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How the worst day of my young adult life … turned out great
Every fall, the Farther Foundation—a nonprofit devoted to providing global travel opportunities for students from families and communities that have faced chronic disinvestment and sustained…
‘ I’ve really only had one idea through my whole career.’
The existence of my daily email newsletter, Chicago Public Square, became public Jan. 27, 2017, during a visit to my alma mater, WGN Radio.So it seems appropriate, eight years later to the day, to…
How best to open a podcast
I haven’t posted much here lately about my work with the talented team I helped assemble a decade ago at Rivet (now formally known as Rivet360)—mostly in secret at the beginning.That’s partly…
Science fiction writer Greg Bear in 1994: The Internet’s future
[Updating this original post—from March 1, 2015—on Nov. 20, 2022: Greg Bear is dead at 71.] Science fiction writer Greg Bear in a 1994 interview with me on WNUA-FM, Chicago, on the future of the…
Why I should never sing in public
Chicago Reader columnist Ben Joravsky was kind enough to invite me on his show this week—we talked Wednesday, the podcast was published Saturday—to answer questions about how and why I do what I do…
1995: Peter David, Chris Claremont and Gary Colabuono discuss the comic book industry’s flirtation with disaster
[It’s been a while since we dove into the archives. But now that hour’s come round at last—again.]In 1995, the comic book industry was approaching what later became known as “the Great Comics Crash…
Ex-Chicago Tribune editor James Squires warned in 1993 about the corporate takeover of America’s newspapers
Back in 1993, a former editor of the Chicago Tribune sounded an alarm about the growing conflict between the drive for corporate profits and traditional journalism’s social-reform agenda.That was…
Email pioneer Aaron Barnhart interviewed in 1996
Of all the interviews I’ve conducted, none have influenced my career more than this 1996 sit-down with Aaron Barnhart, whose Late Show News newsletter pioneered the email news biz.Listen to us…
Chicago 7 lawyer William Kunstler in 1994: That trial ‘changed me totally’
Prepping to watch The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix, I revisited my Sept. 16, 1994, interview with The 7’s defense lawyer, William Kunstler, who told me then that the trial “changed me totally. ……
Charlie Meyerson interviewed … about Charlie Meyerson
This hasn’t happened much in my career, most of which I’ve devoted to profiling people far more interesting than I am. But, twice in less than two weeks, I was honored to be interviewed about…
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry in 1974 and 1976
You’d think if you’d met the creator of Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry, in the flesh you’d remember it. Especially if he told you the real reason he made Mr. Spock look a little … devilish (about 32:17…
1988: Chaos in the Chicago City Council
This week’s transformative Chicago City Council development—the historic livestream video presentation of a committee meeting—brings to mind a time when the council was maddeningly tough to…
Journalists Lois Wille and Linda Lutton discuss Chicago's urban development in 1997
The death Tuesday of Pulitzer Prize-winning Chicago journalist Lois Wille—a veteran of the Tribune, the Sun-Times and the Daily News—brings to mind a memorable 1997 interview with her and journalist…
We were warned in 1997 of ‘underground prejudice’
In his 1997 book A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America, Pulitzer Prize winner David K. Shipler documented a major split among Americans: “The divide between those who see racism and…
Leon Lederman, science education hacker, in 1997
The death of Nobel Prize winner Leon Lederman took me back to March 19, 1997, when I interviewed the professor about his then- (and still-) revolutionary ideas on how to overhaul science education.…
Anna Quindlen, talking out loud in 1993
Approaching Mother’s Day 1993, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Anna Quindlen—who shaped a generation’s approach to parenthood—stopped by the WNUA-FM studios in Chicago to promote her then-new book,…
Trump’s precursor? An interview with Pat Buchanan in 1998
In many ways, two-time presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan—former adviser to three Republican presidents (Nixon, Ford and Reagan)—set the stage for Donald Trump’s ascendance. When Buchanan made…
From 1998: The man who REALLY saved Apple
In 1998, Apple’s now-widely-forgotten CEO, Gil Amelio, sat down with me to discuss his relatively brief time atop what was then a struggling company—the subject of his book On the Firing Line: My 500…
National Lampoon's origins, recalled by founding publisher Matty Simmons in 1987
Netflix’s comedic biography of National Lampoon co-founder Douglas Kenney, A Futile and Stupid Gesture, sent me back to my conversation decades ago with one of the story’s key figures, who shared…
In 1998, a look to the future of working women
From the perspective of the Women’s March and #MeToo era of 2018, a 20-year-old book that set out to examine “working women and the transformation of American life” offers insight into trends decades…
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