CUNY Podcasts

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...

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...

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...

When completed in 1913, Cass Gilbert’s Woolworth Building was the world’s tallest skyscraper and the jewel of Manhattan, but today its majestic crown is barely visible behind a maze of glass and steel towers. “I wonder whether, indeed, the new skyline taking shape before us will possess the sa...

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...