December 24, 2024

Part One: North Korea – where are we? What’s going on with the summit, and what’s with the hamburgers?

We talk to Mel Goodman: senior fellow at the Center for International Policy and a professor at Johns Hopkins. Mel is a former CIA analyst.

Part Two: Author Phillip Roth died last week. We speak about his work with Jacques Berlinerblau, a Roth expert who is currently at work on a book about Roth.

Jacques Berlinerblau is a professor of Jewish Civilization at Georgetown University, and an editor at the journal Phillip Roth Studies. His forthcoming book is titled “Phillip Roth and the #MeToo Movement: How to Read Scandalous Art.