The Study Podcast

Joining Tayo in The Study is Colleen Shogan for a discussion of the National Archives, as she was the 11th archivist of the United States, and her current project called "In Pursuit" with an organization called More Perfect. How does a person get that job, Archivist of the United States? What kinds of records are kept at the NARA? How can the public make use of the archives? And then Colleen field...

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, ND opens July 4, 2026, and in this episode of The Study Podcast we talk with Marcie Woehl, manager of public programming and education at the library. Marcie shares her own educational story, her vision for the creating innovative and experiential educational opportunities at the library, and the kind of public intellectualism she is hoping to...

Commander William C. Spears visits The Study to talk about his book  Stoicism as a Warrior Philosophy . What makes Stoic philosophy such a good fit for those serving in the military? How might this philosophy help someone discern their duty and to reconcile the demands of many different roles or duties in their life? What would be the key philosophical message he'd offer to those just starting the...

Today's guest in The Study is Rebecca Clarren, author of the book  The Cost of Free Land.  Rebecca helps us think about the stories we tell and don't tell in history, how histories push and pull against one another, and how one finds the courage to face the truth. She fields questions about reparations, the Land Back movement, and immigration, allowing her journey in this book to speak to our curr...

In this episode of The Study Podcast, author Kent Krueger discusses his use of the mystery/crime genre as a framework for exploring deeper human questions about justice, spirituality, morality, relationship, loss, and change; his commitment to creating a vivid sense of place for readers and to craft stories that are true to real life, that can help readers navigate and understand their own experie...

Human beings are mortal. Intellectually, we know this to be a certainty. Having been born, we will die. In this episode, writer and philosopher H.L. Hix visits The Study to talk about his novella, The Death of H.L. Hix , in which he writes the story of his own death, using Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich as his prompt. What was this experience like? Why did he write this story? How did writ...

In this conversation with poet Lauren Camp, she shares some of the experience of writing her newest collection, Is Is Enough, poems that emerged from attending to her father's decline and death from Alzheimer's disease.  She talks about writing as ritual, how her poetic practice helps her anchor the experience and hold on to her father, and her hopes for what this collection might do for others go...