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Sontag reads from "Illness as Metaphor" and discusses differences between diseases, particularly tuberculosis and cancer, regarding historic understanding and cultural representation.
Child psychiatrist and educator Rudolf Dreikurs discusses his book "Social Equality and the Challenge of Today," Part 1 of 2. The discussion focuses on child psychiatry and human misbehavior.
Discussing the book "An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales" (published by Knopf) with the author, neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks.
Eva Le Gallienne discusses and compares American theater and European theater. She also discusses different playwrights such as Henrik Johan Ipsen and Anton Chekhov.
Elizabeth Janeway discusses the women’s movement and her book, “Between Myth and Morning: Women Awakening.” Topics include dominance and equality, women’s history, the power balance between men and women, and relationships and autonomy. Includes a recorded reading of William Butler Yeat’s Crazy Jane poem, “The Solid Man and the Cockscomb” and an excerpt from a previously recorded interview with Maggie Kuhn, founder of the Gray Panthers.
Dr. Theodor Rosebury dissects cultural ideas around cleanliness and shame as presented in his book "Life of Man".
Studs Terkel and Ronald talk about Lippmann's privileged early life, his time at Harvard, and his positions as editor of The New Republic and New York World. They also discuss Lippmann's silence — as a Jewish man — regarding persecution of Jews in World War II.
Ronald Steel goes in-depth about his biography of journalist Walter Lippman.