John interviews Adam Tooze, a historian, the author of five books on economic history, and a professor at Columbia University, where he is the director of the interdisciplinary European Institute. Adam also writes a newsletter, “Chartbook,” which in its own words, reports on "economic data,...

John interviews Steve Coll, a staff writer at The New Yorker, the dean of the Columbia Journalism School, an author of eight books, and a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  Between 1989 and 1992, he worked as The Washington Post's South Asia bureau chief. That experience ultimately led him...