Junebugs

German philosopher and social theorist Jürgen Habermas, who died earlier this year, has the distinction of being the only then-living figure to be the subject of one of our episodes. But he’s also just one among other thinkers and guests whose birthdays fall this month (June 18, 1929). An old friend of the show who passed away several years ago, linguist Geoff Nunberg, would have celebrated his 81st birthday on June 1, while another past guest very much still with us, psychiatrist Irv Yalom, celebrates his 95th on June 13. Among the other Junebugs profiled in our library are Jean-Paul Sartre (June 21, 1905), Alan Turing (June 23, 1912), and Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869). Check out episodes featuring all of them below.