Podcast Schedule for (Most of) October

Coming up this Friday, October 1st, I talk with Dr. Bruce Cumings about North Korea, based in part on his recent book, The Korean War. It's my third interview with Bruce; I've known him for about thirty years and have the very highest regard for his scholarship and judgment. The Friday following, October 8th, my guest will be Dr. David Kanin, recently retired after a thirty year career with the CIA. We talk about Yugoslavia — about which David is an expert — and other things. Both the above illustrate, I think, how important it is to understand that we Americans often get the basic narrative wrong regarding our foreign adventures. For a further, unusual perspective on the meaning of narrative, the week following, Friday, October 15th, my guest will be Gary Lachman, who's both a prolific and successful author on esoteric subjects and an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a founding member of the alternative/new wave band Blondie). We talk about his recent book, Jung the Mystic. To follow in late October, I hope, will be shows on the U.S. passenger rail system, and on how slavery profoundly shaped the creation of the U.S. Constitution. The latter, a corrected narrative of absolutely critical importance.