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We’ve Been Robbed!
On today’s show: David Leonhardt and Thomas Geoghegan on how the legalization of bad lending practices has played a role in bringing the economy to its knees. Then, David Grann on the mysterious disappearance of two explorers in the Amazon in the 1920’s. And, just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, Mary Pat Kelly joins us to talk about her new novel on the Irish American experience. Plus, Nobel laureate and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center President Harold Varmus on his life and career.
Looting & the Usury Economy
Have you found yourself wondering latley "who or what destroyed the economy?" Well, New York Times columnist David Leonhardt and labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan have a simple answer to that question: we've been robbed. In his article "Infinite Debt" for the April issue of Harpers Geoghegan theorizes that the legalization of usury created perverse incentives for investors that led to a flight of capital. Leonhardt takes the theory a step further in his Times article by suggesting that investors knowingly looted money from the government in the form of bailouts.
The Lost City of Z
In 1925, renowned British explorer Colonel Percy Harrison Fawcet and his son Jack set out to find the fabled city of Z (also known as El Dorado) in the Amazon. They were never seen again. Their story became almost as legendary as El Dorado itself and yet their disappearance had never been solved, perhaps until now. New Yorker staff writer David Grann chronicles the Fawcets story and even follows their trail into the Amazon in his book The Lost City of Z.
Galway Bay
Mary Pat Kelly’s new book Galway Bay follows one family's journey from famine stricken Ireland to a new life in the United States.
Harold Varmus
Harold Varmus has done it all: Nobel Prize–winning breakthroughs in cancer biology, masterful leadership of the National Institutes of Health, statesmanship of the highest order in global health, and cheerful trench warfare to bring biomedical publications to the open-source Internet age. Currently he's the President of Memorial Sloan-Kettering hospital and a science advisor to Barack Obama. His memoir is The Art and Politics of Science.
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A number of this year’s National Book Award winners have appeared on The Leonard Lopate Show. Click here to see the list!
Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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Please Explain: Eco-Labels
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Our 3-ingredient Challenge wins a James Beard Award
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On May 3, the Lopate Show won its third James Beard Award for our 3-ingredient challenge. In August, we asked our listeners to call in and name 3 ingredients and then challenged New York chef and 3-ingredient expert Rozanne Gold to whip up a recipe! You can listen to the 3-ingredient challenge and get some inspiration for simple, delicious, and unexpected dishes.
