Authors & Insights

The All Things Considered host discussed the challenge of balancing a demanding career and parenthood as well as other key themes from her book, It Goes So Fast: The Year of No Do-Overs, with WAMU’s Tayla Burney at the Hopkins Bloomberg Center for the launch of her paperback release.

How can racial healing be achieved at a time when political and social divisions across the country run deep? Hahrie Han, inaugural director of the SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins, discusses her new book, Undivided: The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church, and takes up this question in conversation with Robert P. Jones and special guests Chuck Mingo and Jess Knight.

New York Times opinion columnist Carlos Lozada discussed his new book, The Washington Book: How to Read Politics and Politicians, with Ashley Parker, senior national political correspondent for The Washington Post.

New York Times White House correspondent Katie Rogers discussed her new book, American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden, with Anita McBride, author of Remember the First Ladies, chief of staff to former First Lady Laura Bush, and director of the First Ladies Initiative at American University.

In conversation with JHU President Ron Daniels, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author David Leonhardt spoke about his new book, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream, and explored how a sharp drop in economic mobility and other factors are preventing many Americans from prospering.