Interviews

Interviews from the Le Show archives


Gary Marcus interview with Harry Shearer

Gary Marcus
Professor Emeritus at NYU, scientist, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and Founder and CEO of Robust.AI

February 04, 2024
January 01, 2023
September 22, 2019
March 04, 2018

 


author Tom Piazza

Tom Piazza
Novelist, writer of American music, and author of The Auburn Conference

December 10, 2023
 
 
 
 


Ken Hughes, author of Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection

Ken Hughes
Author of Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection, on Nixon and Kissinger

December 03, 2023
 
 
 
 


Peter Maass, journalist, author, senior editor at The Intercept

Peter Maass
Journalist, author, and a senior editor at The Intercept

March 26, 2023
 
 
 
 
 


Eric Feigl-Ding

Eric Feigl-Ding
Epidemiologist and Chief of COVID Task Force at the New England Complex Systems Institute

October 16, 2022
 
 
 
 


David J. Anderson, Author

David J. Anderson
Author of ‘The Nature of the Beast: How Emotions Guide Us’

July 24, 2022
 
 
 
 
 


Amanda Moore - National Wildlife Federation

Amanda Moore
Director of the Gulf Program at National Wildlife Federation

May 22, 2022
 
 
 
 
 


Greg Thielmann interview with Harry Shearer

Greg Thielmann
Former top intelligence official at the U.S. State Department for 25 years and currently a board member of the Arms Control Association

October 24, 2021
January 27, 2013

 


Scott Gottlieb, MD - photo by Jen Goldberg

Scott Gottlieb
Former FDA Commissioner and author of ‘Uncontrolled Spread: Why COVID-19 Crushed Us and How We Can Defeat the Next Pandemic’

September 19, 2021
 
 
 


Matt Stoller, author of Goliath; Interview with Harry Shearer

Matt Stoller
Author of ‘Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy’

February 07, 2021
March 08, 2020

 
 


Greg Mitchell - author of The Beginning Or The End

Greg Mitchell
Author of ‘The Beginning or the End: How Hollywood―and America―Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb’

July 19, 2020

 
 
 


John Barry, Award-winning and New York Times best-selling author, interview with Harry Shearer - photo by Ken Goldstein

John M. Barry
Author of ‘The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History’ discusses the latest on the COVID-19 pandemic

June 14, 2020
February 16, 2020
July 20, 2008
 


Dr. Stephanie Kelton

Dr. Stephanie Kelton
Economist and Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University

April 19, 2020
October 21, 2018
November 02, 2014
October 28, 2012
 


Hubert Horan, transportation consultant, interview with Harry Shearer

Hubert Horan
Transportation consultant and one of the leading experts on the economics of Uber

December 01, 2019

 
 
 


author Shoshana Zuboff - photo by Michael D. Wilson

Shoshana Zuboff
Author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
 
November 03, 2019
June 02, 2019
 
 
 
 


Yasha Levine - photo by Evgenia Kovda

Yasha Levine
Russian-American investigative journalist and author
 
April 28, 2019

 
 
 
 


Bob Marshall

Bob Marshall
Pulitzer Prize-winning, environmental journalist
 
March 17, 2019

 
 
 
 


Bruce Shneier on Harry Shearer Le Show

Bruce Schneier
Internationally renowned security technologist
 
November 11, 2018

 
 
 
 


Dr. Ivor van Heerden interview with Harry Shearer

Dr. Ivor van Heerden
Author of ‘The Storm: What Went Wrong During Hurricane Katrina — The Inside Story From One Louisiana Scientist’

June 17, 2012
August 07, 2011
April 12, 2009
August 27, 2006
June 25, 2006


Dr. Bob Bea interview with Harry Shearer

Dr. Bob Bea
Director of the UC Berkely Center for Catastrophic Risk Management

April 22, 2007

 
 
 


Maria Garzino interview with Harry Shearer

Maria Garzino
Civil and Mechanical Engineer at U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

September 13, 2009

 
 
 
 


John Barry interview with Harry Shearer - - photo by Ken Goldstein

John M. Barry
Author of ‘Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America’ and member of the East Bank New Orleans Levee Board

July 20, 2008

 
 


Jane Mayer interview with Harry Shearer

Jane Mayer
Author and writer for The New Yorker

July 28, 2009

 
 
 
 


Yves Smith interview with Harry Shearer - photo by Alton Christensen

Yves Smith
Author and creator of the influential blog, Naked Capitalism

February 12, 2012
October 02, 2011
March 06, 2011
December 05, 2010

 


Bill Black interview with Harry Shearer

Bill Black
Author and Associate Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City

May 01, 2011

 
 
 


David Cay Johnston interview with Harry Shearer

David Cay Johnston
Investigative journalist, author, and specialist in economics and tax issues

August 14, 2011

 
 
 


Nicholas Shaxson interview with Harry Shearer

Nicholas Shaxson
Journalist and author of bestselling tax havens book ‘Treasure Islands’

December 02, 2012

 
 
 


David Waggonner interview with Harry Shearer

David Waggonner
Urban and environmental architect

February 22, 2009

 
 
 
 


Mort Sahl interview with Harry Shearer - photo by Dan Dion

Mort Sahl
Stand-up comedian, actor and social satirist

July 20, 2003

 
 
 
 


Scott Reid interview with Harry Shearer

Scott Reid
Sports enterprise/investigative reporter for the OC Register about rampant sex abuse at USA Swimming

May 20, 2018

 
 
 


Homer Venters interview with Harry Shearer

Homer Venters
MD from Physicians for Human Rights

April 15, 2018

 
 
 
 


Dr. Cathy O’Neil interview with Harry Shearer

Dr. Cathy O’Neil
Mathematician, data scientist, and author of ‘Weapons Of Math Destruction’

November 26, 2017

 
 
 


Lee Zurik interview with Harry Shearer

Lee Zurik
Anchor/Chief Investigative Reporter for FOX 8 on Cracking The Code/Healthcare costs

August 27, 2017

 
 
 


Max Holland interview with Harry Shearer

Max Holland
Author of ‘Leak: Why Mark Felt Became Deep Throat’

May 28, 2017

 
 
 
 


Professor Andrew Bacevich interview with Harry Shearer

Professor Andrew Bacevich
American military historian, author

February 12, 2017
April 10, 2016
 
 
 
 


James Galbraith interview with Harry Shearer

James Galbraith
Economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin

April 24, 2016

 
 
 
 


Alexa O'Brien interview with Harry Shearer

Alexa O’Brien
Investigative journalist and writer who conducts research and analysis about national security and law enforcement

May 05, 2013

 
 
 


Dan Baum interview with Harry Shearer - photo by Mark Leffingwell

Dan Baum
Staff writer for The New Yorker, as well as a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, The Asian Wall Street Journal, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution; and author of ‘Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans’

April 26, 2009

 


Michael Grunwald interview with Harry Shearer

Michael Grunwald
Writer, Journalist at Washington Post

February 14, 2010

 
 
 
 


Dan Cameron interview with Harry Shearer

Dan Cameron
Director and curator of Prospect 1 New Orleans

January 04, 2009

 
 
 
 


Lolis Eric Elie interview with Harry Shearer - photo by Ingrid Hertfelder

Lolis Eric Elie
Writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker

February 18, 2007

 
 
 
 


Interview with Chris Rose, Clancy Dubos, Ti Martin on Le Show

Chris Rose, Clancy DuBos, Ti Adelaide Martin
Chris Rose, columnist for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, Clancy DuBos, journalist and owner of Gambit Weekly, and Ti Adelaide Martin, New Orleans restaurateur, discuss New Orleans.

January 08, 2006