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In 1861, as the Civil War began, Roger B. Taney fights to free John Merryman from a cell in Fort McHenry, where he was being held after the suspension of…

Tom talks with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, the Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.Jeff is recommending:Building Art: The Life and Work of…

Tom talks with Jim Miller, Senior Associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.Jim is reading: A Man in Profile by Thomas KunkelJim’s…

Tom talks with Author and George Washington University Professor Mark HymanMark is recommending:A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood's Fight for Free Agency in…

John Nagl is a retired Army lieutenant colonel, a graduate of West Point and Oxford, and a Rhodes Scholar. In a new memoir, "Knife Fights," he recounts…

As the March 31st deadline to sign up for the Affordable Care Act approaches, we spend an hour with Washington Post reporter Jenna Johnson and Jonathan…

How does where we live affect our health as we grow older? Sarah Szanton, Associate Director for Policy at the Center on Innovative Care in Aging at the…

For the April edition of Choral Arts Classics, Tom welcomes the directors of Canticum Novum, Douglas Buchanan and Joshua Bornfield, along with two local…

It's just simply factually wrong to compare Confederate generals to George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.

The senior scholar at Hopkins' Center for Health Security discusses competing theories on the origins of the COVID-19 virus, and recommended public health precautions.

A follow-up now on our conversation with the Baltimore Sun’s arbiter of language and writer of the blog “You Don’t Say.” When John visited July 30 we…

Amid the extraordinary levels of physical havoc caused by Covid-19, there is likely an even greater level of psychological consequence for those among us…

Today, we follow up on the continuing crisis in America’s prisons caused by the Coronavirus pandemic. The Marshall Project, an award-winning non-profit…

(This story originally aired on April 5, 2017) Today, an archive edition of Midday on Ethics. A year ago, HBO and Oprah Winfrey brought the story of…

When you think of TV, film -- and Baltimore -- what comes to mind? Maybe Diner, Hairspray, Homicide, The Wire? What about House of Cards, which was set in…

Last month, the stabbing death of Bowie State University student 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III grabbed national headlines and left students and faculty…

As the 2016 Presidential campaign stumbles towards its conclusion, many Americans have grown weary of the coarse rhetoric and caustic tenor of the public…

One of the great joys of the summer season, of course, is cooking and dining outdoors. So today, we’re metaphorically firing up the grill. Whether you…

The director of Hopkins' Moore Center for the Prevention of Child Sex Abuse discusses the rise in cases during the pandemic, and intervention strategies.