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Theo Baker in Conversation with Vinson Cunningham: “How to Rule the World”

October 06, 2026

As a freshman reporter for the Stanford student newspaper, Theo Baker received a tip. Most students would have let it go. But he didn't. What he discovered was a research misconduct scandal so significant that – by the time Theo had finished reporting and writing about it -- it forced the resignation of Stanford's president Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a celebrated neuroscientist and biotech executive worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Theo was nineteen at the time – he’s only 21 now – and the q...

MICHAEL POLLAN’S JOURNEY INTO CONSCIOUSNESS

September 23, 2026

In this episode of Beyond the Page, Michael Pollan talks to Sun Valley Writers Conference Literary Director John Burnham Schwartz about his bestselling book A World Appears: A Journey into Consciousness. For over three decades we have been the beneficiaries of Pollan’s indefatigable curiosity about everything from food and farming to mind-altering drugs. Now comes his provocative and personal look into consciousness itself and what makes us human. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit ...

Ruth Reichl – The Paris Novel

May 29, 2026

RUTH REICHL, one of our best-known and most well-loved food writers, is the author of five memoirs, including Tender at the Bone and Save Me the Plums.  But she is also a captivating novelist, and, as you might imagine, her fiction is full of sensory pleasures.  In Reichl’s “The Paris Novel”, the protagonist Stella is left with an unusual inheritance from her mother:  a one-way plane ticket and a note reading simply, "Go to Paris."  But Stella is hardly cut out for adventure; a traumatic chil...

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