Interviews
Interviews from the Le Show archives

Matt Stoller
Author of ‘Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy’
February 16, 2025
February 07, 2021
March 08, 2020

Dr. Stephanie Kelton
Economist and Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University
December 08, 2024
April 19, 2020
October 21, 2018
November 02, 2014
October 28, 2012

Graison Gill
Founder of Bellegarde Bakery in New Orleans

Gary Marcus
Professor Emeritus at NYU, scientist, best-selling author, entrepreneur, and Founder and CEO of Robust.AI
September 15, 2024
February 04, 2024
January 01, 2023
September 22, 2019
March 04, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

Amanda Moore
Director of the Gulf Program at National Wildlife Federation

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

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

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

Hubert Horan
Transportation consultant and one of the leading experts on the economics of Uber
Shoshana Zuboff
Author of ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’
November 03, 2019
June 02, 2019

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

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

Bruce Schneier
Internationally renowned security technologist
November 11, 2018

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
Director of the UC Berkely Center for Catastrophic Risk Management

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

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

Jane Mayer
Author and writer for The New Yorker

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

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

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

David Waggonner
Urban and environmental architect

Mort Sahl
Stand-up comedian, actor and social satirist

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

Homer Venters
MD from Physicians for Human Rights

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

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

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

Professor Andrew Bacevich
American military historian, author
February 12, 2017
April 10, 2016

James Galbraith
Economics professor at the University of Texas at Austin

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

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’

Michael Grunwald
Writer, Journalist at Washington Post

Dan Cameron
Director and curator of Prospect 1 New Orleans

Lolis Eric Elie
Writer, journalist, documentary filmmaker

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.