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MEDIA (VIDEO AND AUDIO)

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Here are links to my NPR appearances and commentaries.

 

Here are links to my blog(g)ingheads appearanc​es

4/29/16: I interview Michael Kinsley at Washington's Politics & Prose bookstore about his book
Old Age: A Beginner's Guide.  

 

2/18/16: Talk on inequality and the rise of the corporate lobby sponsored by North Jersey Public Policy

Network at Fairleigh Dickinson.

 

7/23/15: I moderate a panel of former Social Security commissioners on the 80th anniversary of the program.

 

7/21/15: I interview Richard Trumka (that's me pitching questions off camera) for Politico.

 

6/21/15: Bloggingheads dialog with Peter Cappelli on the skills gap.

 

5/6/15: Politico panel: "Is There A Skills Gap Or Isn't There?" 

 

4/3/15: I discuss the disappointing March jobs numbers on Cspan. 

 

3/6/15: Talk on inequality at Stetson Law School conference, Gulfport, Florida.

2/16/15: Bloggingheads conversation with Thomas Geoghegan about his book Only One Thing Can Save Us.

 

11/20/14: Newseum launch event for Politico's Labor & Employment vertical (in which I interview Labor Secretary Tom Perez, and also Reps. Rosa DeLauro, D.-Ct., and Phil Roe, R.-Tenn.; I also discuss labor's midterms thumpin' with Politico's Anna Palmer and Steve Shepard).

 

10/14/14: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign lecture on income inequality and education.

 

10/14/14: I read from The Great Divergence at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

 

8/31/14: I discuss the McDonnell trial, culture wars, and guns with Matthew Schmitz on bloggingheads.tv.

 

8/26/14: MSNBC: The low-wage economy, in 30 seconds.

 

4/8/14: blog(g)ingheads debate on minimum wage with Glenn Loury; Atlantic highlight reel.

 

2/17/14: MSNBC: "NOW With Alex Wagner" segment on Chattanooga VW plant's union vote. 

 

12/14/13: MSNBC: "Up With Steve Kornacki" segments on gunsinequality, and unemployment.

 

11/26/13: MSNBC: "The Agenda" segment on Obamacare.

 

11/6/13: American University debate with Charles Murray. 

 

9/25/13: Cspan: Washington Journal.

 

9/23/13: MSNBC: "The Agenda" segment on guns and Hillary '16.

 

8/9/13 MSNBC:"The Agenda" segment on Syria, debt ceiling, and Bloomberg.

 

8/26/13: MSNBC: "Morning Joe."

 

8/19/13: "The Agenda" segment on the Heritage Foundation and Obamacare.

 

6/13/13: MSNBC: "The Agenda" segment on GOP and rape.

 

5/2/13: MSNBC: "The Agenda" segment on the "political intelligence" racket

 

4/29/13: MSBC "The Agenda" segment on National Scence Foundation and wealth inequality.

 

4/3/13: HuffPoLive segment on paying retail clerks a living wage.

 

3/17/13: Video essay on income mobility, CBS Sunday Morning.

 

2/20/13: I talk liberals and guns on Lawrence O'Donnell's Last Word (MSNBC).

 

2/7/13: George Washigton Law panel on financialization and inequality.

 

2/4/13: "Inequality and the 2012 Electon" (UC Santa Barbara Walter Capps Center).

 

1/21/13: Interview in CBC report on American Dream.

 

12/19/12: Thom Hartmann interview, part one and part two.

 

11/12/12: Park Avenue (Alex Gibney documentary for PBS)

 

11/3/12: Solutions panel at Mass Humanities "Mind The Gap" symposium on income inequality (Boston College). With Jamie Galbraith, Mark Santow, and Will Wlikinson.

 

10/17/13: With Joshua Trevino on Blo(g)gingheads.

 

7/11/12: Zocalo-sponsored talk in L.A.

 

6/13/12: The Last Word (Lawrence O'Donnell) on MSNBC

 

6/5/12: The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC.

 

6/1/12: "The Big Picture" interview with Thom Hartmann

 

5/30/12: New America "Politics of Inequality" event with David Corn.

 

5/19/12: Gaithersburg Book Festival on CSPAN

 

5/11/12: Morning Joe on MSNBC

 

5/7/12: Seattle Town Hall appearance

 

5/4/12: NOW With Alex Wagner on MSNBC.

 

4/30/12: Bloggingheads interview with Glenn Loury.

 

4/30/12: Yahoo! Finance interview with Dan Gross and Henry Blodget.

 

4/24/12: Kickoff Great Divergence panel at the Century Foundation in New York City with Greg Anrig, Dan Alpert, Robert Hockett, and Dorian Warren.

 

4/24/12: TheStreet.com interview with Greg Greenberg.

 

5/26/11: Sidney Hillman award ceremony. (Presenter: Rick Hertzberg)

 

11/1/10: New America Foundation forum on income inequality. (Mediator: Reid Cramer)

 

10/24/10: CBS Sunday Morning (video essay on income inequality)

 

9/28/10: PBS NewsHour. (Intervew with Gwen Ifill)

 

9/14/10: Bloggingheads (Debate on income inequality with Mickey Kaus)

 

Radio interviews and podcasts:

9/3/19: I discuss the American gerontocracy on public radio in Texas ("Texas Standard").

12/20/17: I discuss the tax bill and inequality on "One Year Later" (KCRW).

5/1/17: I discuss May Day with Harry Holzer and Joshua Johnson on 1A (NPR).

1/3/17: I discuss Obama's legacy on "To the Point" (KCRW).

9/28/16: I discuss the death of the phone call (by phone).

7/27/16: I discuss the Democratic convention on Colin McInroe show, WNPR.

1/4/16: I discuss Obama's home-stretch regulations and executive orders on Wisconsin Public Radio.

 

2/27/15: I discuss James Truslow Adams, who coined "the American dream," on public radio's BackStory.

 

4/24/14: KCRW (public radio) "To the Point" interview.

 

4/13/14: NYT Book Review podcast on Matt Taibbi book.

 

4/5/14: NPR "All Things Considered" piece on migration (I'm inteviewed at the end).

 

11/9/13: APPAM panel on "Challenge of Global Inequality" with James Galbraith, Branko Milanovic, and others.

 

10/21/13: "America Weekend" (interview with Paul Harris).

 

10/16/13: "Tell Me More" (NPR) interview about job migration.

 

9/19/13: "Virtually Speaking" interview with Jay Ackroyd.

 

9/13/13: "To The Point" with Warren Olney (KCRW).

 

8/23/13: Electric politics podcast with Geoge Kenney.

 

7/12/13: Oxfam "Losing Ground" panel on poverty and inequality.

 

7/4/13: "To The Point" interview on social class and the movies (KCRW).

 

5/20/13: "Carl In The Morning" (Portland, Ore.), at 91:53.

 

10/19/12: "Tell Me More" discussion with Michel Martin and Irwin Redlener (NPR)

 

10/18/12: "The Takeaway" debate with Ed Conard.

 

9/28/12: "Heartland Labor Forum," KKFI (Kansas City, Mo.).

 

8/5/12: "America's Democrats" interview.

 

8/2/12: INN World Report Radio

 

6/11/12: NPR "Tell Me More" interview with Michel Martin and Peter Edelman.

 

6/8/12: "Culture Shocks" interview with Barry Lynn

 

5/29/12: "The Bat Segundo Show" (interiew with Edward Champion).

 

5/19/12: "Conversations with Lizz Sommars" KMTT Seatle

 

5/14/12: "On Point With Tom Ashbrook," WBUR (debating Edward "Inequality Is Good For You" Conard; I come in at 20:45 ).

 

5/10/12: "Late Mornings" KVON Napa with Jeff Schechtman

 

5/7/12: Audio of Town Hall Seattle lecture.

 

5/4/12: Slate political gabfest with Emily Bazelon and John Dickerson.

 

4/28/12: "In The Balance" (BBC).

 

4/26/12: "Talk Of The Nation" (NPR)

 

4/24/12: "The Takeaway" (NPR)

 

4/24/12: "The Brian Lehrer Show" (WNYC)

 

4/17/12: "The Madeleine Brand Show" (KPCC)

 

4/13/12: Truthdig (KPFK) 

 

1/30/12: WSKG (SUNY)

 

10/13/10: "Talk of the Nation" (NPR)

 

9/23/10: "All Things Considered" (NPR)

 

9/14/10: "To the Point" (KCRW)

 

Other CBS Sunday Morning video essays:

 

4/3/11: "Ban The Benjamins!"

 

3/14/10: "Why The Filibuster Deserves No Respect"

 

5/4/09: "Hire Failures To Give Commncement Speehes"

 

2/11/09: "Against 'Change'"

 

20th century curios from Cspan's archive: 

 

2/16/00: I explain online journalsm.

 

3/1/99: I explain Slate and my Chatterbox column.

 

4/19/95: I moderate a Washington Monthly panel on education.

 

8/11/88: I discuss the 1988 veepstakes.

 

4/26/88: I discuss my Newsweek cover story about the state of education five years after the "Nation At Risk" report.

 

11/13/87: I discuss the week's news. Chief significance of this appearance is that it prompted my future father-in-law to comment rudely about my sport jacket in a phone message to my future wife, Marjorie Williams, who accidentally played it for me. Jacket is indeed a crime against all that is decent. 

 

1/9/86: I discuss the week's news. Joe Davidson and I both giggle at the idea that Pat Buchanan would ever run for president, which of course he did six years later and multple times thereafter. 

 

Bonus Cspan clip:

 

6/8/01: Marjorie Williams discusses her Vanity Fair piece about the troubled "marriage" between Bill Clinton and Al Gore. A rare online video clip of my late wife, who regarded appearing on TV as the rough equivalent to dental surgery.

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