The World in Time

Stories and insight from today’s leading writers and thinkers

July 15, 2025

June 20, 2025

The World in Time:

Episode 3: Francine Prose

This week on the podcast, Donovan Hohn speaks with Francine Prose, author of 1974: A Personal History. More

June 14, 2025

The World in Time:

Episode 2: Lewis H. Lapham, Part Two

“Lewis understood that without the past, we lose the ability to think productively or even understand the present.” More

June 13, 2025

The World in Time:

Episode 1: Lewis H. Lapham, Part One

“This episode, my first behind the microphone, won’t be a conversation, but it will be a duet. I’ll be sharing the microphone some with Lewis Lapham.” More

Terracotta funerary plaque, Greek, Attic, c. 520 BC.

August 18, 2023

The World in Time:

Robert D. Kaplan

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power. More

July 28, 2023

The World in Time:

Elizabeth Winkler

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies. More

March 24, 2023

The World in Time:

Jared Yates Sexton

Lewis H. Lapham speaks with the author of The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis. More

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Robert Weide

September 17, 2014

Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer and documentary filmmaker Robert B. Weide has profiled the biggest names in comedy. More

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Soviets & Spies

April 30, 2014

Did an Englishman assist in the murder of Rasputin? Did a man knowns as the “Ace of Spies” almost carry off the assassination of the entire Bolshevik power structure? More