LEONARD LOPATE AT LARGE

Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Leonard talks to Jonathan Berman Director Of Calling All Earthlings “For those who have ever wondered about that domed white, flying saucer-shaped structure perched on a particularly sparse patch of Landers, Calif.,

Today, on Leonard Lopate At Large, Leonard’s guest is Seymour Hersh, a man who changed the course of US history with his reporting at least twice. An American journalist whose reporting has generally focused on the U.S. government and its involvement abroad. Noted for his investigations into the My Lai Massacre and the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. In the course of his career, Hersh has been the recipient of numerous honors. In addition to a Pulitzer Prize, he also garnered five George Polk Awards. The memoir Reporter was published in 2018.

On todays show Leonard talks about artisanal cheesmaking with Rory Chase and Jonathan White Chaseholm Farm Creamery is a grass-based dairy farm nestled in a 350-acre patchwork of pastures, crop land, woods and waterways located just outside of Pine Plains, NY. The Creamery was founded in 2007 when Rory Chase returned home to the farm and started making cheese, retrofitting a barn his grandfather built in the early 1930s to serve as a cheesemaking plant and aging cave. It is one of only a handful of Farmstead outfits producing cow’s milk cheese from their farm’s own herd in the state of New York. Bobolink Dairy was founded by Nina and Jonathan White in 2002, on leased farmland, before the pair eventually moved their operation to a 186-acre farmstead in Milford, NJ in March of 2010.

Today Leonard talks with Alissa Rubin The Paris Bureau Chief for the New York Times . Alissa is a recipient of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, the 2015 John Chancellor Award for journalistic achievement and the 2010 Overseas Press Association award for her piece on women suicide bombers titled “How Baida Wanted to Die.” The Paris bureau chief for the New York Times initially joined the paper in January of 2007 as a correspondent in Baghdad. In the fall of 2008 she became the bureau chief there before moving to Kabul, Afghanistan the following year. Alissa served as the bureau chief in that city for almost four years, departing in the late summer of 2013 to take up the job her current post.

Today Leonard talks to Elizabeth Anderson  In her book “Private Government: How Employers Rule Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It),” Elizabeth Anderson explores the deplorable working conditions that persist right here in the US. “In ‘Private Government,’ Anderson explores a striking American contradiction,” wrote the New Yorker’s Joshua Rothman. “On the one hand, we are a freedom-obsessed society, wary of government intrusion into our private lives; on the other, we allow ourselves to be tyrannized by our bosses, who enjoy broad powers of micromanagement and coercion.”Join Leonard and Elizabeth for a conversation about the state of the American workplace.

Today Leonard talks with Cristin Tierney and Nina Del Rio discussing the art scene today. If you ever wondered what it’s like to own your own gallery? Maybe mystified about what drives the fluctuating value of artwork. Today on “Leonard Lopate at Large” these two giants of the New York City art scene will offer a peek into one of the city’s chief cultural exports. Cristin Tierney is the owner of Cristin Tierney Gallery in Chelsea. Sotheby’s Senior Vice President Nina del Rio began her career with the company, considered one of the world’s premiere brokers of fine art, as a cataloguer in the prints department. In 1999, she began working on the launch of Sotheby’s online auction site before becoming the department head of Museum Services.  

In today’s show, Leonard talks to Ed Schoenfeld, the owner-operator of Decoy (Zagat’s top-rated Chinese restaurant in New York) and Red Farm. A pioneer in the 1970s movement to bring authentic regional Chinese dishes to the US, Ed began his restaurant career as the maitre’d at Uncle Tai’s Hunan Yuan, one of New York’s first Hunan restaurants. Over the years, he has created dozens of beloved local restaurants as an owner-operator or consultant, including Chinatown Brasserie, Pig Heaven and Chop Suey Louie’s Litchi Lounge. Hear what makes Ed’s take on Chinese food so special.

Today on Leonard Lopate At Large, Malachy McCourt talks to Leonard about his diverse career. From growing up in the hardscrabble childhood surroundings brought to life in his brother Frank McCourt’s books “Angela’s Ashes” and “‘Tis” and his own memoirs “A Monk Swimming” and “Singing My Him Song” to his appearances in films like “Brewster’s Millions” or television roles on “Ryan’s Hope” and “One Life to Live,” from his long list occupations like gold smuggler and bible salesman to his 2006 run for governor of New York as the Green part candidatey, there seems to be very little that Malachy hasn’t done. In this episode of “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Malachy  will speak to Leonard about a life that defies categorization.

Leonard’s Guest today is  Christian Viveros-Fauné in a conversation with Leonard on the history of political art. Christian Viveros-Faune.Image: Courtesy of Christian Viveros-Faune For more than 20 years, Christian Viveros-Fauné has been an outspoken voice in the New York City art scene. The prolific critic, curator and former art dealer has had his writing published in Art in America, Newsweek and The New Yorker. In his upcoming book, “Social Forms: A Short History of Political Art” scheduled for release from David Zwirner Books in the fall, Christian examines the role of socially conscious art in this unprecedented moment in American politics. In this episode of “Leonard Lopate at Large,” Christian talks about the book and tells Leonard about the state of political art in 2018.

“Leonard Lopate at Large”  features lively, in-depth daily conversations with the nation’s preeminent thinkers, scientists, artists, journalists, economists, farmers, musicians, historians, authors and politicians that have marked Lopate’s much loved and respected career in radio for more than four decades. Leonard’s guest today. Clyde Haberman is an American journalist who was a longtime columnist and correspondent for The New York Times. He worked for the Times from 1977 to 2013 speaking on the changing role of journalism

Sarah Friedman and Aaron Neville, proprietors of Freville Farm in Pawling, NY. Besides discussing farming in the Hudson Valley and the problems this year’s crazy weather has caused, we will devote a little time to talking about his move from New Orleans to this area in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.  Freville Farm products are created in a solar powered kitchen just steps away from their fields. Working in small batches using as many ingredients from their own Certified Naturally Grown (CNG) produce and source only the best when they can’t. They practice a sustainable, diverse and holistic approach to stewarding land and food. Their footprint is small but our flavor is big.

Leonard Lopate At Large-Michael Brodman, MD and Dr. Joseph Grosso, MD: OBGYN Changes In Medicine And Changes In Patients Dr. Michael Brodman is an obstetrician-gynecologist in New York, New York and is affiliated with Mount Sinai Hospital. He received his medical degree from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and has been in practice for more than 20 years. Dr. Brodman accepts several types of health insurance, listed below. He is one of 302 doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital who specialize in Obstetrics & Gynecology.   Joseph T. Grosso, M.D. attended New York University where he

Today, Leonard’s guest is Louis Hyman, a historian of work and business. Today’s discussion is on economics. Louis Hyman is a historian of work and business at the ILR School of Cornell University, where he also directs the Institute for Workplace Studies in New York City. He has published two books on the history of personal debt (Debtor Nation and Borrow) and a history of how American work became so insecure (Temp).

Are you afraid to take a walk in the woods because of ticks, mosquitoes and other disease carriers that bite? On this weeks Leonard Lopate At Large two scientists from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Dr. Richard Ostfeld and Dr. Shannon LaDeau, give us an in-depth view of how and why they bite us, the diseases they carry, and what we can do to protect ourselves.

On this week Leonard Lopate At Large: a discussion of the long and contentious history of tariffs in America…from colonial times to the present. Our guests are Thea Lee, the president of the Economic Policy Institute (the EPI), and