May 14, 2020
@claudiacragg speaks with The Washington Post's David Ignatius @ignatiuspost about his new novel, The Paladin. He is a prize winning novelist who has been covering the Middle East and the CIA for nearly four decades.
The story is this: when a daring, high-tech CIA operation goes wrong and is disavowed, the protagonist...
May 6, 2020
Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks with astrophysicist @Mario_Livio about his new book, Galileo and the Science Deniers. This work aims for distinction in trying to place the original Renaissance man, Galileo, and his discoveries in modern scientific and social contexts.
In particular, Livio argues, the charges of...
Apr 30, 2020
A growing number of businesses and individuals worldwide have stopped using banknotes in fear that physical currency, handled by tens of thousands of people over its lifetime, could be a vector for the coronavirus.
Public officials and health experts have said the risk of transferring the virus person-to-person through
Apr 23, 2020
Claudia Cragg @claudiacragg speaks here with David Rohde @RohdeD who is two-time recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, an executive editor of The New Yorker website, an MSNBC contributor, and a former New York Times, Reuters, and Christian Science Monitor reporter.
He is the author of the just published 'IN DEEP: The FBI,...
Apr 16, 2020