Sotheby's

Kurt joins experts to look at and discuss important works of art (and cars and jewels) just before they're auctioned off for millions of dollars. (October 2020)

Committee for Skeptical Inquiry convention

As the keynote speaker at the annual national gathering of rationalists and skeptics, Kurt explains how and why so much of America has turned into Fantasyland. (October 2019)

The Salisbury Forum in conversation with Jim Kelly

Amanpour & Co. on PBS

Kurt in conversation with Walter Isaacson discusses Evil Geniuses and the genesis and propagation of the system — and the need to take a step back. (August 2020)

Redpilled: The Storm - The Opposition w/ Jordan Klepper

Kobi Libii examines an explosive online conspiracy surrounding Robert Mueller's Russia probe, and discusses America's obsession with fringe theories with author Kurt, who appears at 4:50. (March 2018)

Amanpour & Co.

With co-host Walter Isaacson, Kurt discusses the 2018 midterm elections and how our politics reflect the themes and history explored in Fantasyland. (November 2018)

Intelligence Squared

In a debate on the question of whether Donald Trump has been bad for comedy,  Kurt and Veep producer Billy Kimball argue (against comedian Sara Schaefer and humorist P.J. O'Rourke) that comedy is the one American institution for which he hasn't been bad. And--spoiler alert--win the debate. (November 2018)

House of SpeakEasy Performance

In this Seriously Entertaining story on the theme "I'll Have Another," Kurt opens up about his childhood career aspirations and wonders who he might have been (2016).

George Washington University

Kurt and Alec Baldwin discuss their book, You Can't Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of my Fantastic First Year as President Donald Trump. (November 2017)

Aspen Ideas Festival

Kurt discusses Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado. (June 2017)

Los Angeles Talks Live

Interview about True Believers by MSNBC Last Word host Lawrence O’Donnell. (July 2012)

TEDx New England

A Culture Stuck on Pause in A Fast-Forward Age: The last two decades have been marked by trans-formative new technologies and political economics while paradoxically, for the first time in a century, much of the look and feel of culture and daily life have hardly changed at all (December 2012)