The Creative Wealth of Nations
December 2, 2018 • 30m

Patrick Kabanda, musician and consultant to the World Bank, talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the importance of the arts in development.

Disequilibrium on the Supreme Court
November 19, 2018 • 30m

Knight First Amendment Institute inaugural scholar David Pozen discusses the future of American law.

Discovering Genes
November 13, 2018 • 30m

Carl Zimmer discusses "She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions and Potential of Heredity."

The Splintering of the American Mind
November 10, 2018 • 30m

Philosopher William Egginton discusses his book "The Splintering of the American Mind."

The Microbes Among Us
November 2, 2018 • 30m

North Carolina State scientist Rob Dunn discusses his new book “Never Home Alone.”

Truth and Lies of Education
October 22, 2018 • 30m

Former U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan discusses his new book “How Schools Work.

Immigration, Dignity, and U.S.-Mexico Relations
October 16, 2018 • 30m

KPBS investigative reporter Jean Guerrero on her new book “Crux: A Cross-Border Memoir.

Truth Decay in America
October 9, 2018 • 30m

RAND CEO Michael D. Rich and political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh on “Truth Decay.

Security, Nationalism, and the Four Freedoms
October 1, 2018 • 30m

Jeffrey Prescott of National Security Action on an alternative to Trump's foreign policy.

United Against Citizens
September 25, 2018 • 30m

Tiffany Muller of End Citizens United, on her mission to undo the Supreme Court decision.

News, Disinformation, and Free Expression
September 21, 2018 • 30m

Richard Gingras, VP of News at Google, on journalism, citizenship, and disinformation.

Rage at the Ballot Box
September 12, 2018 • 30m

Soraya Chemaly, Women's Media Center Speech Project, on her new book “Rage Becomes Her.”

Manchurian President and Alternative Realities
September 5, 2018 • 30m

Tom Nichols, U.S. Naval War College professor, on his book “The Death of Expertise.”

The Creative Wealth of Nations
August 27, 2018 • 30m

Patrick Kabanda talks about his new book “The Creative Wealth of Nations” and the arts.

Guts, Heart and Minoritarian Rule
August 25, 2018 • 30m

Al Cross, dir. Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, U Kentucky, on media.

Quarantining Hate Speech
August 14, 2018 • 30m

Joan Donovan of Data & Society on technologies that degrade democracy and civil society.

Documenting a Fascist Ascent
August 7, 2018 • 30m

Jack Smith IV, senior writer for Mic, on American nationalism and White Supremacy.

The Right to Have Rights
August 4, 2018 • 30m

Stephanie DeGooyer, Fellow at Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study on authoritarianisim.

Sweet Little (and Big) Lies
July 28, 2018 • 30m

Daniel Dale of the Toronto Star on fact-checking President Trump and covering activism.

Building Bridges
July 17, 2018 • 30m

David Nevins of the Bridge Alliance, talks about reversing America's political disunity.

Democracy in the Internet Age
July 14, 2018 • 30m

Democracy Works’ Kathryn Peters on election security, voter registration and democracy.

The Future Caucus
July 3, 2018 • 30m

Steven Olikara, founder of the Millennial Action Project on activating the next generation.

Our Galaxy and Beyond
June 27, 2018 • 30m

Dr. Alan Stern and Dr. David Grinspoon on their book on Pluto: “Chasing New Horizons.”

Confronting Algorithms of Bigotry
June 23, 2018 • 30m

Investigative reporter Julia Angwin on exposing technologies that injure society.

The Lore of Life
June 13, 2018 • 30m

Bar-Ilan University chair in Science, Technology, and Society Oren Harman talks about his new book “Evolutions: 15 Myths That Explain Our World.”

Tech Troublemakers
June 9, 2018 • 30m

Leslie Berlin of Silicon Valley Archives at Stanford, on “Troublemakers: Silicon Valley’s.

Oversight, Partisanship, and 2018
May 31, 2018 • 30m

John Lawrence, former Chief of Staff to Nancy Pelosi, on his book “The Class of ’74”.

Getting the Rust Belt Story Straight
May 26, 2018 • 30m

Founder and director of Belt Publishing Anne Trubek on “Voices From the Rust Belt.”

The Real Drug Crisis
May 19, 2018 • 30m

Investigative reporter Katherine Eban on generic pharmaceutical manufacturing dangers.

At War With Cambridge Analytica
May 12, 2018 • 30m

David Carroll of Parsons School of Design on privacy, media, and suing Cambridge Analytica.

A Pro and Antibiotic Future
May 5, 2018 • 30m

“Good Germs, Bad Germs” author Jessica Snyder Sachs on the rise of drug resistance.

The Post-Millennial Wave
April 24, 2018 • 30m

NextGen America’s executive director Heather Hargreaves on the 2018 midterm elections.

Guardians of the Web
April 21, 2018 • 30m

Microsoft Research Principal Researcher Tarleton Gillespie on "Custodians of the Internet."

Mother Internet
April 10, 2018 • 30m

Claire Evans on her new book “Broad Band: The Untold Story of Women Who Made the Internet.”

Democrats vs. Authoritarians
April 7, 2018 • 30m

Yascha Mounk on “The People vs Democracy: Why Our Freedom is in Danger and How to Save It.”

China’s Contentious Public Sphere
March 17, 2018 • 30m

Harvard University sociologist Ya-Wen Lei on her new book “The Contentious Public Sphere.”

Securing American Democracy
March 10, 2018 • 30m

Jamie Fly and Laura Rosenberger of the Alliance for Securing Democracy on Russia and US.

Combating Extremism Online
March 3, 2018 • 30m

Counter Extremism Project’s Mark Wallace and Dartmouth’s Hany Farid on online extremism.

A Union of Concerned Technologists
February 24, 2018 • 30m

Renee DiResta of Data for Democracy on how antisocial media-tech companies are a threat.

Solutions Journalism and Solutions for Journalism
February 17, 2018 • 30m

Solutions Journalism and NYTimes’ David Bornstein on the constructive force of journalism.

Fascism Strikes Back
February 10, 2018 • 30m

Shane Burley discusses his new book “Fascism Today: What It Is and How We End It.”

All the President’s Twitter Blocks
February 3, 2018 • 30m

Knight First Amendment Institute’s Katie Fallow on free speech violations in government.

Law, Order and Justice
January 24, 2018 • 30m

Roosevelt Institute Fellow Dorian Warren discusses the politics of inequality today.

Automating Inequality
January 16, 2018 • 30m

Political scientist Virginia Eubanks on her new book, “Automating Inequality.”

Misinformation Crisis
January 13, 2018 • 30m

University of Amsterdam’s Claes de Vreese on global populism and the post-truth present.

Representing Us
January 6, 2018 • 30m

Congressional Candidate, Millennial and geologist Jess Phoenix on representative democracy.

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