11-03-2023

Martha “Marni” Sandweiss talks with Susan Hodara about her lifelong obsession as a historian—and explains how one archival photograph opened up her understanding of the underpinnings of the West.

11-03-2023

Greg and Gregg Stone remind us about life’s doppelgängers — and how two guys with the same name might have a few things in common beyond Harvard.

09-04-2023

Wade Davis, the acclaimed ethnobotanist and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, can pinpoint the precise moment from his boyhood that created his obsession with the anthropology of cultural differences. “I remember coming alive at your bar mitzvah,” he tells his old school chum from Montreal and Harvard classmate, David Goldbloom, for this episode of PasstheMic75.

07-17-2023

Writing teacher Mark Leib talks to classmate Joy Horowitz about the bruising realities of making a living as a writer these days — and the bliss of having his first novel published.

05-30-2023

Donald Lurye talks to fellow physician Yan Chow about the surprising twists and turns of a life well-lived, including a return to the clarinet.

05-16-2023

Michael Bromwich talks to Quincy House roommate David Goldbloom about his life’s work in the criminal justice system.

05-05-2023

Phil Lazebnik talks about ancient Greece, Harpo Marx, and the importance of musical comedy with David Goldbloom, the antic star of Mad About Mintz, Phil’s fabled undergraduate musical whose meaning continues to elude them both.

03-27-2023

James Kaye Doane talks to old pal Yan Chow about how serendipity and gratitude have defined his life path. And he answers the $64,000 question about Costco.

03-10-2023

Deborah Frost talks to Joy Horowitz about the origins of her rock ‘n roll obsession.

03-08-2023

A funny thing happened to Rick Nance after he began working at a Cleveland law firm for The Man. As he tells classmate George Yeadon: “I kinda became The Man.”

02-06-2023

Harold Hongju Koh talks with Will Englund about how his father’s legacy defined his life as both diplomat and academic.

12-12-2022

Joan Porter MacIver talks to Sukie Taylor Amory about helping restore looted treasures to a new museum in Basra, Iraq.

12-09-2022

Greg Pennington talks to Joy Horowitz about what happens when we slow down enough to appreciate each other—and the awe that sometimes ensues.

11-20-2022

Cynthia Perrin Schneider reminds her Currier House freshman year suite mate Joy Horowitz that being rejected from clown school would lead to her rejection of Rembrandt in favor of a peripatetic life of cultural diplomacy.

11-17-2022

Jonathan Sheffer talks to Sarah Crichton about drawing inspiration from the genius of Leonard Bernstein while the world-famous conductor and composer was living at Harvard to deliver his Norton Lecture series and his daughter Jamie was an undergraduate at Adams House.

07-06-2022

Gloria Yu tells Cora Yamamoto why growing up in Cuba during the revolution played a major role in shaping her identity.

07-06-2022

Gary Mathews talks to his old Hotel Continental roommate Yan Chow about how John Finley, the legendary humanities professor, shaped his life path that led him to Noh theater.

03-23-2022

Roxane Zand talks to Sukie Taylor Amory about the remarkable twists and turns in her life, from being one of the very first Iranians to attend Harvard-Radcliffe to being the first Iranian appointed by the Queen to serve as a Deputy Lord Lieutenant of England, an honor established by, truly, Henry VIII.

12-06-2021

Thom Krystofiak talks to Susan Hodara about how his belief that he could save the world through Transcendental Meditation led him on a lifelong exploration of trying to come to terms with himself as a skeptic.

08-23-2021

Gordon Rutledge how are you? I haven’t spoken with you in more than a minute! I heard you moved to Oregon but couldn’t imagine what motivated such a midlife change of scenery. I, Dr. Verna Gibbs, can only say…… it’s not California (which has been good to me since 1979). So, what’s going on?