Notebook on Cities and Culture
(Formerly The Marketplace of Ideas.) Colin Marshall sits down for in-depth conversations with cultural creators, internationalists, and observers of the urban scene all around Los Angeles and beyond.
On globalization with Pietra Rivoli A conversation about Texan cotton-growing, Chinese manufacturing and African entrepreneurship with Pietra Rivoli, Georgetown business professor and author of The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy.
Direct download: MOI_Pietra_Rivoli.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 6:43am UTC

Essayist, film writer, novelist and poet Phillip Lopate A conversation about education, urbanism and Abbas Kiarostami with essayist, novelist, poet and film writer Phillip Lopate.
Direct download: MOI_Phillip_Lopate.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 5:25am UTC

On book reviewing with Gail Pool A conversation with Gail Pool, author of Faint Praise: The Plight of Book Reviewing in America.
Direct download: MOI_Gail_Pool.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 2:57am UTC

Skeptic Michael Shermer A conversation about economics, evolutionary biology and Ayn Rand with Michael Shermer, publisher of Skeptic magazine and author of The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics.
Direct download: MOI_Michael_Shermer.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 12:33am UTC

On early modern science and poetry with Angus Fletcher A conversation about the interplay between early modern science and poetry with Angus Fletcher, Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the City University of New York Graduate School and author of Time, Space and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare.
Direct download: MOI_Angus_Fletcher.mp3
Category:podcasts -- posted at: 11:22pm UTC