The Mingle Project: Restoring Civility In Our Society Through Gathering
Thursday, November 12, 2026
Michael Smerconish is a nationally syndicated radio host on SiriusXM's POTUS channel and the host of CNN's Smerconish. A longtime columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News and The Philadelphia Inquirer, he is the author of eight books, including the novel TALK, whose television rights were optioned by Warner Brothers, and Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right: American Life in Columns. He has donated the proceeds from five of his books to charity. His one-man performance, Things I Wish I Knew Before I Started Talking, debuted on Hulu and is now streaming on Amazon, Apple, and Google. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Lehigh University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Smerconish lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with his wife, where they raised four children.
