Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 02/10/2026My former SPIEGEL colleague Charles Hawley on having a trans kid in Europe — and therefore not going home to the States for the holidays. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/043-charle... 052
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Taran Khan talks about the various histories of Afghanistan, a big American spy blimp over the capital, and her book SHADOW CITY: A WOMAN WALKS KABUL. Episode 42 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/042-taran-... 010
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Vanessa Fabiano talks about her vivid collection of short stories, CHINESE ON THE BEACH, about the ’90s in China, which set a huge number of cultural changes in motion . . . michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/041-vaness... 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Talking surf travel, Mexican prison islands, and migrant longboarders trying to paddle into California with Scott Hulet, longtime editor of The Surfer’s Journal: open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 010
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 14/07/2026I talked to Diane Foley and Colum McCann about the life & death of Jim Foley. We had a very moving conversation about Diane meeting one of her son’s murderers, as described in her memoir AMERICAN MOTHER. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/037-diane-... 030
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 24/06/2026Annabelle Gurwitch talks about cancer and its platitudes — and her new book, THE END OF MY LIFE IS KILLING ME michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/036-annabe... 021
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Meg Smaker was held hostage in Colombia by an anti-FARC militia for about ten days in 2003. She exlpains how her short kidnapping led her to the topic of her most controversial film, Jihad Rehab / The UnRedacted. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/035-meg-sm... 010
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 02/06/2026For Episode 34 of Radio Free Mike I talked to novelist Ed Park about his dreamlike stories, and the allure of (early) REM substack.com/home/post/p-... 020
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 19/05/2026Daniela Gerson and Talia Inlender talk about THE WANDERERS and the strange coincidence among their grandparents, who all fled the Nazis from Poland in about 1940. Episode 33 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/033-daniel... 020
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 06/05/2026I had a great time talking to Betsy Crane for Episode 32 of Radio Free Mike @elizabethcrane.bsky.social substack.com/home/post/p-... 043
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 07/04/2026Andrea Pitzer on Radio Free Mike, discussing Trump's detention camps. She's written a history of modern concentration camps called ONE LONG NIGHT, and you do not want to miss this episode. On your favorite podcast platform, but support & subscribe over here — substack.com/home/post/p-... 06217
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 26/03/2026New on Radio Free Mike! Thomas Blubacher and his book WEIMAR UNDER THE PALMS, which revisits the Europeans who fled Hitler and landed in L.A. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/030-thomas... 010
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Tom Jennings talks about his New Yorker doc ROVINA'S CHOICE, which covers the sudden destruction of USAID and its instant effect on a mother from South Sudan. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/029-tom-je... 010
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 26/02/2026On Episode 28 of Radio Free Mike I compared notes with Pralav Dhyani about being held hostage by Somalia pirates. He has a memoir out in India called HIJACKED: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/028-pralav... 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 22/02/2026Adam Skolnick on his new novel AMERICAN TIGER, about a tiger on the loose in Southern California. Based on real events! 000
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Adam Skolnick talks about his new novel AMERICAN TIGER, about a large cat on the loose in California. Based on real events! Episode 27 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/027-adam-s... 000
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 28/01/2026Deborah Kapchan, American folklorist and ethnographer, on her new memoir TAKING LEAVE, about her complicated relationship with Judaism, Christianity, and Sufi Islam. Episode 26 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/026-debora... 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 13/01/2026Kenneth R. Rosen talks about his book POLAR WAR and the politics of the Arctic — including, obviously, Greenland. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/025-ken-ro... 031
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 08/01/2026Tom Zoellner says his new book THE ROAD WAS FULL OF THORNS “will not be sold in any bookstore attached to a national park or monument because the National Park Service has been ordered to avoid showing any titles dealing with slavery . . .” open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 100
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 18/12/2025I had a great time talking to Mo Ogrodnik about her novel GULF, which follows five very different women moving through Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Abu Dhabi. We focus on craft, but also on human trafficking and the gulf between classes in the Middle East: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/024-mo-ogr... 030
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 03/12/2025Delighted to chat with Jonathan Lethem on Radio Free Mike about Kafka, talking animals, and his new book of collected stories, A DIFFERENT KIND OF TENSION. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/023-jonath... 031
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 18/11/2025On Episode 22 of Radio Free Mike, debut author Ben Weissenbach talks about flying over glaciers and avoiding bears in NORTH TO THE FUTURE, his new book and travelogue about climate change in Alaska. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/022-ben-we... 051
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 05/11/2025On episode 21 of Radio Free Mike, Francisco Cantú talks about working for — and leaving — the Border Patrol, as well as mission creep north of the wire. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/021-franci... 032
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 22/10/2025On Episode 20 of Radio Free Mike, Brian Klaas talks about political corruption, how it festers, and how it dries up: michaelscottmoore.substack.com 022
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 10/10/2025Vineland clarifies now and then into rare paragraphs of limpid prose which pull at the mask, maybe to suggest worlds-behind-worlds: 010
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 07/10/2025Tom Zoellner on his new book THE ROAD WAS FULL OF THORNS and the bizarre legal theory that forced Lincoln's hand during the Civil War. Episode 20 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/019-tom-zo... 042
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 18/09/2025Sonia Kennebeck on her film REALITY WINNER, and the unfashionable topic of interference in the 2016 election. Episode 18 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/018-sonia-... 021
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 02/09/2025For Episode 17 of Radio Free Mike I talked to Roger Carstens about the still-mysterious case of Austin Tice, the journalist kidnapped in Syria thirteen years ago. When the prisons opened in December, he paid a visit on behalf of the US government. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/017-roger-... 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Saumya Roy’s fascinating book on the waste-pickers of Mumbai, CASTAWAY MOUNTAIN, is the topic of Episode 16 of Radio Free Mike. She tells me about the economy of trash that has grown up around the mountainous landfill of Deonar: open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 021
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 22/07/2025I talked to Mark Sarvas about his excellent, weird, short novel *@UGMan* for Episode 15 of Radio Free Mike. It makes free allusions to *Notes from Underground* and evokes pre-Musk Twitter. Complete with an exploded bird on the cover . . . michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/015-mark-s... 021
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 08/07/2025For Episode 14 of Radio Free Mike I talked to Laurence Norman about what was hit, and what wasn't, in Iran in June. Laurence has covered the Iranian nuclear program for thirteen years at the Wall Street Journal & knows his stuff. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/014-lauren... 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 12/06/2025From my new essay at @foreignpolicy.com : Trump & his people on social media like to say immigrants bring the "Third World" to America, and that his policies will keep them out. But in Tijuana I met a young Mexican this spring who was trying to scale the wall with his brother. 1/3 111
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 11/06/2025Terrific discussion with Jessa Crispin about the migrating uteruses of ancient Greece as well as the Michael Douglas barometer of American manhood. Her new book is called WHAT IS WRONG WITH MEN? Episode 12 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/012-jessa-... 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 29/05/2025I talked to Thad Ziolkowski, poet and author of "The Drop," about his excellent book and my feature in The Surfers Journal about surfing, suicide, addiction, recovery, and Somalia. Episode 011 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/010-thad-z... 040
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 14/05/2025I had a great time talking to Meghan Daum about the loss of her home in the Eaton Fire, "problematization," and her new book, THE CATASTROPHE HOUR. Episode 10 of Radio Free Mike: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/010-meghan... 001
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 09/05/2025Here’s a recent pic from New York: 020
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 30/04/2025For Episode 9 of Radio Free Mike I seriously enjoyed talking to Mark Sundeen, essayist and novelist, about his new collection DELUSIONS + GRANDEUR, which presents thumbnail portraits of people in the new American West. open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 001
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 26/04/2025Giving a talk at the 1pm session of TEDxFoggyBottom, near Duke’s Grocery at the Dorothy Betts Marvin Theatre in DC on Saturday www.tedxfoggybottom.org 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 18/03/2025Peter Theroux, brother of Paul, talks about Syria, the Middle East, and the complications of writing *In Obscura,* his memoir about his years as a CIA analyst. On Episode 006 of Radio Free Mike: open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 001
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 15/03/2025Soraya and her film have been written up in Die Zeit, a major German paper. Subscribe to Radio Free Mike and learn about interesting people & things before most of the rest of the world. 010
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 04/03/2025Soraya Simi tells the story of Angela Madsen's attempt to row from LA to Hawaii — and her new film about it — on Episode 005 of #RadioFreeMike michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/005-soraya... 001
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 18/02/2025On Episode 004 of Radio Free Mike, "Nazis On Bikes," I talk to jacobkushner.bsky.social about the National Socialist Underground and the upcoming German elections. open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 002
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 18/02/2025Jacob Kushner & I discuss on the #AfD (and other things) tomorrow on Radio Free Mike open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 000
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I had a terrific time talking with Meg Smaker, director of JIHAD REHAB, on Episode 3 of Radio Free Mike. Her Sundance-cancelled film *will* come out this year, even if she has to do something drastic: michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/listen-now... 001
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 20/01/2025NEW on Radio Free Mike: Jason Rezaian talks about Iran, captive life, and H.R. 9495, a House bill that could destroy American nonprofits through a simple, unfounded accusation of “terrorist funding.” michaelscottmoore.substack.com/p/002-jason-... . @harpercollins.bsky.social @rezaian.bsky.social 043
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 14/01/2025Who were the “Three Kings,” and why did Augustus Caesar think *he* was the son of God? An essay about frankincense and myrrh: open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 011
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 06/01/2025On the first episode of Radio Free Mike, we talk with David Rohde, author of WHERE TYRANNY BEGINS, about January 6, the Justice Department, and the FBI under Trump 1. michaelscottmoore.substack.com/podcast 041
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 04/01/2025Launching Monday. #radiofreemike open.substack.com/pub/michaels... 031
Michael Scott Moore @michaelscottmoore.bsky.social · 10/12/2024It’s amazing to hear that Austin Tice’s parents have a tip that their son might emerge from one of the prisons being liberated now in Syria. I wrote about Austin a few years ago for New Lines, and that piece is up for free on my new Substack: substack.com/@michaelscot... 011