In the forty-first episode of the third season of the “Saturdays at Seven” conversation series, Todd Ream talks with Molly Worthen, Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Worthen opens by discussing how her interest in journalism over time also came include serving as a collegiate educator. Few individuals whose interests expand in such a manner do so having already written, for example, for Christianity Today, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Slate. Such an evolution, however, proved beneficial. Worthen’s writing voice as forged by her commitments to serve as a journalist and public intellectual was one she was able to introduce to her career in higher education from the very beginning. Worthen discusses how her intellectual interests during her time as an undergraduate and graduate student were shaped by her experiences interviewing individuals with captivating life stories. For example, one of those initial experiences included traveling as an undergraduate to north central Alberta to interview members of an Old Russian Orthodox or Old Believer community. She introduces how focusing on individuals with captivating life stories shaped the focus of her first three books and that even individuals with flaws can still prove worthy of the time historians and journalists are called to invest. Regardless of the subject, Worthen also notes that pursuing such efforts is dependent upon the intellectual and moral virtues journalists and historians strive to cultivate.