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In this new kind of interview show, Randy Cohen talks to guests about a person, a place, and a thing they feel strongly about. The result: some great talkers tell stories they never have before. Visit PersonPlaceThing.org.

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Feb 26, 2017

We spoke a few years ago for one of our first episodes, when she was a correspondent for The Daily Show, before she created her own show, Full Frontal, and before we could even imagine a President Trump, who makes us so desperately need Full Frontal and powerful mind-numbing drugs. Smart, funny, and humane, she is given...


Feb 19, 2017

Before Freakonomics, before he set out as a journalist, Sphen Dubner abandoned a promising career as a musician because, "I didn't want to be doing something that I felt required adoration to give me validation." But sure every writer wants readers who value his work, so what's the difference? An artist's relationship...


Feb 11, 2017

Our friends provide kindness, but we are also drawn to harsher souls with "big personalities" and small social skills whose rigor makes us better people, and by "we," I mean playwright David Ives. A conversation about at Classic Stage Company about tenderness and severity with the author of Venus in Fur and CSC's...


Feb 4, 2017

Can local government protect us from the enormities being perpetrated by the White House? Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer is not entirely comforting, and yet it is encouraging to hear a public official with knowledge of her profession, respect for (and from) her constituents, and a fundamental sense of decency -...