Grey Matter with Michael Krasny

By Michael Krasny

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Award winning broadcaster, author, and professor Michael Krasny shares in-depth interviews with leading newsmakers, scholars, authors and intellectuals.

Episode Date
Janine Zacharia - The Middle East, the Era of Noise and the Future of Journalism
May 30, 2025
Paul Liberatore - "I look like a rock and roller. I am a rock and roller."
May 20, 2025
Illiberal Nationalism, What Trump and Putin Share, and the Russia Reset With Former Ambassador Michael McFaul
May 13, 2025
Sugar Is Toxic and Addictive - Dr. Robert Lustig
May 09, 2025
Ambassador Dennis Ross - Statecraft 2.0 and the Middle East
Apr 30, 2025
Chris Heiser - Inside a Small Press
Apr 24, 2025
Scott James - Who Gets 18 Months for Killing 100 People?
Apr 17, 2025
Arlie Hochschild - The Other Side of the Cultural Pay Wall
Mar 27, 2025
Jeremy Bailenson - Exciting and Immersive Virtual and Augmented Realities
Mar 18, 2025
Max Boot - The Greatest Geopolitical Challenge
Mar 14, 2025
We Asked Sarah Lacy Are We in an Oligarchy of Tech Bros Under Trump?
Mar 05, 2025
NY Times Film Critic Alissa Wilkinson on Villains and Evil in Today's Films and Nickle Boys as the Year's Best
Feb 27, 2025
Orville Schell - China and Russia Linked in Grudges
Feb 12, 2025
Louis Ferrante - An Offer He Couldn't Refuse
Feb 04, 2025
Greg Sarris - Native American Identity
Jan 28, 2025
Lisa Krieger - A Deeper Understanding of Bird Flu, COVID, Southern California Fires, and More
Jan 22, 2025
Viable Hospitality and Valuable Wisdom from Hotelier Chip Conley
Jan 16, 2025
Nicholas Kristof Chases Hope
Jan 08, 2025
Stephen Zunes - Middle East Expert on an Imminent Shift There
Dec 31, 2024
Adam Hochschild - A Brilliant, Worried but Hopeful Voice from the Left
Dec 26, 2024
Cory Doctorow - The Intersection of Storytelling and Technology
Dec 11, 2024
Jungian Psychiatrist Tom Singer on Trump's Mental State, Elon Musk, Jung and Freud
Nov 27, 2024
Michael Connelly - Over Eighty-Five Million Detective and Crime Fiction Novels Sold Plus Movies and TV
Nov 21, 2024
Art Historian and Scholar Alexander Nemerov on the Art of the West and the Greatest American Artwork
Nov 14, 2024
Richard Reeves on Boys and Men in Crisis
Nov 05, 2024
NPR's Ron Elving on the Upcoming Elections
Oct 30, 2024
Felicity Barringer - The West Is a Tortoise on the Environment Ahead of Other Tortoises
Oct 22, 2024
Malcolm Gladwell - One of the World's Most Successful Authors and Podcasters
Oct 15, 2024
Self Proclaimed Tech Geek Jim Louderback Opines
Oct 08, 2024
David M Kennedy on the American West
Oct 01, 2024
Elizabeth Farnsworth - A Woman of Distinction
Sep 26, 2024
Perry Garfinkel - Gandhi was a Great Marketeer
Sep 17, 2024
Journey into Nature and Creativity with Author Amy Tan
Sep 11, 2024
Jessica Calarco - Marginalized Groups and the Battle Against Inequities
Sep 03, 2024
Fighting Corruption, Waste and Politics to Address Climate Change. Ethan Elkind Explains
Aug 27, 2024
Aimee Allison Foresees a Bright Future for an America Full of Women of Color in Power
Aug 13, 2024
Matt Abrahams - Think of Your Audience as the North Star of Communication
Aug 06, 2024
Kelly Corrigan - It's Hard to Make a Family that Works but not Hard to be Useful
Jul 29, 2024
Long-Time Trump Critic and Tax and Economics Expert David Cay Johnston Goes After the GOP Nominee and his Running Mate
Jul 23, 2024
Peter Coyote - Most of Us Have a Kind of Merciless Junkyard Dog in Us
Jul 16, 2024
Frank Bruni - The End Of Nuanced and Complicated Conversations? A Zero Sum Game Fosters Competition Versus Connection
Jul 09, 2024
Self-Driving Cars to Robot Roommates: Robert Scoble Spatial Computing Strategist
Jul 02, 2024
Maddy Dychtwald - Women Are Different Than Men!
Jun 25, 2024
Bret Stephens - Competition between the Morally Unfit and the Mentally Unfit
Jun 18, 2024
Steven Brill - Pallbeaerers for Truth?
Jun 11, 2024
I'm Anything but a Luddite: An Hour with Entrepreneur Andrew Keen
Jun 05, 2024
Observations and Advice on Children and Teens from Leading Researcher Ellen Galinsky
May 30, 2024
Mike Elgan - A Cosmopolitan Bon Vivant on being a Gastronomad and Artificial Intelligence
May 21, 2024
Larry Tye - Jazz - Backdrop to the Civil Rights Movement
May 14, 2024
More Americans Killed By Cows Than Illegal Border Crossers: A Conversation With Pundit Marc Sandalow
Apr 30, 2024
The Passion of Entrepreneurship: A Conversation with Technologist and CEO Edwin Fu
Apr 23, 2024
Amb. Dennis Ross on Israel-Hamas Conflict: Unpacking the Crisis
Apr 09, 2024
Jeff Jarvis - The Future of Media and Journalism
Apr 02, 2024
Dr. Robert Pearl - Science and Medicine - AI, the Last Possible Hope for American Medicine
Mar 26, 2024
Andrew Fraknoi - Science - A Total View of the Total Eclipse
Mar 19, 2024
Nicholas Dirks - In Search of a City of Intellect
Mar 12, 2024
Rene Ritchie - Sage Advice For YouTube Content Creators
Mar 05, 2024
Jane Wales: Politics and Foreign Affairs - Global Hot Spots and a Brief Look at the Future of Philanthropy
Feb 27, 2024
Joey Zwillinger - Environment and Climate Change: The Green Trojan Horse
Feb 20, 2024
Dr. Nolan Williams - The Brain on Psychedelics
Feb 12, 2024
Dr. Kristina Dahl - Climate Change: Suffering Up Ahead But Ways to Mitigate
Feb 06, 2024
Louis Ferrante - Reformed Criminal and Former Gambino Mafia Family Member
Jan 30, 2024
Daniel Sokatch - Seeds of Hope from 40 Thousand Feet After October 7th and the War in Gaza
Jan 23, 2024
Jacques Pepin - Happy Cooking His Way
Jan 16, 2024
Helen Blau - Stem Cells, Scientific Advancements and Women In Science
Jan 09, 2024
Howard Schatz - Making Rare and Fantastic Photos
Dec 26, 2023
Ken Dychtwald - Upsides of Aging and Aging Gracefully
Dec 19, 2023
Jason Snell - AI, Digital Divides, and Apple's Challenges
Dec 12, 2023
Cuong Do - Slowing Cognitive Decline
Dec 06, 2023
Dr. Laura Esserman - Aspiring to Better
Nov 28, 2023
Abraham Verghese - Humanizing Healthcare
Nov 21, 2023
Tenshin Reb Anderson - The Power of Conversation
Nov 14, 2023
Larry Smith & Melanie Abrams - Inhibitions Down. Connections Up.
Nov 08, 2023
Lee Child - The Business of Revenge
Oct 23, 2023
Amichai Magen - Defeating an Ideology
Oct 17, 2023
Iain McCaig - Storytelling from the Chocolate Box
Oct 09, 2023
Norman Solomon - Shining Light on Inconvenient Truths
Oct 03, 2023
Geraldo Rivera - For the Record
Sep 27, 2023
Avi Loeb - The Infinite Sum Game
Sep 18, 2023
Sean Walsh - We Must Do Better
Sep 14, 2023
Andy Ihnatko - The Balance of Technology
Sep 05, 2023
Tiffany Shlain - Lead Not by Fear
Aug 29, 2023
Alice Waters - Nourishing All
Aug 22, 2023
Jason Del Rey - Winner Sells All
Aug 15, 2023
Bruce Cain - Back to Compromise
Aug 07, 2023
David Rubenstein - History Through Icons
Aug 01, 2023
Brian Lowery - Your Chameleon "You"
Jul 26, 2023
Pamela Paul - The Creative Act of... Reading
Jul 20, 2023
Frederick Van Johnson - Punishing Pixels for a Better Story
Jul 07, 2023
Peter Kramer - Fiction in an Age of Lies
Jun 29, 2023
James Fallows - Keeping a Level Head
Jun 22, 2023
Ira Steinman - Coherence of the Self
Jun 15, 2023
Janine Zacharia - Realpolitik, Media Control and Democracy's Decline
Jun 08, 2023
David Spiegel - Managing Our Minds
Jun 02, 2023
Jeremiah Owyang - Becoming More Human?
May 19, 2023
Orville Schell - The Enigma of Xi
May 09, 2023
iJustine - The Fire and the Tao of Tech
Apr 28, 2023
Walter Murch - Nibbling into a Delicious Movie
Apr 18, 2023
Michael Ellis - The Miracle of It All
Apr 10, 2023
Rick Hanson - Rewiring Our Circuitry
Mar 30, 2023
Molly Kawahata - Deploying Hope
Mar 21, 2023
Jennifer Egan - Reading Deeply
Mar 08, 2023
Jack Kornfield - Embodying Graciousness
Feb 24, 2023
Brian Copeland - Life in the Funny Lane
Feb 16, 2023
Larry Brilliant - Life in the Time of COVID
Feb 09, 2023
Robert Lustig - Killing Me Softly With Sugar
Feb 03, 2023
Vienna Tran - Space Wants To Kill You
Jan 20, 2023
Kent Gershengorn - Loving the Heart
Jan 12, 2023
Narsai David - Delicious Freshness Within Reach
Jan 05, 2023
Jeffrey Pfeffer - Only Power Begets Change
Dec 30, 2022
Louann Brizendine - To drive or be driven?
Dec 22, 2022
Angela Glover Blackwell - Realizing the Promise of Equity
Dec 15, 2022
Nipun Mehta - A Deeper Thanksgiving
Nov 23, 2022
Isabel Allende - Finding Purpose and Gratitude
Nov 17, 2022
Ron Elving - A Most Unusual Midterms
Nov 15, 2022
Michael Connelly - Fighting the Darkness
Nov 11, 2022
Leo Laporte - The Shifting Sands of Broadcast
Nov 01, 2022
Emilie Choi - Global Finance without a Middleman
Oct 27, 2022
Susan Jackson - Conserving Fisheries and Shared Resources
Oct 20, 2022
Dr. Lonnie Barbach - Intimacy, Relationships and Sexuality
Oct 12, 2022
Bill McKibben - Renown Environmentalist - Reclaiming the Climate
Oct 04, 2022
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, Sarah Botstein - The US and the Holocaust - Tackling The Difficult
Sep 21, 2022
Sarah Hill - Healium - Winning the "Stress Olympics" with VR, AR and MR
Sep 07, 2022
Prof Andrew Fraknoi - Fromm and Osher Institutes - "The Real World is Magic Enough"
Aug 30, 2022
John McWhorter PhD - Linguist and NYT Columnist
Aug 23, 2022
Amber Mac - World-Renown Technology Leader - Living in our Digital Age
Aug 11, 2022
Dr. Richard Haass - Council on Foreign Relations - Restabilizing The World
Jul 20, 2022
Larry Diamond, Ph.D - Hoover/Stanford - Saving Democracy
Jul 13, 2022
Dr. Robert Wachter - UCSF - Today's COVID-19
Jul 02, 2022