Jennifer Carlson joins Krys Boyd to discuss her in-depth interviews with gun sellers to better understand how they market a certain brand of American individualism.
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How Political Myths Derail Progress
Nesrine Malik is a columnist and features writer for the Guardian, and she joins us to talk about how “wokeness,” “political correctness,” “free speech,” “cancel culture” and other shorthand terms are used to both drive and tamp down social justice movements.
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Does Personal Freedom Endanger Public Health?
Mark Rothstein joins us to talk about what to do when public health directives during a pandemic clash with our expectation of personal liberty.
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Meet The Formerly Enslaved Woman Who Secured Reparations
Rice University historian W. Caleb McDaniel joins us to tell the story of how Henrietta Wood ultimately sued and won the largest amount given in restitution for slavery.
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She Fights for Muslim’s First Amendments And She Would Fight For Yours Too
Lawyer Asma Uddin joins us to discuss how a battle for the rights of one religion affects all religions.
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Why The Government Should Watch The Web
Karen Kornbluh joins us to talk about whether we should establish a government agency to monitor the spread of disinformation online.
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The Reach Of The First Amendment
Harvard Law professor Mark Tushnet joins us to talk about the many freedoms covered at the top of the Bill of Rights.
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FDR’s Four Freedoms
This hour, in honor of Presidents’ Day, we’ll talk with Jeffrey Engel, director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU. He’s the editor of “The Four Freedoms: Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Evolution of an American Idea.”
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Do Guns Make Us Free?
This hour, we’ll talk about how we interpret the Second Amendment with Firmin DeBrabander.
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Freedom And Security
We’ll talk this hour about how we can maintain that balance with Stephen Whitfield of Brandeis University. On Saturday, he’ll teach a class called “National Security vs. Freedom of Expression” during The Dallas Morning News’ One-Day University.
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