place, Culture and Urbanity,” as part of a series sponsored by the Bernard and Anne Spitzer School of Architecture, at City College. According to Willis, the founding...

Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s drive to curb to the bargaining rights of public employees in Wisconsin is just the start of a much larger campaign to weaken the rights of labor unions across the country, according to John Nichols, Washington correspondent for the The Nation. “This was, and is, t...

The independent American film director and screenwriter, John Sayles, has been credited with helping kick-start the indie film genre with his 1981 work, “Return of the Secaucus Seven,” which was selected by the National Film Preservation Board for inclusion in the National Film Registry at the...