Network news veteran Michael Schulder hosts in-depth conversations that take listeners to a place where curiosity meets hope. Featuring some of the most creative thinkers, respected leaders, and preeminent authors in a wide variety of fields, including history, sports, the arts, business, current affairs, journalism, mental health, and more. For updates please subscribe to the Wavemaker Conversations newsletter (link below) and visit https://wavemaker.me…
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Find part 1 of this conversation HERE Spencer Glendon's work on climate change is driven by this question: How can we, together, "increase our chances that the future is good?" Glendon is answering that question through his nonprofit organization Probable Futures , which has created a suite of tools, including vivid interactive maps, that help us visualize climate change's evolving impacts -…
Spencer Glendon, one of the most brilliant guys I've ever heard speak, is the creator of Probable Futures , an ambitious project focused on what he calls climate literacy. I've brought back this conversation of ours from 2022 in light of the extreme wildfires and heat waves in Europe and the broader, continual flow of evidence that our climate has been dangerously destabilized. There are plenty of…
Joining Michael for this conversation about America’s past, present, and future, on the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, are: David Blight - Yale History Professor. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of Frederick Douglass Peter Baker - Chief White House Correspondent for the New York Times Susan Glasser - Staff Writer at The New Yorker Recorded live at Nantucket’s…
Michael’s conversation with The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos Live at Nantucket’s Dreamland Theatre from July 2025. The New Yorker’s Evan Osnos has spent years diving deep into the world of the ultra-rich. His jaw-dropping reporting, in The Haves and Have Yachts , sheds light on why so much wealth in America is concentrated in the hands of so few.
Michael delves into how the body, mind and spirit impact wellness with three featured guests at this summer’s Nantucket Wellness Festival . We can’t beat the guest introductions delivered by the Festival’s co-founder, Joann Burnham: Dr. Shieva Ghofrany, MD: “We knew we had to have a gorgeous goddess represented on the panel... goddess is a big word. So finding a science-based goddess was our…
Timothy Snyder is one of the world’s leading historians of fascism. His bestseller, On Tyranny, is a palm-sized North Star for democracy — featuring twenty lessons from the 20th century for how each of us can resist authoritarianism and protect our republic — all of which feel doable. He and I had this conversation in 2021. I am sharing it here now as we mark the 250th anniversary of the…
When it comes to the global economy — and its impact on politics and society — Liaquat Ahamed has an eagle eye for pattern recognition. Ahamed won a Pulitzer Prize for Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke The World — his history of the Great Depression, and its aftermath. This past weekend, at the Nantucket Book Festival, he and I spoke about his newly released prequel, 1873 , about the…
In this conversation with legendary music executive Clive Davis, Michael tries to figure out how one man, with no musical background, managed to identify, shape and guide so many stars in so many different genres over half a century. Davis died this week at the age of 94. What did he experience that drove him? What did he hear that moved him? Michael and Clive share a lot of laughs and insights…
Liaquat Ahamed, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his history of the Great Depression is out with a prequel called 1873, the story of the breathtaking, first, truly global economic boom, and the bust that followed. I'll be in conversation with Ahamed at The Nantucket Book Festival on June 14th . I reached out to him now for a brief chat, because a lot of educated readers are wondering - is 1873 a…
Robert Malley is a veteran U.S. Middle East peace negotiator, and, as I’ve come to learn, an inspired and devoted teacher. He has participated in multiple U.S.-brokered Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. He was on the team that negotiated the Iran nuclear inspection deal in 2015, and more recently served as U.S. Special Envoy to Iran. Under President Obama, he also served as the White House point…
