Today, Explained

I teach English and theater at Portland State University, and I'm the author of Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Education of an Artist.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, The Education of an Artist. That's the name of Daniel Pollack Pelsner's new book. It's out next week.

I am a writer for New York Magazine and Cafe. I'm part of the Vox family. And I have a new book coming up called When You Come at the King, Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, From Nixon to Trump.

Eli Honig. If you like books, check his out. Once more, it's called When You Come at the King, Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President. From Nixon to Trump, it drops in a few days.

Danielle Friedman says that's a real progression. She's the author of the book Let's Get Physical. How women discovered exercise and reshaped the world.

Sean Rama's firm here with Jorrel Melendez Badillo, author of Puerto Rico and National History. And he's a Bad Bunny collaborator.

Benito wanted for me to write about the general history of Puerto Rico, but he was also very adamant that there were certain things that he wanted to include.

Yeah, I wrote a book about California's involuntary treatment system. I joke that it's a book about Britney Spears, but it's more broadly about how Conservatorship functions in California.

His book about Britney Spears is called Conservatorship Inside California's System of Coercion and Care for Mental Illness.

She's a longtime Russia hand, and she's author of the book Motherland about Russian women.

Her book is Motherland.

Sean Ramosverham here with biologist Kelly Wienersmith, who's the co-author of a book called A City on Mars, all about our subject today, settling Mars.

Yeah, I've written two books. And the more recent one is called More Everything Forever. And it is about the horrible ideas that tech billionaires have about the future that they're trying to shove down our throats and why they don't work.

That was Adam Becker. He's written two books. The most recent one is More Everything Forever, AI Overlords, Space Empires, and Silicon Valley's Crusade to Control the Fate of Humanity.

This is the book that I wish I had when I was confused about what to eat and how to eat.

I've seen that word attached to absolutely everything. I've seen it attached to massages and I've also seen it attached to very serious things to do with important health choices like vaccines. And then I've seen it attached to really weird stuff like checking accounts and condos.

My working definition is wellness is a luxury good. And it's the packaging of our health and our beauty into a consumable for sale product.

She's the author of How to Be Well, Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic One Dubious Cure at a Time.

She's a journalist and author of the book How to Be Well, Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic One Dubious Cure at a Time.

I spoke with Jonathan Stia to find out. By day, he's a clinical psychologist, but his side hustle is combating pseudoscience and misinformation. He wrote a book called Mind the Science That's All About It, and he says he gets why all this stuff appeals to people.

Lauren Grush, reader at Bloomberg.com You can also pick up her book, The Six, about America's first women astronauts It's being made into a movie No big deal

My name is David Barron And I'm the author of the book The Martians The True Story of an Alien Craze That Captured Turn-of-the-Century America

The only logical result that can be reached from these fundamental These demonstrated and demonstrable facts is that There is conscious, intelligent, organic life on Mars The New York Times, December 9, 1906

The proof afforded by the astronomical observations of the year That conscious, intelligent human life exists upon the planet Mars The Wall Street Journal, December 28, 1907

A neighbor world Which shows at a glance by impressive signs That it is morally unified and civilized Beyond the dreams of our reformers

David Barron His book once again Is called The Martians The true story Of an alien craze That captured Turn of the century America It drops on August 26th

A lot of this analysis is really rooted in this 1982 book, Orality and Literacy, by the philosopher Walter Ong.

One of the sources I talked to for my story, Gloria Marks, she's a psychologist who literally wrote the book on Attention Span. The book is called Attention Span.

And the most important magazines were owned by Cond Nast, the glitzy publishing empire that's the focus of a new book by New York Times reporter Michael Grinbaum.

And if you're a media executive, OpenAI showing up and saying, here is this many millions of dollars for this many years, it looks like free money. Of course, if you're like producing the content or if you're even just thinking longer term about how a media company or website fits into this AI picture, you recognize that you're sort of, you know, giving access away to something that these companies are explicitly trying to automate. You know, you're sort of like in an institutional sense training your replacement.

And the most important magazines were owned by Cond Nast, the glitzy publishing empire that's the focus of a new book by New York Times reporter Michael Grinbaum.

The way Cond Nast elevated its editors, the way they paid for their mortgages so they could live in beautiful homes, there was a logic to it, which was that Cond Nast itself became seen as this kind of enchanted land.

I'm the author of You Are Not American, Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers.

And the title of your book to me implies that denaturalization isn't exactly a novel concept.

No, it's not. And the idea of taking away citizenship generally, even of the native born, is not a novel concept. And it started with Dred Scott.

American citizenship stripping from Dred Scott to the dreamers. Check it out.

The mayor during that time, Catherine Pugh, is indicted and forced to resign when she gets caught trading city contracts to organizations willing to buy large amounts of copies of her children's book.

Today Explained is back. I'm Sean Romsvrim and Tracy Roof joins us now. She's an associate professor at the University of Richmond who focuses on domestic policy and is writing a whole book about the history of food assistance in the United States.

Tracy Roof. Her book's not out yet, but it will be one day soon, we hope.