The Center for Lessons Learned

#333 - 25 May 2007

Four years into the Iraq War, what have we learned? Soldiers, civilians, Iraqis, and Americans talk—and sometimes yell—about what they've learned in the last few years...including how to stay alive and why the aftermath of a war can be the trickiest time of all.

The Ten Commandments

#332 - 4 May 2007

Stories of people struggling to follow the Ten Commandments from the book of Exodus.

Habeas Schmabeas 2007

#331 - 27 April 2007

An updated version of our episode "Habeas Schmabeas," which won a 2006 Peabody Award.Listen to a special, uncut version.Download a transcript.

My Reputation

#330 - 13 April 2007

Stories of people trying to recover from damage to their reputations—sometimes caused by others, sometimes self-inflicted.

Nice Work If You Can Get It

#329 - 6 April 2007

Stories of sudden fame, quick riches, and the downside of the dream job.

What I Learned from Television

#328 - 16 March 2007

Stories recorded during our 2007 live tour. Sarah Vowell, David Rakoff, Dan Savage, and other favorite contributors went on the road with us to New York, Boston, Minneapolis, Chicago, Seattle, and Los Angeles; and performed brand-new stories in front of sold-out audiences.

By Proxy

#327 - 9 March 2007

Stories of proxy fights, proxy arguments, and proxy situations of all kinds.

Quiz Show

#326 - 16 February 2007

A man with social anxiety goes through a transformation on a TV game show, a young woman with high ideals has them dashed by a TV game show, and teams compete to solve some of the hardest puzzles in the world, for fun.

Houses of Ill Repute

#325 - 2 February 2007

An old man in Brooklyn invites some homeless prostitutes into his house on a cold winter night. They never leave. Plus other stories about houses, such as the United States Congress, where the inhabitants don't always act as they should.

My Brilliant Plan

#324 - 26 January 2007

An American reporter in Iraq decides to rent a house in a residential Baghdad neighborhood rather than live in a hotel and be an easy target for insurgents. And an eleven-year-old boy figures out an ingenious way to see his dead father again. Big ideas gone amok.