List of C-SPAN Q&A interviews first aired in 2018

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Q&A is an interview series on the C-SPAN network that typically airs every Sunday night. It is hosted by C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb. Its stated purpose is to feature discussions with "interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work." [1]

Original air date
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Interviewee(s)Comments
January 7, 2018 Hendrik Meijer Featured discussion of Meijer's book Arthur Vandenberg: The Man in the Middle of the American Century, about Michigan Senator Arthur Vandenberg.
January 14, 2018 A. J. Baime Featured discussion with Baime about his book The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World, about the first four months of the presidency of Harry S. Truman.
January 21, 2018 Noah Feldman Featured discussion of Feldman's book The Three Lives of James Madison.
January 28, 2018 Caitriona Perry Featured discussion of Perry's book In America.
February 4, 2018 Bill James Featured discussion of James's book The Man from the Train .
February 11, 2018 Doug Mills Featured discussion of Mills's work as a photojournalist, and his coverage of the presidencies and / or campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Donald Trump.
February 18, 2018 Michael Fabey Featured discussion of Fabey's book Crashback: The Power Clash Between the U.S. and China in the Pacific.
February 25, 2018 Kate Bowler Featured discussion of Bowler's memoir Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved.
March 4, 2018 Joshua Zeitz Featured discussion of Zeitz's book Building the Great Society: Inside Lyndon Johnson’s White House.
March 11, 2018 Francisco Cantú Featured discussion of Cantú's book The Line Becomes a River.
March 18, 2018 Thomas Cronin Featured discussion of Cronin's book Imagining a Great Republic: Political Novels and the Idea of America.
March 25, 2018 Amy Chua Featured discussion of Chua's book Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations.
April 1, 2018 U.S. Senate Youth Program
April 8, 2018 Michio Kaku Featured discussion of Kaku's book The Future of Humanity: Terraforming Mars, Interstellar Travel, Immortality, and Our Destiny Beyond Earth.
April 15, 2018 Niall Ferguson Featured discussion of Ferguson's book The Square and the Tower.
April 22, 2018 Etan Thomas Featured discussion of Thomas's book We Matter: Athletes and Activism.
April 29, 2018 Lillian Cunningham Featured discussion of Cunningham's "Presidential" and "Constitutional" podcasts.
May 6, 2018 Robert Kurson Featured discussion of Kurson's book Rocket Men , about the Apollo 8 mission.
May 13, 2018 Yunte Huang Featured discussion of Huang's book Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History, about conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker.
May 20, 2018 William Hitchcock Featured discussion of Hitchcock's book The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s.
May 27, 2018 John Lewis Gaddis Featured discussion of Gaddis's book On Grand Strategy.
June 3, 2018 Patricia O'Toole Featured discussion of O'Toole's book The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson and the World He Made.
June 10, 2018 Ross Douthat Featured discussion of Douthat's book To Change the Church: Pope Francis and the Future of Catholicism.
June 17, 2018 Joe Tropea and Skizz Cyzyk Featured discussion of Tropea and Cyzyk's documentary Hit & Stay: A History of Faith and Resistance , about the Catonsville 9.
June 24, 2018 Amy Wax Featured discussion of free expression on college campuses.
July 1, 2018 Mona Charen Featured discussion of Charen's book Sex Matters: How Modern Feminism Lost Touch with Science, Love, and Common Sense.
July 8, 2018 Tom Dunkel Featured discussion of Dunkel's Washington Post article about the sons of Rev. Sun Myung Moon.
July 15, 2018 Gregory Watson Featured discussion of Watson's role in the ratification of the Twenty-seventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.
July 22, 2018 Grace Kennan Warnecke Featured discussion of Warnecke's book Daughter of the Cold War.
July 29, 2018 David O. Stewart Featured discussion of Stewart's book Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy.
August 5, 2018 Richard Baker, Donald Ritchie, Ray Smock Featured discussion of aspects of the history of the United States Congress.
August 12, 2018 Ginger ThompsonFeatured discussion of Thompson's reporting for ProPublica on various issues related to U.S.-Mexico relations.
August 18, 2018 John Ferling Featured discussion of Ferling's book Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe, and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe.
August 25, 2018 Jeffrey Rosen Featured discussion of Rosen's biography of William Howard Taft.
September 2, 2018 Charles W. Calhoun Featured discussion of Calhoun's biography of Benjamin Harrison.
September 9, 2018 Zachary Wood Featured discussion of Wood's book Uncensored: My Life and Uncomfortable Conversations at the Intersection of Black and White America.
September 16, 2018 Richard Norton Smith Featured discussion of Smith's biography of Herbert Hoover, An Uncommon Man.
September 23, 2018 Major Garrett Featured discussion of Garrett's book Mr. Trump's Wild Ride .
September 30, 2018 Jeffrey Engel Featured discussion of Engel's book When the World Seemed New: George H. W. Bush and the End of the Cold War.
October 7, 2018 Joanne Freeman Featured discussion of Freeman's book The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War.
October 14, 2018 Tucker Carlson Featured discussion of Carlson's book Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution.
October 21, 2018 Joel Richard Paul Featured discussion of Paul's book, Without Precedent: Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times.
October 28, 2018 James Mann Featured discussion of Mann's biography of George W. Bush.
November 4, 2018 David Levering Lewis Featured discussion of Lewis's book The Improbable Wendell Willkie.
November 11, 2018 Michael Gerhardt Featured discussion of Gerhardt's book The Forgotten Presidents, in particular, aspects of the Presidency of Jimmy Carter.
November 18, 2018 Jackie Speier Featured discussion of Speier's book Undaunted: Surviving Jonestown, Summoning Courage, and Fighting Back, about her experiences accompanying Congressman Leo Ryan to investigate the Peoples Temple settlement at Jonestown.
November 25, 2018 Ted Widmer Featured discussion of Widmer's biography of Martin Van Buren.
December 2, 2018 Douglas Brinkley, Edna Greene Medford, and Russell Shorto
December 9, 2018 Peter Osnos
December 16, 2018 Sarah Churchwell Featured discussion of Churchwell's book Behold, America.
December 23, 2018 Holman Jenkins Featured discussion of Jenkins's experiences as a columnist for the Wall Street Journal.
December 30, 2018 Mark FarkasFeatured discussion of the C-SPAN program The Senate: Conflict and Compromise .

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  1. "C-SPAN's "Q&A"". YouTube. Watch Q&A every Sunday night on C-SPAN at 8pm ET. Each week we introduce you to interesting people who are making things happen in politics, the media, education, and science & technology in hour-long conversations about their lives and their work.