Baseball inspires poets and scribes to wax on about some essential baseball-ness that reflects larger values. Maybe baseball is not simply a game, but something grander, a philosophy that might help people order the broader human experience?Alv

At Length with Charles Fishman

Jun 23rd, 2019

We think of the astronauts, those brave people who took a ride on a giant rocket ship into the unknown on their way to the moon. Charles Fishman got to thinking about the more than four hundred thousand working people who actually invented the

At Length with Neal Stephenson

Jun 3rd, 2019

What will the digital world of the future be like? Will humans, or our eternally humming digital simulacra, live in heaven or hell?

At Length with Rachel Louise Snyder

May 21st, 2019

Journalist Rachel Louise Snyder has looked at domestic violence around the world in her new book “ No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us.”

At Length with Dr. Sandro Galea

May 7th, 2019

health, according to Dr. Sandro Galea, isn’t going to actually occur, for individuals or societies, if we stay focused at that level of attention and care.Health should be considered how everyone lives in their neighborhoods, the opportunities

At Length with Mary Norris

Apr 20th, 2019

After a career of carefully editing so many accomplished writers, language and punctuation remain a joy to Marry Norris, renowned New Yorker Copy Editor. Her first book, “Between You and Me: Confessions of AComma Queen,”was nominated for a Thur

At Length with Hedrick Smith

Apr 12th, 2019

A broken democracy, perhaps like a broken clock, can be right sometimes. Journalist Hedrick Smith’s new film, “Winning Back Our Democracy,” profiles citizen activists around the United States who are making a difference. As one Florida activist

At Length with Hedrick Smith

Apr 5th, 2019

At Length with Siri Hustvedt

Mar 20th, 2019

Siri Hustvedt talks about scholarship, teaching story to psychiatry residents and her new book about memory and time in her new novel, “Memories of the Future.”

Siri Hustvedt At Length

Mar 20th, 2019

Siri Hustvedt talks about scholarship, teaching story to psychiatry residents and her new book about memory and time in her new novel, “Memories of the Future.”

At Length with Frans De Waal

Mar 8th, 2019

“Mama’s Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell us About Ourselves” by Frans De Waal raises a troubling question that challenges humans place in the world. If animals, from mice and fish to apes and birds, have emotional intelligence, can

At Length With Arne Duncan

Dec 12th, 2018

Arne Duncan served as President Obama’s Secretary of Education. His assessment of the nation’s efforts to educate children and of his own tenure in federal office is “How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Na

At Length with Octavio Solis

Dec 1st, 2018

Octavio Solis is an award-winning working playwright immersed in the culture and politics of our time. His plays tell the stories of rural America, of Latino America, of border America.He comes to Town Hall Seattle December 4th,the Rainier Arts

At Length with Marie Wong Part 2

Nov 29th, 2018

An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels”is the Seattle University professor’s historical examination of this vibrant

At Length with Marie Wong

Nov 29th, 2018

An extended walk through Seattle’s Chinatown/International District with scholar Marie Wong. “Building Tradition: Pan-Asian Seattle and Life in the Residential Hotels” is the Seattle University professor’s historical examination of this vibrant

At Length with Rob Reich

Nov 27th, 2018

Through their wealth, philanthropists influence society. Is that fair?As it is currently set-up, Rob Reich says it isn’t. Reich (pronounced “reesh”) is a professor of political science and faculty co-director for the Stanford Center on Philanth

At Length with Alex Rosenblat

Nov 23rd, 2018

Uber has disrupted the taxi industry around the world. But its way of doing business may be reshaping other industries. Alex Rosenblat is a technology ethnographer, a social scientist who learns from strangers and analyzes the technologies they

Peter Sagal At Length

Nov 8th, 2018

Peter Sagal, the very funny host of NPR’s News quiz “Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me!” has written a serious and funny book about his attraction to the physical and psychological benefits he gets from running.Sagal talks about his history with running

Chris Hedges At Length

Oct 21st, 2018

Pulitzer prize winning journalist, Truthdig columnist and RT TV talk show host Chris Hedges reports on what he sees as a declining empire, where oligarchs rules, people are disenfranchised, poorly served by their media and racing towards global

David Reich At Length

Oct 18th, 2018

The origins of humanity have become less uncertain as scientists like David Reich and his colleagues extract ancient DNA from the bones of our distant ancestors. The fast moving science is revealing our common ancestry and our surprising relati

Save the Bees, Save the Planet

Oct 8th, 2018

People need bees. Since the first wasp got a taste for pollen 125 million years ago, bees and flowers have co-evolved in a way that brings almonds and apricots to our tables. But honeybees, as well as the less well known but equally critical mi

"The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life" by David Quammen

Aug 18th, 2018

“The Tangled tree: A Radical New History of Life,” looks new scientific understanding that tangles up human understanding of the tree of life. Award winning science writer David Quammen says maybe life is more like an elaborate topiary.