civilizations

America Has A Caste System, Too

September 25, 2020 Culture, Current Events, Global Issues, History, Race/Identity

Isabel Wilkerson is a winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Humanities Medal and a National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and she joins us to talk about the categories Americans are born into that rank us and grade us through no action of our own.

Why Societies Recover– or Don’t– from Crises

May 6, 2019 Current Events, Global Issues, History, Politics

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jared Diamond joins host us to talk about his latest effort on the topic, which looks specifically at why some countries recover from trauma while others don’t.