We revisited some of our favorite segments today:

· We speak with Harvard professors Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt about their new book, How Democracies Die.
· Michael Norton breaks down the correlation between our appetite for risk and our appetite for ordering desert.
· Steve Coll discusses his new book, Directorate S: an account of one of the great tragedies of our age: America’s failing policies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
· Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich discusses his recipe for a just society. It’s the subject of his new book The Common Good.
· Harvard linguist Steven Pinker discusses his latest book, Enlightenment Now.
· Meredith Goldstein, the woman behind the Boston Globe’s advice columnist “Love Letters,” joins us to talk about her new book Can’t Help Myself.

To listen to the full show, click on the audio player above.