Harold Wilson’s Guest is Dr. Jane Gagliardi associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and associate professor of Medicine at the Duke University School of Medicine. Is there actually a mind/body dichotomy? In his, Les Pensées, the great 17th century philosopher, Blaise Pascal tells us, The human being is only a reed, the most feeble in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
Read MoreHarold Wilson has a personal conversation with Tyler Abell, stepson of the famous columnist Drew Pearson. Abell discusses the personal side of life with the hard-working notable columnist whose working life covered seven presidential administrations. During this period he wrote a newspaper column every day, a weekly newsletter, gave lectures all over the country, and when …
Read More“How Beliefs Change” is the second in Harold Wilson’s special three-part, hour-long program series on beliefs on Delmarva Today In the first program, posted July 30, Wilson and his guests discussed what beliefs are, how they are formed, and the role they play in our thinking and our actions. In this second program on “Beliefs,” Wilson looks at how …
Harold Wilson’s guest is Rustin Larson and they’re discussing his new book of short stories, Red Wing. Larson has published extensively and his work can be found in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and in the Delmarva Review. The reader’s comments on the back cover of his book Red Wing suggest that the stories are strongly …
Read MoreHarold Wilson's guests are Scott Whitaker, Fiction Editor and Managing Editor of the literary journal the Broadkill Review, Kari Ann Ebert, the poetry editor, and poet Liz Holland. Liz Holland reads and discusses her poetry. In addition to The Broadkill Review, she has published at Marias at Sampaguitas, in The Kraken’s Spire, the …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is emergency medical physician Dr. Michael Murphy. Dr. Murphy discusses the recent spike in Covid 19 cases in Maryland and other parts of the country as well as the role the delta variant is playing in the resurgence. He outlines the importance of getting the vaccine and counters a number of the …
Read MoreToday’s Delmarva Today is the first in a special three-part hour-long Delmarva Today series on “belief.” The program is produced by Delmarva Public Media and discusses what belief is, how our beliefs are developed, and why are we so invested in our beliefs that we can become so angry and upset when they are challenged?
Read MoreHarold Wilson's guest is Donald Ritchie. They’re discussing Ritchie's new book The Columnist about the life and work of the famous columnist Drew Pearson. For those of you who don’t remember Drew Pearson, for forty years he produced a newspaper column, Washington Merry-Go- Round, that was syndicated in …
Read MoreHarold Wilson's guest is poet and writer David Salner. They are discussing Salner's new novel A Place to Hide. It is 1923 and the novel is the story of a fugitive from justice in Montana who flees to New York City, changes his name, and seeks to establish a new life. But how does one escape the past? It is forever part of us, nagging and …
Read MoreHarold Wilson's guest on Delmarva Today is Jack Broderick, President of the Kent Island Heritage Society. He and Wilson talk about the work of the Heritage Society, the unique waterman and farming culture that is Kent Island, and the recommendation of the Bay Crossing Tier 1 BEPA Study that a third Bay Bridge should be …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest is Arthur Magida. He’s discussing his Pulitzer Prize nominated book in the biography/memoir category Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi Occupied Paris. Arthur Magida was on the program about a year ago to discuss his book and now that the paperback version is out he’s back to talk …
Read MoreHarold Wilson's guest is Karen Speakman, the Executive Director of NCALL a nonprofit community development organization. NCALL is dedicated to strengthening communities on the Delmarva through housing support and development assistance for local organizations, and lending services to bridge financial …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is The New Yorker staff writer Casey Cep. They are discussing spiritualism in Cep’s article “Kindred Spirits” in the May 31st issue of The New Yorker. “Almost a third of Americans say they have communicated with someone who has died,” Casey Cep tells us, “and they collectively …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guests are New Voices of the Potomac editor Neal Gillen and contributing author Fatimah Iqbal. Fatimah Iqbal, reads and discusses her story “Under the Chelsea Lights.” New Voices of the Potomac is a collection of stories written by five students at Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland.
Read MoreIn this last of Harold Wilson’s series of Delmarva Today programs on climate change, Dr. Michael Allen returns to discuss the impact of global warming on human rights. He is joined by Madison Gonzalez, a graduate research assistant at the Virginia Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University.
Read MoreTodd Miller is back with Harold Wilson to talk about his recent book, Build Bridges, Not Walls and how we might manage our borders in a more human way. Todd begins his book with the following story: I see a man on the edge of the road. He looks both desperate and ragged and waves his arms for me to pull over my car. We are in southern Arizona, about twenty miles north …
Read MoreClimate scientist and professor of geography in the Department of Political Science and Geography at Old Dominion University, Dr. Michael Allen is Harold Wilson’s guest. He discusses the impact climate change has on our weather. Climate is the earth’s personality and weather is its mood, according Dr. Allen. The capricious changeability of this mood is the …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guest on Delmarva Today is journalist and author Todd Miller. Miller talks about his book Storming the Wall, and the interface between climate change, human migration, and homeland security. Even as we reflect on the increased severity of fires, flooding, and droughts sweeping the globe, we often forget the attendant displacement of human populations.
Read MoreThis is the third in Delmarva Today’s discussion on the role of The Humanities in our culture. HaroldWilson’s guests are Adam Wood, Maarten Pereboom, and Don Rush. Adam Wood is a professor in the English Department at Salisbury University. Maarten Pereboom is dean of the Fulton School of Liberal Arts and Professor of History. The area of twentieth-century …
Read MoreHarold Wilson’s guests on Delmarva Today are Nancy Sakaduski and Doug Harrell. Nancy Sakaduski is the owner of Cat & Mouse Press, the publisher of Rehoboth Beach Reads featuring the winning stories in the annual Rehoboth Beach Reads Short Story Contest sponsored by Browseabout Books. Doug Harrell is a retired engineer and currently a mystery writer.
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