Linking the Great Recession to Radical Politics, Astronaut Mike Massimino

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 4, 2016

John B. Judis, former editor of The New Republic, explains how the recession transformed American and European politics. Australian tenor Stuart Skelton is guest starring in the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Richard Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” Jamie Metzl discusses his near-future novel, "Eternal Sonata: A Thriller of the Near Future." Astronaut Mike Massimino talks about being the first person to tweet from space, and the last to work on the Hubble Telescope. 

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