04-14-2024

Nancy Sato talks to Louise Gessel about the origins of her lifelong fight for equity, starting in the athletics arena at Harvard.

02-18-2024

David Hellerstein talks with classmate and fellow Clevelander Joy Horowitz about his wild ride as a psychedelic maven—how his practice in psychiatry has radically evolved over the past 40 years from psychoanalysis to brain imaging to personalized therapeutics.

02-03-2024

Lloyd Blankfein talks to Tom Yellin about his PTSD from Goldman Sachs, his feelings of panic over his Expos writing assignment freshman year, and his overall assessment of the global financial crisis of 2008.

12-06-2023

Dennis Corbett talks to classmate Yan Chow about what it takes to become an art detective — and why the value of a piece of art can be so elusive.

11-28-2023

Brigid Williams talks to David Goldbloom about her lifelong love of architecture.

11-10-2023

Mark Bransdorfer and Robert McIver remind us that you live as long as somebody speaks your name. Here, to keep his memory alive, they remember classmate Jeff Wright who died too soon.

11-03-2023

Martha “Marni” Sandweiss talks with Susan Hodara about her lifelong obsession as a historian—and explains how one archival photograph opened up her understanding of the underpinnings of the West.

11-03-2023

Greg and Gregg Stone remind us about life’s doppelgängers — and how two guys with the same name might have a few things in common beyond Harvard.

09-04-2023

Wade Davis, the acclaimed ethnobotanist and National Geographic explorer-in-residence, can pinpoint the precise moment from his boyhood that created his obsession with the anthropology of cultural differences. “I remember coming alive at your bar mitzvah,” he tells his old school chum from Montreal and Harvard classmate, David Goldbloom, for this episode of PasstheMic75.

07-17-2023

Writing teacher Mark Leib talks to classmate Joy Horowitz about the bruising realities of making a living as a writer these days — and the bliss of having his first novel published.

05-30-2023

Donald Lurye talks to fellow physician Yan Chow about the surprising twists and turns of a life well-lived, including a return to the clarinet.

05-16-2023

Michael Bromwich talks to Quincy House roommate David Goldbloom about his life’s work in the criminal justice system.

05-05-2023

Phil Lazebnik talks about ancient Greece, Harpo Marx, and the importance of musical comedy with David Goldbloom, the antic star of Mad About Mintz, Phil’s fabled undergraduate musical whose meaning continues to elude them both.

03-27-2023

James Kaye Doane talks to old pal Yan Chow about how serendipity and gratitude have defined his life path. And he answers the $64,000 question about Costco.

03-10-2023

Deborah Frost talks to Joy Horowitz about the origins of her rock ‘n roll obsession.

03-08-2023

A funny thing happened to Rick Nance after he began working at a Cleveland law firm for The Man. As he tells classmate George Yeadon: “I kinda became The Man.”

02-06-2023

Harold Hongju Koh talks with Will Englund about how his father’s legacy defined his life as both diplomat and academic.

12-12-2022

Joan Porter MacIver talks to Sukie Taylor Amory about helping restore looted treasures to a new museum in Basra, Iraq.

12-09-2022

Greg Pennington talks to Joy Horowitz about what happens when we slow down enough to appreciate each other—and the awe that sometimes ensues.

11-20-2022

Cynthia Perrin Schneider reminds her Currier House freshman year suite mate Joy Horowitz that being rejected from clown school would lead to her rejection of Rembrandt in favor of a peripatetic life of cultural diplomacy.