For our final show in 2023, enjoy these recent favorites:

Andrew Seligsohn, president of Public Agenda, talks about his group's project to ensure participation in voting and restore trust in democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.

Dave Isay, founder and president of StoryCorps, reflects on 20 years of stories produced by StoryCorps.

Larry Buchanan, graphics editor and reporter at The New York Times, talks about the "extremely detailed map" he made of New York City neighborhoods, and what the map, neighborhood names and fuzzy (and sharp!) borders say about, as he writes, "gentrification, displacement, inequality, status."

Jill Lepore, professor of American History at Harvard University, staff writer at The New Yorker, host of the podcasts The Last Archive and Elon Musk and the author of several books, including These Truths and her latest, The Deadline: Essays (Liveright, 2023), talks about her latest collection of essays, most of which focused on the relationship between America's past and its polarized present.

Don't ask Lydia Polgreen, New York Times opinion columnist and co-host of the “Matter of Opinion” podcast, to go on a walk with you. In a column this autumn, she celebrated the "solitary amble" and laments the "social tyranny" of the walking date or meeting. Polgreen made her case, as listeners responded.

These interviews were lightly edited for time and clarity; the original web versions of the interviews are available through these links:

A Plan to Strengthen Democracy in 2024 (Nov. 9)

Celebrating 20 Years of StoryCorps (Oct. 23)

Where One Neighborhood Ends and Another Begins (Nov. 2)

Jill Lepore on the Past and Present, the Personal and Political (Aug. 30)

Take A Walk With Me? (Sep 21)