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Jason Zengerle, Hated by All the Right People – Tucker Carlson & the Unraveling of the Conservative Mind

Special • 2026

Journalist Jason Zengerle considers political commentator Tucker Carlson's controversial evolution within conservative media and politics, and his role in today's divided political environment.

Gabriel Sherman, Bonfire of the Murdochs

Special • 2026

Journalist Gabriel Sherman discusses the life of media mogul Rupert Murdoch and the years-long Murdoch family legal dispute that left his son Lachlan Murdoch in control of Fox News and News Corp in 2025.

Q & A

Series • 2025

Episode 27

Peniel Joseph on the pivotal events of 1963 that impacted the Civil Rights Movement in America.

Dr. Ashely Alker, 99 Ways to Die-And How to Avoid Them

Special • 2026

Emergency medicine doctor Ashely Alker discusses the life-threatening injuries and illnesses she's seen in her career. Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, D.C., hosts this event.

Trevor Reed, Retribution

Special • 2026

Former U.S. Marine Trevor Reed discusses his 2019 arrest and imprisonment in Russia and his decision to volunteer in war against the Russians in Ukraine after his release.

Claudia Rowe, Wards of the State

Special • 2025

Coverage of the 2025 Miami Book Fair.

Alex Pentland, Shared Wisdom – Cultural Evolution in the Age of AI

Special • 2026

MIT professor Alex Pentland argues that society should use technology like artificial intelligence rather than be replaced by it. The MIT Museum in Cambridge, Massachusetts, hosts this event.

Jacob Soboroff, Firestorm

Special • 2026

Jacob Soboroff grew up in Pacific Palisades and covered the 2025 Los Angeles fires for NBC. This is his account of those devastating fires -- and their implications for future disasters.

Beronda Montgomery, When Trees Testify — Science, Wisdom, History and America’s Black Botanical Legacy

Special • 2026

Biologist Beronda Montgomery explores the botanical knowledge developed by African Americans. Harvard Book Store hosts this event.

Frederick Douglass Book Prize

Special • 2026

Book TV presents coverage of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize awarded for outstanding non-fiction books on the subject of slavery and abolition. The award is presented by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.

The Civil War

Series • 2025

Episode 38

Authors and historians talk about how Americans experienced reconstruction after the Civil War.