KALW-FM: Binah Podcast

Vince Gilligan, creator and executive producer of the Emmy award-winning television series Breaking Bad, takes us behind-the-scenes on his wildly popular show, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

New York Times Magazine’s original “Ethicist” Randy Cohen explores what guides our choices when we are faced with everyday moral decisions, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Author Louise Erdrich draws on her own Chippewa heritage for her latest book, The Round House, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Author and media theorist Steven Johnson makes the case that a new model of political change is on the rise, and offers a new vision of progress for our networked age, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

British novelist Martin Amis talks about the state-of-England in his latest book Lionel Asbo and also about the state-of-America, his newly adopted home, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Social critic Naomi Wolf returns to the subject matter—women’s bodies and women’s lives—that made her name, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Novelist Salman Rushdie shares his new memoir Joseph Anton that recounts how he lived under a death threat for 10 years, after the Ayatollah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him for his novel The Satanic Verses, in conversation with Michael Krasny in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Science fiction writer William Gibson talks about his groundbreaking work that described the Internet before it existed and inspired the cyberpunk movement, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Behavioral economist Dan Ariely takes a hard look at the contradictory forces that drive us to cheat and keep us honest, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Food writer Harold McGee discusses gastronomic trends, best practices and other culinary mysteries, and helps home cooks make the most of recipes, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Harvard Professor Michael Sandel explores how monetary incentives are taking root in our society and how we can prevent market values from pushing society’s moral limits and reaching into spheres of life where they don’t belong, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Writer/producer and MacArthur Fellow David Simon talks about his string of hits for television: Homicide: Life on the Streets; HBO’s The Wire, which is commonly hailed as the best TV show ever; and his latest series, Treme, set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Go the F**k to Sleep is a bedtime book by Adam Mansbach that perfectly captures the familiar—and unspoken—tribulations of putting the little angel down for the night. Join Mansbach in conversation with Bay Area rapper Lyrics Born in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

U.S. Poet Laureate Philip Levine reads his work which is most famous for its urban perspective and depictions of the grim reality of blue collar work and workers, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

IDEO’s Fred Dust talks about his work at the forefront of design innovation, including consulting with the president of Greece, advising the TSA and collaborating with a family doctor to redesign his health care delivery system, in front of a live audience at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.