Steve Fast

Author of "Naked Money," Charles Wheelan, joins The Steve Fast Show to discuss the complicated world of currency, including the Eurozone and China's careful manipulation of the external value of the yuan. #SteveFastShow #yuan #NakedMoney

Actress and comedian Lauren Weedman joins The Steve Fast Show to discuss how she handles turning the sometimes painful personal details of her life into performance and the life of a Hollywood guest star.

Historian and author Fergus Bordewich joins The Steve Fast Show to talk about the work of the first Federal Congress. Bordewich says that much of the American political system depended on the work of legislators who were unsure if the "Great Experiment" of U.S. democracy would even work.

New Testament scholar Bart Ehrman joins The Steve Fast Show to discuss the path the story of Jesus took from the crucifixion to the first written accounts in the Gospel of Mark.

Journalist Adam Cohen joins the Steve Fast Show to discuss the 1927 U.S. Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, which upheld a state statute that forced a young woman to be sterilized against her will.

Michael Waldman, president of the Brennan Center for Justice joins the Steve Fast Show to discuss the history of voting suppression in the U.S. and the current laws that keep people away from the polls.

Student athletes or unpayed employees? Sportswriter Ben Strauss joins the Steve Fast Show to discuss the big business of collegiate athletics and the problematic nature of the amateur status of players.

Science writer Maria Konnikova joins The Steve Fast Show to discuss the history and psychology of con men.

Wharton Business School researcher Adam Grant joins the Steve Fast Show to discuss misconceptions we have about the trailblazers who buck the system.

Mary Ellen Fuller joins the Steve Fast Show to discuss her father, attorney James Donovan, who represented Soviet spy Col. Rudolph Abel. Donovan, who negotiated the exchange of Abel for captured spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers, is the subject of the film "Bridge of Spies."

Washington correspondent Jesse Holland joins The Steve Fast Show to discuss the history of slaves and early U.S. Presidents. #slavery

Bob Bradley, professor emeritus of Illinois State University's Department of Politics and Government, joins The Steve Fast show to talk about the scenarios that now face President Obama and Congress following the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. #AntoninScalia #SupremeCourt #Obama

Food writer and historian Bee Wilson joins The Steve Fast Show to discuss the way we learn to love (and hate) certain foods. #food

Former Senator and Presidential candidate Gary Hart joins The Steve Fast Show to discuss the problem with politicians who "run against Washington" and the corrupting, yet legal, influence of the industry of lobbying. #lobbying #lobbyists

Journalist Jonathan Franklin joins the Steve Fast Show to discuss Salvador Alvarenga, who survived 438 days adrift at sea in the Pacific ocean. #SalvadorAlvarenga

Rock journalist Paul Trynka joins the Steve Fast show to talk about the life of Rolling Stones founder and original guitarist Brian Jones. #RollingStones #BrianJones

Mike Lofgren joins the Steve Fast Show to discuss the "Deep State" of unelected Washington careerists that exert major influence on the government's actions. #budget #Washington #WallStreet

A journalist with family ties to Don Knotts, Daniel de Vise, joins The Steve Fast Show to talk about his chronicle of the behind the scenes creation of The Andy Griffith Show. #TheAndyGriffithShow #AndyGriffith #DonKnotts

Author Dick Lehr talks about the controversial 1915 film "The Birth of a Nation" and the civil rights fight against the movie's screenings. #BirthofaNation #racism #civilrights

Marcos Fernandez was entered in to the Illinois State University College of Applied Science and Technology Hall of Fame in 2015. Fernandez tells Steve Fast about the journey he and his family took as exiles from Cuba during the Cold War. #IllinoisStateUniversity #HallofFame #Technology