Leonard’s conversation today is with Dr. Ted Rueter on noise, specifically noise pollution in the city
. Dr. Ted Rueter started Noise Free America: A Coalition to Promote Quiet while he was a political science professor at UCLA. “I found UCLA to be the loudest campus I had ever been to.” Today, Dr. Rueter will talk to Leonard about noise pollution in New York City, particularly that caused by motorcycles.
Today, Phillip Lopate will join us for an “Underread Book Club” discussion of Turgenev’s late masterpiece “Virgin Soil.” When it was published in1877, Turgenev...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, Lewis H. Lapham discusses the magazine Lapham’s Quarterly , his prodigious career and a new edition of his...
Today on Leonard Lopate at Large, a lively discussion with author Diana Senechal on why words matter. It’s hard to deny that the English...