Daniel Okrent

Daniel Okrent appears in the following:

Todd Webb's New York Of The 1940s/50s

Friday, December 08, 2017

Sean Corcoran, Daniel Okrent and Betsy Evans-Hunt join us to discuss "I See a City: Todd Webb's New York."

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“Old Jews Telling Jokes”

Monday, July 23, 2012

Daniel Okrent, a creator of “Old Jews Telling Jokes,” and performers Todd Susman and Audrey Lynn Weston, talk about the show, a revue that pays tribute to and reinvents classic jokes of the past and present. The show also features comic songs—new and old—as well as tributes to some of the giants of the comedy world. “Old Jews Telling Jokes” is playing at the Westside Theatre.

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The Big Ban that Didn't Work Out

Friday, June 01, 2012

Cities across America have banned all sorts of things: styrofoam, plastic bags, plastic bottles, plastic happy meal toys, foie gras. These are just a few of the contemporary bans, of ...

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March's Book: The Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition, by Daniel Okrent

Tuesday, March 06, 2012

Daniel Okrent, former Public Editor for the New York Times, examines how and why we came to outlaw alcohol in this country, what life under Prohibition was like, and how it changed the country forever. In Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition , he shows how diverse forces came together to bring about Prohibition: the growing political power of the women’s suffrage movement, which allied itself with the antiliquor campaign; the fear of small-town Protestants that they were losing control of their country to the immigrants in the cities; the anti-German sentiment stoked by World War I; and a variety of other factors, ranging from the rise of the automobile to the advent of the income tax.

Pick up a copy and start reading! Daniel Okrent will be here on March 6 to talk about the book. Leave your questions and comments below to join the conversation!

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Prohibition: Bad for Booze, Good for Music.

Monday, November 08, 2010

From Boardwalk Empire on our television screens, to speakeasy-style bars on every other corner, Prohibition is all the rage. Not the actual prohibition of liquor, of course, but that period of time between 1920 and 1933 when alcohol was illegal, and yet it flowed with a reckless abandon. Bestselling author and former New York Times public editor Daniel Okrent has captured this moment in his recent book, Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition. He joins us to paint a portrait of a time when the country may have been dry, but the music and culture was - and still is - intoxicating.

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Embedded in Detroit, Hoping for Change

Friday, September 25, 2009

With an unemployment rate of 28.9% and a $300 million budget shortfall, things in "Motor City" have rarely been worse. To cover the story, Time is trying something new: moving there. ...

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Following Up: Judith Miller

Friday, July 20, 2007

When former New York Times reporter Judith Miller came on the show to discuss her City Journal article about Ray Kelly, many listeners protested that her credibility as a reporter had been irretrievably damaged. We ask Geneva Overholser, chair in public affairs reporting for the University of Missouri School of ...

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