American identity

Toxic Patriotism

January 18, 2021 Culture, Current Events, Education, History, Politics, Race/Identity

Mychal Denzel Smith is a fellow at Type Media Center, and he joins us to talk about his thoughts on how he wrestles to understand the current moment studied against the long lens of American history.

We All Want To Be Equal (And Above Everyone Else)

October 21, 2019 Politics, Race/Identity

Francis Fukuyama, senior fellow at Stanford University and Mosbacher Director at The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, joins us to talk about how culture impacts a democracy.

Manifest Destiny Ends With The Wall

March 13, 2019 Current Events, History, Politics

Yale historian Greg Grandin joins us to talk about why it’s time to rethink the notion that there’s nowhere else to expand. His new book is called “The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America.”