About

This website is the home of The Milt Rosenberg Show. More than 400 podcasts of episodes from Milt’s 40-year career on the air are currently archived here for your listening pleasure. As many of you already know, Milt passed away in early January, 2018. Please Like our Facebook page so you can stay abreast of the latest.

Milt was a professor emeritus at the University of Chicago and hosted Extension 720 on WGN Radio five nights a week for nearly 40 years before ending his run in December 2012. He continued to do new shows into 2016 in other venues.

The podcasts here are drawn from his radio career. They feature intelligent, enlivening and thought provoking discussions centered on the world of ideas. Guests from the world of literature, journalism, academia, public policy, science, religions, and foreign policy joined Milt to discuss the big questions of the day – an all star list of people who shape our world.

During his academic career, Milt held posts at Yale, the Naval War College, Dartmouth, Ohio State and finally, the University of Chicago, where he directed the doctoral program in social psychology.

Milt served on the boards of many organizations, including the National Association of Scholars, the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, the Howard Center for Family and Religion and the National Great Books Curriculum. In 2008, in a White House ceremony, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush.