Ms. Magazine editor Robin Morgan in 1992: ‘There are no issues that are not women’s issues’

I doubt that back in 1972, when I bought the first issue of Ms. Magazine—whose cover featured the iconic declaration “Wonder Woman for President”—I could’ve imagined that a bit more than 20 years later I’d sit down with that magazine’s then-editor-in-chief Robin Morgan to talk about the state of the women’s movement.

At the time, she was promoting her book The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches, 1968-1992.

Few of my archival interviews through the years resonate as much with the current day as this one does—including Morgan’s comments about the downsides of advertiser-compromised news media.

Listening takes me back to a time that was in many ways hopeful—and conjures a parallel universe we never made. And although some of those hopes have yet to materialize, Morgan’s words then suggest we may yet find our way back.

I hope you find this interview, presented here for the first time since its broadcast on WNUA-FM in Chicago on Dec. 13, 1992, as engaging as I do. Hear here.

Shortly after hearing this resurrected recording, Morgan dropped me an email declaring it “a thoughtful, intelligent interview … certainly one of the best interviews I’ve ever done.”

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Pulitzer winner Tracy Kidder in 1993

The death in March 2026 of Pulitzer winner Tracy Kidder—a reporter The Associated Press credits with turning “everything from computer engineering to life in a nursing home into unexpected bestsellers”—sent me diving back into the archives for the time in 1993 that I was fortunate enough to sit down with him to discuss his then-new book, Old Friends, documenting his year spent visiting and observing the proceedings at a nursing home in western Massachusetts.

To hear him now is to celebrate journalism at its best.

Here’s that interview, digitized and newly available for the first time since its broadcast on WNUA-FM in Chicago on Oct. 17, 1993. (Recorded Oct. 15, 1993.)

Hear more of my conversations with thought leaders through the years on this website, in Apple Podcasts, on Spotify or Pandora, via your favorite podcast player and at Chicago Public Square.

‘Podcasting has become this explosive medium’

… in which acclaimed broadcaster and podcast host John St. Augustine and I discuss the intersection of news, podcasting … and farmers’ market music.

Thanks, John, for the kind words about my modest efforts in all three arenas.

(Interview recorded March 29, 2026; published May 30, 2026.)

If you like this, check out more of my podcast guidance on Rivet’s website and elsewhere on this blog.

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Who could resist an invitation to join a podcast called ‘Misfits Among Us’?

I certainly couldn’t. So when Joey Marcus said he wanted to talk, I said yes.

And then here’s what happened.